This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.66 release.
There are 119 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 Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:41:26 +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-6.12.66-rc1.gz
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 6.12.66-rc1

Shardul Bankar <shardulsb08@gmail.com>
    bpf: test_run: Fix ctx leak in bpf_prog_test_run_xdp error path

Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
    ALSA: hda: intel-dsp-config: Prefer legacy driver as fallback

Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
    tpm2-sessions: Fix out of range indexing in name_size

Mateusz Litwin <mateusz.litwin@nokia.com>
    spi: cadence-quadspi: Prevent lost complete() call during indirect read

Michal Rábek <mrabek@redhat.com>
    scsi: sg: Fix occasional bogus elapsed time that exceeds timeout

Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@ew.tq-group.com>
    ASoC: fsl_sai: Add missing registers to cache default

Kai Vehmanen <kai.vehmanen@linux.intel.com>
    ALSA: hda/realtek: enable woofer speakers on Medion NM14LNL

Andrew Elantsev <elantsew.andrew@gmail.com>
    ASoC: amd: yc: Add quirk for Honor MagicBook X16 2025

Jussi Laako <jussi@sonarnerd.net>
    ALSA: usb-audio: Update for native DSD support quirks

Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
    can: j1939: make j1939_session_activate() fail if device is no longer registered

Brian Kocoloski <brian.kocoloski@amd.com>
    drm/amdkfd: Fix improper NULL termination of queue restore SMI event string

Fei Shao <fshao@chromium.org>
    spi: mt65xx: Use IRQF_ONESHOT with threaded IRQ

Charlene Liu <Charlene.Liu@amd.com>
    drm/amd/display: Fix DP no audio issue

Niklas Cassel <cassel@kernel.org>
    ata: libata-core: Disable LPM on ST2000DM008-2FR102

Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
    netfilter: nf_tables: avoid chain re-validation if possible

Sumeet Pawnikar <sumeet4linux@gmail.com>
    powercap: fix sscanf() error return value handling

Sumeet Pawnikar <sumeet4linux@gmail.com>
    powercap: fix race condition in register_control_type()

Marcus Hughes <marcus.hughes@betterinternet.ltd>
    net: sfp: extend Potron XGSPON quirk to cover additional EEPROM variant

Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
    bpf: Fix reference count leak in bpf_prog_test_run_xdp()

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
    bpf, test_run: Subtract size of xdp_frame from allowed metadata size

Amery Hung <ameryhung@gmail.com>
    bpf: Support specifying linear xdp packet data size for BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN

Amery Hung <ameryhung@gmail.com>
    bpf: Make variables in bpf_prog_test_run_xdp less confusing

Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
    bpf: Fix an issue in bpf_prog_test_run_xdp when page size greater than 4K

Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
    btrfs: fix beyond-EOF write handling

Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
    btrfs: use variable for end offset in extent_writepage_io()

Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
    btrfs: truncate ordered extent when skipping writeback past i_size

Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
    btrfs: remove btrfs_fs_info::sectors_per_page

Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
    btrfs: add extra error messages for delalloc range related errors

Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
    btrfs: subpage: dump the involved bitmap when ASSERT() failed

Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
    btrfs: fix error handling of submit_uncompressed_range()

Haoxiang Li <lihaoxiang@isrc.iscas.ac.cn>
    ALSA: ac97: fix a double free in snd_ac97_controller_register()

Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
    ALSA: ac97bus: Use guard() for mutex locks

Gao Xiang <xiang@kernel.org>
    erofs: fix file-backed mounts no longer working on EROFS partitions

Gao Xiang <xiang@kernel.org>
    erofs: don't bother with s_stack_depth increasing for now

Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
    arp: do not assume dev_hard_header() does not change skb->head

Wei Fang <wei.fang@nxp.com>
    net: enetc: fix build warning when PAGE_SIZE is greater than 128K

Petko Manolov <petkan@nucleusys.com>
    net: usb: pegasus: fix memory leak in update_eth_regs_async()

Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
    net/sched: sch_qfq: Fix NULL deref when deactivating inactive aggregate in qfq_reset

