Re: 6.12-stable series inclusion

Jens Axboe
2026-04-03T11:51:10Z

On 4/3/26 5:47 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 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!

That was quick, thanks Greg!

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Jens Axboe