This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.108 release. There are 99 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 Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:32:19 +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-6.12.108-rc... 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 6.12.108-rc1

Miguel Peñaranda mig.penaranda07@gmail.com usb: usbfs: fix use-after-free of usb_device in usbdev_release()

Devin Wittmayer lucid_duck@justthetip.ca wifi: mt76: mt7925: ensure tx headroom in usb_sdio_tx_prepare_skb

Shuangpeng Bai shuangpeng.kernel@gmail.com USB: c67x00: fix use-after-free in c67x00_add_iso_urb()

Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org USB: serial: spcp8x5: drop broken carrier detect support

Jiale Yao yaojiale02@163.com USB: serial: option: fix slab OOB read in interrupt URB callback

Will Porter mrwillporter@gmail.com ALSA: usb-audio: Complete cleanup after system-resume errors

Marouane El Moufid eun0us@espilon.net ALSA: usb-audio: fix OOB write in snd_usbmidi_novation_output()

Griffin Kroah-Hartman griffin@kroah.com usb: core: Strengthen error handling in hub_hub_status()

Griffin Kroah-Hartman griffin@kroah.com usb: core: Add lock to usb_wakeup_notification()

Christian Borntraeger borntraeger@linux.ibm.com KVM: s390: vsie: zero stale crypto bits

Bartosz Golaszewski bartosz.golaszewski@oss.qualcomm.com crypto: qce - Remove unsafe/deprecated algorithms

Thorsten Blum thorsten.blum@linux.dev crypto: mxs-dcp - fix source scatterlist length access

Md Sadre Alam md.alam@oss.qualcomm.com crypto: qce - fix CCM AAD buffer underallocation

Thorsten Blum thorsten.blum@linux.dev crypto: atmel-tdes - use scatterlist length before DMA mapping

Eric Biggers ebiggers@kernel.org crypto: qcom-rng - Remove crypto_rng interface

Eric Biggers ebiggers@kernel.org crypto: qcom-rng - Allow zero as a random number

Eric Biggers ebiggers@kernel.org crypto: qcom-rng - Enable clock in hwrng case

Eric Biggers ebiggers@kernel.org mm/swap: reject swapon() on filesystem-level encrypted files

Fourie Zhang littleddfu@gmail.com netfilter: nf_tables: don't queue packet path object notifications

Kyle Zeng kylebot@openai.com vxlan: keep the last remote linked during FDB flush

Kyle Zeng kylebot@openai.com batman-adv: reject unrepresentable multicast TVLV offsets

Kyle Zeng kylebot@openai.com ipv6: seg6: clear IPv4 control block on IPIP decapsulation

Norbert Szetei norbert@doyensec.com net: bridge: mcast: fix use-after-free of a master VLAN's multicast context

Zihan Xi zihanx@nebusec.ai xfrm: bound nat keepalive state collection

Zihan Xi zihanx@nebusec.ai xfrm: fix xfrm_state_construct() auth-trunc leak

Asim Viladi Oglu Manizada manizada@pm.me xfrm: ah6: validate routing header segments_left

Zihan Xi xizh2024@lzu.edu.cn xfrm: avoid lock inversion in nat keepalive work

Zhiling Zou roxy520tt@gmail.com xfrm: drop ESP-in-TCP packets with no ingress device

Sabrina Dubroca sd@queasysnail.net xfrm: espintcp: fix UAF during close

Hyunwoo Kim imv4bel@gmail.com net/tcp-ao: fix use-after-free of current_key on reconnect to another peer

Qing Ming a0yami@mailbox.org tcp: fix AO info use-after-free in tcp_ao_connect_init()

Rastislav Szabo rastislav.szabo@isovalent.com net/tcp: fix TCP-AO key deletion in VRFs

Pratik Vishwakarma Pratik.Vishwakarma@amd.com x86/CPU/AMD: Carve out a Zen5 models range

Qing Ming a0yami@mailbox.org gtp: serialize PDP context updates

Jiayuan Chen jiayuan.chen@linux.dev tls: device: fix out-of-bounds write in tls_append_frag()