René Rebe <rene@exactco.de>
    HID: quirks: work around VID/PID conflict for appledisplay

Yohei Kojima <yk@y-koj.net>
    net: netdevsim: fix inconsistent carrier state after link/unlink

Joshua Hay <joshua.a.hay@intel.com>
    idpf: cap maximum Rx buffer size

Emil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov@intel.com>
    idpf: fix memory leak in idpf_vport_rel()

Emil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov@intel.com>
    idpf: keep the netdev when a reset fails

Mohammad Heib <mheib@redhat.com>
    net: fix memory leak in skb_segment_list for GRO packets

Guo Ren (Alibaba DAMO Academy) <guoren@kernel.org>
    riscv: pgtable: Cleanup useless VA_USER_XXX definitions

Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
    btrfs: only enforce free space tree if v1 cache is required for bs < ps cases

Michal Luczaj <mhal@rbox.co>
    vsock: Make accept()ed sockets use custom setsockopt()

Srijit Bose <srijit.bose@broadcom.com>
    bnxt_en: Fix potential data corruption with HW GRO/LRO

Zilin Guan <zilin@seu.edu.cn>
    net: wwan: iosm: Fix memory leak in ipc_mux_deinit()

Gal Pressman <gal@nvidia.com>
    net/mlx5e: Don't print error message due to invalid module

Di Zhu <zhud@hygon.cn>
    netdev: preserve NETIF_F_ALL_FOR_ALL across TSO updates

Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
    net: sock: fix hardened usercopy panic in sock_recv_errqueue

yuan.gao <yuan.gao@ucloud.cn>
    inet: ping: Fix icmp out counting

Jerry Wu <w.7erry@foxmail.com>
    net: mscc: ocelot: Fix crash when adding interface under a lag

Alexandre Knecht <knecht.alexandre@gmail.com>
    bridge: fix C-VLAN preservation in 802.1ad vlan_tunnel egress

Alok Tiwari <alok.a.tiwari@oracle.com>
    net: marvell: prestera: fix NULL dereference on devlink_alloc() failure

Fernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera@suse.de>
    netfilter: nf_conncount: update last_gc only when GC has been performed

Zilin Guan <zilin@seu.edu.cn>
    netfilter: nf_tables: fix memory leak in nf_tables_newrule()

Ernest Van Hoecke <ernest.vanhoecke@toradex.com>
    gpio: pca953x: handle short interrupt pulses on PCAL devices

Potin Lai <potin.lai.pt@gmail.com>
    gpio: pca953x: Add support for level-triggered interrupts

Fernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera@suse.de>
    netfilter: nft_synproxy: avoid possible data-race on update operation

Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
    netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: fix range overlap detection

Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@ew.tq-group.com>
    arm64: dts: mba8mx: Fix Ethernet PHY IRQ support

Sherry Sun <sherry.sun@nxp.com>
    arm64: dts: imx8qm-ss-dma: correct the dma channels of lpuart

Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@mailbox.org>
    arm64: dts: imx8mp: Fix LAN8740Ai PHY reference clock on DH electronics i.MX8M Plus DHCOM

Ian Ray <ian.ray@gehealthcare.com>
    ARM: dts: imx6q-ba16: fix RTC interrupt level

Haibo Chen <haibo.chen@nxp.com>
    arm64: dts: add off-on-delay-us for usdhc2 regulator

Harshita Bhilwaria <harshita.bhilwaria@intel.com>
    crypto: qat - fix duplicate restarting msg during AER error

Wadim Egorov <w.egorov@phytec.de>
    arm64: dts: ti: k3-am62-lp-sk-nand: Rename pinctrls to fix schema warnings

Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
    drm/amd/display: Apply e4479aecf658 to dml

Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
    drm/amd/display: Respect user's CONFIG_FRAME_WARN more for dml files

Miquel Sabaté Solà <mssola@mssola.com>
    btrfs: fix NULL dereference on root when tracing inode eviction

Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
    btrfs: tracepoints: use btrfs_root_id() to get the id of a root

Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
    btrfs: qgroup: update all parent qgroups when doing quick inherit

