On Thu, Jul 23, 2026 at 04:17:55PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
On Wed, Jul 22, 2026 at 04:31:38PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.97 release. There are 1202 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.
I'm seeing a regression in the proc read kselftest which bisects to "proc: protect ptrace_may_access() with exec_update_lock (part 1)":
# selftests: proc: read [ 167.845745] ICMPv6: process `read' is using deprecated sysctl (syscall) net.ipv6.neigh.default.base_reachable_time - use net.ipv6.neigh.default.base_reachable_time_ms instead [ 167.914113] sysrq: HELP : loglevel(0-9) reboot(b) crash(c) terminate-all-tasks(e) memory-full-oom-kill(f) kill-all-tasks(i) thaw-filesystems(j) sak(k) show-backtrace-all-active-cpus(l) show-memory-usage(m) nice-all-RT-tasks(n) poweroff(o) show-registers(p) show-all-timers(q) unraw(r) sync(s) show-task-states(t) unmount(u) show-blocked-tasks(w) replay-kernel-logs(R) [ 168.019358] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000098
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[ 168.270588] Call trace: [ 168.273035] rwsem_read_trylock+0x30/0xe0 [ 168.277047] proc_map_files_readdir+0x94/0x3dc [ 168.281498] iterate_dir+0x118/0x224 [ 168.285077] __arm64_sys_getdents64+0x70/0x160 [ 168.289524] invoke_syscall+0x44/0xe4
Full log:
Odd, and this is not regressing in Linus's tree as well? Did we miss something that is needed here that mainline has?
thanks,
greg k-h