[PATCH 6.12 00/16] 6.12.65-rc1 review - Lkft-triage

9 Jan 2026


      This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.65 release.
There are 16 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, 11 Jan 2026 11:19:41 +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-6.12.65-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
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Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
    Linux 6.12.65-rc1
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
    Revert "iommu/amd: Skip enabling command/event buffers for kdump"
Sean Nyekjaer sean@geanix.com
    pwm: stm32: Always program polarity
Maximilian Immanuel Brandtner maxbr@linux.ibm.com
    virtio_console: fix order of fields cols and rows
Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org
    sched/fair: Proportional newidle balance
Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org
    sched/fair: Small cleanup to update_newidle_cost()
Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org
    sched/fair: Small cleanup to sched_balance_newidle()
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo cascardo@igalia.com
    net: Remove RTNL dance for SIOCBRADDIF and SIOCBRDELIF.
Richa Bharti richa.bharti@siemens.com
    cpufreq: intel_pstate: Check IDA only before MSR_IA32_PERF_CTL writes
Natalie Vock natalie.vock@gmx.de
    drm/amdgpu: Forward VMID reservation errors
Miaoqian Lin linmq006@gmail.com
    net: phy: mediatek: fix nvmem cell reference leak in mt798x_phy_calibration
Jouni Malinen jouni.malinen@oss.qualcomm.com
    wifi: mac80211: Discard Beacon frames to non-broadcast address
Paolo Abeni pabeni@redhat.com
    mptcp: ensure context reset on disconnect()
Bijan Tabatabai bijan311@gmail.com
    mm: consider non-anon swap cache folios in folio_expected_ref_count()
David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com
    mm: simplify folio_expected_ref_count()
Alexander Gordeev agordeev@linux.ibm.com
    mm/page_alloc: change all pageblocks migrate type on coalescing
Paolo Abeni pabeni@redhat.com
    mptcp: fallback earlier on simult connection
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Diffstat:
Makefile                               |  4 +--
 drivers/char/virtio_console.c          |  2 +-
 drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c         |  9 +++--
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vm.c |  6 ++--
 drivers/iommu/amd/init.c               | 28 +++++----------
 drivers/net/phy/mediatek-ge-soc.c      |  2 +-
 drivers/pwm/pwm-stm32.c                |  3 +-
 include/linux/if_bridge.h              |  6 ++--
 include/linux/mm.h                     | 10 +++---
 include/linux/sched/topology.h         |  3 ++
 kernel/sched/core.c                    |  3 ++
 kernel/sched/fair.c                    | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 kernel/sched/features.h                |  5 +++
 kernel/sched/sched.h                   |  7 ++++
 kernel/sched/topology.c                |  6 ++++
 mm/page_alloc.c                        | 24 ++++++-------
 net/bridge/br_ioctl.c                  | 36 +++++++++++++++++--
 net/bridge/br_private.h                |  3 +-
 net/core/dev_ioctl.c                   | 16 ---------
 net/mac80211/rx.c                      |  5 +++
 net/mptcp/options.c                    | 10 ++++++
 net/mptcp/protocol.c                   |  8 +++--
 net/mptcp/protocol.h                   |  9 +++--
 net/mptcp/subflow.c                    | 10 +-----
 net/socket.c                           | 19 +++++-----
 25 files changed, 186 insertions(+), 113 deletions(-)