Boris Burkov <boris@bur.io>
    btrfs: fix qgroup_snapshot_quick_inherit() squota bug

Xingui Yang <yangxingui@huawei.com>
    scsi: Revert "scsi: libsas: Fix exp-attached device scan after probe failure scanned in again after probe failed"

Brian Kao <powenkao@google.com>
    scsi: ufs: core: Fix EH failure after W-LUN resume error

Wen Xiong <wenxiong@linux.ibm.com>
    scsi: ipr: Enable/disable IRQD_NO_BALANCING during reset

ChenXiaoSong <chenxiaosong@kylinos.cn>
    smb/client: fix NT_STATUS_NO_DATA_DETECTED value

ChenXiaoSong <chenxiaosong@kylinos.cn>
    smb/client: fix NT_STATUS_DEVICE_DOOR_OPEN value

ChenXiaoSong <chenxiaosong@kylinos.cn>
    smb/client: fix NT_STATUS_UNABLE_TO_FREE_VM value

Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
    drm/amd/display: shrink struct members

Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
    NFS: Fix up the automount fs_context to use the correct cred

Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com>
    ASoC: rockchip: Fix Wvoid-pointer-to-enum-cast warning (again)

Scott Mayhew <smayhew@redhat.com>
    NFSv4: ensure the open stateid seqid doesn't go backwards

Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
    dm-snapshot: fix 'scheduling while atomic' on real-time kernels

Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
    alpha: don't reference obsolete termio struct for TC* constants

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
    ARM: 9461/1: Disable HIGHPTE on PREEMPT_RT kernels

Yang Li <yang.li85200@gmail.com>
    csky: fix csky_cmpxchg_fixup not working

Xin Wang <x.wang@intel.com>
    drm/xe: Ensure GT is in C0 during resumes

Xin Wang <x.wang@intel.com>
    drm/xe: make xe_gt_idle_disable_c6() handle the forcewake internally

Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
    tls: Use __sk_dst_get() and dst_dev_rcu() in get_netdev_for_sock().

Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
    libceph: make calc_target() set t->paused, not just clear it

Sam Edwards <cfsworks@gmail.com>
    libceph: reset sparse-read state in osd_fault()

Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
    libceph: return the handler error from mon_handle_auth_done()

Tuo Li <islituo@gmail.com>
    libceph: make free_choose_arg_map() resilient to partial allocation

Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
    libceph: replace overzealous BUG_ON in osdmap_apply_incremental()

ziming zhang <ezrakiez@gmail.com>
    libceph: prevent potential out-of-bounds reads in handle_auth_done()

Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
    wifi: mac80211: restore non-chanctx injection behaviour

Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
    wifi: avoid kernel-infoleak from struct iw_point

Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
    pinctrl: qcom: lpass-lpi: mark the GPIO controller as sleeping

Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@oss.qualcomm.com>
    gpio: rockchip: mark the GPIO controller as sleeping

Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
    drm/radeon: Remove __counted_by from ClockInfoArray.clockInfo[]

Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@gmail.com>
    drm/pl111: Fix error handling in pl111_amba_probe

Alan Liu <haoping.liu@amd.com>
    drm/amdgpu: Fix query for VPE block_type and ip_count

Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@siemens.com>
    counter: interrupt-cnt: Drop IRQF_NO_THREAD flag

Haotian Zhang <vulab@iscas.ac.cn>
    counter: 104-quad-8: Fix incorrect return value in IRQ handler

Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
    lib/crypto: aes: Fix missing MMU protection for AES S-box

Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@intel.com>
    mei: me: add nova lake point S DID

Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
    btrfs: always detect conflicting inodes when logging inode refs

Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
    arm64: Fix cleared E0POE bit after cpu_suspend()/resume()

Thomas Fourier <fourier.thomas@gmail.com>
    net: 3com: 3c59x: fix possible null dereference in vortex_probe1()

Thomas Fourier <fourier.thomas@gmail.com>
    atm: Fix dma_free_coherent() size

Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
    NFSD: Remove NFSERR_EAGAIN

