This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.57 release. There are 40 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, 02 Nov 2025 14:00:34 +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-6.12.57-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

------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 6.12.57-rc1

Edward Cree ecree.xilinx@gmail.com sfc: fix NULL dereferences in ef100_process_design_param()

Xiaogang Chen xiaogang.chen@amd.com udmabuf: fix a buf size overflow issue during udmabuf creation

Aditya Kumar Singh quic_adisi@quicinc.com wifi: ath12k: fix read pointer after free in ath12k_mac_assign_vif_to_vdev()

Kees Bakker kees@ijzerbout.nl iommu/vt-d: Avoid use of NULL after WARN_ON_ONCE

William Breathitt Gray wbg@kernel.org gpio: idio-16: Define fixed direction of the GPIO lines

Ioana Ciornei ioana.ciornei@nxp.com gpio: regmap: add the .fixed_direction_output configuration parameter

Mathieu Dubois-Briand mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com gpio: regmap: Allow to allocate regmap-irq device

Vincent Mailhol mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr bits: introduce fixed-type GENMASK_U*()

Vincent Mailhol mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr bits: add comments and newlines to #if, #else and #endif directives

Wang Liang wangliang74@huawei.com bonding: check xdp prog when set bond mode

Hangbin Liu liuhangbin@gmail.com bonding: return detailed error when loading native XDP fails

Alexander Wetzel Alexander@wetzel-home.de wifi: cfg80211: Add missing lock in cfg80211_check_and_end_cac()

Chao Yu chao@kernel.org f2fs: fix to avoid panic once fallocation fails for pinfile

Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) matttbe@kernel.org mptcp: pm: in-kernel: C-flag: handle late ADD_ADDR

Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) matttbe@kernel.org selftests: mptcp: join: mark 'delete re-add signal' as skipped if not supported

Geliang Tang geliang@kernel.org selftests: mptcp: disable add_addr retrans in endpoint_tests

Jonathan Corbet corbet@lwn.net docs: kdoc: handle the obsolescensce of docutils.ErrorString()

Menglong Dong menglong8.dong@gmail.com arch: Add the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS to all the asm-offsets.c

Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org sched_ext: Make qmap dump operation non-destructive

Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com btrfs: use smp_mb__after_atomic() when forcing COW in create_pending_snapshot()

Qu Wenruo wqu@suse.com btrfs: tree-checker: add inode extref checks

Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com btrfs: abort transaction if we fail to update inode in log replay dir fixup

Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com btrfs: use level argument in log tree walk callback replay_one_buffer()

Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com btrfs: always drop log root tree reference in btrfs_replay_log()

Thorsten Blum thorsten.blum@linux.dev btrfs: scrub: replace max_t()/min_t() with clamp() in scrub_throttle_dev_io()

Naohiro Aota naohiro.aota@wdc.com btrfs: zoned: refine extent allocator hint selection

Johannes Thumshirn johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com btrfs: zoned: return error from btrfs_zone_finish_endio()

Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com btrfs: abort transaction in the process_one_buffer() log tree walk callback

Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com btrfs: abort transaction on specific error places when walking log tree

Chen Ridong chenridong@huawei.com cpuset: Use new excpus for nocpu error check when enabling root partition

Avadhut Naik avadhut.naik@amd.com EDAC/mc_sysfs: Increase legacy channel support to 16

David Kaplan david.kaplan@amd.com x86/bugs: Fix reporting of LFENCE retpoline

David Kaplan david.kaplan@amd.com x86/bugs: Report correct retbleed mitigation status

Jiri Olsa jolsa@kernel.org seccomp: passthrough uprobe systemcall without filtering

Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@kernel.org perf: Skip user unwind if the task is a kernel thread

Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@kernel.org perf: Have get_perf_callchain() return NULL if crosstask and user are set

Steven Rostedt rostedt@goodmis.org perf: Use current->flags & PF_KTHREAD|PF_USER_WORKER instead of current->mm == NULL

Dapeng Mi dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com perf/x86/intel: Add ICL_FIXED_0_ADAPTIVE bit into INTEL_FIXED_BITS_MASK

Richard Guy Briggs rgb@redhat.com audit: record fanotify event regardless of presence of rules

Xiang Mei xmei5@asu.edu net/sched: sch_qfq: Fix null-deref in agg_dequeue

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Diffstat:

Documentation/sphinx/kernel_abi.py | 4 +- Documentation/sphinx/kernel_feat.py | 4 +- Documentation/sphinx/kernel_include.py | 6 ++- Documentation/sphinx/maintainers_include.py | 4 +- Makefile | 4 +- arch/alpha/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 + arch/arc/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 + arch/arm/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 2 + arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 + arch/csky/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 + arch/hexagon/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 + arch/loongarch/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 2 + arch/m68k/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 + arch/microblaze/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 + arch/mips/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 2 + arch/nios2/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 + arch/openrisc/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 + arch/parisc/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 + arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 + arch/riscv/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 + arch/s390/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 + arch/sh/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 + arch/sparc/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 + arch/um/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 2 + arch/x86/events/intel/core.c | 10 ++-- arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event.h | 6 ++- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 9 ++-- arch/x86/kvm/pmu.h | 2 +- arch/xtensa/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 + drivers/dma-buf/udmabuf.c | 2 +- drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c | 24 ++++++++++ drivers/gpio/gpio-idio-16.c | 5 ++ drivers/gpio/gpio-regmap.c | 53 ++++++++++++++++++-- drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c | 7 +-- drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 11 +++-- drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c | 3 ++ drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ef100_netdev.c | 6 +-- drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ef100_nic.c | 47 ++++++++---------- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c | 6 +-- fs/btrfs/disk-io.c | 2 +- fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c | 6 ++- fs/btrfs/inode.c | 7 +-- fs/btrfs/scrub.c | 3 +- fs/btrfs/transaction.c | 2 +- fs/btrfs/tree-checker.c | 37 ++++++++++++++ fs/btrfs/tree-log.c | 64 +++++++++++++++++++------ fs/btrfs/zoned.c | 8 ++-- fs/btrfs/zoned.h | 9 ++-- fs/f2fs/file.c | 8 ++-- fs/f2fs/segment.c | 20 ++++---- include/linux/audit.h | 2 +- include/linux/bitops.h | 1 - include/linux/bits.h | 38 ++++++++++++++- include/linux/gpio/regmap.h | 16 +++++++ include/net/bonding.h | 1 + include/net/pkt_sched.h | 25 +++++++++- kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c | 6 +-- kernel/events/callchain.c | 16 +++---- kernel/events/core.c | 7 +-- kernel/seccomp.c | 32 ++++++++++--- net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c | 6 +++ net/sched/sch_api.c | 10 ---- net/sched/sch_hfsc.c | 16 ------- net/sched/sch_qfq.c | 2 +- net/wireless/reg.c | 4 ++ tools/sched_ext/scx_qmap.bpf.c | 18 ++++++- tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_join.sh | 3 +- 67 files changed, 442 insertions(+), 164 deletions(-)