[PATCH 6.12 00/40] 6.12.57-rc1 review

[PATCH 6.12 00/40] 6.12.57-rc1 review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.57 release.
There are 40 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, 02 Nov 2025 14:00:34 +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-6.12.57-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 6.12.57-rc1

Edward Cree <ecree.xilinx@gmail.com>
    sfc: fix NULL dereferences in ef100_process_design_param()

Xiaogang Chen <xiaogang.chen@amd.com>
    udmabuf: fix a buf size overflow issue during udmabuf creation

Aditya Kumar Singh <quic_adisi@quicinc.com>
    wifi: ath12k: fix read pointer after free in ath12k_mac_assign_vif_to_vdev()

Kees Bakker <kees@ijzerbout.nl>
    iommu/vt-d: Avoid use of NULL after WARN_ON_ONCE

William Breathitt Gray <wbg@kernel.org>
    gpio: idio-16: Define fixed direction of the GPIO lines

Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@nxp.com>
    gpio: regmap: add the .fixed_direction_output configuration parameter

Mathieu Dubois-Briand <mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com>
    gpio: regmap: Allow to allocate regmap-irq device

Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr>
    bits: introduce fixed-type GENMASK_U*()

Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr>
    bits: add comments and newlines to #if, #else and #endif directives

Wang Liang <wangliang74@huawei.com>
    bonding: check xdp prog when set bond mode

Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
    bonding: return detailed error when loading native XDP fails

Alexander Wetzel <Alexander@wetzel-home.de>
    wifi: cfg80211: Add missing lock in cfg80211_check_and_end_cac()

Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
    f2fs: fix to avoid panic once fallocation fails for pinfile

Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
    mptcp: pm: in-kernel: C-flag: handle late ADD_ADDR

Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
    selftests: mptcp: join: mark 'delete re-add signal' as skipped if not supported

Geliang Tang <geliang@kernel.org>
    selftests: mptcp: disable add_addr retrans in endpoint_tests

Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
    docs: kdoc: handle the obsolescensce of docutils.ErrorString()

Menglong Dong <menglong8.dong@gmail.com>
    arch: Add the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS to all the asm-offsets.c

Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    sched_ext: Make qmap dump operation non-destructive

Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
    btrfs: use smp_mb__after_atomic() when forcing COW in create_pending_snapshot()

Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
    btrfs: tree-checker: add inode extref checks

Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
    btrfs: abort transaction if we fail to update inode in log replay dir fixup

Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
    btrfs: use level argument in log tree walk callback replay_one_buffer()

Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
    btrfs: always drop log root tree reference in btrfs_replay_log()

Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
    btrfs: scrub: replace max_t()/min_t() with clamp() in scrub_throttle_dev_io()

Naohiro Aota <naohiro.aota@wdc.com>
    btrfs: zoned: refine extent allocator hint selection

Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
    btrfs: zoned: return error from btrfs_zone_finish_endio()

Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
    btrfs: abort transaction in the process_one_buffer() log tree walk callback

Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
    btrfs: abort transaction on specific error places when walking log tree

Chen Ridong <chenridong@huawei.com>
    cpuset: Use new excpus for nocpu error check when enabling root partition

Avadhut Naik <avadhut.naik@amd.com>
    EDAC/mc_sysfs: Increase legacy channel support to 16

David Kaplan <david.kaplan@amd.com>
    x86/bugs: Fix reporting of LFENCE retpoline

David Kaplan <david.kaplan@amd.com>
    x86/bugs: Report correct retbleed mitigation status

Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
    seccomp: passthrough uprobe systemcall without filtering

Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
    perf: Skip user unwind if the task is a kernel thread

Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
    perf: Have get_perf_callchain() return NULL if crosstask and user are set

Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
    perf: Use current->flags & PF_KTHREAD|PF_USER_WORKER instead of current->mm == NULL

Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
    perf/x86/intel: Add ICL_FIXED_0_ADAPTIVE bit into INTEL_FIXED_BITS_MASK

Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
    audit: record fanotify event regardless of presence of rules

Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
    net/sched: sch_qfq: Fix null-deref in agg_dequeue


