This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.65 release. There are 16 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, 11 Jan 2026 11:19:41 +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-6.12.65-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 6.12.65-rc1
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Revert "iommu/amd: Skip enabling command/event buffers for kdump"
Sean Nyekjaer sean@geanix.com pwm: stm32: Always program polarity
Maximilian Immanuel Brandtner maxbr@linux.ibm.com virtio_console: fix order of fields cols and rows
Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org sched/fair: Proportional newidle balance
Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org sched/fair: Small cleanup to update_newidle_cost()
Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org sched/fair: Small cleanup to sched_balance_newidle()
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo cascardo@igalia.com net: Remove RTNL dance for SIOCBRADDIF and SIOCBRDELIF.
Richa Bharti richa.bharti@siemens.com cpufreq: intel_pstate: Check IDA only before MSR_IA32_PERF_CTL writes
Natalie Vock natalie.vock@gmx.de drm/amdgpu: Forward VMID reservation errors
Miaoqian Lin linmq006@gmail.com net: phy: mediatek: fix nvmem cell reference leak in mt798x_phy_calibration
Jouni Malinen jouni.malinen@oss.qualcomm.com wifi: mac80211: Discard Beacon frames to non-broadcast address
Paolo Abeni pabeni@redhat.com mptcp: ensure context reset on disconnect()
Bijan Tabatabai bijan311@gmail.com mm: consider non-anon swap cache folios in folio_expected_ref_count()
David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com mm: simplify folio_expected_ref_count()
Alexander Gordeev agordeev@linux.ibm.com mm/page_alloc: change all pageblocks migrate type on coalescing
Paolo Abeni pabeni@redhat.com mptcp: fallback earlier on simult connection
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +-- drivers/char/virtio_console.c | 2 +- drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c | 9 +++-- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vm.c | 6 ++-- drivers/iommu/amd/init.c | 28 +++++---------- drivers/net/phy/mediatek-ge-soc.c | 2 +- drivers/pwm/pwm-stm32.c | 3 +- include/linux/if_bridge.h | 6 ++-- include/linux/mm.h | 10 +++--- include/linux/sched/topology.h | 3 ++ kernel/sched/core.c | 3 ++ kernel/sched/fair.c | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- kernel/sched/features.h | 5 +++ kernel/sched/sched.h | 7 ++++ kernel/sched/topology.c | 6 ++++ mm/page_alloc.c | 24 ++++++------- net/bridge/br_ioctl.c | 36 +++++++++++++++++-- net/bridge/br_private.h | 3 +- net/core/dev_ioctl.c | 16 --------- net/mac80211/rx.c | 5 +++ net/mptcp/options.c | 10 ++++++ net/mptcp/protocol.c | 8 +++-- net/mptcp/protocol.h | 9 +++-- net/mptcp/subflow.c | 10 +----- net/socket.c | 19 +++++----- 25 files changed, 186 insertions(+), 113 deletions(-)