[PATCH 6.12 00/24] 6.12.72-rc1 review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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(-)