This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.41 release. There are 117 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 Fri, 01 Aug 2025 09:32:07 +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-6.12.41-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 6.12.41-rc1

Liu Shixin liushixin2@huawei.com mm: khugepaged: fix call hpage_collapse_scan_file() for anonymous vma

Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com KVM: x86: Free vCPUs before freeing VM state

Tomita Moeko tomitamoeko@gmail.com Revert "drm/xe/forcewake: Add a helper xe_force_wake_ref_has_domain()"

Tomita Moeko tomitamoeko@gmail.com Revert "drm/xe/devcoredump: Update handling of xe_force_wake_get return"

Tomita Moeko tomitamoeko@gmail.com Revert "drm/xe/tests/mocs: Update xe_force_wake_get() return handling"

Tomita Moeko tomitamoeko@gmail.com Revert "drm/xe/gt: Update handling of xe_force_wake_get return"

Ville Syrjälä ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com drm/i915/dp: Fix 2.7 Gbps DP_LINK_BW value on g4x

Daniel Dadap ddadap@nvidia.com ALSA: hda: Add missing NVIDIA HDA codec IDs

Mohan Kumar D mkumard@nvidia.com ALSA: hda/tegra: Add Tegra264 support

Naman Jain namjain@linux.microsoft.com Drivers: hv: Make the sysfs node size for the ring buffer dynamic

Nathan Chancellor nathan@kernel.org ARM: 9448/1: Use an absolute path to unified.h in KBUILD_AFLAGS

Zhang Lixu lixu.zhang@intel.com iio: hid-sensor-prox: Fix incorrect OFFSET calculation

Zhang Lixu lixu.zhang@intel.com iio: hid-sensor-prox: Restore lost scale assignments

Ming Yen Hsieh mingyen.hsieh@mediatek.com wifi: mt76: mt7925: adjust rm BSS flow to prevent next connection failure

Sean Wang sean.wang@mediatek.com Revert "wifi: mt76: mt7925: Update mt7925_mcu_uni_[tx,rx]_ba for MLO"

Stephan Gerhold stephan.gerhold@linaro.org arm64: dts: qcom: x1-crd: Fix vreg_l2j_1p2 voltage

Roman Kisel romank@linux.microsoft.com x86/hyperv: Fix APIC ID and VP index confusion in hv_snp_boot_ap()

Manuel Andreas manuel.andreas@tum.de KVM: x86/hyper-v: Skip non-canonical addresses during PV TLB flush

Maxim Levitsky mlevitsk@redhat.com KVM: x86: model canonical checks more precisely

Maxim Levitsky mlevitsk@redhat.com KVM: x86: Add X86EMUL_F_MSR and X86EMUL_F_DT_LOAD to aid canonical checks

Maxim Levitsky mlevitsk@redhat.com KVM: x86: Route non-canonical checks in emulator through emulate_ops

Maxim Levitsky mlevitsk@redhat.com KVM: x86: drop x86.h include from cpuid.h

Zhang Yi yi.zhang@huawei.com ext4: fix out of bounds punch offset

Zhang Yi yi.zhang@huawei.com ext4: correct the error handle in ext4_fallocate()

Zhang Yi yi.zhang@huawei.com ext4: fix incorrect punch max_end

Zhang Yi yi.zhang@huawei.com ext4: move out common parts into ext4_fallocate()

Zhang Yi yi.zhang@huawei.com ext4: move out inode_lock into ext4_fallocate()

Zhang Yi yi.zhang@huawei.com ext4: factor out ext4_do_fallocate()

Zhang Yi yi.zhang@huawei.com ext4: refactor ext4_insert_range()

Zhang Yi yi.zhang@huawei.com ext4: refactor ext4_collapse_range()

Zhang Yi yi.zhang@huawei.com ext4: refactor ext4_zero_range()

Zhang Yi yi.zhang@huawei.com ext4: refactor ext4_punch_hole()

