This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.104 release. There are 181 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, 19 Aug 2026 13:23:44 +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-6.12.104-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
------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 6.12.104-rc1
Xiang Mei (Microsoft) xmei5@asu.edu bpf: tcp: fix double sock release on batch realloc
Xu Rao raoxu@uniontech.com thunderbolt: Fix bandwidth group reservation indexing
Bryam Vargas hexlabsecurity@proton.me thunderbolt: Bound the DROM dual link port number before indexing sw->ports
Qing Ming a0yami@mailbox.org sctp: clear new_transport when removing a peer
Yuxiang Yang yangyx22@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn sctp: fix use-after-free of cached ASCONF chunk
Baul Lee baul.lee@xbow.com sctp: keep chunk->transport in step with the list it is queued on
Xu Rao raoxu@uniontech.com scsi: scsi_debug: Negate wrapped memcmp() result
Chengfeng Ye nicoyip.dev@gmail.com bpf, sockmap: Fix sk_redir use-after-free in send verdict
Eric Biggers ebiggers@kernel.org fsverity: Fix silent truncation in bpf_get_fsverity_digest()
Eric Biggers ebiggers@kernel.org fsverity: Fix bpf_get_fsverity_digest() dynptr assumptions
Mimi Zohar zohar@linux.ibm.com ima: Instantiate file_truncate and path_truncate hooks
Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org sched/psi: Shut down rtpoll_timer in psi_cgroup_free()
Zhan Xusheng zhanxusheng@xiaomi.com fscrypt: use the mount idmap for the owner check in fscrypt_ioctl_set_policy()
Zhiling Zou zhilinz@nebusec.ai ip6_tunnel: clear skb2->cb[] in ip6ip6_err()
Yuejie Shi syjcnss@gmail.com ipv6: fix Route Information option length validation
Tengda Wu wutengda@huaweicloud.com ring-buffer: Use current_context for safe per-CPU buffer swap
Ahmad Byagowi ahmadexp@gmail.com ptp: ocp: Fix board ID over-read
Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com Revert "thermal/drivers/hwmon: Cleanup coding style a bit"
Steven Rostedt rostedt@goodmis.org eventfs: Use children field for rcu head and add memory barriers
Shuangpeng Bai shuangpeng.kernel@gmail.com eventfs: Fix use-after-free in eventfs_remove_rec()
Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com KVM: x86/mmu: WARN and clear role.invalid when creating a child shadow page
Shuangpeng Bai shuangpeng.kernel@gmail.com smb: client: Fix use-after-free in cifs_try_adding_channels()
Jun Yang junvyyang@tencent.com tipc: read le->link under the node lock in tipc_node_link_down()
chanyoung ppoo1220@gmail.com tls: don't leave a full plaintext sk_msg ring unpushed
Jun Yang junvyyang@tencent.com vhost: reset the vring metadata cache on vring reconfiguration
Sun Jian sun.jian.kdev@gmail.com veth: fix skb length accounting after XDP frag adjustment
Weiming Shi bestswngs@gmail.com vsock/virtio: avoid refilling the RX queue after teardown
Weiming Shi bestswngs@gmail.com vsock/virtio: read virtqueues under worker locks
Baul Lee baul.lee@xbow.com vxlan: do not arm the ageing timer on a device that is down
Zhiling Zou zhilinz@nebusec.ai xdp: reject clones that overrun skb_shared_info tailroom
Asad Kamal asad.kamal@amd.com Revert "drm/amdgpu: fix aperture mapping leak"
Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org binfmt_misc: don't warn when the mount is completed from another user namespace
Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org ovl: don't warn when the mount is completed from another user namespace
Hyunjung Ko hj351016@gmail.com net/sched: act_gact, act_police: range check the fallback control action
Hyunjung Ko hj351016@gmail.com net/sched: act_ct: fix sk_buff leak when the header checks reject a packet
Yangyu Chen cyy@cyyself.name net: atlantic: free RX pages of consumed but not refilled buffers
