This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.106 release. There are 77 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/v6.x/stable-review/patch-6.12.106-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 6.12.106-rc1

Laxman Acharya Padhya acharyalaxman8848@gmail.com Bluetooth: hci_aml: validate firmware segment lengths

Ali Ahmet Memis ali@iusegentoo.com Bluetooth: ISO: do not force BT_LISTEN after a failed BIG sync

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

Michael Bommarito michael.bommarito@gmail.com HID: hyperv: validate initial device info bounds

Haoxiang Li haoxiang_li2024@163.com HID: sensor: custom: Fix use-after-free in enable_sensor

Jann Horn jannh@google.com HID: core: fix number/pointer type confusion on long items

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()

Donglin Lyu DongLin_Lyu@outlook.com Input: atkbd - skip deactivate for HONOR ZQC-P

Cryolitia PukNgae cryolitia.pukngae@linux.dev Input: atkbd - skip deactivate for HONOR FMB-P's internal keyboard

Shardul Bankar shardul.b@mpiricsoftware.com mptcp: pm: fix memory leak from alloc-during-teardown race

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com ipv4: start using dst_dev_rcu()

Xiang Mei (Microsoft) xmei5@asu.edu xfrm: fix sk_dst_cache double-free in xfrm_user_policy()

Anand Khoje anand.a.khoje@oracle.com net/ionic: avoid OOB TX partner lookup for hwstamp RXQ

Baul Lee baul.lee@xbow.com HID: core: fix OOB read of field->usage in hid_set_field()

Lee Jones lee@kernel.org HID: magicmouse: Prevent out-of-bounds (OOB) read during DOUBLE_REPORT_ID

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

Andrei Fed andfed.net@gmail.com HID: magicmouse: fix battery reporting for Bluetooth Magic Trackpad USB-C

Maarten Lankhorst dev@lankhorst.se drm/xe: Fix DPT allocation paths.

Dawid Wróbel me@dawidwrobel.com ASoC: codecs: lpass-tx-macro: Fix enum kcontrol accesses

Qing Luo luoqing@kylinos.cn mptcp: pm: fix data race in add_addr timer callback

Bryam Vargas hexlabsecurity@proton.me selinux: require a class's permission values to cover its permission count

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

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 Input: byd - synchronize timer deletion before freeing private data

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com ndisc: ndisc_send_redirect() cleanup

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()

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

Pavitra Jha jhapavitra98@gmail.com libceph: fix OOB read in decode_watchers() via missing bounds check

Hongling Zeng zenghongling@kylinos.cn xfs: validate attr entry pointer before field access

Guanghui Yang 3497809730@qq.com ext4: propagate errors from fast commit range replay

Guanghui Yang 3497809730@qq.com ext4: clear error before retrying inode xattr space fallback

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

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: dummy: Check card index validity at probe

Darrick J. Wong djwong@kernel.org xfs: don't livelock in scrub on a circular unlinked list

Darrick J. Wong djwong@kernel.org xfs: hoist per-bucket unlinked list check to helper

Ibrahim Hashimov security@auditcode.ai xfs: bounds-check buffer log item's dirty bitmap

Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de xfs: don't use a xfs_log_iovec for ri_buf in log recovery

Darrick J. Wong djwong@kernel.org xfs: namespace the maximum length/refcount symbols

Luca Fresi luca.fresi@bithiatec.com serial: sc16is7xx: enable THRI before filling TX FIFO

Hugo Villeneuve hvilleneuve@dimonoff.com serial: sc16is7xx: use guards for simple mutex locks

Hugo Villeneuve hvilleneuve@dimonoff.com serial: sc16is7xx: rename EFR mutex with generic name

Fan Wu fanwu01@zju.edu.cn serial: amba-pl011: synchronize DMA teardown

Koichiro Den den@valinux.co.jp NTB: ntb_netdev: Preserve RX queue depth on allocation failure

Ryan Wilbur rwilbur633@gmail.com serial: 8250_of: clear stuck empty-FIFO RX-timeout on LPC32xx

Zhiling Zou zhilinz@nebusec.ai inet: frags: publish queues before arming timer

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com inet: frags: save a pair of atomic operations in reassembly

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com inet: frags: change inet_frag_kill() to defer refcount updates

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com ipv4: frags: remove ipq_put()

Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com inet: frags: add inet_frag_putn() helper

David Howells dhowells@redhat.com netfs: Fix potential UAF in netfs_unlock_abandoned_read_pages()

Nobuhiro Iwamatsu nobuhiro.iwamatsu.x90@mail.toshiba hwmon: (ltc4286) Fix symbol namespace of MODULE_IMPORT_NS()

Jordan Rhee jordanrhee@google.com gve: fix zero-length skb frag with header-split

