This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.72 release. There are 24 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know.
Responses should be made by Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:46:52 +0000. Anything received after that time might be too late.
The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/stable-review/patch-6.12.72-rc1... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.12.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 6.12.72-rc1
Danilo Krummrich dakr@kernel.org gpio: omap: do not register driver in probe()
Ali Tariq alitariq45892@gmail.com wifi: rtl8xxxu: fix slab-out-of-bounds in rtl8xxxu_sta_add
Liu Song liu.song13@zte.com.cn PCI: endpoint: Avoid creating sub-groups asynchronously
Darrick J. Wong djwong@kernel.org xfs: fix UAF in xchk_btree_check_block_owner
Chao Yu chao@kernel.org erofs: fix UAF issue for file-backed mounts w/ directio option
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com mptcp: fix race in mptcp_pm_nl_flush_addrs_doit()
Daniele Palmas dnlplm@gmail.com bus: mhi: host: pci_generic: Add Telit FE990B40 modem support
Anil Gurumurthy agurumurthy@marvell.com scsi: qla2xxx: Query FW again before proceeding with login
Anil Gurumurthy agurumurthy@marvell.com scsi: qla2xxx: Free sp in error path to fix system crash
Anil Gurumurthy agurumurthy@marvell.com scsi: qla2xxx: Delay module unload while fabric scan in progress
Shreyas Deodhar sdeodhar@marvell.com scsi: qla2xxx: Allow recovery for tape devices
Anil Gurumurthy agurumurthy@marvell.com scsi: qla2xxx: Validate sp before freeing associated memory
Bitterblue Smith rtl8821cerfe2@gmail.com wifi: rtw88: Fix alignment fault in rtw_core_enable_beacon()
Edward Adam Davis eadavis@qq.com nilfs2: Fix potential block overflow that cause system hang
Bibo Mao maobibo@loongson.cn crypto: virtio - Remove duplicated virtqueue_kick in virtio_crypto_skcipher_crypt_req
Bibo Mao maobibo@loongson.cn crypto: virtio - Add spinlock protection with virtqueue notification
Kees Cook kees@kernel.org crypto: omap - Allocate OMAP_CRYPTO_FORCE_COPY scatterlists correctly
Thorsten Blum thorsten.blum@linux.dev crypto: octeontx - Fix length check to avoid truncation in ucode_load_store
Thorsten Blum thorsten.blum@linux.dev crypto: iaa - Fix out-of-bounds index in find_empty_iaa_compression_mode
Zenm Chen zenmchen@gmail.com Bluetooth: btusb: Add USB ID 7392:e611 for Edimax EW-7611UXB
Gui-Dong Han hanguidong02@gmail.com driver core: enforce device_lock for driver_match_device()
Henrique Carvalho henrique.carvalho@suse.com smb: server: fix leak of active_num_conn in ksmbd_tcp_new_connection()
Namjae Jeon linkinjeon@kernel.org ksmbd: fix infinite loop caused by next_smb2_rcv_hdr_off reset in error paths
Henrique Carvalho henrique.carvalho@suse.com smb: client: split cached_fid bitfields to avoid shared-byte RMW races
-------------
Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +-- drivers/base/base.h | 9 +++++ drivers/base/bus.c | 2 +- drivers/base/dd.c | 2 +- drivers/bluetooth/btusb.c | 2 ++ drivers/bus/mhi/host/pci_generic.c | 13 +++++++ drivers/crypto/intel/iaa/iaa_crypto_main.c | 12 +++---- drivers/crypto/marvell/octeontx/otx_cptpf_ucode.c | 2 +- drivers/crypto/omap-crypto.c | 2 +- drivers/crypto/virtio/virtio_crypto_core.c | 5 +++ .../crypto/virtio/virtio_crypto_skcipher_algs.c | 2 -- drivers/gpio/gpio-omap.c | 22 +++++++++--- drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/core.c | 1 + drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/main.c | 4 +-- drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-ep-cfs.c | 15 +++----- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_gs.c | 41 +++++++++++----------- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_init.c | 28 +++++++++------ drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_isr.c | 19 ++++++++-- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c | 3 +- fs/erofs/fileio.c | 7 +++- fs/nilfs2/sufile.c | 4 +++ fs/smb/client/cached_dir.h | 8 ++--- fs/smb/server/server.c | 6 ++-- fs/smb/server/transport_tcp.c | 3 +- fs/xfs/scrub/btree.c | 7 ++-- net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c | 16 +++++++-- 26 files changed, 159 insertions(+), 80 deletions(-)
On 2/13/26 05:48, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.72 release. There are 24 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know.
