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-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
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Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh(a)linuxfoundation.org>
Linux 6.12.65-rc1
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh(a)linuxfoundation.org>
Revert "iommu/amd: Skip enabling command/event buffers for kdump"
Sean Nyekjaer <sean(a)geanix.com>
pwm: stm32: Always program polarity
Maximilian Immanuel Brandtner <maxbr(a)linux.ibm.com>
virtio_console: fix order of fields cols and rows
Peter Zijlstra <peterz(a)infradead.org>
sched/fair: Proportional newidle balance
Peter Zijlstra <peterz(a)infradead.org>
sched/fair: Small cleanup to update_newidle_cost()
Peter Zijlstra <peterz(a)infradead.org>
sched/fair: Small cleanup to sched_balance_newidle()
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo(a)igalia.com>
net: Remove RTNL dance for SIOCBRADDIF and SIOCBRDELIF.
Richa Bharti <richa.bharti(a)siemens.com>
cpufreq: intel_pstate: Check IDA only before MSR_IA32_PERF_CTL writes
Natalie Vock <natalie.vock(a)gmx.de>
drm/amdgpu: Forward VMID reservation errors
Miaoqian Lin <linmq006(a)gmail.com>
net: phy: mediatek: fix nvmem cell reference leak in mt798x_phy_calibration
Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen(a)oss.qualcomm.com>
wifi: mac80211: Discard Beacon frames to non-broadcast address
Paolo Abeni <pabeni(a)redhat.com>
mptcp: ensure context reset on disconnect()
Bijan Tabatabai <bijan311(a)gmail.com>
mm: consider non-anon swap cache folios in folio_expected_ref_count()
David Hildenbrand <david(a)redhat.com>
mm: simplify folio_expected_ref_count()
Alexander Gordeev <agordeev(a)linux.ibm.com>
mm/page_alloc: change all pageblocks migrate type on coalescing
Paolo Abeni <pabeni(a)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(-)
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.5 release.
There are 5 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-6.18.5-rc1…
or in the git tree and branch at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.18.y
and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
-------------
Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh(a)linuxfoundation.org>
Linux 6.18.5-rc1
Mike Snitzer <snitzer(a)kernel.org>
nfs/localio: fix regression due to out-of-order __put_cred
Peter Zijlstra <peterz(a)infradead.org>
sched/fair: Proportional newidle balance
Peter Zijlstra <peterz(a)infradead.org>
sched/fair: Small cleanup to update_newidle_cost()
Peter Zijlstra <peterz(a)infradead.org>
sched/fair: Small cleanup to sched_balance_newidle()
Paolo Abeni <pabeni(a)redhat.com>
mptcp: ensure context reset on disconnect()
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +--
fs/nfs/localio.c | 12 ++++----
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 ++++
net/mptcp/protocol.c | 8 ++++--
net/mptcp/protocol.h | 3 +-
10 files changed, 92 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
Total jobs: 34
Total errors: 14 (41.18%)
LAVA errors: 0 (0.00%)
Test errors: 1 (2.94%)
Job errors: 4 (11.76%)
Infra errors: 9 (26.47%)
Canceled jobs: 0 (0.00%)
Device type: dragonboard-845c
Total jobs: 4
Total errors: 0 (0.00%)
Device type: bcm2837-rpi-3-b-32
Total jobs: 21
Total errors: 11 (52.38%)
Error type: Infrastructure
Error count: 9 (42.86%)
Error: No match for error type 'Infrastructure', message 'bootloader-commands timed out after 35 seconds'
Count: 9 (42.86%)
IDs:
rpi3-b-32-03:
4271888 4271890 4271892 4271894 4271896
4271898 4271900 4271902 4271904
Error type: Job
Error count: 2 (9.52%)
Error: wait for prompt timed out
Count: 2 (9.52%)
IDs:
rpi3-b-32-03:
4271880 4271887
Device type: x15
Total jobs: 4
Total errors: 0 (0.00%)
Device type: dragonboard-410c
Total jobs: 3
Total errors: 2 (66.67%)
Error type: Job
Error count: 2 (66.67%)
Error: No match for error type 'Job', message 'Unable to update image rootfs: 'mount: mount exited with status 32: mount: /sysroot: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.\n dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.''
Count: 2 (66.67%)
IDs:
dragonboard-410c-01:
4271873 4271879
Device type: hi6220-hikey-r2
Total jobs: 2
Total errors: 1 (50.00%)
Error type: Test
Error count: 1 (50.00%)
Error: Invalid TESTCASE signal
Count: 1 (50.00%)
IDs:
hi6220-hikey-r2-02:
4271868
Total jobs: 67
Total errors: 29 (43.28%)
LAVA errors: 0 (0.00%)
Test errors: 0 (0.00%)
Job errors: 7 (10.45%)
Infra errors: 22 (32.84%)
Canceled jobs: 0 (0.00%)
Device type: dragonboard-845c
Total jobs: 6
Total errors: 1 (16.67%)
Error type: Job
Error count: 1 (16.67%)
Error: Invalid job data
Count: 1 (16.67%)
IDs:
dragonboard-845c-04:
4271093
Device type: bcm2837-rpi-3-b-32
Total jobs: 49
Total errors: 25 (51.02%)
Error type: Infrastructure
Error count: 22 (44.90%)
Error: No match for error type 'Infrastructure', message 'bootloader-commands timed out after 35 seconds'
Count: 19 (38.78%)
IDs:
rpi3-b-32-03:
4271062 4271067 4271071 4271076 4271078
4271080 4271082 4271084 4271086 4271088
4271104 4271111 4271113 4271116 4271118
4271120 4271122 4271125 4271127
Error: No match for error type 'Infrastructure', message 'No time left for remaining 2 retries. You should either increase block timeout or decrease named action timeout. 1 retries out of 3 failed for download-retry'
Count: 2 (4.08%)
IDs:
rpi3-b-32-03:
4271069 4271099
Error: No match for error type 'Infrastructure', message 'extract-nfsrootfs timed out after 2 seconds'
Count: 1 (2.04%)
IDs:
rpi3-b-32-03:
4271064
Error type: Job
Error count: 3 (6.12%)
Error: wait for prompt timed out
Count: 3 (6.12%)
IDs:
rpi3-b-32-03:
4271075 4271115 4271124
Device type: dragonboard-410c
Total jobs: 4
Total errors: 3 (75.00%)
Error type: Job
Error count: 3 (75.00%)
Error: No match for error type 'Job', message 'Unable to update image rootfs: 'mount: mount exited with status 32: mount: /sysroot: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.\n dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.''
Count: 2 (50.00%)
IDs:
dragonboard-410c-01:
4271056 4271107
Error: Invalid job data
Count: 1 (25.00%)
IDs:
dragonboard-410c-01:
4271096
Device type: x15
Total jobs: 7
Total errors: 0 (0.00%)
Device type: hi6220-hikey-r2
Total jobs: 1
Total errors: 0 (0.00%)