Yangyu Chen cyy@cyyself.name net: atlantic: free stranded TX buffers on ring deinit
Zihan Xi zihanx@nebusec.ai netfilter: nf_conntrack: defer invalid log until after unlock
Zhiling Zou zhilinz@nebusec.ai netfilter: bridge: release template ct on non-IP path
Kyle Zeng kylebot@openai.com ipv6: prevent in6_dev_get() from resurrecting inet6_dev
Daming Li d4n.for.sec@gmail.com net: smc: fix splice entry lifetime imbalance in smc_rx_splice
Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) ljs@kernel.org mm/huge_memory: fix huge_zero_pfn race
Vincent Donnefort vdonnefort@google.com ring-buffer: Prevent subbuf order change when resizing is disabled
Rik van Riel riel@surriel.com fbdev: bitblit: bound-check glyph index in bit_cursor()
Michael Wu michael@allwinnertech.com tracing: Fix race between update_event_fields and, event_define_fields
Baul Lee baul.lee@xbow.com ALSA: usx2y: bound the hwdep mmap fault offset
Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: usb: Fix UAF at delayed release of MIDI2 EPs
Hui Su sh_def@163.com ring-buffer: Fix crash passing ERR_PTR to kthread_stop()
Eddie Lin eddie.lin@oss.qualcomm.com misc: fastrpc: fix memory leak in fastrpc_channel_ctx_free
Junrui Luo moonafterrain@outlook.com misc: fastrpc: take fl->lock when moving mmaps on interrupted invoke
Ekansh Gupta ekansh.gupta@oss.qualcomm.com misc: fastrpc: Remove buffer from list prior to unmap operation
Anandu Krishnan E anandu.e@oss.qualcomm.com misc: fastrpc: fix channel ctx ref leak when session alloc fails
Mariano Baragiola mbaragiola@linux.com staging: rtl8723bs: validate monitor transmit frame lengths
Panagiotis Petrakopoulos npetrakopoulos2003@gmail.com staging: rtl8723bs: fix missing shared-key auth challenge length check
Muhammad Bilal meatuni001@gmail.com staging: rtl8723bs: fix OOB read in WMM_param_handler()
Muhammad Bilal meatuni001@gmail.com staging: rtl8723bs: fix OOB read in rtw_get_wpa_ie()
Cunhao Lu 1579567540@qq.com serial: 8250_dma: Clear stale RX state on shutdown
Jan Sebastian Götte linux@jaseg.de serial: qcom-geni: fix TX DMA buffer flush
Mathieu Dubois-Briand mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com nvmem: layouts: Add fixed-layout driver
Alexander Usyskin alexander.usyskin@intel.com mei: pull kvfree out of spinlock
Chengfeng Ye nicoyip.dev@gmail.com ipv4: fix use-after-free in fib_nhc_update_mtu()
Zihan Xi zihanx@nebusec.ai ipv4: Fix fib_nlmsg_size() for RTA_VIA nexthops
Michal Luczaj mhal@rbox.co selftests/bpf: Adapt sockmap update error handling
Michal Luczaj mhal@rbox.co selftests/bpf: Ensure UDP sockets are bound
Claudiu Beznea claudiu.beznea.uj@bp.renesas.com pinctrl: renesas: rzg2l: Use -ENOTSUPP instead of -EOPNOTSUPP
Kees Cook kees@kernel.org kunit/fortify: Add back "volatile" for sizeof() constants
Kees Cook kees@kernel.org kunit/fortify: Replace "volatile" with OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR()
Keno Fischer keno@juliacomputing.com futex: Prevent robust futex exit race some more
Ashish Kalra ashish.kalra@amd.com crypto: ccp - Abort doing SEV INIT if SNP INIT fails
Michael Roth michael.roth@amd.com crypto: ccp - Fix checks for SNP_VLEK_LOAD input buffer length
Ashish Kalra ashish.kalra@amd.com KVM: SVM: Add support to initialize SEV/SNP functionality in KVM
Ashish Kalra ashish.kalra@amd.com crypto: ccp - Add new SEV/SNP platform shutdown API
Harshal Dev harshal.dev@oss.qualcomm.com dt-bindings: crypto: qcom,ice: Fix missing power-domain and iface clk
Keith Busch kbusch@kernel.org blk-mq: reinsert cached request to the list
Keith Busch kbusch@kernel.org blk-mq: pop cached request if it is usable
Bart Van Assche bvanassche@acm.org block: Reorder the request allocation code in blk_mq_submit_bio()
Matthew Rosato mjrosato@linux.ibm.com KVM: s390: pci: Fix aisb calculation
