[PATCH 6.12 00/24] 6.12.72-rc1 review

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-02-13T13:56:25Z

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

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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

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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(-)