Edward Adam Davis <eadavis@qq.com>
    NFSD: net ref data still needs to be freed even if net hasn't startup

Olga Kornievskaia <okorniev@redhat.com>
    nfsd: check that server is running in unlock_filesystem

NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
    nfsd: use correct loop termination in nfsd4_revoke_states()

NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
    nfsd: provide locking for v4_end_grace

Scott Mayhew <smayhew@redhat.com>
    NFSD: Fix permission check for read access to executable-only files


-------------

Diffstat:

 Makefile                                           |   4 +-
 arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/ioctls.h               |   8 +-
 arch/arm/Kconfig                                   |   2 +-
 arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/imx/imx6q-ba16.dtsi          |   2 +-
 .../arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8mp-dhcom-som.dtsi |   1 +
 arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8qm-mek.dts       |   1 +
 arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8qm-ss-dma.dtsi   |   8 +-
 arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/mba8mx.dtsi          |   2 +-
 arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am62-lp-sk-nand.dtso     |   2 +-
 arch/arm64/include/asm/suspend.h                   |   2 +-
 arch/arm64/mm/proc.S                               |   8 ++
 arch/csky/mm/fault.c                               |   4 +-
 arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h                   |   4 -
 drivers/ata/libata-core.c                          |   3 +
 drivers/atm/he.c                                   |   3 +-
 drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-cmd.c                        |  23 +++-
 drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-sessions.c                   | 114 ++++++++++++------
 drivers/counter/104-quad-8.c                       |  20 +++-
 drivers/counter/interrupt-cnt.c                    |   3 +-
 drivers/crypto/intel/qat/qat_common/adf_aer.c      |   2 -
 drivers/gpio/gpio-pca953x.c                        |  55 ++++++++-
 drivers/gpio/gpio-rockchip.c                       |   1 +
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_kms.c            |   6 +
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_smi_events.c        |   2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/dml/Makefile        |  18 ++-
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/dml2/Makefile       |  22 ++--
 .../drm/amd/display/dc/hwss/dce110/dce110_hwseq.c  |  11 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/include/audio_types.h  |  14 +--
 drivers/gpu/drm/pl111/pl111_drv.c                  |   2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/pptable.h                   |   2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_gt_idle.c                    |  20 ++--
 drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_gt_idle.h                    |   2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_guc_pc.c                     |  10 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_pm.c                         |   8 +-
 drivers/hid/hid-quirks.c                           |   9 ++
 drivers/md/dm-exception-store.h                    |   2 +-
 drivers/md/dm-snap.c                               |  73 ++++++------
 drivers/misc/mei/hw-me-regs.h                      |   2 +
 drivers/misc/mei/pci-me.c                          |   2 +
 drivers/net/ethernet/3com/3c59x.c                  |   2 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c          |  15 ++-
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.h          |   4 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc.h       |   4 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_lib.c         |  19 ++-
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_txrx.c        |   8 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_txrx.h        |   1 +
 .../ethernet/marvell/prestera/prestera_devlink.c   |   2 +
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/port.c     |   3 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/mscc/ocelot.c                 |   6 +-
 drivers/net/netdevsim/bus.c                        |   8 ++
 drivers/net/phy/sfp.c                              |   2 +
 drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c                          |   2 +
 drivers/net/wwan/iosm/iosm_ipc_mux.c               |   6 +
 drivers/pinctrl/qcom/pinctrl-lpass-lpi.c           |   2 +-
 drivers/powercap/powercap_sys.c                    |  22 ++--
