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1/40net/sched: sch_qfq: Fix null-deref in agg_dequeueinclude/net/pkt_sched.h net/sched/sch_api.c net/sched/sch_hfsc.c +1 more+25 -280 replies
2/40audit: record fanotify event regardless of presence of rulesinclude/linux/audit.h+1 -10 replies
3/40perf/x86/intel: Add ICL_FIXED_0_ADAPTIVE bit into INTEL_FIXED_BITS_MASKarch/x86/events/intel/core.c arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event.h arch/x86/kvm/pmu.h+9 -90 replies
4/40perf: Use current->flags & PF_KTHREAD|PF_USER_WORKER instead of current->mm == NULLkernel/events/callchain.c kernel/events/core.c+5 -50 replies
5/40perf: Have get_perf_callchain() return NULL if crosstask and user are setkernel/events/callchain.c+5 -50 replies
6/40perf: Skip user unwind if the task is a kernel threadkernel/events/core.c+2 -10 replies
7/40seccomp: passthrough uprobe systemcall without filteringkernel/seccomp.c+25 -70 replies
8/40x86/bugs: Report correct retbleed mitigation statusarch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c+3 -10 replies
9/40x86/bugs: Fix reporting of LFENCE retpolinearch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c+1 -40 replies
10/40EDAC/mc_sysfs: Increase legacy channel support to 16drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c+24 -00 replies
11/40cpuset: Use new excpus for nocpu error check when enabling root partitionkernel/cgroup/cpuset.c+1 -50 replies
12/40btrfs: abort transaction on specific error places when walking log treefs/btrfs/tree-log.c+28 -50 replies
13/40btrfs: abort transaction in the process_one_buffer() log tree walk callbackfs/btrfs/tree-log.c+16 -40 replies
14/40btrfs: zoned: return error from btrfs_zone_finish_endio()fs/btrfs/inode.c fs/btrfs/zoned.c fs/btrfs/zoned.h+15 -90 replies
15/40btrfs: zoned: refine extent allocator hint selectionfs/btrfs/extent-tree.c+4 -20 replies
16/40btrfs: scrub: replace max_t()/min_t() with clamp() in scrub_throttle_dev_io()fs/btrfs/scrub.c+1 -20 replies
17/40btrfs: always drop log root tree reference in btrfs_replay_log()fs/btrfs/disk-io.c fs/btrfs/tree-log.c+1 -20 replies
18/40btrfs: use level argument in log tree walk callback replay_one_buffer()fs/btrfs/tree-log.c+3 -50 replies
19/40btrfs: abort transaction if we fail to update inode in log replay dir fixupfs/btrfs/tree-log.c+2 -00 replies
20/40btrfs: tree-checker: add inode extref checksfs/btrfs/tree-checker.c+37 -00 replies
21/40btrfs: use smp_mb__after_atomic() when forcing COW in create_pending_snapshot()fs/btrfs/transaction.c+1 -10 replies
22/40sched_ext: Make qmap dump operation non-destructivetools/sched_ext/scx_qmap.bpf.c+17 -10 replies
23/40arch: Add the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS to all the asm-offsets.carch/alpha/kernel/asm-offsets.c arch/arc/kernel/asm-offsets.c arch/arm/kernel/asm-offsets.c +17 more+24 -00 replies
24/40docs: kdoc: handle the obsolescensce of docutils.ErrorString()Documentation/sphinx/kernel_abi.py Documentation/sphinx/kernel_feat.py Documentation/sphinx/kernel_include.py +1 more+13 -50 replies
25/40selftests: mptcp: disable add_addr retrans in endpoint_teststools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_join.sh+1 -00 replies
26/40selftests: mptcp: join: mark delete re-add signal as skipped if not supportedtools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_join.sh+1 -10 replies
27/40mptcp: pm: in-kernel: C-flag: handle late ADD_ADDRnet/mptcp/pm_netlink.c+6 -00 replies
28/40f2fs: fix to avoid panic once fallocation fails for pinfilefs/f2fs/file.c fs/f2fs/segment.c+15 -130 replies
29/40wifi: cfg80211: Add missing lock in cfg80211_check_and_end_cac()net/wireless/reg.c+4 -00 replies
30/40bonding: return detailed error when loading native XDP failsdrivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c+4 -10 replies
31/40bonding: check xdp prog when set bond modedrivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c include/net/bonding.h+8 -40 replies
32/40bits: add comments and newlines to #if, #else and #endif directivesinclude/linux/bits.h+6 -20 replies
33/40bits: introduce fixed-type GENMASK_U*()include/linux/bitops.h include/linux/bits.h+30 -10 replies
34/40gpio: regmap: Allow to allocate regmap-irq devicedrivers/gpio/gpio-regmap.c include/linux/gpio/regmap.h+38 -20 replies
35/40gpio: regmap: add the .fixed_direction_output configuration parameterdrivers/gpio/gpio-regmap.c include/linux/gpio/regmap.h+29 -20 replies
36/40gpio: idio-16: Define fixed direction of the GPIO linesdrivers/gpio/gpio-idio-16.c+5 -00 replies
37/40iommu/vt-d: Avoid use of NULL after WARN_ON_ONCEdrivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c+4 -30 replies
38/40wifi: ath12k: fix read pointer after free in ath12k_mac_assign_vif_to_vdev()drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c+3 -30 replies
39/40udmabuf: fix a buf size overflow issue during udmabuf creationdrivers/dma-buf/udmabuf.c+1 -10 replies
40/40sfc: fix NULL dereferences in ef100_process_design_param()drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ef100_netdev.c drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ef100_nic.c+24 -290 replies