Farhan Ali alifm@linux.ibm.com KVM: s390: pci: Fix resource leak on IRQ registration failure
Farhan Ali alifm@linux.ibm.com KVM: s390: pci: Fix missing error codes and memory unaccounting
Farhan Ali alifm@linux.ibm.com KVM: s390: pci: Fix memory accounting for pinned/unpinned pages
Baul Lee baul.lee@xbow.com net: bridge: mrp: fix uninitialised bytes on the wire
Chengfeng Ye nicoyip.dev@gmail.com netfilter: ebt_nflog: pin the NFLOG backend
Zihan Xi zihanx@nebusec.ai mac802154: fix netdev use-after-free in beacon worker
Qihang Tang q.h.hack.winter@gmail.com net: remove CAP_SYS_RAWIO zero-padding in dev_validate_header
Sergey V. Frolov Sergey.V.Frolov@kaspersky.com net: octeontx2-pf: Fix UB in shift operation
Zijie Huang milkory@outlook.com net/sched: reject overly deep qdisc hierarchies
Zhiling Zou zhilinz@nebusec.ai net: openvswitch: reallocate update replies for mismatched IDs
Sun Jian sun.jian.kdev@gmail.com net: fix skb length accounting after generic XDP frag adjustment
Zihan Xi zihanx@nebusec.ai packet: synchronize pressure clearing with ring reconfiguration
Doruk Tan Ozturk doruk@0sec.ai net/packet: reset the MAC header on the packet-socket transmit path
Qihang Tang q.h.hack.winter@gmail.com packet: use consistent hard_header_len in TX_RING send path
Qihang Tang q.h.hack.winter@gmail.com packet: use consistent hard_header_len in non-ring send paths
Kyle Zeng kylebot@openai.com ipvs: clear IPv4 options after rebasing tunnel ICMP errors
Julian Anastasov ja@ssi.bg ipvs: properly update the overload flag on dest edit
Julian Anastasov ja@ssi.bg ipvs: add totalconns for dest
Zhiling Zou zhilinz@nebusec.ai ipvs: stop estimator after disabled calc phase
Lincoln Wallace locnnil0@gmail.com ima: fix out-of-bounds read in xattr_verify()
Dmitry Torokhov dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com Input: evdev - fix information leak in evdev_pass_values()
Joshua Rogers linux@joshua.hu vt: stabilize tty reference in kbd_keycode with tty_port_tty_get
Joshua Rogers linux@joshua.hu vt: add permission check for KDSKBMETA ioctl
Doruk Tan Ozturk doruk@0sec.ai net: usb: ipheth: fix carrier_work UAF on disconnect
Yi Cong yicong@kylinos.cn net: usb: ax88179_178a: fix skb leak in ax88179_tx_fixup()
Sonali Pradhan sonalipradhan@google.com usb: gadget: f_ncm: Use unsigned int for ndp_index
Pawel Laszczak pawell@cadence.com usb: cdnsp: fix incorrect endian conversions for APB timeout register
Xu Rao raoxu@uniontech.com thunderbolt: icm: Preserve USB4 proxy data-valid bit
Aleksandr Nogikh nogikh@google.com usb: atm: cxacru: properly kill rcv_urb on error in cxacru_cm()
Baul Lee baul.lee@xbow.com ALSA: usb-audio: fix OOB write on Type II inbound URBs
Dmitry Torokhov dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com Input: evdev - sanitize event type index when fetching event masks
Guillaume Morin guillaume@morinfr.org swapfile: call cond_resched() before locking si->lock
Mikhail Kshevetskiy mikhail.kshevetskiy@iopsys.eu mtd: spinand: repeat reading in regular mode if continuous reading fails
Mikhail Kshevetskiy mikhail.kshevetskiy@iopsys.eu mtd: spinand: try a regular dirmap if creating a dirmap for continuous reading fails
Mikhail Kshevetskiy mikhail.kshevetskiy@iopsys.eu mtd: spinand: fix direct mapping creation sizes
Larisa Grigore larisa.grigore@nxp.com spi: spi-fsl-dspi: Avoid setup_accel logic for DMA transfers
Mehmet Fide mehmet.fide@screeningeagle.com net: fec: do not release NULL pages when RX buffer allocation fails
Zeng Jingxiang linuszeng@tencent.com mm/vmscan: wake up flushers conditionally to avoid cgroup OOM
Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net hwmon: (ltc4282) Fix parsing adi,current-limit-sense-microvolt
Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net hwmon: (ltc4282) Clamp negative current limits
Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net hwmon: (ltc4282) Avoid overflow in maximum power calculation
Qingshuang Fu fuqingshuang@kylinos.cn hwmon: (ads7828) Fix external VREF regulator handling
Wilken Gottwalt wilken.gottwalt@posteo.net hwmon: (corsair-psu) fix possible out-of-bounds access on missing string termination
Maximilian Immanuel Brandtner maxbr@linux.ibm.com tls: don't abort the connection on signal-interrupted sends
Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com sctp: clear control chunk transport if it is being removed
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net/atm: fix slab-out-of-bounds read in vcc_setsockopt()
Hongyan Xu getshell@seu.edu.cn ata: pata_sl82c105: fix bridge revision use-after-free
Fan XinRan shinjiangjiang@gmail.com net: thunderbolt: Tear down DMA paths before stopping the rings
Sidraya Jayagond sidraya@linux.ibm.com net/smc: fix TOCTOU race between smc_listen_out() and listener close
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net: remove WARN_ON_ONCE() from sk_mc_loop()
Pengpeng Hou pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn net: prestera: validate firmware header length
Henry Martin bsdhenrymartin@gmail.com net/ncsi: fix heap OOB read in NCSI_CMD_SEND_CMD payload length
Jiayuan Chen jiayuan.chen@linux.dev tcp: fix TFO max_qlen accounting across reuseport migration
Qing Luo luoqing@kylinos.cn sctp: fix addip_serial increment on ASCONF_ACK allocation failure
Keegan Freyhof keegan.freyhof@broadcom.com bnxt_en: Fix PTP PPS setting bug
Shravya KN shravya.k-n@broadcom.com bnxt_en: Refresh VNIC default ring on queue restart if needed
Shravya KN shravya.k-n@broadcom.com bnxt_en: Determine and store default RX ring in vnic structure
Shravya KN shravya.k-n@broadcom.com bnxt_en: Move RSS table fill outside __bnxt_hwrm_vnic_set_rss()
Martin Kaiser martin@kaiser.cx selftests/ftrace: refactor eprobes test to fix argument checks
Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net hwmon: (pmbus/lm25066) Fix PMBus coefficient calculations
Qingshuang Fu fuqingshuang@kylinos.cn hwmon: (nzxt-smart2) Check return value of init_device() in probe
Jamal Hadi Salim jhs@mojatatu.com net/sched: cls_api: Always acquire rtnl_lock when destroying locked classifiers
Cen Zhang (Microsoft) blbllhy@gmail.com net/openvswitch: check Ethernet header length in key_extract()
Toke Høiland-Jørgensen toke@toke.dk net/sched: sch_cake: drop WARN_ON(1) for malformed packets in ACK filter
Xuanqiang Luo luoxuanqiang@kylinos.cn udp: fix potential use-after-free in tunnel segmentation
Stanislav Fomichev sdf.kernel@gmail.com xsk: require at least 16 bytes of TX metadata
Nathan Gao zcgao@amazon.com tcp: do not change rcv_ssthresh in tcp_measure_rcv_mss()
Christian Borntraeger borntraeger@linux.ibm.com vdpa/mlx5: Fix buffer length in create_direct_keys()
Yousef Alhouseen alhouseenyousef@gmail.com vhost/vdpa: reject overflowing PA map page counts on 32-bit
Jose Fernandez (Anthropic) jose.fernandez@linux.dev bpf: tcp: Fix use-after-free in bpf_iter_tcp_established_batch()
Jordan Rife jordan@jrife.io bpf: tcp: Avoid socket skips and repeats during iteration
Jordan Rife jordan@jrife.io bpf: tcp: Use bpf_tcp_iter_batch_item for bpf_tcp_iter_state batch items
Jordan Rife jordan@jrife.io bpf: tcp: Get rid of st_bucket_done
Jordan Rife jordan@jrife.io bpf: tcp: Make sure iter->batch always contains a full bucket snapshot
Jordan Rife jordan@jrife.io bpf: tcp: Make mem flags configurable through bpf_iter_tcp_realloc_batch
Babanpreet Singh bbnpreetsingh@gmail.com counter: microchip-tcb-capture: Fix DT channel validation
Michael Guralnik michaelgur@nvidia.com net/mlx5: fw_tracer, return NULL on create error
Or Har-Toov ohartoov@nvidia.com devlink: fix net namespace reference leak in reload
