This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.52 release. There are 35 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, 12 Oct 2025 13:13:18 +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-6.12.52-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 6.12.52-rc1

Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com KVM: x86: Don't (re)check L1 intercepts when completing userspace I/O

Nalivayko Sergey Sergey.Nalivayko@kaspersky.com net/9p: fix double req put in p9_fd_cancelled

Herbert Xu herbert@gondor.apana.org.au crypto: rng - Ensure set_ent is always present

Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com driver core/PM: Set power.no_callbacks along with power.no_pm

Ovidiu Panait ovidiu.panait.oss@gmail.com staging: axis-fifo: flush RX FIFO on read errors

Ovidiu Panait ovidiu.panait.oss@gmail.com staging: axis-fifo: fix TX handling on copy_from_user() failure

Ovidiu Panait ovidiu.panait.oss@gmail.com staging: axis-fifo: fix maximum TX packet length check

Raphael Gallais-Pou raphael.gallais-pou@foss.st.com serial: stm32: allow selecting console when the driver is module

Carlos Llamas cmllamas@google.com binder: fix double-free in dbitmap

Michael Walle mwalle@kernel.org nvmem: layouts: fix automatic module loading

Arnaud Lecomte contact@arnaud-lcm.com hid: fix I2C read buffer overflow in raw_event() for mcp2221

Jeongjun Park aha310510@gmail.com ALSA: usb-audio: fix race condition to UAF in snd_usbmidi_free

Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de ALSA: usb-audio: Kill timer properly at removal

Mario Limonciello mario.limonciello@amd.com drm/amdgpu: Enable MES lr_compute_wa by default

Shaoyun Liu shaoyun.liu@amd.com drm/amd/include : Update MES v12 API for fence update

Shaoyun Liu shaoyun.liu@amd.com drm/amd/include : MES v11 and v12 API header update

Shaoyun Liu shaoyun.liu@amd.com drm/amd : Update MES API header file for v11 & v12

Christoffer Sandberg cs@tuxedo.de platform/x86/amd/pmc: Add Stellaris Slim Gen6 AMD to spurious 8042 quirks list

Duy Nguyen duy.nguyen.rh@renesas.com can: rcar_canfd: Fix controller mode setting

Chen Yufeng chenyufeng@iie.ac.cn can: hi311x: fix null pointer dereference when resuming from sleep before interface was enabled

Lizhi Xu lizhi.xu@windriver.com netfs: Prevent duplicate unlocking

David Sterba dsterba@suse.com btrfs: ref-verify: handle damaged extent root tree

Jack Yu jack.yu@realtek.com ASoC: rt5682s: Adjust SAR ADC button mode to fix noise issue

Shyam Sundar S K Shyam-sundar.S-k@amd.com platform/x86/amd/pmf: Support new ACPI ID AMDI0108

hupu hupu.gm@gmail.com perf subcmd: avoid crash in exclude_cmds when excludes is empty

aprilgrimoire aprilgrimoire@proton.me platform/x86/amd/pmc: Add MECHREVO Yilong15Pro to spurious_8042 list

Mikulas Patocka mpatocka@redhat.com dm-integrity: limit MAX_TAG_SIZE to 255

Venkata Prasad Potturu venkataprasad.potturu@amd.com ASoC: amd: acp: Adjust pdm gain value

Miguel Ojeda ojeda@kernel.org rust: block: fix `srctree/` links

Bitterblue Smith rtl8821cerfe2@gmail.com wifi: rtl8xxxu: Don't claim USB ID 07b8:8188

Bitterblue Smith rtl8821cerfe2@gmail.com wifi: rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Don't claim USB ID 07b8:8188

Zenm Chen zenmchen@gmail.com Bluetooth: btusb: Add USB ID 2001:332a for D-Link AX9U rev. A1

Xiaowei Li xiaowei.li@simcom.com USB: serial: option: add SIMCom 8230C compositions

Duoming Zhou duoming@zju.edu.cn media: i2c: tc358743: Fix use-after-free bugs caused by orphan timer in probe

Fedor Pchelkin pchelkin@ispras.ru wifi: rtw89: fix use-after-free in rtw89_core_tx_kick_off_and_wait()

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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +- arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c | 9 ++- arch/x86/kvm/kvm_emulate.h | 3 +- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 15 +++-- crypto/rng.c | 8 +++ drivers/android/dbitmap.h | 1 + drivers/bluetooth/btusb.c | 2 + drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/mes_v11_0.c | 6 ++ drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/mes_v12_0.c | 5 ++ drivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/mes_v11_api_def.h | 47 +++++++++++++- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/mes_v12_api_def.h | 74 +++++++++++++++++++++- drivers/hid/hid-mcp2221.c | 4 ++ drivers/md/dm-integrity.c | 2 +- drivers/media/i2c/tc358743.c | 4 +- drivers/net/can/rcar/rcar_canfd.c | 7 +- drivers/net/can/spi/hi311x.c | 33 +++++----- drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/core.c | 2 - .../net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/sw.c | 1 - drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/core.c | 31 +++++++-- drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/core.h | 35 +++++++++- drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/pci.c | 3 +- drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/ser.c | 3 + drivers/nvmem/layouts.c | 13 ++++ drivers/platform/x86/amd/pmc/pmc-quirks.c | 15 +++++ drivers/platform/x86/amd/pmf/core.c | 1 + drivers/staging/axis-fifo/axis-fifo.c | 68 +++++++++----------- drivers/tty/serial/Kconfig | 2 +- drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 6 ++ fs/btrfs/ref-verify.c | 9 ++- fs/netfs/buffered_write.c | 2 +- include/linux/device.h | 3 + net/9p/trans_fd.c | 8 +-- rust/kernel/block/mq/gen_disk.rs | 2 +- sound/soc/amd/acp/amd.h | 2 +- sound/soc/codecs/rt5682s.c | 17 ++--- sound/usb/midi.c | 10 +-- tools/lib/subcmd/help.c | 3 + 37 files changed, 347 insertions(+), 113 deletions(-)