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-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 6.12.51-rc1
Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla(a)oss.qualcomm.com>
ASoC: qcom: audioreach: fix potential null pointer dereference
Matvey Kovalev <matvey.kovalev(a)ispras.ru>
wifi: ath11k: fix NULL dereference in ath11k_qmi_m3_load()
Charan Teja Kalla <charan.kalla(a)oss.qualcomm.com>
mm: swap: check for stable address space before operating on the VMA
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo(a)igalia.com>
media: uvcvideo: Mark invalid entities with id UVC_INVALID_ENTITY_ID
Larshin Sergey <Sergey.Larshin(a)kaspersky.com>
media: rc: fix races with imon_disconnect()
Duoming Zhou <duoming(a)zju.edu.cn>
media: tuner: xc5000: Fix use-after-free in xc5000_release
Duoming Zhou <duoming(a)zju.edu.cn>
media: b2c2: Fix use-after-free causing by irq_check_work in flexcop_pci_remove
Wang Haoran <haoranwangsec(a)gmail.com>
scsi: target: target_core_configfs: Add length check to avoid buffer overflow
Kees Cook <kees(a)kernel.org>
gcc-plugins: Remove TODO_verify_il for GCC >= 16
Breno Leitao <leitao(a)debian.org>
crypto: sha256 - fix crash at kexec
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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(-)