 drivers/scsi/ipr.c                                 |  28 ++++-
 drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_internal.h                 |  14 ---
 drivers/scsi/sg.c                                  |  20 ++--
 drivers/spi/spi-cadence-quadspi.c                  |  10 +-
 drivers/spi/spi-mt65xx.c                           |   2 +-
 drivers/ufs/core/ufshcd.c                          |  40 +++++--
 fs/btrfs/disk-io.c                                 |   1 -
 fs/btrfs/extent_io.c                               |  68 ++++++++---
 fs/btrfs/fs.h                                      |   7 +-
 fs/btrfs/inode.c                                   |  29 ++---
 fs/btrfs/ordered-data.c                            |   5 +-
 fs/btrfs/qgroup.c                                  |  21 +++-
 fs/btrfs/subpage.c                                 | 129 ++++++++++++++-------
 fs/btrfs/super.c                                   |  12 +-
 fs/btrfs/tree-log.c                                |   6 +-
 fs/erofs/super.c                                   |  19 ++-
 fs/nfs/namespace.c                                 |   5 +
 fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c                                  |  13 ++-
 fs/nfs/nfs4trace.h                                 |   1 +
 fs/nfs_common/common.c                             |   1 -
 fs/nfsd/netns.h                                    |   2 +
 fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c                                 |   2 +-
 fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c                                |  49 +++++++-
 fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c                                   |  12 +-
 fs/nfsd/nfsd.h                                     |   1 -
 fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c                                   |  28 ++---
 fs/nfsd/state.h                                    |   6 +-
 fs/nfsd/vfs.c                                      |   4 +-
 fs/smb/client/nterr.h                              |   6 +-
 include/linux/netdevice.h                          |   3 +-
 include/linux/tpm.h                                |  13 ++-
 include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h                  |  34 ++++--
 include/trace/events/btrfs.h                       |  51 ++++----
 include/trace/misc/nfs.h                           |   2 -
 include/uapi/linux/nfs.h                           |   1 -
 lib/crypto/aes.c                                   |   4 +-
 net/bpf/test_run.c                                 |  60 ++++++----
 net/bridge/br_vlan_tunnel.c                        |  11 +-
 net/can/j1939/transport.c                          |   2 +
 net/ceph/messenger_v2.c                            |   2 +
 net/ceph/mon_client.c                              |   2 +-
 net/ceph/osd_client.c                              |  14 ++-
 net/ceph/osdmap.c                                  |  24 ++--
 net/core/skbuff.c                                  |   8 +-
 net/core/sock.c                                    |   7 +-
 net/ipv4/arp.c                                     |   7 +-
 net/ipv4/ping.c                                    |   4 +-
 net/mac80211/tx.c                                  |   2 +
 net/netfilter/nf_conncount.c                       |   2 +-
 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c                      |  72 +++++++++++-
 net/netfilter/nft_set_pipapo.c                     |   4 +-
 net/netfilter/nft_synproxy.c                       |   6 +-
 net/sched/sch_qfq.c                                |   2 +-
 net/tls/tls_device.c                               |  18 +--
 net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c                           |   4 +
 net/wireless/wext-core.c                           |   4 +
 net/wireless/wext-priv.c                           |   4 +
 security/keys/trusted-keys/trusted_tpm2.c          |  29 ++++-
 sound/ac97/bus.c                                   |  32 +++--
 sound/hda/intel-dsp-config.c                       |   3 +-
 sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c                      |   1 +
 sound/soc/amd/yc/acp6x-mach.c                      |   7 ++
 sound/soc/fsl/fsl_sai.c                            |   3 +
 sound/soc/rockchip/rockchip_pdm.c                  |   2 +-
 sound/usb/quirks.c                                 |  10 ++
 .../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/xdp_adjust_tail.c     |  96 +++++++++++++--
 .../bpf/prog_tests/xdp_context_test_run.c          |   4 +-
 .../bpf/progs/test_xdp_adjust_tail_grow.c          |   8 +-
 123 files changed, 1164 insertions(+), 522 deletions(-)

