This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 7.2.1 release. There are 82 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 Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:25:02 +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/v7.x/stable-review/patch-7.2.1-rc1.g... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-7.2.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 7.2.1-rc1
Laxman Acharya Padhya acharyalaxman8848@gmail.com Bluetooth: hci_aml: validate firmware segment lengths
Ali Ahmet Memis ali@iusegentoo.com Bluetooth: MGMT: reject HCI_CMD_SYNC params_len above 255
Ali Ahmet Memis ali@iusegentoo.com Bluetooth: ISO: zero the sockaddr before returning it in getname
Ali Ahmet Memis ali@iusegentoo.com Bluetooth: ISO: do not force BT_LISTEN after a failed BIG sync
Chengfeng Ye nicoyip.dev@gmail.com Bluetooth: hci_sync: Fix accept list UAF during suspend
Laxman Acharya Padhya acharyalaxman8848@gmail.com Bluetooth: hci_event: validate LE Set CIG Parameters response
Chengfeng Ye nicoyip.dev@gmail.com Bluetooth: hci_event: fix LE list UAF on reset
Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org drm/xe: Don't hand out the flat CCS storage as usable VRAM
Jose Villaseñor Montfort pepemontfort@gmail.com HID: input: read battery capacity from its actual report offset
Michael Bommarito michael.bommarito@gmail.com HID: hyperv: validate initial device info bounds
Ibrahim Hashimov security@auditcode.ai HID: uclogic: fix use-after-free of inrange_timer on remove
Haoxiang Li haoxiang_li2024@163.com HID: sensor: custom: Fix use-after-free in enable_sensor
Raman Varabets kernel-linux-20260610-80b7ab08@raman.v1.sg HID: ft260: fix stack-use-after-return write in I2C read race
Jann Horn jannh@google.com HID: core: fix number/pointer type confusion on long items
Jann Horn jannh@google.com HID: rapoo: fix missing hid_is_usb() check
Jiangshan Yi yijiangshan@kylinos.cn HID: nintendo: stop device IO before hid_hw_stop on probe failure
Jiangshan Yi yijiangshan@kylinos.cn HID: nintendo: register input device after capabilities are set
Ibrahim Hashimov security@auditcode.ai HID: nintendo: fix out-of-bounds read in joycon_ctlr_read_handler()
Jann Horn jannh@google.com HID: huawei: fix missing hid_is_usb() check
Jann Horn jannh@google.com HID: asus: fix missing hid_is_usb() check
Anand Khoje anand.a.khoje@oracle.com net/ionic: avoid OOB TX partner lookup for hwstamp RXQ
Baul Lee baul.lee@xbow.com HID: pidff: fix OOB write when hid->inputs is empty
Baul Lee baul.lee@xbow.com HID: core: fix OOB read of field->usage in hid_set_field()
Jose Villaseñor Montfort pepemontfort@gmail.com HID: magicmouse: do not keep a stale msc->input if no input is claimed
Christopher Kodama ckhordiasma@gmail.com HID: magicmouse: re-enable multitouch after reset-resume
Jose Villaseñor Montfort pepemontfort@gmail.com HID: magicmouse: prevent unbounded recursion in magicmouse_raw_event()
Andrei Fed andfed.net@gmail.com HID: magicmouse: fix battery reporting for Bluetooth Magic Trackpad USB-C
Yifei Gao gyf161023@gmail.com nvmet: pci-epf: put CQ ref on create_cq mapping failure
Shin'ichiro Kawasaki shinichiro.kawasaki@wdc.com nvmet: pci-epf: fix use-after-free in nvmet_pci_epf_exec_iod_work()
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org nvmet-tcp: Do not WARN on remotely-controlled oversized SGL allocations
Ibrahim Hashimov security@auditcode.ai nvmet-tcp: bound SGL data length before allocating command buffers
Jiang HongHui jiang_hh2019@163.com nvmet-fc: fix invalid free in LS IOD error path
Bryam Vargas hexlabsecurity@proton.me nvmet-auth: zero the AUTH_RECEIVE response buffer
Griffin Kroah-Hartman griffin@kroah.com dmaengine: fsl-edma: Add error handling for devm_kasprintf
Griffin Kroah-Hartman griffin@kroah.com mailbox: mchp-ipc-sbi: Add null check for devm_kasprintf()
Luxiao Xu rakukuip@gmail.com ipv6: fix use-after-free in ip6_finish_output2()