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

Diffstat:

 Documentation/sphinx/kernel_abi.py              |  4 +-
 Documentation/sphinx/kernel_feat.py             |  4 +-
 Documentation/sphinx/kernel_include.py          |  6 ++-
 Documentation/sphinx/maintainers_include.py     |  4 +-
 Makefile                                        |  4 +-
 arch/alpha/kernel/asm-offsets.c                 |  1 +
 arch/arc/kernel/asm-offsets.c                   |  1 +
 arch/arm/kernel/asm-offsets.c                   |  2 +
 arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.c                 |  1 +
 arch/csky/kernel/asm-offsets.c                  |  1 +
 arch/hexagon/kernel/asm-offsets.c               |  1 +
 arch/loongarch/kernel/asm-offsets.c             |  2 +
 arch/m68k/kernel/asm-offsets.c                  |  1 +
 arch/microblaze/kernel/asm-offsets.c            |  1 +
 arch/mips/kernel/asm-offsets.c                  |  2 +
 arch/nios2/kernel/asm-offsets.c                 |  1 +
 arch/openrisc/kernel/asm-offsets.c              |  1 +
 arch/parisc/kernel/asm-offsets.c                |  1 +
 arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c               |  1 +
 arch/riscv/kernel/asm-offsets.c                 |  1 +
 arch/s390/kernel/asm-offsets.c                  |  1 +
 arch/sh/kernel/asm-offsets.c                    |  1 +
 arch/sparc/kernel/asm-offsets.c                 |  1 +
 arch/um/kernel/asm-offsets.c                    |  2 +
 arch/x86/events/intel/core.c                    | 10 ++--
 arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event.h               |  6 ++-
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c                      |  9 ++--
 arch/x86/kvm/pmu.h                              |  2 +-
 arch/xtensa/kernel/asm-offsets.c                |  1 +
 drivers/dma-buf/udmabuf.c                       |  2 +-
 drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c                    | 24 ++++++++++
 drivers/gpio/gpio-idio-16.c                     |  5 ++
 drivers/gpio/gpio-regmap.c                      | 53 ++++++++++++++++++--
 drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c                     |  7 +--
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c                 | 11 +++--
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c              |  3 ++
 drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ef100_netdev.c         |  6 +--
 drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ef100_nic.c            | 47 ++++++++----------
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c           |  6 +--
 fs/btrfs/disk-io.c                              |  2 +-
 fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c                          |  6 ++-
 fs/btrfs/inode.c                                |  7 +--
 fs/btrfs/scrub.c                                |  3 +-
 fs/btrfs/transaction.c                          |  2 +-
 fs/btrfs/tree-checker.c                         | 37 ++++++++++++++
 fs/btrfs/tree-log.c                             | 64 +++++++++++++++++++------
 fs/btrfs/zoned.c                                |  8 ++--
 fs/btrfs/zoned.h                                |  9 ++--
 fs/f2fs/file.c                                  |  8 ++--
 fs/f2fs/segment.c                               | 20 ++++----
 include/linux/audit.h                           |  2 +-
 include/linux/bitops.h                          |  1 -
 include/linux/bits.h                            | 38 ++++++++++++++-
 include/linux/gpio/regmap.h                     | 16 +++++++
 include/net/bonding.h                           |  1 +
 include/net/pkt_sched.h                         | 25 +++++++++-
 kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c                          |  6 +--
 kernel/events/callchain.c                       | 16 +++----
 kernel/events/core.c                            |  7 +--
 kernel/seccomp.c                                | 32 ++++++++++---
 net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c                          |  6 +++
 net/sched/sch_api.c                             | 10 ----
 net/sched/sch_hfsc.c                            | 16 -------
 net/sched/sch_qfq.c                             |  2 +-
 net/wireless/reg.c                              |  4 ++
 tools/sched_ext/scx_qmap.bpf.c                  | 18 ++++++-
 tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_join.sh |  3 +-
 67 files changed, 442 insertions(+), 164 deletions(-)

Re: [PATCH 6.12 00/40] 6.12.57-rc1 review

[Peter Schneider]

