This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.51 release. There are 10 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, 05 Oct 2025 16:02:25 +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-6.12.51-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 6.12.51-rc1
Srinivas Kandagatla srinivas.kandagatla@oss.qualcomm.com ASoC: qcom: audioreach: fix potential null pointer dereference
Matvey Kovalev matvey.kovalev@ispras.ru wifi: ath11k: fix NULL dereference in ath11k_qmi_m3_load()
Charan Teja Kalla charan.kalla@oss.qualcomm.com mm: swap: check for stable address space before operating on the VMA
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo cascardo@igalia.com media: uvcvideo: Mark invalid entities with id UVC_INVALID_ENTITY_ID
Larshin Sergey Sergey.Larshin@kaspersky.com media: rc: fix races with imon_disconnect()
Duoming Zhou duoming@zju.edu.cn media: tuner: xc5000: Fix use-after-free in xc5000_release
Duoming Zhou duoming@zju.edu.cn media: b2c2: Fix use-after-free causing by irq_check_work in flexcop_pci_remove
Wang Haoran haoranwangsec@gmail.com scsi: target: target_core_configfs: Add length check to avoid buffer overflow
Kees Cook kees@kernel.org gcc-plugins: Remove TODO_verify_il for GCC >= 16
Breno Leitao leitao@debian.org crypto: sha256 - fix crash at kexec
-------------
Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- drivers/media/pci/b2c2/flexcop-pci.c | 2 +- drivers/media/rc/imon.c | 27 +++++++++---- drivers/media/tuners/xc5000.c | 2 +- drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c | 73 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------- drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h | 2 + drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/qmi.c | 2 +- drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c | 2 +- include/crypto/sha256_base.h | 2 +- mm/swapfile.c | 3 ++ scripts/gcc-plugins/gcc-common.h | 7 ++++ sound/soc/qcom/qdsp6/topology.c | 4 +- 12 files changed, 87 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)