Zhang Yi yi.zhang@huawei.com ext4: don't explicit update times in ext4_fallocate()

Gao Xiang xiang@kernel.org erofs: fix large fragment handling

Gao Xiang xiang@kernel.org erofs: clean up header parsing for ztailpacking and fragments

Gao Xiang xiang@kernel.org erofs: simplify tail inline pcluster handling

Hongzhen Luo hongzhen@linux.alibaba.com erofs: use Z_EROFS_LCLUSTER_TYPE_MAX to simplify switches

Gao Xiang xiang@kernel.org erofs: refine z_erofs_get_extent_compressedlen()

Gao Xiang xiang@kernel.org erofs: simplify z_erofs_load_compact_lcluster()

Johan Hovold johan+linaro@kernel.org arm64: dts: qcom: x1e78100-t14s: mark l12b and l15b always-on

Md Sadre Alam quic_mdalam@quicinc.com mtd: rawnand: qcom: Fix last codeword read in qcom_param_page_type_exec()

Eric Biggers ebiggers@google.com crypto: powerpc/poly1305 - add depends on BROKEN for now

Ian Abbott abbotti@mev.co.uk comedi: comedi_test: Fix possible deletion of uninitialized timers

Dmitry Antipov dmantipov@yandex.ru jfs: reject on-disk inodes of an unsupported type

Michael Zhivich mzhivich@akamai.com x86/bugs: Fix use of possibly uninit value in amd_check_tsa_microcode()

Khairul Anuar Romli khairul.anuar.romli@altera.com spi: cadence-quadspi: fix cleanup of rx_chan on failure paths

RD Babiera rdbabiera@google.com usb: typec: tcpm: apply vbus before data bringup in tcpm_src_attach

Michael Grzeschik m.grzeschik@pengutronix.de usb: typec: tcpm: allow switching to mode accessory to mux properly

Michael Grzeschik m.grzeschik@pengutronix.de usb: typec: tcpm: allow to use sink in accessory mode

Yonghong Song yonghong.song@linux.dev selftests/bpf: Add tests with stack ptr register in conditional jmp

Miguel Ojeda ojeda@kernel.org rust: give Clippy the minimum supported Rust version

Harry Yoo harry.yoo@oracle.com mm/zsmalloc: do not pass __GFP_MOVABLE if CONFIG_COMPACTION=n

Jinjiang Tu tujinjiang@huawei.com mm/vmscan: fix hwpoisoned large folio handling in shrink_folio_list

Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) matttbe@kernel.org selftests: mptcp: connect: also cover checksum

Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) matttbe@kernel.org selftests: mptcp: connect: also cover alt modes

Akinobu Mita akinobu.mita@gmail.com resource: fix false warning in __request_region()

Ryusuke Konishi konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com nilfs2: reject invalid file types when reading inodes

Marco Elver elver@google.com kasan: use vmalloc_dump_obj() for vmalloc error reports

Haoxiang Li haoxiang_li2024@163.com ice: Fix a null pointer dereference in ice_copy_and_init_pkg()

Praveen Kaligineedi pkaligineedi@google.com gve: Fix stuck TX queue for DQ queue format

Jacek Kowalski jacek@jacekk.info e1000e: ignore uninitialized checksum word on tgp

Jacek Kowalski jacek@jacekk.info e1000e: disregard NVM checksum on tgp when valid checksum bit is not set

Ma Ke make24@iscas.ac.cn dpaa2-switch: Fix device reference count leak in MAC endpoint handling

Ma Ke make24@iscas.ac.cn dpaa2-eth: Fix device reference count leak in MAC endpoint handling

Ada Couprie Diaz ada.coupriediaz@arm.com arm64/entry: Mask DAIF in cpu_switch_to(), call_on_irq_stack()

Edip Hazuri edip@medip.dev ALSA: hda/realtek - Add mute LED support for HP Victus 15-fa0xxx

Dawid Rezler dawidrezler.patches@gmail.com ALSA: hda/realtek - Add mute LED support for HP Pavilion 15-eg0xxx

Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au sprintf.h requires stdarg.h

Ma Ke make24@iscas.ac.cn bus: fsl-mc: Fix potential double device reference in fsl_mc_get_endpoint()

Viresh Kumar viresh.kumar@linaro.org i2c: virtio: Avoid hang by using interruptible completion wait

Akhil R akhilrajeev@nvidia.com i2c: tegra: Fix reset error handling with ACPI

Yang Xiwen forbidden405@outlook.com i2c: qup: jump out of the loop in case of timeout

Markus Blöchl markus@blochl.de timekeeping: Zero initialize system_counterval when querying time from phc drivers

Nathan Chancellor nathan@kernel.org ARM: 9450/1: Fix allowing linker DCE with binutils < 2.36

Nathan Chancellor nathan@kernel.org mm/ksm: fix -Wsometimes-uninitialized from clang-21 in advisor_mode_show()

Lin.Cao lincao12@amd.com drm/sched: Remove optimization that causes hang when killing dependent jobs

Arunpravin Paneer Selvam Arunpravin.PaneerSelvam@amd.com drm/amdgpu: Reset the clear flag in buddy during resume

Rong Zhang i@rong.moe platform/x86: ideapad-laptop: Fix kbd backlight not remembered among boots

Rong Zhang i@rong.moe platform/x86: ideapad-laptop: Fix FnLock not remembered among boots

Jijie Shao shaojijie@huawei.com net: hns3: default enable tx bounce buffer when smmu enabled

Jian Shen shenjian15@huawei.com net: hns3: fixed vf get max channels bug

Yonglong Liu liuyonglong@huawei.com net: hns3: disable interrupt when ptp init failed

Jian Shen shenjian15@huawei.com net: hns3: fix concurrent setting vlan filter issue

Halil Pasic pasic@linux.ibm.com s390/ism: fix concurrency management in ism_cmd()

Nimrod Oren noren@nvidia.com selftests: drv-net: wait for iperf client to stop sending

SHARAN KUMAR M sharweshraajan@gmail.com ALSA: hda/realtek: Fix mute LED mask on HP OMEN 16 laptop

Douglas Anderson dianders@chromium.org drm/bridge: ti-sn65dsi86: Remove extra semicolon in ti_sn_bridge_probe()

Marc Kleine-Budde mkl@pengutronix.de can: netlink: can_changelink(): fix NULL pointer deref of struct can_priv::do_set_mode

Xiang Mei xmei5@asu.edu net/sched: sch_qfq: Avoid triggering might_sleep in atomic context in qfq_delete_class

Kito Xu (veritas501) hxzene@gmail.com net: appletalk: Fix use-after-free in AARP proxy probe

Jamie Bainbridge jamie.bainbridge@gmail.com i40e: When removing VF MAC filters, only check PF-set MAC

Dennis Chen dechen@redhat.com i40e: report VF tx_dropped with tx_errors instead of tx_discards

Shahar Shitrit shshitrit@nvidia.com net/mlx5: E-Switch, Fix peer miss rules to use peer eswitch

Chiara Meiohas cmeiohas@nvidia.com net/mlx5: Fix memory leak in cmd_exec()

Himanshu Mittal h-mittal1@ti.com net: ti: icssg-prueth: Fix buffer allocation for ICSSG

Guoqing Jiang guoqing.jiang@canonical.com ASoC: mediatek: mt8365-dai-i2s: pass correct size to mt8365_dai_set_priv

Eyal Birger eyal.birger@gmail.com xfrm: interface: fix use-after-free after changing collect_md xfrm interface

Tobias Brunner tobias@strongswan.org xfrm: Set transport header to fix UDP GRO handling

Sabrina Dubroca sd@queasysnail.net xfrm: state: use a consistent pcpu_id in xfrm_state_find

Sabrina Dubroca sd@queasysnail.net xfrm: state: initialize state_ptrs earlier in xfrm_state_find