Yong Wang edragain@163.com ipv4: reject undersized MTUs in ip_do_fragment()
Linmao Li lilinmao@kylinos.cn nfc: nci: free destination parameters when closing a connection
Samuel Page sam@bynar.io nfc: nci: fix uninit-value in the RF discover/activated NTF handlers
Samuel Page sam@bynar.io nfc: nci: fix out-of-bounds write in nci_target_auto_activated()
Bryam Vargas hexlabsecurity@proton.me nfc: nci: add data_len bound checks to activation parameter extractors
Doruk Tan Ozturk doruk@0sec.ai nfc: st21nfca: validate ATR_REQ length against the received frame
Xu Rao raoxu@uniontech.com nfc: pn533: purge fragmented skbs during cleanup
Doruk Tan Ozturk doruk@0sec.ai nfc: llcp: reject PDUs shorter than the LLCP header
Muhammad Bilal meatuni001@gmail.com nfc: llcp: fix OOB read and u8 offset wrap in TLV parsers
Doruk Tan Ozturk doruk@0sec.ai nfc: llcp: bound the connect_sn TLV walk to the skb
Pengpeng Hou pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn nfc: microread: validate target discovery payload lengths
Bryam Vargas hexlabsecurity@proton.me nfc: fdp: bound the device-reported read length and fix an skb leak
Doruk Tan Ozturk doruk@0sec.ai nfc: digital: clamp SENSF_RES length to the destination buffer
Yun Zhou yun.zhou@windriver.com xfs: restore nofs context unconditionally in xfs_trans_roll
Hongling Zeng zenghongling@kylinos.cn xfs: validate attr entry pointer before field access
Jiazi Liu jiazi.liu1984@gmail.com ext4: fix incorrect function call when initializing s_resgid
Eric Biggers ebiggers@kernel.org ext4: don't enable DAX on new encrypted files
Guanghui Yang 3497809730@qq.com ext4: propagate errors from fast commit range replay
Jia Zhu zhujia.zj@bytedance.com ext4: avoid tail write_begin walk for uptodate folios
Guanghui Yang 3497809730@qq.com ext4: clear error before retrying inode xattr space fallback
Ryusuke Konishi konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com nilfs2: reject invalid block index in GC ioctl
Matthias Goergens matthias.goergens@gmail.com ext4: stop retrying saturated xattr cache entries
Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp kcov: fix data corruption and race conditions on PREEMPT_RT
Rik van Riel riel@surriel.com null_blk: fix UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds when zone_size is 0 or overflows
Ian Bridges icb@fastmail.org ocfs2: fix missing metadata reservation for large xattrs
Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk io_uring: defer eventfd signaling when queued from a wakeup handler
Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk io_uring/uring_cmd: don't skip completion for a synchronous multishot cmd
Ali Ahmet Memis ali@iusegentoo.com io_uring/rsrc: fix folio size overflow in io_vec_fill_bvec()
Vishnu Razdan vrazdan@openai.com io_uring/io-wq: fix worker accounting when canceling creation callbacks
Woraphat Khiaodaeng worapat.kd2@gmail.com io_uring/cmd: fix iovec leak when the async cmd is not recycled
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: dummy: Check card index validity at probe
Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk io_uring/futex: only mark private futex waits as inflight
Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk io_uring/futex: don't mark futex wake requests as inflight
Hyunwoo Kim imv4bel@gmail.com futex: Fix race on the initial mm->futex.phash.ref allocation
Felix Hoffmann f3lix.dev@gmx.de futex: Avoid private hash use-after-free on final put
Thomas Gleixner tglx@kernel.org futex/pi: Plug private futex exec() race
Thomas Gleixner tglx@kernel.org futex: Sanitize and document task_struct::futex::state transitions
Kyle Zeng kylebot@openai.com futex/pi: Reject cross-mm private futex owners
Guixin Liu kanie@linux.alibaba.com nvmet: fix NULL pointer dereference in nvmet_execute_identify_nslist()
Griffin Kroah-Hartman griffin@kroah.com rndis_host: add overflow check in rndis_rx_fixup()
