Re: [PATCH 6.12 00/24] 6.12.72-rc1 review

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-02-16T15:35:48Z

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