Stefan Wahren wahrenst@gmx.net staging: vchiq_arm: Make vchiq_shutdown never fail

Torsten Hilbrich torsten.hilbrich@secunet.com platform/x86: Fix initialization order for firmware_attributes_class

Nuno Das Neves nunodasneves@linux.microsoft.com x86/hyperv: Fix usage of cpu_online_mask to get valid cpu

Yasumasa Suenaga yasuenag@gmail.com tools/hv: fcopy: Fix incorrect file path conversion

Shravan Kumar Ramani shravankr@nvidia.com platform/mellanox: mlxbf-pmc: Use kstrtobool() to check 0/1 input

Shravan Kumar Ramani shravankr@nvidia.com platform/mellanox: mlxbf-pmc: Validate event/enable input

Shravan Kumar Ramani shravankr@nvidia.com platform/mellanox: mlxbf-pmc: Remove newline char from event name input

Abdun Nihaal abdun.nihaal@gmail.com regmap: fix potential memory leak of regmap_bus

David Lechner dlechner@baylibre.com iio: adc: ad7949: use spi_is_bpw_supported()

Xilin Wu sophon@radxa.com interconnect: qcom: sc7280: Add missing num_links to xm_pcie3_1 node

Maor Gottlieb maorg@nvidia.com RDMA/core: Rate limit GID cache warning messages

Rahul Chandra rahul@chandra.net platform/x86: asus-nb-wmi: add DMI quirk for ASUS Zenbook Duo UX8406CA

Alessandro Carminati acarmina@redhat.com regulator: core: fix NULL dereference on unbind due to stale coupling data

Laurent Vivier lvivier@redhat.com virtio_ring: Fix error reporting in virtqueue_resize

Laurent Vivier lvivier@redhat.com virtio_net: Enforce minimum TX ring size for reliability

Fabrice Gasnier fabrice.gasnier@foss.st.com Input: gpio-keys - fix a sleep while atomic with PREEMPT_RT

Xin Li (Intel) xin@zytor.com x86/traps: Initialize DR7 by writing its architectural reset value

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Diffstat:

