This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.72 release.
There are 24 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, 15 Feb 2026 13:46:52 +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-6.12.72-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

-------------
Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:

Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    Linux 6.12.72-rc1

Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
    gpio: omap: do not register driver in probe()

Ali Tariq <alitariq45892@gmail.com>
    wifi: rtl8xxxu: fix slab-out-of-bounds in rtl8xxxu_sta_add

Liu Song <liu.song13@zte.com.cn>
    PCI: endpoint: Avoid creating sub-groups asynchronously

Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
    xfs: fix UAF in xchk_btree_check_block_owner

Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
    erofs: fix UAF issue for file-backed mounts w/ directio option

Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
    mptcp: fix race in mptcp_pm_nl_flush_addrs_doit()

Daniele Palmas <dnlplm@gmail.com>
    bus: mhi: host: pci_generic: Add Telit FE990B40 modem support

Anil Gurumurthy <agurumurthy@marvell.com>
    scsi: qla2xxx: Query FW again before proceeding with login

Anil Gurumurthy <agurumurthy@marvell.com>
    scsi: qla2xxx: Free sp in error path to fix system crash

Anil Gurumurthy <agurumurthy@marvell.com>
    scsi: qla2xxx: Delay module unload while fabric scan in progress

Shreyas Deodhar <sdeodhar@marvell.com>
    scsi: qla2xxx: Allow recovery for tape devices

Anil Gurumurthy <agurumurthy@marvell.com>
    scsi: qla2xxx: Validate sp before freeing associated memory

Bitterblue Smith <rtl8821cerfe2@gmail.com>
    wifi: rtw88: Fix alignment fault in rtw_core_enable_beacon()

Edward Adam Davis <eadavis@qq.com>
    nilfs2: Fix potential block overflow that cause system hang

Bibo Mao <maobibo@loongson.cn>
    crypto: virtio - Remove duplicated virtqueue_kick in virtio_crypto_skcipher_crypt_req

Bibo Mao <maobibo@loongson.cn>
    crypto: virtio - Add spinlock protection with virtqueue notification

Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
    crypto: omap - Allocate OMAP_CRYPTO_FORCE_COPY scatterlists correctly

Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
    crypto: octeontx - Fix length check to avoid truncation in ucode_load_store

Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
    crypto: iaa - Fix out-of-bounds index in find_empty_iaa_compression_mode

Zenm Chen <zenmchen@gmail.com>
    Bluetooth: btusb: Add USB ID 7392:e611 for Edimax EW-7611UXB

Gui-Dong Han <hanguidong02@gmail.com>
    driver core: enforce device_lock for driver_match_device()

Henrique Carvalho <henrique.carvalho@suse.com>
    smb: server: fix leak of active_num_conn in ksmbd_tcp_new_connection()

Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>
    ksmbd: fix infinite loop caused by next_smb2_rcv_hdr_off reset in error paths

Henrique Carvalho <henrique.carvalho@suse.com>
    smb: client: split cached_fid bitfields to avoid shared-byte RMW races


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

Diffstat:

 Makefile                                           |  4 +--
 drivers/base/base.h                                |  9 +++++
 drivers/base/bus.c                                 |  2 +-
 drivers/base/dd.c                                  |  2 +-
 drivers/bluetooth/btusb.c                          |  2 ++
 drivers/bus/mhi/host/pci_generic.c                 | 13 +++++++
 drivers/crypto/intel/iaa/iaa_crypto_main.c         | 12 +++----
 drivers/crypto/marvell/octeontx/otx_cptpf_ucode.c  |  2 +-
 drivers/crypto/omap-crypto.c                       |  2 +-
 drivers/crypto/virtio/virtio_crypto_core.c         |  5 +++
 .../crypto/virtio/virtio_crypto_skcipher_algs.c    |  2 --
 drivers/gpio/gpio-omap.c                           | 22 +++++++++---
 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/core.c       |  1 +
 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/main.c          |  4 +--
 drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-ep-cfs.c                  | 15 +++-----
 drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_gs.c                      | 41 +++++++++++-----------
 drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_init.c                    | 28 +++++++++------
 drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_isr.c                     | 19 ++++++++--
 drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c                      |  3 +-
 fs/erofs/fileio.c                                  |  7 +++-
 fs/nilfs2/sufile.c                                 |  4 +++
 fs/smb/client/cached_dir.h                         |  8 ++---
 fs/smb/server/server.c                             |  6 ++--
 fs/smb/server/transport_tcp.c                      |  3 +-
 fs/xfs/scrub/btree.c                               |  7 ++--
 net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c                             | 16 +++++++--
 26 files changed, 159 insertions(+), 80 deletions(-)

On Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 02:48:19PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.72 release.
> There are 24 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.

As I've mentioned before putting -rcs out on a Friday afternoon isn't
ideal for getting results...

> Gui-Dong Han <hanguidong02@gmail.com>
>     driver core: enforce device_lock for driver_match_device()

This breaks boot on at least the Arm Juno platform, upstream it
introduced regressions on quite a few systems due to drivers registering
in the probe of other devices.  That's obviously not a great pattern but
a regreession is a regression.

bisect:

# bad: [4b487d46d595999554fb81524f66ed3d1a73b615] Linux 6.12.72-rc1
# good: [ae591174b1f2e6b81ffe182fb621bba910bfb44e] Linux 6.12.71
git bisect start '4b487d46d595999554fb81524f66ed3d1a73b615' 'ae591174b1f2e6b81ffe182fb621bba910bfb44e'
# test job: [4b487d46d595999554fb81524f66ed3d1a73b615] https://lava.sirena.org.uk/scheduler/job/2455882
# bad: [4b487d46d595999554fb81524f66ed3d1a73b615] Linux 6.12.72-rc1
git bisect bad 4b487d46d595999554fb81524f66ed3d1a73b615
# test job: [b3b78ed0290627689bb76932b290f649d7a55ea7] https://lava.sirena.org.uk/scheduler/job/2456102
# bad: [b3b78ed0290627689bb76932b290f649d7a55ea7] wifi: rtw88: Fix alignment fault in rtw_core_enable_beacon()
git bisect bad b3b78ed0290627689bb76932b290f649d7a55ea7
# test job: [5be98c74259c3e953c4eb9989166b5b5225196a6] https://lava.sirena.org.uk/scheduler/job/2456393
# bad: [5be98c74259c3e953c4eb9989166b5b5225196a6] crypto: iaa - Fix out-of-bounds index in find_empty_iaa_compression_mode
git bisect bad 5be98c74259c3e953c4eb9989166b5b5225196a6
# test job: [c9e18834e4b2f69c0b1798440b9d531109cc16f2] https://lava.sirena.org.uk/scheduler/job/2456585
# good: [c9e18834e4b2f69c0b1798440b9d531109cc16f2] smb: server: fix leak of active_num_conn in ksmbd_tcp_new_connection()
git bisect good c9e18834e4b2f69c0b1798440b9d531109cc16f2
# test job: [c34376e5a52a35ade9960d259ca1e8910db72013] https://lava.sirena.org.uk/scheduler/job/2456855
# bad: [c34376e5a52a35ade9960d259ca1e8910db72013] Bluetooth: btusb: Add USB ID 7392:e611 for Edimax EW-7611UXB
git bisect bad c34376e5a52a35ade9960d259ca1e8910db72013
# test job: [3454ada4952bf8ac7c9a7b6aec0e18aa87226170] https://lava.sirena.org.uk/scheduler/job/2457085
# bad: [3454ada4952bf8ac7c9a7b6aec0e18aa87226170] driver core: enforce device_lock for driver_match_device()
git bisect bad 3454ada4952bf8ac7c9a7b6aec0e18aa87226170
# first bad commit: [3454ada4952bf8ac7c9a7b6aec0e18aa87226170] driver core: enforce device_lock for driver_match_device()

On Mon Feb 16, 2026 at 3:27 PM CET, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 02:48:19PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> Gui-Dong Han <hanguidong02@gmail.com>
>>     driver core: enforce device_lock for driver_match_device()
>
> This breaks boot on at least the Arm Juno platform, upstream it
> introduced regressions on quite a few systems due to drivers registering
> in the probe of other devices.  That's obviously not a great pattern but
> a regreession is a regression.