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Cover letter [PATCH 6.12 00/40] 6.12.57-rc1 review

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

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Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

    Linux 6.12.57-rc1

Edward Cree <[email protected]>
sfc: fix NULL dereferences in ef100_process_design_param()

Xiaogang Chen <[email protected]>
udmabuf: fix a buf size overflow issue during udmabuf creation

Aditya Kumar Singh <[email protected]>
wifi: ath12k: fix read pointer after free in ath12k_mac_assign_vif_to_vdev()

Kees Bakker <[email protected]>
iommu/vt-d: Avoid use of NULL after WARN_ON_ONCE

William Breathitt Gray <[email protected]>
gpio: idio-16: Define fixed direction of the GPIO lines

Ioana Ciornei <[email protected]>
gpio: regmap: add the .fixed_direction_output configuration parameter

Mathieu Dubois-Briand <[email protected]>
gpio: regmap: Allow to allocate regmap-irq device

Vincent Mailhol <[email protected]>
bits: introduce fixed-type GENMASK_U*()

Vincent Mailhol <[email protected]>
bits: add comments and newlines to #if, #else and #endif directives

Wang Liang <[email protected]>
bonding: check xdp prog when set bond mode

Hangbin Liu <[email protected]>
bonding: return detailed error when loading native XDP fails

Alexander Wetzel <[email protected]>

    wifi: cfg80211: Add missing lock in cfg80211_check_and_end_cac()

Chao Yu <[email protected]>
f2fs: fix to avoid panic once fallocation fails for pinfile

Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <[email protected]>
mptcp: pm: in-kernel: C-flag: handle late ADD_ADDR

Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <[email protected]>
selftests: mptcp: join: mark 'delete re-add signal' as skipped if not supported

Geliang Tang <[email protected]>
selftests: mptcp: disable add_addr retrans in endpoint_tests

Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
docs: kdoc: handle the obsolescensce of docutils.ErrorString()

Menglong Dong <[email protected]>
arch: Add the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS to all the asm-offsets.c

Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
sched_ext: Make qmap dump operation non-destructive

Filipe Manana <[email protected]>
btrfs: use smp_mb__after_atomic() when forcing COW in create_pending_snapshot()

Qu Wenruo <[email protected]>
btrfs: tree-checker: add inode extref checks

Filipe Manana <[email protected]>
btrfs: abort transaction if we fail to update inode in log replay dir fixup

Filipe Manana <[email protected]>
btrfs: use level argument in log tree walk callback replay_one_buffer()

Filipe Manana <[email protected]>
btrfs: always drop log root tree reference in btrfs_replay_log()

Thorsten Blum <[email protected]>
btrfs: scrub: replace max_t()/min_t() with clamp() in scrub_throttle_dev_io()

Naohiro Aota <[email protected]>
btrfs: zoned: refine extent allocator hint selection

Johannes Thumshirn <[email protected]>
btrfs: zoned: return error from btrfs_zone_finish_endio()

Filipe Manana <[email protected]>
btrfs: abort transaction in the process_one_buffer() log tree walk callback

Filipe Manana <[email protected]>
btrfs: abort transaction on specific error places when walking log tree

Chen Ridong <[email protected]>
cpuset: Use new excpus for nocpu error check when enabling root partition

Avadhut Naik <[email protected]>
EDAC/mc_sysfs: Increase legacy channel support to 16

David Kaplan <[email protected]>
x86/bugs: Fix reporting of LFENCE retpoline

David Kaplan <[email protected]>
x86/bugs: Report correct retbleed mitigation status

Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
seccomp: passthrough uprobe systemcall without filtering

Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
perf: Skip user unwind if the task is a kernel thread

Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
perf: Have get_perf_callchain() return NULL if crosstask and user are set

Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>

    perf: Use current->flags & PF_KTHREAD|PF_USER_WORKER instead of current->mm == NULL

Dapeng Mi <[email protected]>
perf/x86/intel: Add ICL_FIXED_0_ADAPTIVE bit into INTEL_FIXED_BITS_MASK

Richard Guy Briggs <[email protected]>
audit: record fanotify event regardless of presence of rules

Xiang Mei <[email protected]>
net/sched: sch_qfq: Fix null-deref in agg_dequeue

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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(-)