Shuangpeng Bai shuangpeng.kernel@gmail.com usb: gadget: f_tcm: keep port count until LUN teardown completes

Aleksandr Nogikh nogikh@google.com usb: usbtest: disable dynamic ID support

Baokun Li libaokun@linux.alibaba.com fuse: fix invalidate lock leak on open O_TRUNC DAX failure

Baokun Li libaokun@linux.alibaba.com fuse: fix invalidate lock leak on setattr writeback failure

Lucas De Marchi ldemarchi@nvidia.com xhci: dbgtty: Fix unregister on tty_alloc_driver() failure

Lucas De Marchi ldemarchi@nvidia.com xhci: dbgtty: Fix unregister on tty_register_driver() failure

Semih Baskan strst.gs@gmail.com usb: xhci: Handle USB3 port events when there is one roothub

Haoxiang Li lihaoxiang@isrc.iscas.ac.cn accessibility: speakup: unregister tty ldisc on later init failures

Griffin Kroah-Hartman griffin@kroah.com fpga: dfl: fme: add error handling

Jose Villaseñor Montfort pepemontfort@gmail.com HID: magicmouse: prevent unbounded recursion in magicmouse_raw_event()

Chengfeng Ye nicoyip.dev@gmail.com Bluetooth: hci_sync: Fix accept list UAF during suspend

Zijun Hu zijun.hu@oss.qualcomm.com Bluetooth: hci_sync: Use bt_dev_err() to log error message in hci_update_event_filter_sync()

Ibrahim Hashimov security@auditcode.ai HID: uclogic: fix use-after-free of inrange_timer on remove

Raman Varabets kernel-linux-20260610-80b7ab08@raman.v1.sg HID: ft260: fix stack-use-after-return write in I2C read race

Michael Zaidman michael.zaidman@gmail.com HID: ft260: validate i2c input report length

Jann Horn jannh@google.com HID: asus: fix missing hid_is_usb() check

Antheas Kapenekakis lkml@antheas.dev HID: asus: simplify RGB init sequence

Baul Lee baul.lee@xbow.com HID: pidff: fix OOB write when hid->inputs is empty

Tomasz Pakuła tomasz.pakula.oficjalny@gmail.com HID: pidff: clang-format pass

Tomasz Pakuła tomasz.pakula.oficjalny@gmail.com HID: pidff: Use ARRAY_SIZE macro instead of sizeof

Tomasz Pakuła tomasz.pakula.oficjalny@gmail.com HID: pidff: Rework pidff_set_time() to fix warnings

Bryam Vargas hexlabsecurity@proton.me nfc: nci: add data_len bound checks to activation parameter extractors

Ryusuke Konishi konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com nilfs2: reject invalid block index in GC ioctl

Ryusuke Konishi konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com nilfs2: correct return value kernel-doc descriptions for ioctl functions

DaeMyung Kang charsyam@gmail.com ksmbd: harden file lifetime during session teardown

Aboorva Devarajan aboorvad@linux.ibm.com powerpc/hv-gpci: fix preempt count leak in sysfs show paths

Jesper Dangaard Brouer hawk@kernel.org veth: fix OOB txq access in veth_poll() with asymmetric queue counts

Ankit Khushwaha ankitkhushwaha.linux@gmail.com ring buffer: Propagate __rb_map_vma return value to caller

Stephen Smalley stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com selinux: switch two allocations to use kzalloc_objs()

Kuniyuki Iwashima kuniyu@google.com smc: Use __sk_dst_get() and dst_dev_rcu() in smc_vlan_by_tcpsk().

Cristian Ciocaltea cristian.ciocaltea@collabora.com ASoC: nau8821: Cancel pending work before suspend

Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org Revert "PM: sleep: Use complete() in device_pm_sleep_init()"

Michael Neuling mikey@neuling.org riscv: Fix register corruption from uninitialized cregs on error

Jiayuan Chen jiayuan.chen@linux.dev bpf: Fix use-after-free in offloaded map/prog info fill

Cristian Ciocaltea cristian.ciocaltea@collabora.com ASoC: nau8821: Cancel delayed work on component remove

Kuniyuki Iwashima kuniyu@google.com smc: Use __sk_dst_get() and dst_dev_rcu() in smc_clc_prfx_match().