.clippy.toml | 2 + Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/Kconfig | 2 +- arch/arm/Makefile | 2 +- .../dts/qcom/x1e78100-lenovo-thinkpad-t14s.dts | 2 + arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/x1e80100-crd.dts | 4 +- arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h | 5 + arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S | 6 + arch/powerpc/crypto/Kconfig | 1 + arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.c | 33 ++ arch/x86/hyperv/hv_vtl.c | 44 +- arch/x86/hyperv/irqdomain.c | 4 +- arch/x86/hyperv/ivm.c | 22 +- arch/x86/include/asm/debugreg.h | 19 +- arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 2 +- arch/x86/include/asm/mshyperv.h | 6 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c | 2 + arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.h | 1 - arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c | 15 +- arch/x86/kvm/hyperv.c | 3 + arch/x86/kvm/kvm_emulate.h | 5 + arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h | 1 + arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kvm/mtrr.c | 1 + arch/x86/kvm/vmx/hyperv.c | 1 + arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c | 24 +- arch/x86/kvm/vmx/pmu_intel.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kvm/vmx/sgx.c | 5 +- arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 4 +- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 19 +- arch/x86/kvm/x86.h | 48 +- drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c | 2 + drivers/bus/fsl-mc/fsl-mc-bus.c | 19 +- drivers/comedi/drivers/comedi_test.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c | 2 + drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ttm.h | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vram_mgr.c | 17 + drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/ti-sn65dsi86.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_buddy.c | 43 ++ drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp.c | 6 + drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_entity.c | 21 +- drivers/gpu/drm/xe/tests/xe_mocs.c | 21 +- drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_devcoredump.c | 14 +- drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_force_wake.h | 16 - drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_gt.c | 105 ++--- drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c | 2 +- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-qup.c | 4 +- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-tegra.c | 24 +- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-virtio.c | 15 +- drivers/iio/adc/ad7949.c | 7 +- drivers/iio/light/hid-sensor-prox.c | 8 +- drivers/infiniband/core/cache.c | 4 +- drivers/input/keyboard/gpio_keys.c | 4 +- drivers/interconnect/qcom/sc7280.c | 1 + drivers/mtd/nand/raw/qcom_nandc.c | 12 +- drivers/net/can/dev/dev.c | 12 +- drivers/net/can/dev/netlink.c | 12 + drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/dpaa2-eth.c | 15 +- .../net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/dpaa2-switch.c | 15 +- drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_main.c | 67 +-- drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3_enet.c | 31 ++ drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3_enet.h | 2 + .../ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3pf/hclge_main.c | 36 +- .../net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3pf/hclge_ptp.c | 9 +- .../ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3vf/hclgevf_main.c | 6 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/defines.h | 3 + drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ich8lan.c | 2 + drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/nvm.c | 6 + drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c | 6 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_ddp.c | 2 + drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/cmd.c | 4 +- .../ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch_offloads.c | 108 ++--- drivers/net/ethernet/ti/icssg/icssg_config.c | 162 ++++--- drivers/net/ethernet/ti/icssg/icssg_config.h | 78 ++- drivers/net/ethernet/ti/icssg/icssg_prueth.c | 20 +- drivers/net/ethernet/ti/icssg/icssg_prueth.h | 2 + drivers/net/ethernet/ti/icssg/icssg_switch_map.h | 3 + drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 6 + drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7925/main.c | 76 +-- drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7925/mcu.c | 106 +++-- drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7925/mcu.h | 2 + drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7925/mt7925.h | 2 - drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-pmc.c | 25 +- drivers/platform/x86/Makefile | 3 +- drivers/platform/x86/asus-nb-wmi.c | 9 + drivers/platform/x86/ideapad-laptop.c | 4 +- drivers/regulator/core.c | 1 + drivers/s390/net/ism_drv.c | 3 + drivers/spi/spi-cadence-quadspi.c | 5 - .../vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c | 3 +- drivers/usb/typec/tcpm/tcpm.c | 64 ++- drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 8 +- fs/erofs/internal.h | 13 +- fs/erofs/zdata.c | 2 +- fs/erofs/zmap.c | 250 ++++------ fs/ext4/ext4.h | 2 + fs/ext4/extents.c | 524 ++++++++------------- fs/ext4/inode.c | 140 +++--- fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c | 13 +- fs/nilfs2/inode.c | 9 +- include/drm/drm_buddy.h | 2 + include/linux/ism.h | 1 + include/linux/sprintf.h | 1 + kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 7 +- kernel/resource.c | 5 +- kernel/time/timekeeping.c | 2 +- mm/kasan/report.c | 4 +- mm/khugepaged.c | 4 +- mm/ksm.c | 6 +- mm/memory-failure.c | 4 + mm/vmscan.c | 8 + mm/zsmalloc.c | 3 + net/appletalk/aarp.c | 24 +- net/ipv4/xfrm4_input.c | 3 + net/ipv6/xfrm6_input.c | 3 + net/sched/sch_qfq.c | 7 +- net/xfrm/xfrm_interface_core.c | 7 +- net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c | 23 +- sound/pci/hda/hda_tegra.c | 51 +- sound/pci/hda/patch_hdmi.c | 20 + sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 4 +- sound/soc/mediatek/mt8365/mt8365-dai-i2s.c | 3 +- tools/hv/hv_fcopy_uio_daemon.c | 37 +- .../selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_precision.c | 53 +++ tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/lib/py/load.py | 23 +- tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/Makefile | 3 +- .../selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_connect_checksum.sh | 5 + .../selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_connect_mmap.sh | 5 + .../selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_connect_sendfile.sh | 5 + 133 files changed, 1615 insertions(+), 1230 deletions(-)