hello

Compiled and booted   6.12.66-rc1+

dmesg -l err shows error. File attached.

As per dmidecode command.
Version: AMD Ryzen 3 3250U with Radeon Graphics

Processor Information
        Socket Designation: FP5
        Type: Central Processor
        Family: Zen
        Manufacturer: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
        ID: 81 0F 81 00 FF FB 8B 17
        Signature: Family 23, Model 24, Stepping 1

Tested-by: Jeffrin Jose T <jeffrin@rajagiritech.edu.in>

--
software engineer
rajagiri school of engineering and technology
[   23.536409] ee1004 3-0050: probe with driver ee1004 failed with error -5

On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:46:55 +0100 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.66 release.
> There are 119 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 Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:41:26 +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:

Tested-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>

Thanks!

Cheers,
Miguel

On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 12:03 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.66 release.
> There are 119 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 Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:41:26 +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-6.12.66-rc1.gz
> 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
>

Builds successfully.  Boots and works on qemu and Dell XPS 15 9520 w/
Intel Core i7-12600H

Tested-by: Brett Mastbergen <bmastbergen@ciq.com>

Thanks,
Brett

On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 05:46:55PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.66 release.
> There are 119 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.

Tested-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

The kernel, bpf tool, perf tool, and kselftest builds fine for v6.12.66-rc1
on x86 and arm64 Azure VM.


Tested-by: Hardik Garg <hargar@linux.microsoft.com>


Thanks,
Hardik

Hi Greg,

On 15/01/26 22:16, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.66 release.
> There are 119 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 Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:41:26 +0000.
> Anything received after that time might be too late.

No problems seen on x86_64 and aarch64 with our testing.

Tested-by: Harshit Mogalapalli <harshit.m.mogalapalli@oracle.com>

Thanks,
Harshit

Am 15.01.2026 um 17:46 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.66 release.
> There are 119 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 E5-2697 v2 server. No dmesg oddities or regressions found.

Tested-by: Peter Schneider <pschneider1968@googlemail.com>


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On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:46:55 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.66 release.
> There are 119 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 Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:41:26 +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-6.12.66-rc1.gz
> 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

All tests passing for Tegra ...

Test results for stable-v6.12:
    10 builds:	10 pass, 0 fail
    28 boots:	28 pass, 0 fail
    120 tests:	120 pass, 0 fail

Linux version:	6.12.66-rc1-g4c3a44fdb97c
Boards tested:	tegra124-jetson-tk1, tegra186-p2771-0000,
                tegra186-p3509-0000+p3636-0001, tegra194-p2972-0000,
                tegra194-p3509-0000+p3668-0000, tegra20-ventana,
                tegra210-p2371-2180, tegra210-p3450-0000,
                tegra30-cardhu-a04

Tested-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>

Jon

On 1/15/26 08:46, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.66 release.
> There are 119 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 Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:41:26 +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-6.12.66-rc1.gz
> 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

Built and booted successfully on RISC-V RV64 (HiFive Unmatched).

Tested-by: Ron Economos <re@w6rz.net>

On 1/15/26 08:46, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.66 release.
> There are 119 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 Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:41:26 +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-6.12.66-rc1.gz
> 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

On ARCH_BRCMSTB using 32-bit and 64-bit ARM kernels, build tested on 
BMIPS_GENERIC:

Tested-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>
-- 
Florian

On 1/15/26 09:46, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.66 release.
> There are 119 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 Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:41:26 +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-6.12.66-rc1.gz
> 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
> 

Compiled and booted on my test system. No dmesg regressions.

Tested-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>

thanks,
-- Shuah

On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 05:46:55PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.66 release.
> There are 119 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.

Compiled and tested on

 - Verdin AM62
 - Verdin iMX8MP

Tested-by: Francesco Dolcini <francesco.dolcini@toradex.com>

Francesco

On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 12:01 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.66 release.
> There are 119 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 Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:41:26 +0000.
> Anything received after that time might be too late.

6.12.66-rc1 built and run on my x86_64 test system (AMD Ryzen 9 9900X,
System76 thelio-mira-r4-n3). No errors or regressions.

Tested-by: Slade Watkins <sr@sladewatkins.com>

Thanks,
Slade

# Librecast Test Results

020/020 [ OK ] liblcrq
010/010 [ OK ] libmld
120/120 [ OK ] liblibrecast

CPU/kernel: Linux auntie 6.12.66-rc1-g4c3a44fdb97c #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Jan 15 18:02:40 -00 2026 x86_64 AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

Tested-by: Brett A C Sheffield <bacs@librecast.net>