Jiawen Liu 1298662399@qq.com net: hisilicon: hix5hd2_gmac: remove redundant NAPI delete
Jamal Hadi Salim jhs@mojatatu.com net/sched: cls_route: fix fastmap use-after-free on filter
Mahanta Jambigi mjambigi@linux.ibm.com net/smc: fix qentry overwrite for CONFIRM_LINK and ADD_LINK_CONT in smc_llc_event_handler()
Yiyang Chen chenyy23@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn bpf: Preserve pointer state for commuted arithmetic
Dmitry Antipov dmantipov@yandex.ru btrfs: fix memory leak in btrfs_do_encoded_write()
Matti Vaittinen mazziesaccount@gmail.com watchdog: bd96801_wdt: Fix timeout for enabled WDG
Julian Anastasov ja@ssi.bg ipvs: return the csum validation for forward hook
Julian Anastasov ja@ssi.bg ipvs: avoid out-of-bounds write in ip_vs_nat_icmp
Jozsef Kadlecsik kadlec@netfilter.org netfilter: ipset: switch ext_size to atomic64_t
Nikhil P. Rao nikhil.rao@amd.com pds_core: cancel pending PCI reset work on AER recovery
Nikhil P. Rao nikhil.rao@amd.com pds_core: keep the health thread stopped during reset
Shay Drory shayd@nvidia.com net/mlx5e: TC, Check if flow is PEER before acquiring devcom lock
Satish Kharat satishkh@cisco.com enic: fix tx_hang_reset use-after-free on device removal
Xiang Mei (Microsoft) xmei5@asu.edu bonding: alb: re-check primary_is_promisc under RTNL in bond_alb_monitor
Fan Ye fy15309206903@gmail.com Revert "net: thunderbolt: Enable end-to-end flow control also in transmit"
Jijie Shao shaojijie@huawei.com net: hns3: fix speed configuration residue after driver reload
Pengpeng Hou pengpeng@iscas.ac.cn drm/bridge: ps8640: propagate AUX transfer register errors
Rosen Penev rosenp@gmail.com ARM: dts: BCM5301X: fix PCIe controller 2 second interrupt
Yuho Choi dbgh9129@gmail.com ARM: npcm: Fix OF node refcount leaks in SMP setup
Daniel Drake dan@reactivated.net arm64: dts: broadcom: bcm2712: Remove non-functional EL2 virtual timer
Anna Schumaker anna.schumaker@hammerspace.com NFS: Pin the 'struct nfs_server' during a FREE_STATEID call
Harald Freudenberger freude@linux.ibm.com s390/zcrypt: Fix missing mem scrub at clear key import in cca_clr2cipherkey()
Ray Wu ray.wu@amd.com drm/amd/display: Check for tg ops in dce110_set_avmute
Ray Wu ray.wu@amd.com drm/amd/display: Add AV mute wait frames to dce110_set_avmute
Michal Luczaj mhal@rbox.co selftests/bpf: Fail unbound UDP on sockmap update
Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk mount: honour SB_NOUSER in the new mount API
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Diffstat:
.../bindings/crypto/qcom,inline-crypto-engine.yaml | 16 +- MAINTAINERS | 5 + Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/boot/dts/broadcom/bcm-ns.dtsi | 2 +- arch/arm/mach-npcm/platsmp.c | 2 + arch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/bcm2712.dtsi | 2 - arch/s390/kvm/pci.c | 86 ++++-- arch/s390/kvm/pci.h | 2 + arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 3 + arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c | 12 + block/blk-mq.c | 38 +-- drivers/ata/pata_sl82c105.c | 4 +- drivers/counter/microchip-tcb-capture.c | 4 +- drivers/crypto/ccp/sev-dev.c | 17 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c | 2 + drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ttm.c | 35 +-- .../drm/amd/display/dc/hwss/dce110/dce110_hwseq.c | 24 +- drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/parade-ps8640.c | 27 +- drivers/hwmon/ads7828.c | 11 +- drivers/hwmon/corsair-psu.c | 4 +- drivers/hwmon/ltc4282.c | 20 +- drivers/hwmon/nzxt-smart2.c | 6 +- drivers/hwmon/pmbus/lm25066.c | 5 +- drivers/input/evdev.c | 27 +- drivers/misc/fastrpc.c | 19 +- drivers/misc/mei/client.c | 25 +- drivers/mtd/nand/spi/core.c | 74 ++++-- drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c | 10 +- drivers/net/ethernet/amd/pds_core/core.h | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/amd/pds_core/main.c | 14 +- drivers/net/ethernet/aquantia/atlantic/aq_ring.c | 51 +++- drivers/net/ethernet/aquantia/atlantic/aq_ring.h | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/aquantia/atlantic/aq_vec.