Junjie Cao junjie.cao@intel.com gpio: ml-ioh: use raw_spinlock_t for the register lock

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

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/gpio/gpio-ml-ioh.c | 36 ++++----- drivers/gpu/drm/xe/display/xe_fb_pin.c | 24 ++---- drivers/hid/hid-core.c | 11 ++- drivers/hid/hid-hyperv.c | 27 ++++++- drivers/hid/hid-input.c | 3 + drivers/hid/hid-magicmouse.c | 64 +++++++++++++++- drivers/hid/hid-nintendo.c | 22 ++++-- drivers/hid/hid-sensor-custom.c | 21 ++--- drivers/hwmon/pmbus/ltc4286.c | 2 +- drivers/input/keyboard/atkbd.c | 23 +++++- drivers/input/mouse/byd.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_rx_dqo.c | 6 ++ drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_lif.c | 17 +++- drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_txrx.c | 7 +- drivers/net/ntb_netdev.c | 15 ++-- 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/fabrics-cmd-auth.c | 2 +- drivers/nvme/target/fc.c | 2 +- drivers/nvme/target/tcp.c | 18 ++++- drivers/pci/controller/pci-host-generic.c | 11 +-- drivers/pci/ecam.c | 13 ++++ drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_of.c | 41 ++++++++++ drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c | 8 +- drivers/tty/serial/sc16is7xx.c | 40 +++++----- fs/ext4/fast_commit.c | 16 +++- fs/ext4/xattr.c | 7 +- fs/netfs/buffered_read.c | 4 +- fs/netfs/read_collect.c | 2 +- fs/netfs/read_retry.c | 2 +- fs/ocfs2/xattr.c | 18 +++-- fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_leaf.c | 14 ++++ fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_format.h | 4 +- fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_log_recover.h | 4 +- fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_refcount.c | 18 ++--- fs/xfs/scrub/agheader.c | 94 +++++++++++++++++------ fs/xfs/scrub/agheader_repair.c | 17 +++- fs/xfs/scrub/refcount.c | 2 +- fs/xfs/scrub/refcount_repair.c | 4 +- fs/xfs/xfs_attr_item.c | 32 ++++---- fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_item.c | 18 ++--- fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item.c | 8 +- fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item.h | 2 +- fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item_recover.c | 95 ++++++++++++++--------- fs/xfs/xfs_dquot_item_recover.c | 20 ++--- fs/xfs/xfs_exchmaps_item.c | 8 +- fs/xfs/xfs_extfree_item.c | 43 ++++++----- fs/xfs/xfs_icreate_item.c | 2 +- fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.c | 6 +- fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.h | 4 +- fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item_recover.c | 26 +++---- fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.c | 16 ++-- fs/xfs/xfs_refcount_item.c | 16 ++-- fs/xfs/xfs_rmap_item.c | 16 ++-- fs/xfs/xfs_trans.h | 1 - include/linux/netfs.h | 2 +- include/linux/pci-ecam.h | 3 + include/linux/sched.h | 8 ++ include/net/inet_frag.h | 6 +- include/net/ipv6_frag.h | 5 +- kernel/kcov.c | 90 +++++++++++----------- lib/Kconfig.debug | 5 +- net/bluetooth/hci_event.c | 8 +- net/bluetooth/iso.c | 30 ++++++-- net/bluetooth/rfcomm/core.c | 24 +++++- net/ceph/osd_client.c | 5 +- net/ieee802154/6lowpan/reassembly.c | 27 ++++--- net/ipv4/icmp.c | 6 +- net/ipv4/inet_fragment.c | 33 ++++---- net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c | 54 ++++++------- net/ipv4/ip_output.c | 4 + net/ipv4/ipmr.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/route.c | 4 +- net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 2 + net/ipv6/ndisc.c | 8 +- net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_conntrack_reasm.c | 27 ++++--- net/ipv6/reassembly.c | 29 +++---- net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c | 9 ++- net/mptcp/pm_userspace.c | 7 +- net/mptcp/protocol.c | 9 +++ net/mptcp/protocol.h | 7 +- net/nfc/digital_technology.c | 2 + net/nfc/llcp_commands.c | 18 ++++- net/nfc/llcp_core.c | 15 +++- net/nfc/nci/ntf.c | 10 ++- net/nfc/nci/rsp.c | 1 + net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c | 4 +- security/selinux/ss/policydb.c | 57 ++++++++++++-- sound/drivers/dummy.c | 6 ++ sound/soc/codecs/lpass-tx-macro.c | 4 +- sound/usb/mixer.c | 6 ++ sound/usb/mixer.h | 2 + sound/usb/mixer_scarlett2.c | 98 +++++++++++++++--------- 99 files changed, 1128 insertions(+), 543 deletions(-)