Am 31.10.2025 um 15:00 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.57 release.
> There are 40 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,
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Re: [PATCH 6.12 00/40] 6.12.57-rc1 review

[Dileep malepu]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2025 at 10:04 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.57 release.
> There are 40 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, 02 Nov 2025 14:00:34 +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-6.12.57-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


Build and Boot Report for 6.12.57-rc1

The kernel version 6.12.57-rc1 was built and boot-tested using qemu-x86_64
and qemu-arm64 with the default configuration (defconfig). The build and boot
processes completed successfully, and the kernel operated as expected
in the virtualized environments without any issues.

Build Details :
Builds : arm64, x86_64
Kernel Version: 6.12.57-rc1
Configuration : defconfig
Source: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git
Commit : c3010c2f692bb27dc44fd2318888446944f5846e

Tested-by: Dileep Malepu <dileep.debian@gmail.com>

Best regards,
Dileep Malepu

Re: [PATCH 6.12 00/40] 6.12.57-rc1 review

[Brett Mastbergen]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2025 at 10:04 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.57 release.
> There are 40 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, 02 Nov 2025 14:00:34 +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-6.12.57-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

Re: [PATCH 6.12 00/40] 6.12.57-rc1 review

[Jon Hunter]

On Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:00:53 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.57 release.
> There are 40 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, 02 Nov 2025 14:00:34 +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-6.12.57-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:	6.12.57-rc1-gc3010c2f692b
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

Re: [PATCH 6.12 00/40] 6.12.57-rc1 review

[Pavel Machek]

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Hi!

> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.57 release.
> There are 40 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.

CIP testing did not find any problems here:

https://gitlab.com/cip-project/cip-testing/linux-stable-rc-ci/-/tree/linux-6.12.y

Tested-by: Pavel Machek (CIP) <pavel@denx.de>

Best regards,
                                                                Pavel

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In cooperation with DENX Software Engineering GmbH, HRB 165235 Munich,
Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany

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Re: [PATCH 6.12 00/40] 6.12.57-rc1 review

[Shuah Khan]

On 10/31/25 08:00, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.57 release.
> There are 40 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, 02 Nov 2025 14:00:34 +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-6.12.57-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

Re: [PATCH 6.12 00/40] 6.12.57-rc1 review

[Naresh Kamboju]

On Fri, 31 Oct 2025 at 19:33, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.57 release.
> There are 40 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, 02 Nov 2025 14:00:34 +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-6.12.57-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


Results from Linaro’s test farm.
No regressions on arm64, arm, x86_64, and i386.

Tested-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@linaro.org>

## Build
* kernel: 6.12.57-rc1
* git: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git
* git commit: c3010c2f692bb27dc44fd2318888446944f5846e
* git describe: v6.12.56-41-gc3010c2f692b
* test details:
https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-6.12.y/build/v6.12.56-41-gc3010c2f692b

## Test Regressions (compared to v6.12.54-253-g426f7f601ca0)

## Metric Regressions (compared to v6.12.54-253-g426f7f601ca0)

## Test Fixes (compared to v6.12.54-253-g426f7f601ca0)

## Metric Fixes (compared to v6.12.54-253-g426f7f601ca0)

## Test result summary
total: 115140, pass: 97104, fail: 3754, skip: 13950, xfail: 332

## Build Summary
* arc: 5 total, 5 passed, 0 failed
* arm: 139 total, 137 passed, 2 failed
* arm64: 57 total, 50 passed, 6 failed, 1 skipped
* i386: 18 total, 18 passed, 0 failed
* mips: 34 total, 33 passed, 1 failed
* parisc: 4 total, 4 passed, 0 failed
* powerpc: 40 total, 39 passed, 1 failed
* riscv: 25 total, 24 passed, 1 failed
* s390: 22 total, 21 passed, 1 failed
* sh: 5 total, 5 passed, 0 failed
* sparc: 4 total, 3 passed, 1 failed
* x86_64: 49 total, 46 passed, 3 failed