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c | 50 ++-- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.h | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ptp.c | 7 +- drivers/net/ethernet/cisco/enic/enic_main.c | 5 +- drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c | 11 +- drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hix5hd2_gmac.c | 1 - .../ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3pf/hclge_main.c | 6 +- .../net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_tc.c | 6 +- .../net/ethernet/marvell/prestera/prestera_pci.c | 3 + .../ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/diag/fw_tracer.c | 16 +- .../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/tc_priv.h | 1 + drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tc.c | 4 +- drivers/net/thunderbolt/main.c | 33 ++- drivers/net/usb/ax88179_178a.c | 4 +- drivers/net/usb/ipheth.c | 11 +- drivers/net/veth.c | 22 +- drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c | 2 +- drivers/nvmem/core.c | 24 +- drivers/nvmem/internals.h | 2 + drivers/nvmem/layouts.c | 11 - drivers/nvmem/layouts/Makefile | 1 + drivers/nvmem/layouts/fixed-layout.c | 58 ++++ drivers/pinctrl/renesas/pinctrl-rzg2l.c | 4 +- drivers/ptp/ptp_ocp.c | 4 +- drivers/s390/crypto/zcrypt_ccamisc.c | 20 +- drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c | 4 +- drivers/spi/spi-fsl-dspi.c | 13 +- drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_ieee80211.c | 3 + drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c | 2 +- drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_wlan_util.c | 3 + drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_cfg80211.c | 4 + drivers/thermal/thermal_hwmon.c | 3 +- drivers/thunderbolt/eeprom.c | 9 +- drivers/thunderbolt/icm.c | 2 +- drivers/thunderbolt/tb.c | 2 +- drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dma.c | 12 +- drivers/tty/serial/qcom_geni_serial.c | 43 +-- drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c | 5 +- drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c | 2 + drivers/usb/atm/cxacru.c | 2 + drivers/usb/cdns3/cdnsp-gadget.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_ncm.c | 2 +- drivers/vdpa/mlx5/core/mr.c | 3 +- drivers/vhost/vdpa.c | 9 +- drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 8 + drivers/video/fbdev/core/bitblit.c | 9 +- drivers/watchdog/bd96801_wdt.c | 5 +- fs/binfmt_misc.c | 3 +- fs/btrfs/inode.c | 1 + fs/crypto/policy.c | 2 +- fs/namespace.c | 5 + fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c | 5 + fs/overlayfs/super.c | 3 +- fs/smb/client/sess.c | 2 +- fs/tracefs/event_inode.c | 28 +- fs/tracefs/internal.h | 4 +- fs/verity/measure.c | 15 +- include/linux/netdevice.h | 11 +- include/linux/netfilter/ipset/ip_set.h | 2 +- include/linux/nvmem-provider.h | 6 + include/linux/psp-sev.h | 3 + include/net/act_api.h | 19 ++ include/net/addrconf.h | 4 +- include/net/ip_vs.h | 41 +-- include/net/route.h | 2 + include/net/sch_generic.h | 1 + kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 15 +- kernel/futex/core.c | 85 ++++-- kernel/sched/psi.c | 6 + kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 12 +- kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 2 + lib/fortify_kunit.c | 139 +++++----- mm/huge_memory.c | 49 ++-- mm/swapfile.c | 2 +- mm/vmscan.c | 25 +- net/atm/common.c | 14 +- net/bridge/br_mrp.c | 6 +- net/bridge/netfilter/ebt_nflog.c | 17 +- net/bridge/netfilter/nf_conntrack_bridge.c | 1 + net/core/dev.c | 10 +- net/core/sock.c | 1 - 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Hi!