Responses should be made by Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:46:52 +0000. Anything received after that time might be too late.
The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/stable-review/patch-6.12.72-rc1... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.12.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
On ARCH_BRCMSTB using 32-bit and 64-bit ARM kernels, build tested on BMIPS_GENERIC:
Tested-by: Florian Fainelli florian.fainelli@broadcom.com
On Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:48:19 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.72 release. There are 24 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know.
Responses should be made by Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:46:52 +0000. Anything received after that time might be too late.
The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/stable-review/patch-6.12.72-rc1... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.12.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
All tests passing for Tegra ...
Test results for stable-v6.12: 10 builds: 10 pass, 0 fail 28 boots: 28 pass, 0 fail 120 tests: 120 pass, 0 fail
Linux version: 6.12.72-rc1-g4b487d46d595 Boards tested: tegra124-jetson-tk1, tegra186-p2771-0000, tegra186-p3509-0000+p3636-0001, tegra194-p2972-0000, tegra194-p3509-0000+p3668-0000, tegra20-ventana, tegra210-p2371-2180, tegra210-p3450-0000, tegra30-cardhu-a04
Tested-by: Jon Hunter jonathanh@nvidia.com
Jon
Am 13.02.2026 um 14:48 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.72 release. There are 24 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know.
Builds, boots and works on my 2-socket Ivy Bridge Xeon E5-2697 v2 server. No dmesg oddities or regressions found.
Tested-by: Peter Schneider pschneider1968@googlemail.com
Beste Grüße, Peter Schneider
On Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 8:58 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.72 release. There are 24 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know.
Responses should be made by Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:46:52 +0000. Anything received after that time might be too late.
The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/stable-review/patch-6.12.72-rc1... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.12.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
Builds successfully. Boots and works on qemu and Intel Core i7-10810U
Tested-by: Brett Mastbergen bmastbergen@ciq.com
Thanks, Brett
On 2/13/26 05:48, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.72 release. There are 24 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know.
Responses should be made by Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:46:52 +0000. Anything received after that time might be too late.
The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/stable-review/patch-6.12.72-rc1... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.12.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
Built and booted successfully on RISC-V RV64 (HiFive Unmatched).
Tested-by: Ron Economos re@w6rz.net
# Librecast Test Results
020/020 [ OK ] liblcrq 010/010 [ OK ] libmld 120/120 [ OK ] liblibrecast
CPU/kernel: Linux auntie 6.12.72-rc1-g4b487d46d595 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sat Feb 14 15:07:47 -00 2026 x86_64 AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
Tested-by: Brett A C Sheffield bacs@librecast.net
On 2/13/26 05:48, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.72 release. There are 24 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know.
Responses should be made by Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:46:52 +0000. Anything received after that time might be too late.
The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/stable-review/patch-6.12.72-rc1... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.12.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
Tested on two amd64 laptops, an Apple MacBook Air 2017 and a Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 1. Working well, no regressions observed.
Tested-by: Barry K. Nathan barryn@pobox.com
On Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:48:19 +0100 Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.72 release. There are 24 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know.
Responses should be made by Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:46:52 +0000. Anything received after that time might be too late.
Boot-tested under QEMU for Rust x86_64, arm64 and riscv64; built-tested for loongarch64:
Tested-by: Miguel Ojeda ojeda@kernel.org
Thanks!
Cheers, Miguel
On Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 02:48:19PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.72 release. There are 24 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know.
As I've mentioned before putting -rcs out on a Friday afternoon isn't ideal for getting results...
