Re: 6.12-stable series inclusion

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-03T11:48:57Z

On Fri, Apr 03, 2026 at 05:28:01AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 6.18 change how ring selected buffers are handled for io_uring, in an
> attempt to harden that feature. It'd be nice to have this in 6.12 as
> well, as it's a long term release. The actual hardening series isn't
> that large, 12 patches, but it depends on a previous smaller series as
> well. On top of these two series are a few kbuf related fixes that
> either ended up in mainline as fixes the former two series, or just
> fixes that haven't been backported to 6.12-stable yet.
>
> Apologize for the big series, but it's always better to keep the stable
> bases closer to current upstream than it is to diverge them and end up
> with different bugs in -stable than in upstream.
>
> On top of that, this actually kills a lot more code than it adds, which
> is always a good thing!
>
> 8 files changed, 290 insertions(+), 379 deletions(-)
>
> Please apply, thanks.

All now queued up, thanks!

greg k-h