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.104 release. There are 181 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.
CIP testing did not find any problems here:
https://gitlab.com/cip-project/cip-testing/linux-stable-rc-ci/-/tree/linux-6...
Tested-by: Pavel Machek (CIP) pavel@nabladev.com
Best regards, Pavel
Am 17.08.2026 um 15:31 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.104 release. There are 181 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.
Builds, boots and works on my 2-socket Ivy Bridge Xeon E5-2697 v2 server. No dmesg oddities or regressions found.
Tested-by: Peter Schneider pschneider1968@googlemail.com
Beste Grüße, Peter Schneider
On 8/17/26 06:31, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.104 release. There are 181 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, 19 Aug 2026 13:23:44 +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-6.12.104-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
On ARCH_BRCMSTB using 32-bit and 64-bit ARM kernels, build tested on BMIPS_GENERIC:
Tested-by: Florian Fainelli florian.fainelli@broadcom.com
Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote on Mon, Aug 17, 2026 at 03:31:34PM +0200:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.104 release. There are 181 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, 19 Aug 2026 13:23:44 +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-6.12.104-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.
Tested 98c5a5b9f23e ("Linux 6.12.104-rc1") on: - arm i.MX6ULL (Armadillo 640) - arm64 i.MX8ULP (Armadillo IoT A9E)
No obvious regression in dmesg or basic tests: Tested-by: Dominique Martinet dominique.martinet@atmark-techno.com
On Mon, Aug 17, 2026 at 03:31:34PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.104 release. There are 181 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.
Tested-by: Francesco Dolcini francesco.dolcini@toradex.com
On 8/17/26 06:31, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.104 release. There are 181 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, 19 Aug 2026 13:23:44 +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-6.12.104-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
Built and booted successfully on RISC-V RV64 (HiFive Unmatched).
Tested-by: Ron Economos re@w6rz.net
# Librecast Test Results
020/020 [ OK ] liblcrq 010/010 [ OK ] libmld 120/120 [ OK ] liblibrecast
CPU/kernel: Linux auntie 6.12.104-rc1-g98c5a5b9f23e #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Aug 18 13:52:11 -00 2026 x86_64 AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
Tested-by: Brett A C Sheffield bacs@librecast.net
On Mon, Aug 17, 2026 at 03:31:34PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.104 release. There are 181 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.
Tested-by: Mark Brown broonie@kernel.org
On 8/17/26 07:31, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.104 release. There are 181 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, 19 Aug 2026 13:23:44 +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-6.12.104-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
Compiled and booted on my test system. No dmesg regressions.
Tested-by: Shuah Khan skhan@linuxfoundation.org
thanks, -- Shuah
Hi Greg,
On 17/08/26 7:01 pm, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.104 release. There are 181 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, 19 Aug 2026 13:23:44 +0000. Anything received after that time might be too late.
No problems seen on x86_64 and aarch64 with our testing.
3 AI reports sent:
- https://lore.kernel.org/all/24644fdf-54f1-470c-9183-8f5c420c760f@oracle.com/
- https://lore.kernel.org/all/70b7ca30-be03-49c0-aea9-840d734011b8@oracle.com/
- https://lore.kernel.org/all/521b22fa-ef09-4449-909f-0120edfc4b24@oracle.com/
Tested-by: Harshit Mogalapalli harshit.m.mogalapalli@oracle.com
Thanks, Harshit
The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/stable-review/ patch-6.12.104-rc1.gz 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