Gui-Dong Han hanguidong02@gmail.com driver core: enforce device_lock for driver_match_device()
This breaks boot on at least the Arm Juno platform, upstream it introduced regressions on quite a few systems due to drivers registering in the probe of other devices. That's obviously not a great pattern but a regreession is a regression.
bisect:
# bad: [4b487d46d595999554fb81524f66ed3d1a73b615] Linux 6.12.72-rc1 # good: [ae591174b1f2e6b81ffe182fb621bba910bfb44e] Linux 6.12.71 git bisect start '4b487d46d595999554fb81524f66ed3d1a73b615' 'ae591174b1f2e6b81ffe182fb621bba910bfb44e' # test job: [4b487d46d595999554fb81524f66ed3d1a73b615] https://lava.sirena.org.uk/scheduler/job/2455882 # bad: [4b487d46d595999554fb81524f66ed3d1a73b615] Linux 6.12.72-rc1 git bisect bad 4b487d46d595999554fb81524f66ed3d1a73b615 # test job: [b3b78ed0290627689bb76932b290f649d7a55ea7] https://lava.sirena.org.uk/scheduler/job/2456102 # bad: [b3b78ed0290627689bb76932b290f649d7a55ea7] wifi: rtw88: Fix alignment fault in rtw_core_enable_beacon() git bisect bad b3b78ed0290627689bb76932b290f649d7a55ea7 # test job: [5be98c74259c3e953c4eb9989166b5b5225196a6] https://lava.sirena.org.uk/scheduler/job/2456393 # bad: [5be98c74259c3e953c4eb9989166b5b5225196a6] crypto: iaa - Fix out-of-bounds index in find_empty_iaa_compression_mode git bisect bad 5be98c74259c3e953c4eb9989166b5b5225196a6 # test job: [c9e18834e4b2f69c0b1798440b9d531109cc16f2] https://lava.sirena.org.uk/scheduler/job/2456585 # good: [c9e18834e4b2f69c0b1798440b9d531109cc16f2] smb: server: fix leak of active_num_conn in ksmbd_tcp_new_connection() git bisect good c9e18834e4b2f69c0b1798440b9d531109cc16f2 # test job: [c34376e5a52a35ade9960d259ca1e8910db72013] https://lava.sirena.org.uk/scheduler/job/2456855 # bad: [c34376e5a52a35ade9960d259ca1e8910db72013] Bluetooth: btusb: Add USB ID 7392:e611 for Edimax EW-7611UXB git bisect bad c34376e5a52a35ade9960d259ca1e8910db72013 # test job: [3454ada4952bf8ac7c9a7b6aec0e18aa87226170] https://lava.sirena.org.uk/scheduler/job/2457085 # bad: [3454ada4952bf8ac7c9a7b6aec0e18aa87226170] driver core: enforce device_lock for driver_match_device() git bisect bad 3454ada4952bf8ac7c9a7b6aec0e18aa87226170 # first bad commit: [3454ada4952bf8ac7c9a7b6aec0e18aa87226170] driver core: enforce device_lock for driver_match_device()
On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 02:27:54PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
On Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 02:48:19PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.72 release. There are 24 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know.
As I've mentioned before putting -rcs out on a Friday afternoon isn't ideal for getting results...
Gui-Dong Han hanguidong02@gmail.com driver core: enforce device_lock for driver_match_device()
This breaks boot on at least the Arm Juno platform, upstream it introduced regressions on quite a few systems due to drivers registering in the probe of other devices. That's obviously not a great pattern but a regreession is a regression.