Geoffrey D. Bennett g@b4.vu ALSA: scarlett2: Use a private URB for the notification endpoint
Geoffrey D. Bennett g@b4.vu ALSA: FCP: Use a private URB for the notification endpoint
Peiyang He peiyang_he@smail.nju.edu.cn iommu/iommufd: Fix NULL pointer deref in iommufd_ioas_change_process when racing with iopt_map_file_pages
Shameer Kolothum skolothumtho@nvidia.com iommu/tegra241-cmdqv: Fix CMD_SYNC use-after-free on teardown
Ali Ahmet Memis ali@iusegentoo.com Bluetooth: RFCOMM: take rfcomm_mutex for the deferred setup accept
Steffen Persvold spersvold@gmail.com PCI: host-generic: Fix NULL pointer dereference on 32-bit CAM systems
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- drivers/block/null_blk/zoned.c | 10 +- drivers/bluetooth/hci_aml.c | 18 +++- drivers/dma/fsl-edma-main.c | 2 + drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_vram.c | 23 ++++- drivers/hid/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/hid/hid-asus.c | 2 +- drivers/hid/hid-core.c | 11 +- drivers/hid/hid-ft260.c | 25 ++++- drivers/hid/hid-huawei.c | 5 +- drivers/hid/hid-hyperv.c | 27 ++++- drivers/hid/hid-input.c | 20 +++- drivers/hid/hid-magicmouse.c | 73 +++++++++++-- drivers/hid/hid-nintendo.c | 22 ++-- drivers/hid/hid-rapoo.c | 2 +- drivers/hid/hid-sensor-custom.c | 21 ++-- drivers/hid/hid-uclogic-core.c | 12 ++- drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-pidff.c | 13 ++- drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c | 2 + drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.h | 1 + drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/tegra241-cmdqv.c | 15 ++- drivers/iommu/iommufd/ioas.c | 4 + drivers/mailbox/mailbox-mchp-ipc-sbi.c | 2 + drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_lif.c | 17 ++- drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_txrx.c | 7 +- drivers/net/usb/rndis_host.c | 6 +- drivers/nfc/fdp/i2c.c | 27 +++++ drivers/nfc/microread/microread.c | 31 +++++- drivers/nfc/pn533/pn533.c | 1 + drivers/nfc/st21nfca/dep.c | 3 + drivers/nvme/target/admin-cmd.c | 2 +- drivers/nvme/target/fabrics-cmd-auth.c | 2 +- drivers/nvme/target/fc.c | 2 +- drivers/nvme/target/pci-epf.c | 10 +- drivers/nvme/target/tcp.c | 19 +++- drivers/pci/controller/pci-host-generic.c | 11 +- drivers/pci/ecam.c | 13 +++ fs/exec.c | 7 +- fs/ext4/crypto.c | 40 ++++---- fs/ext4/fast_commit.c | 16 ++- fs/ext4/ialloc.c | 4 + fs/ext4/inode.c | 11 +- fs/ext4/super.c | 2 +- fs/ext4/xattr.c | 7 +- fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c | 20 +++- fs/ocfs2/xattr.c | 18 ++-- fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_leaf.c | 14 +++ fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c | 16 +-- include/linux/futex.h | 2 + include/linux/hid.h | 2 + include/linux/io_uring_types.h | 8 ++ include/linux/pci-ecam.h | 3 + include/linux/sched.h | 8 ++ io_uring/eventfd.c | 8 +- io_uring/eventfd.h | 2 +- io_uring/futex.c | 32 ++++-- io_uring/futex.h | 1 + io_uring/io-wq.c | 9 +- io_uring/io_uring.c | 2 +- io_uring/opdef.c | 2 +- io_uring/poll.c | 23 +++-- io_uring/rsrc.c | 2 +- io_uring/tw.c | 2 +- io_uring/uring_cmd.c | 8 +- io_uring/waitid.c | 2 +- kernel/futex/core.c | 96 +++++++++++------ kernel/futex/pi.c | 125 +++++++++++++++++------ kernel/kcov.c | 90 ++++++++-------- lib/Kconfig.debug | 5 +- net/bluetooth/hci_event.c | 8 +- net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c | 46 +++++++-- net/bluetooth/iso.c | 32 ++++-- net/bluetooth/mgmt.c | 8 ++ net/bluetooth/rfcomm/core.c | 24 ++++- net/ipv4/ip_output.c | 4 + net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 2 + net/nfc/digital_technology.c | 2 + net/nfc/llcp_commands.c | 18 +++- net/nfc/llcp_core.c | 15 ++- net/nfc/nci/ntf.c | 36 +++++-- net/nfc/nci/rsp.c | 1 + sound/drivers/dummy.c | 6 ++ sound/usb/fcp.c | 38 ++++--- sound/usb/mixer.c | 6 ++ sound/usb/mixer.h | 2 + sound/usb/mixer_scarlett2.c | 98 +++++++++++------- 86 files changed, 1042 insertions(+), 357 deletions(-)