Kuniyuki Iwashima kuniyu@google.com smc: Use __sk_dst_get() and dst_dev_rcu() in in smc_clc_prfx_set().

Oliver Upton oliver.upton@linux.dev KVM: arm64: Prevent access to vCPU events before init

Kuniyuki Iwashima kuniyu@google.com smc: Fix use-after-free in __pnet_find_base_ndev().

Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp can: j1939: make j1939_sk_bind() fail if device is no longer registered

Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp can: j1939: add missing calls in NETDEV_UNREGISTER notification handler

Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp can: j1939: implement NETDEV_UNREGISTER notification handler

Vladimir Riabchun ferr.lambarginio@gmail.com mISDN: hfcpci: Fix warning when deleting uninitialized timer

Wentao Liang vulab@iscas.ac.cn media: platform: exynos4-is: Add hardware sync wait to fimc_is_hw_change_mode()

Namjae Jeon linkinjeon@kernel.org exfat: fix double free in delayed_free

Dylan Wolff wolffd@comp.nus.edu.sg jfs: Fix null-ptr-deref in jfs_ioc_trim

Nick Child nnac123@linux.ibm.com ibmvnic: Use kernel helpers for hex dumps

Vasiliy Kovalev kovalev@altlinux.org jfs: add check read-only before txBeginAnon() call

Vasiliy Kovalev kovalev@altlinux.org jfs: add check read-only before truncation in jfs_truncate_nolock()

Kyle Zeng kylebot@openai.com perf: Reject exited events as group leaders

Bryam Vargas hexlabsecurity@proton.me selinux: require a class's permission values to cover its permission count

Bryam Vargas hexlabsecurity@proton.me selinux: reject a permission value exceeding the class permission count

Christian Göttsche cgzones@googlemail.com selinux: more strict policy parsing

Christian Göttsche cgzones@googlemail.com selinux: use u16 for security classes

Christian Göttsche cgzones@googlemail.com selinux: make more use of str_read() when loading the policy

Christian Göttsche cgzones@googlemail.com selinux: avoid unnecessary indirection in struct level_datum

Christian Göttsche cgzones@googlemail.com selinux: use known type instead of void pointer

Carlos Llamas cmllamas@google.com HID: uhid: convert to hid_safe_input_report()

Dmitry Bogdanov d.bogdanov@yadro.com nvme-tcp: fix usage of page_frag_cache

Vishnu Razdan vrazdan@openai.com io_uring/io-wq: fix worker accounting when canceling creation callbacks

Eric Biggers ebiggers@kernel.org ext4: don't enable DAX on new encrypted files

Jinu Kim kimjw04271234@gmail.com KVM: x86/mmu: Check write tracking in all address spaces

Peiyang He peiyang_he@smail.nju.edu.cn RDMA/rxe: Fix OOB in free_rd_atomic_resources()

Ibrahim Hashimov security@auditcode.ai RDMA/rxe: Fix responder UAF on IB_QP_MAX_DEST_RD_ATOMIC modify_qp

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Diffstat:

Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst | 4 + Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c | 6 + arch/powerpc/perf/hv-gpci.c | 24 +- arch/riscv/kernel/compat_signal.c | 2 + arch/riscv/kernel/ptrace.c | 4 +- arch/s390/kvm/vsie.c | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c | 1 + arch/x86/kvm/mmu/page_track.c | 32 +- drivers/accessibility/speakup/main.c | 1 + drivers/base/power/main.c | 6 +- drivers/crypto/Kconfig | 1 - drivers/crypto/atmel-tdes.c | 5 +- drivers/crypto/mxs-dcp.c | 2 +- drivers/crypto/qce/aead.c | 58 +--- drivers/crypto/qce/common.c | 55 +-- drivers/crypto/qce/common.h | 16 +- drivers/crypto/qce/regs-v5.h | 4 - drivers/crypto/qce/sha.c | 30 +- drivers/crypto/qce/sha.h | 1 - drivers/crypto/qce/skcipher.c | 97 +----- drivers/crypto/qcom-rng.c | 156 ++------- drivers/fpga/dfl-fme-perf.c | 2 + drivers/hid/hid-asus.c | 52 ++- drivers/hid/hid-ft260.c | 41 ++- drivers/hid/hid-magicmouse.c | 25 +- drivers/hid/hid-uclogic-core.c | 12 +- drivers/hid/uhid.c | 8 +- drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-pidff.c | 106 +++--- drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_qp.c | 18 +- drivers/isdn/hardware/mISDN/hfcpci.c | 12 +- .../platform/samsung/exynos4-is/fimc-is-regs.c | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c | 30 +- drivers/net/gtp.c | 21 +- drivers/net/veth.c | 3 +- drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c | 11 +- drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7925/mac.c | 4 + drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c | 8 + drivers/target/target_core_fabric_configfs.c | 8 + drivers/usb/c67x00/c67x00-sched.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/core/devio.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/core/hub.c | 7 +- drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_tcm.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/host/xhci-dbgtty.c | 15 +- drivers/usb/host/xhci-ring.c | 2 +- drivers/usb/misc/usbtest.c | 1 + drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 20 +- drivers/usb/serial/spcp8x5.c | 13 - fs/exfat/nls.c | 1 + fs/ext4/crypto.c | 40 +-- fs/ext4/ialloc.c | 4 + fs/fuse/dir.c | 9 +- fs/fuse/file.c | 4 +- fs/jfs/inode.c | 2 +- fs/jfs/jfs_discard.c | 3 +- fs/jfs/jfs_extent.c | 10 + fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c | 251 +++++++------- fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c | 6 +- fs/smb/server/vfs_cache.c | 179 ++++++++-- fs/smb/server/vfs_cache.h | 4 +- include/linux/skbuff.h | 24 ++ include/target/target_core_fabric.h | 2 + io_uring/io-wq.c | 9 +- kernel/bpf/offload.c | 10 +- kernel/events/core.c | 10 + kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 2 +- mm/swapfile.c | 7 + net/batman-adv/tvlv.c | 5 +- net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c | 48 ++- net/bridge/br_multicast.c | 4 +- net/can/j1939/j1939-priv.h | 1 + net/can/j1939/main.c | 5 + net/can/j1939/socket.c | 55 +++ net/ipv4/tcp_ao.c | 19 +- net/ipv6/ah6.c | 29 +- net/ipv6/seg6_local.c | 7 + net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 36 +- net/nfc/nci/ntf.c | 26 +- net/smc/smc_clc.c | 67 ++-- net/smc/smc_core.c | 27 +- net/smc/smc_pnet.c | 43 +-- net/tls/tls_device.c | 3 +- net/xfrm/espintcp.c | 9 +- net/xfrm/xfrm_nat_keepalive.c | 53 ++- net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c | 2 +- security/selinux/include/security.h | 1 + security/selinux/ss/avtab.c | 43 ++- security/selinux/ss/avtab.h | 21 +- security/selinux/ss/conditional.c | 47 +-- security/selinux/ss/conditional.h | 6 +- security/selinux/ss/constraint.h | 1 + security/selinux/ss/ebitmap.c | 4 +- security/selinux/ss/ebitmap.h | 5 +- security/selinux/ss/mls.c | 6 +- security/selinux/ss/policydb.c | 375 +++++++++++++++------ security/selinux/ss/policydb.h | 51 ++- security/selinux/ss/services.c | 8 +- sound/soc/codecs/nau8821.c | 13 + sound/usb/card.c | 14 +- sound/usb/midi.c | 2 + 100 files changed, 1484 insertions(+), 1067 deletions(-)