From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7247F19CC28; Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:18:39 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1771258719; cv=none; b=A//9KR8R5zoBIYTfkrv1hOpa1hRqrEiernoOtclVYrrxATH3Y9dZjwin9ZJZti+qdm+h7inm80rNbM4aF9iDkousfRKoZeuDq4WZhTr2IYY7+gM3iYpplnV/b5TUrsOGPacQJFiJ9I7IbmHrQ5j01kXHxeiNMhNZHka0PjgzebU= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1771258719; c=relaxed/simple; bh=XuwBUvewn5Nr7w/AYApzSlHayX2+sqFM+PB1J1MfmjQ=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:MIME-Version; b=eDcRU4B6NqGsXs6ZDy8RqmldiBJeBfyKkIgDZJCuB9kKCHVYerXpg9uac6q987J918+DX/2NE68IXcdcWmBmvd39PxMmMc3Tqadj9F9jC0+PwhDP8voZ4JNTTvNEqb0N5pw74KpqD4C8BaZQ3yQ1r01eIXzgsEAGEzzgbsxQKgQ= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=o+xOsgue; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="o+xOsgue" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9FD56C116C6; Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:18:38 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1771258719; bh=XuwBUvewn5Nr7w/AYApzSlHayX2+sqFM+PB1J1MfmjQ=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:From; b=o+xOsgueCZPs3SEQ19ZIGY+piYfSKQk/nwgtBiqPZSEHxoFg6R5yugtlOQGYykoao uUKW/gmZ1/e6KwV9xj6x3dLgnlxnhLT3nksaAIdITHGD2tcrtfPuY85EQ1r+JIEye0 a2KdiqQnVwx9b4oF2oVhNru//0twbd79syrZsJkA= From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: lwn@lwn.net, jslaby@suse.cz, Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Linux 6.12.73 Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:18:34 +0100 Message-ID: <2026021612-paddle-directed-be1c@gregkh> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.53.0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I'm announcing the release of the 6.12.73 kernel. If your system did not boot in 6.12.72, then you should upgrade, this reverts one problematic commit. If the last stable release worked just fine, no need to upgrade. The updated 6.12.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-6.12.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=summary thanks, greg k-h ------------ Makefile | 2 +- drivers/base/base.h | 9 --------- drivers/base/bus.c | 2 +- drivers/base/dd.c | 2 +- 4 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) Greg Kroah-Hartman (2): Revert "driver core: enforce device_lock for driver_match_device()" Linux 6.12.73