## Test suites summary
* boot
* commands
* kselftest-arm64
* kselftest-breakpoints
* kselftest-capabilities
* kselftest-cgroup
* kselftest-clone3
* kselftest-core
* kselftest-cpu-hotplug
* kselftest-cpufreq
* kselftest-efivarfs
* kselftest-exec
* kselftest-fpu
* kselftest-ftrace
* kselftest-futex
* kselftest-gpio
* kselftest-intel_pstate
* kselftest-ipc
* kselftest-kcmp
* kselftest-kvm
* kselftest-livepatch
* kselftest-membarrier
* kselftest-memfd
* kselftest-mincore
* kselftest-mm
* kselftest-mqueue
* kselftest-net
* kselftest-net-mptcp
* kselftest-openat2
* kselftest-ptrace
* kselftest-rseq
* kselftest-rtc
* kselftest-seccomp
* kselftest-sigaltstack
* kselftest-size
* kselftest-tc-testing
* kselftest-timers
* kselftest-tmpfs
* kselftest-tpm2
* kselftest-user_events
* kselftest-vDSO
* kselftest-x86
* kunit
* kvm-unit-tests
* lava
* libgpiod
* libhugetlbfs
* log-parser-boot
* log-parser-build-clang
* log-parser-build-gcc
* log-parser-test
* ltp-capability
* ltp-commands
* ltp-containers
* ltp-controllers
* ltp-cpuhotplug
* ltp-crypto
* ltp-cve
* ltp-dio
* ltp-fcntl-locktests
* ltp-fs
* ltp-fs_bind
* ltp-fs_perms_simple
* ltp-hugetlb
* ltp-math
* ltp-mm
* ltp-nptl
* ltp-pty
* ltp-sched
* ltp-smoke
* ltp-syscalls
* ltp-tracing
* perf
* rcutorture
* rt-tests-cyclicdeadline
* rt-tests-pi-stress
* rt-tests-pmqtest
* rt-tests-rt-migrate-test
* rt-tests-signaltest

--
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https://lkft.linaro.org

Re: [PATCH 6.12 00/40] 6.12.57-rc1 review

[Ron Economos]

On 10/31/25 07:00, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.57 release.
> There are 40 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, 02 Nov 2025 14:00:34 +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-6.12.57-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>

Re: [PATCH 6.12 00/40] 6.12.57-rc1 review

[Brett A C Sheffield]

# Librecast Test Results

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

CPU/kernel: Linux auntie 6.12.57-rc1-gc3010c2f692b #126 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sat Nov  1 19:20:43 -00 2025 x86_64 AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

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

Re: [PATCH 6.12 00/40] 6.12.57-rc1 review

[Miguel Ojeda]

On Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:00:53 +0100 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.57 release.
> There are 40 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, 02 Nov 2025 14:00:34 +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

Re: [PATCH 6.12 00/40] 6.12.57-rc1 review

[Florian Fainelli]

On 10/31/25 07:00, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.57 release.
> There are 40 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, 02 Nov 2025 14:00:34 +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-6.12.57-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

Re: [PATCH 6.12 00/40] 6.12.57-rc1 review

[Guenter Roeck]

Hi Greg,

On 10/31/25 07:00, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.57 release.
> There are 40 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, 02 Nov 2025 14:00:34 +0000.
> Anything received after that time might be too late.
>
...
> Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
>      perf: Use current->flags & PF_KTHREAD|PF_USER_WORKER instead of current->mm == NULL
> 
This patch triggers a crash in one of our stress tests.

The problem is also seen in 6.18-rc5, so it is not LTS specific.

Guenter

Re: [PATCH 6.12 00/40] 6.12.57-rc1 review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 07:02:30PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On 10/31/25 07:00, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.57 release.
> > There are 40 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, 02 Nov 2025 14:00:34 +0000.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > 
> ...
> > Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> >      perf: Use current->flags & PF_KTHREAD|PF_USER_WORKER instead of current->mm == NULL
> > 
> This patch triggers a crash in one of our stress tests.
> 
> The problem is also seen in 6.18-rc5, so it is not LTS specific.

Great, we are bug compatible!  :)