Just for reference, I've also sent the following to the stable patch apply
notice:

"This commit reveals a few driver bugs resulting in deadlocks without the
following fixes:

  - 1. ed1ac3c977dd ("iommu/arm-smmu-qcom: do not register driver in probe()")
  - 2. 730e5ebff40c ("gpio: omap: do not register driver in probe()")
  - 3. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260212235842.85934-1-dakr@kernel.org/

The third one will hopefully be picked up by the clk folks soon.

(1) should be required since v6.11, (2) since (basically forever) v2.6.22 and
(3) since v5.11.

We should also consider that we do not know if (especially older) stable trees
have similar cases that we did not catch in linux-next."

- Danilo

On Mon Feb 16, 2026 at 4:47 PM CET, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> On Mon Feb 16, 2026 at 3:27 PM CET, Mark Brown wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 02:48:19PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>> Gui-Dong Han <hanguidong02@gmail.com>
>>>     driver core: enforce device_lock for driver_match_device()
>>
>> This breaks boot on at least the Arm Juno platform, upstream it
>> introduced regressions on quite a few systems due to drivers registering
>> in the probe of other devices.  That's obviously not a great pattern but
>> a regreession is a regression.
>
> Just for reference, I've also sent the following to the stable patch apply
> notice:
>
> "This commit reveals a few driver bugs resulting in deadlocks without the
> following fixes:
>
>   - 1. ed1ac3c977dd ("iommu/arm-smmu-qcom: do not register driver in probe()")

One additional note, we want this commit backported regardless, as it also fixes
commit 0b4eeee2876f ("iommu/arm-smmu-qcom: Register the TBU driver in
qcom_smmu_impl_init").

I.e. the current code is racy in terms of async probe and the driver is never
unregistered even if built as module and the module is unloaded, which is a
potential UAF.

>   - 2. 730e5ebff40c ("gpio: omap: do not register driver in probe()")
>   - 3. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260212235842.85934-1-dakr@kernel.org/
>
> The third one will hopefully be picked up by the clk folks soon.
>
> (1) should be required since v6.11, (2) since (basically forever) v2.6.22 and
> (3) since v5.11.
>
> We should also consider that we do not know if (especially older) stable trees
> have similar cases that we did not catch in linux-next."
>
> - Danilo

