This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 7.2.12 release. There are 10 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 Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:50:51 +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-7.2.12-rc1.... 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 7.2.12-rc1
Richard Fitzgerald rf@opensource.cirrus.com ASoC: cs35l56: Add DAI for SDCA OT25 stream
Toke Høiland-Jørgensen toke@toke.dk wifi: atk9k: Revert "wifi: ath9k: reject short WMI command responses"
Hamza Mahfooz hamzamahfooz@linux.microsoft.com net: mana: reserve RX buffer headroom to fix forwarding performance
Dipayaan Roy dipayanroy@linux.microsoft.com net: mana: refactor mana_get_strings() and mana_get_sset_count() to use switch
Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org readdir: take no inode lock on an immutable directory
Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org nullfs: refuse file locks
Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org sched_ext: Fix CPU hotplug hang when a dying CPU's tasks sit in the BPF scheduler
Mikulas Patocka mpatocka@redhat.com dm-integrity: validate the superblock on resume
Mikulas Patocka mpatocka@redhat.com dm-integrity: fix NULL pointer dereference when the 'R' flag is used
Lubos Rendek l.rendek@proxmox.com nfsd: fix all-zero stateid in CB_OFFLOAD for async COPY
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- drivers/md/dm-integrity.c | 55 +++++++++++++ drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_bpf.c | 8 +- drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_en.c | 60 ++++++++++---- drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_ethtool.c | 95 +++++++++++++--------- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/wmi.c | 16 +--- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/wmi.h | 1 - fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c | 2 + fs/nullfs.c | 30 +++++++ fs/readdir.c | 13 ++- include/linux/fs.h | 2 + include/net/mana/mana.h | 14 +++- include/sound/cs35l56.h | 1 + kernel/sched/ext/ext.c | 29 ++++++- kernel/sched/sched.h | 5 +- sound/soc/codecs/cs35l56-sdw.c | 9 +- sound/soc/codecs/cs35l56.c | 54 ++++++++++++ 17 files changed, 312 insertions(+), 86 deletions(-)
Hi
kernel build / boot test on x86_64 (Intel).
No regressions here.
Thanks
Tested-by: Ronald Warsow rwarsow@gmx.de
# Librecast Test Results
044/044 [ OK ] liblcrq 010/010 [ OK ] libmld 120/120 [ OK ] liblibrecast
CPU/kernel: Linux auntie 7.2.12-rc1-g590446e5a2fe #2 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sat Oct 17 16:46:51 -00 2026 x86_64 AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
Tested-by: Brett A C Sheffield bacs@librecast.net
Am 17.10.2026 um 17:54 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 7.2.12 release. There are 10 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 E5-2697v2 server. No dmesg oddities or regressions found.
Tested-by: Peter Schneider pschneider1968@googlemail.com
Beste Grüße, Peter Schneider
On Sat, 17 Oct 2026 17:54:29 +0200 Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 7.2.12 release. There are 10 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 Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:50:51 +0000. Anything received after that time might be too late.
Boot-tested under QEMU for Rust x86_64, arm64 and riscv64; built-tested for loongarch64 and arm32:
Tested-by: Miguel Ojeda ojeda@kernel.org
I see some `objtool` warnings with Rust nightly (there was a change upstream to `core`), so I will send a patch to mainline as usual.
Thanks!
Cheers, Miguel
On Sat, Oct 17, 2026 at 05:54:29PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 7.2.12 release. There are 10 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.
Build and boot tested with QEMU for x86_64, i386, arm64, and riscv across multiple configurations, and boots on AMD Ryzen 7 5800H. No regressions observed.
Tested-by: Benjamin Boortz bennib@mailbox.org
On Sat, 17 Oct 2026 17:54:29 +0200 Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 7.2.12 release. There are 10 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.
This rc kernel passes DAMON functionality test [1] on my test machine.
Tested-by: SJ Park sj@kernel.org
[1] https://github.com/damonitor/damon-tests/tree/next/corr
Thanks, SJ
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On Sat, Oct 17, 2026 at 05:54:29PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 7.2.12 release. There are 10 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.
Built, booted, and tested on hardware for x86_64:
- AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, Nvidia RTX 3080 (nouveau)
No regressions found.
Tested-by: Sean Lyon sean@seanlyon.dev
Thanks! Sean
On 10/17/26 08:54, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 7.2.12 release. There are 10 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 Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:50:51 +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-7.2.12-rc1.... 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
Built and booted successfully on RISC-V RV64 (HiFive Unmatched).
Tested-by: Ron Economos re@w6rz.net
On 10/17/26 8:54 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 7.2.12 release. There are 10 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 Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:50:51 +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-7.2.12-rc1.... 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
Tested on my amd64 DIY NAS and an arm64 virtual machine. Working well, no regressions observed.
Tested-by: Barry K. Nathan barryn@pobox.com
Hi Greg
On Sun, Oct 18, 2026 at 12:54 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 7.2.12 release. There are 10 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 Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:50:51 +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-7.2.12-rc1.... 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
Linux version 7.2.12-rc1 tested.
Build successfully completed. Boot successfully completed. No dmesg regressions. Video output normal. Sound output normal.
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen10(Intel i7-1260P(x86_64) arch linux)
[ 0.000000] Linux version 7.2.12-rc1rv-g590446e5a2fe (takeshi@ThinkPadX1Gen10J0764) (gcc (GCC) 16.2.1 20260810, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.47) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon Oct 19 16:42:14 JST 2026
Tested-by: Takeshi Ogasawara takeshi.ogasawara@futuring-girl.com
Hi!
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 7.2.12 release. There are 10 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-7...
Tested-by: Pavel Machek (CIP) pavel@nabladev.com
Best regards, Pavel
On 10/17/26 08:54, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 7.2.12 release. There are 10 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 Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:50:51 +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-7.2.12-rc1.... 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
On ARCH_BRCMSTB using 32-bit and 64-bit ARM kernels, build tested on BMIPS_GENERIC:
Tested-by: Florian Fainelli florian.fainelli@broadcom.com
On 10/17/26 09:54, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 7.2.12 release. There are 10 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 Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:50:51 +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-7.2.12-rc1.... 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
Compiled and booted on my test system. No dmesg regressions.
Tested-by: Shuah Khan skhan@linuxfoundation.org
thanks, -- Shuah
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