On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 at 18:20, Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.43 release. There are 444 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 Wed, 20 Aug 2025 12:43:43 +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-6.12.43-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
Boot regression occurs on the Qualcomm DragonBoard 410c (arm64) with stable-rc 6.12.43-rc1. The kernel crashes during early boot with a NULL pointer dereference in the Qualcomm SCM/TZMEM subsystem.
The crash originates in qcom_scm_shm_bridge_enable() (drivers/firmware/qcom/qcom_scm.c) and is invoked by qcom_tzmem_enable() (drivers/firmware/qcom/qcom_tzmem.c). This happens while probing SCM during platform initialization, preventing the board from reaching userspace due to kernel panic.
Regression Analysis: - New regression? yes - Reproducibility? yes
Boot regression: stable-rc 6.12.43-rc1 arm64 Qualcomm Dragonboard 410c kernel NULL pointer dereference qcom_scm_shm_bridge_enable qcom_tzmem_enable
Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing lkft@linaro.org
## Test log [ 1.136454] scmi_core: SCMI protocol bus registered [ 1.138666] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000 [ 1.142955] Mem abort info: [ 1.151940] ESR = 0x0000000096000004 [ 1.154445] EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits [ 1.158283] SET = 0, FnV = 0 [ 1.163744] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0 [ 1.166596] FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault [ 1.169654] Data abort info: [ 1.174508] ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004, ISS2 = 0x00000000 [ 1.177627] CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0 [ 1.182937] GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0 [ 1.188062] [0000000000000000] user address but active_mm is swapper [ 1.193447] Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP [ 1.199761] Modules linked in: [ 1.205740] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.12.43-rc1 #1 [ 1.208875] Hardware name: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. APQ 8016 SBC (DT) [ 1.215733] pstate: 20000005 (nzCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) [ 1.222676] pc : qcom_scm_shm_bridge_enable (drivers/firmware/qcom/qcom_scm.c:1378) [ 1.229356] lr : qcom_tzmem_enable (drivers/firmware/qcom/qcom_tzmem.c:97 drivers/firmware/qcom/qcom_tzmem.c:474) [ 1.234561] sp : ffff80008002b720 [ 1.238984] x29: ffff80008002b7b0 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: 0000000000000000 [ 1.242294] x26: 0000000000000000 x25: 0000000000000000 x24: ffff00003fafaf18 [ 1.249412] x23: ffff00003facfc98 x22: 0000000000000000 x21: ffff0000036b2410 [ 1.256531] x20: ffff0000036b2400 x19: ffff800083031000 x18: ffff0000036e8000 [ 1.263649] x17: 0000000000000100 x16: 0000000000000160 x15: fffffffffffffffe [ 1.270767] x14: ffffffffffffffff x13: ffff800080028000 x12: ffff80008002c000 [ 1.277885] x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0000000000000019 x9 : ffff80008136164c [ 1.285002] x8 : 0000000000000000 x7 : 7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f x6 : fefefeff35302f37 [ 1.292121] x5 : 8080808000000000 x4 : 0000000000000020 x3 : ffff80008002b710 [ 1.299240] x2 : 000000000000001c x1 : 000000000000000c x0 : 0000000000000000 [ 1.306359] Call trace: [ 1.313462] qcom_scm_shm_bridge_enable (drivers/firmware/qcom/qcom_scm.c:1378) [ 1.315726] qcom_tzmem_enable (drivers/firmware/qcom/qcom_tzmem.c:97 drivers/firmware/qcom/qcom_tzmem.c:474) [ 1.320584] qcom_scm_probe (drivers/firmware/qcom/qcom_scm.c:2009) [ 1.324663] platform_probe (drivers/base/platform.c:1405) [ 1.328309] really_probe (drivers/base/dd.c:581 drivers/base/dd.c:657) [ 1.332128] __driver_probe_device (drivers/base/dd.c:0) [ 1.335777] driver_probe_device (drivers/base/dd.c:829) [ 1.340116] __driver_attach (drivers/base/dd.c:1216) [ 1.344107] bus_for_each_dev (drivers/base/bus.c:369) [ 1.347928] driver_attach (drivers/base/dd.c:1233) [ 1.352094] bus_add_driver (drivers/base/bus.c:676) [ 1.355653] driver_register (drivers/base/driver.c:247) [ 1.359212] __platform_driver_register (drivers/base/platform.c:867) [ 1.363035] qcom_scm_init (drivers/firmware/qcom/qcom_scm.c:2115) [ 1.367891] do_one_initcall (init/main.c:1269) [ 1.371538] do_initcall_level (init/main.c:1330) [ 1.375097] do_initcalls (init/main.c:1344) [ 1.379262] do_basic_setup (init/main.c:1367) [ 1.382563] kernel_init_freeable (init/main.c:1584) [ 1.386384] kernel_init (init/main.c:1471) [ 1.390722] ret_from_fork (arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:846) [ 1.393940] Code: a905ffff a904ffff a903ffff f9001bff (f9400100) All code ========
Code starting with the faulting instruction =========================================== [ 1.397767] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- [ 1.403793] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b [ 1.408446] SMP: stopping secondary CPUs [ 1.415825] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b ]---
Please refer the full test log information in the below links.
## Source * Kernel version: 6.12.43-rc1 * Git tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git * Git describe: v6.12.41-814-gd65072433784 * Git commit: d6507243378459e7fbd4a142a0b195f4cd3f713b * Architectures: arm64 Dragonboard 410c * Toolchains: gcc-13, clang-20 * Kconfigs: defconfig+lkft
## Test * Boot log: https://qa-reports.linaro.org/api/testruns/29585571/log_file/ * Boot lava log: https://lkft.validation.linaro.org/scheduler/job/8407180#L2638 * Boot details: https://regressions.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-6.12.y/v6.12.41-81... * Boot plan: https://tuxapi.tuxsuite.com/v1/groups/linaro/projects/lkft/tests/31SgOm3HeBT... * Build link: https://storage.tuxsuite.com/public/linaro/lkft/builds/31SgLgEU5QMBwix6uJ2Xz... * Kernel config: https://storage.tuxsuite.com/public/linaro/lkft/builds/31SgLgEU5QMBwix6uJ2Xz...
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