On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 02:27:54PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 02:48:19PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.72 release.
> > There are 24 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.
> 
> As I've mentioned before putting -rcs out on a Friday afternoon isn't
> ideal for getting results...
> 
> > Gui-Dong Han <hanguidong02@gmail.com>
> >     driver core: enforce device_lock for driver_match_device()
> 
> This breaks boot on at least the Arm Juno platform, upstream it
> introduced regressions on quite a few systems due to drivers registering
> in the probe of other devices.  That's obviously not a great pattern but
> a regreession is a regression.
> 
> bisect:
> 
> # bad: [4b487d46d595999554fb81524f66ed3d1a73b615] Linux 6.12.72-rc1
> # good: [ae591174b1f2e6b81ffe182fb621bba910bfb44e] Linux 6.12.71
> git bisect start '4b487d46d595999554fb81524f66ed3d1a73b615' 'ae591174b1f2e6b81ffe182fb621bba910bfb44e'
> # test job: [4b487d46d595999554fb81524f66ed3d1a73b615] https://lava.sirena.org.uk/scheduler/job/2455882
> # bad: [4b487d46d595999554fb81524f66ed3d1a73b615] Linux 6.12.72-rc1
> git bisect bad 4b487d46d595999554fb81524f66ed3d1a73b615
> # test job: [b3b78ed0290627689bb76932b290f649d7a55ea7] https://lava.sirena.org.uk/scheduler/job/2456102
> # bad: [b3b78ed0290627689bb76932b290f649d7a55ea7] wifi: rtw88: Fix alignment fault in rtw_core_enable_beacon()
> git bisect bad b3b78ed0290627689bb76932b290f649d7a55ea7
> # test job: [5be98c74259c3e953c4eb9989166b5b5225196a6] https://lava.sirena.org.uk/scheduler/job/2456393
> # bad: [5be98c74259c3e953c4eb9989166b5b5225196a6] crypto: iaa - Fix out-of-bounds index in find_empty_iaa_compression_mode
> git bisect bad 5be98c74259c3e953c4eb9989166b5b5225196a6
> # test job: [c9e18834e4b2f69c0b1798440b9d531109cc16f2] https://lava.sirena.org.uk/scheduler/job/2456585
> # good: [c9e18834e4b2f69c0b1798440b9d531109cc16f2] smb: server: fix leak of active_num_conn in ksmbd_tcp_new_connection()
> git bisect good c9e18834e4b2f69c0b1798440b9d531109cc16f2
> # test job: [c34376e5a52a35ade9960d259ca1e8910db72013] https://lava.sirena.org.uk/scheduler/job/2456855
> # bad: [c34376e5a52a35ade9960d259ca1e8910db72013] Bluetooth: btusb: Add USB ID 7392:e611 for Edimax EW-7611UXB
> git bisect bad c34376e5a52a35ade9960d259ca1e8910db72013
> # test job: [3454ada4952bf8ac7c9a7b6aec0e18aa87226170] https://lava.sirena.org.uk/scheduler/job/2457085
> # bad: [3454ada4952bf8ac7c9a7b6aec0e18aa87226170] driver core: enforce device_lock for driver_match_device()
> git bisect bad 3454ada4952bf8ac7c9a7b6aec0e18aa87226170
> # first bad commit: [3454ada4952bf8ac7c9a7b6aec0e18aa87226170] driver core: enforce device_lock for driver_match_device()


Argh, I forgot about that "issue".

Ok, let me go push out new releases with this reverted, and drop it from
the older stable kernels, as this isn't a good idea at the moment.

thanks,

greg k-h

On Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:48:19 +0100 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.72 release.
> There are 24 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, 15 Feb 2026 13:46:52 +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 2/13/26 05:48, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.72 release.
> There are 24 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, 15 Feb 2026 13:46:52 +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-6.12.72-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

Tested on two amd64 laptops, an Apple MacBook Air 2017 and a Lenovo 
ThinkPad T14 Gen 1. Working well, no regressions observed.

Tested-by: Barry K. Nathan <barryn@pobox.com>
-- 
-Barry K. Nathan  <barryn@pobox.com>

# Librecast Test Results

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

CPU/kernel: Linux auntie 6.12.72-rc1-g4b487d46d595 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sat Feb 14 15:07:47 -00 2026 x86_64 AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

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

On 2/13/26 05:48, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.72 release.
> There are 24 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, 15 Feb 2026 13:46:52 +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-6.12.72-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 Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 8:58 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.72 release.
> There are 24 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, 15 Feb 2026 13:46:52 +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-6.12.72-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 Intel Core i7-10810U

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

Thanks,
Brett

Am 13.02.2026 um 14:48 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.72 release.
> There are 24 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>


Beste Grüße,
Peter Schneider

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On Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:48:19 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.72 release.
> There are 24 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, 15 Feb 2026 13:46:52 +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-6.12.72-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:	6.12.72-rc1-g4b487d46d595
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 2/13/26 05:48, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.72 release.
> There are 24 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, 15 Feb 2026 13:46:52 +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-6.12.72-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