bisect:
# bad: [4b487d46d595999554fb81524f66ed3d1a73b615] Linux 6.12.72-rc1 # good: [ae591174b1f2e6b81ffe182fb621bba910bfb44e] Linux 6.12.71 git bisect start '4b487d46d595999554fb81524f66ed3d1a73b615' 'ae591174b1f2e6b81ffe182fb621bba910bfb44e' # test job: [4b487d46d595999554fb81524f66ed3d1a73b615] https://lava.sirena.org.uk/scheduler/job/2455882 # bad: [4b487d46d595999554fb81524f66ed3d1a73b615] Linux 6.12.72-rc1 git bisect bad 4b487d46d595999554fb81524f66ed3d1a73b615 # test job: [b3b78ed0290627689bb76932b290f649d7a55ea7] https://lava.sirena.org.uk/scheduler/job/2456102 # bad: [b3b78ed0290627689bb76932b290f649d7a55ea7] wifi: rtw88: Fix alignment fault in rtw_core_enable_beacon() git bisect bad b3b78ed0290627689bb76932b290f649d7a55ea7 # test job: [5be98c74259c3e953c4eb9989166b5b5225196a6] https://lava.sirena.org.uk/scheduler/job/2456393 # bad: [5be98c74259c3e953c4eb9989166b5b5225196a6] crypto: iaa - Fix out-of-bounds index in find_empty_iaa_compression_mode git bisect bad 5be98c74259c3e953c4eb9989166b5b5225196a6 # test job: [c9e18834e4b2f69c0b1798440b9d531109cc16f2] https://lava.sirena.org.uk/scheduler/job/2456585 # good: [c9e18834e4b2f69c0b1798440b9d531109cc16f2] smb: server: fix leak of active_num_conn in ksmbd_tcp_new_connection() git bisect good c9e18834e4b2f69c0b1798440b9d531109cc16f2 # test job: [c34376e5a52a35ade9960d259ca1e8910db72013] https://lava.sirena.org.uk/scheduler/job/2456855 # bad: [c34376e5a52a35ade9960d259ca1e8910db72013] Bluetooth: btusb: Add USB ID 7392:e611 for Edimax EW-7611UXB git bisect bad c34376e5a52a35ade9960d259ca1e8910db72013 # test job: [3454ada4952bf8ac7c9a7b6aec0e18aa87226170] https://lava.sirena.org.uk/scheduler/job/2457085 # bad: [3454ada4952bf8ac7c9a7b6aec0e18aa87226170] driver core: enforce device_lock for driver_match_device() git bisect bad 3454ada4952bf8ac7c9a7b6aec0e18aa87226170 # first bad commit: [3454ada4952bf8ac7c9a7b6aec0e18aa87226170] driver core: enforce device_lock for driver_match_device()
Argh, I forgot about that "issue".
Ok, let me go push out new releases with this reverted, and drop it from the older stable kernels, as this isn't a good idea at the moment.
thanks,
greg k-h
On Mon Feb 16, 2026 at 3:27 PM CET, Mark Brown wrote:
On Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 02:48:19PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
Gui-Dong Han hanguidong02@gmail.com driver core: enforce device_lock for driver_match_device()
This breaks boot on at least the Arm Juno platform, upstream it introduced regressions on quite a few systems due to drivers registering in the probe of other devices. That's obviously not a great pattern but a regreession is a regression.
Just for reference, I've also sent the following to the stable patch apply notice:
"This commit reveals a few driver bugs resulting in deadlocks without the following fixes:
- 1. ed1ac3c977dd ("iommu/arm-smmu-qcom: do not register driver in probe()") - 2. 730e5ebff40c ("gpio: omap: do not register driver in probe()") - 3. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260212235842.85934-1-dakr@kernel.org/
The third one will hopefully be picked up by the clk folks soon.
(1) should be required since v6.11, (2) since (basically forever) v2.6.22 and (3) since v5.11.
We should also consider that we do not know if (especially older) stable trees have similar cases that we did not catch in linux-next."
- Danilo
On Mon Feb 16, 2026 at 4:47 PM CET, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
On Mon Feb 16, 2026 at 3:27 PM CET, Mark Brown wrote:
On Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 02:48:19PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
Gui-Dong Han hanguidong02@gmail.com driver core: enforce device_lock for driver_match_device()
This breaks boot on at least the Arm Juno platform, upstream it introduced regressions on quite a few systems due to drivers registering in the probe of other devices. That's obviously not a great pattern but a regreession is a regression.
Just for reference, I've also sent the following to the stable patch apply notice:
"This commit reveals a few driver bugs resulting in deadlocks without the following fixes:
- ed1ac3c977dd ("iommu/arm-smmu-qcom: do not register driver in probe()")
One additional note, we want this commit backported regardless, as it also fixes commit 0b4eeee2876f ("iommu/arm-smmu-qcom: Register the TBU driver in qcom_smmu_impl_init").
I.e. the current code is racy in terms of async probe and the driver is never unregistered even if built as module and the module is unloaded, which is a potential UAF.
- 730e5ebff40c ("gpio: omap: do not register driver in probe()")
The third one will hopefully be picked up by the clk folks soon.
(1) should be required since v6.11, (2) since (basically forever) v2.6.22 and (3) since v5.11.
We should also consider that we do not know if (especially older) stable trees have similar cases that we did not catch in linux-next."
- Danilo
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