[PATCH 6.12 00/77] 6.12.106-rc1 review
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Aug 25 2026 - 09:46:00 EST
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.106 release.
There are 77 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 Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:25:02 +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-6.12.106-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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Linux 6.12.106-rc1
Laxman Acharya Padhya <acharyalaxman8848@xxxxxxxxx>
Bluetooth: hci_aml: validate firmware segment lengths
Ali Ahmet Memis <ali@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Bluetooth: ISO: do not force BT_LISTEN after a failed BIG sync
Laxman Acharya Padhya <acharyalaxman8848@xxxxxxxxx>
Bluetooth: hci_event: validate LE Set CIG Parameters response
Chengfeng Ye <nicoyip.dev@xxxxxxxxx>
Bluetooth: hci_event: fix LE list UAF on reset
Michael Bommarito <michael.bommarito@xxxxxxxxx>
HID: hyperv: validate initial device info bounds
Haoxiang Li <haoxiang_li2024@xxxxxxx>
HID: sensor: custom: Fix use-after-free in enable_sensor
Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
HID: core: fix number/pointer type confusion on long items
Jiangshan Yi <yijiangshan@xxxxxxxxxx>
HID: nintendo: stop device IO before hid_hw_stop on probe failure
Jiangshan Yi <yijiangshan@xxxxxxxxxx>
HID: nintendo: register input device after capabilities are set
Ibrahim Hashimov <security@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
HID: nintendo: fix out-of-bounds read in joycon_ctlr_read_handler()
Donglin Lyu <DongLin_Lyu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Input: atkbd - skip deactivate for HONOR ZQC-P
Cryolitia PukNgae <cryolitia.pukngae@xxxxxxxxx>
Input: atkbd - skip deactivate for HONOR FMB-P's internal keyboard
Shardul Bankar <shardul.b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
mptcp: pm: fix memory leak from alloc-during-teardown race
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
ipv4: start using dst_dev_rcu()
Xiang Mei (Microsoft) <xmei5@xxxxxxx>
xfrm: fix sk_dst_cache double-free in xfrm_user_policy()
Anand Khoje <anand.a.khoje@xxxxxxxxxx>
net/ionic: avoid OOB TX partner lookup for hwstamp RXQ
Baul Lee <baul.lee@xxxxxxxx>
HID: core: fix OOB read of field->usage in hid_set_field()
Lee Jones <lee@xxxxxxxxxx>
HID: magicmouse: Prevent out-of-bounds (OOB) read during DOUBLE_REPORT_ID
Jose Villaseñor Montfort <pepemontfort@xxxxxxxxx>
HID: magicmouse: do not keep a stale msc->input if no input is claimed
Christopher Kodama <ckhordiasma@xxxxxxxxx>
HID: magicmouse: re-enable multitouch after reset-resume
Andrei Fed <andfed.net@xxxxxxxxx>
HID: magicmouse: fix battery reporting for Bluetooth Magic Trackpad USB-C
Maarten Lankhorst <dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
drm/xe: Fix DPT allocation paths.
Dawid Wróbel <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
ASoC: codecs: lpass-tx-macro: Fix enum kcontrol accesses
Qing Luo <luoqing@xxxxxxxxxx>
mptcp: pm: fix data race in add_addr timer callback
Bryam Vargas <hexlabsecurity@xxxxxxxxx>
selinux: require a class's permission values to cover its permission count
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
nvmet-tcp: Do not WARN on remotely-controlled oversized SGL allocations
Ibrahim Hashimov <security@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
nvmet-tcp: bound SGL data length before allocating command buffers
Jiang HongHui <jiang_hh2019@xxxxxxx>
nvmet-fc: fix invalid free in LS IOD error path
Bryam Vargas <hexlabsecurity@xxxxxxxxx>
nvmet-auth: zero the AUTH_RECEIVE response buffer
Luxiao Xu <rakukuip@xxxxxxxxx>
ipv6: fix use-after-free in ip6_finish_output2()
Yong Wang <edragain@xxxxxxx>
ipv4: reject undersized MTUs in ip_do_fragment()
Linmao Li <lilinmao@xxxxxxxxxx>
Input: byd - synchronize timer deletion before freeing private data
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
ndisc: ndisc_send_redirect() cleanup
Linmao Li <lilinmao@xxxxxxxxxx>
nfc: nci: free destination parameters when closing a connection
Samuel Page <sam@xxxxxxxx>
nfc: nci: fix uninit-value in the RF discover/activated NTF handlers
Samuel Page <sam@xxxxxxxx>
nfc: nci: fix out-of-bounds write in nci_target_auto_activated()
Doruk Tan Ozturk <doruk@xxxxxxx>
nfc: st21nfca: validate ATR_REQ length against the received frame
Xu Rao <raoxu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
nfc: pn533: purge fragmented skbs during cleanup
Doruk Tan Ozturk <doruk@xxxxxxx>
nfc: llcp: reject PDUs shorter than the LLCP header
Muhammad Bilal <meatuni001@xxxxxxxxx>
nfc: llcp: fix OOB read and u8 offset wrap in TLV parsers
Doruk Tan Ozturk <doruk@xxxxxxx>
nfc: llcp: bound the connect_sn TLV walk to the skb
Pengpeng Hou <pengpeng@xxxxxxxxxxx>
nfc: microread: validate target discovery payload lengths
Bryam Vargas <hexlabsecurity@xxxxxxxxx>
nfc: fdp: bound the device-reported read length and fix an skb leak
Doruk Tan Ozturk <doruk@xxxxxxx>
nfc: digital: clamp SENSF_RES length to the destination buffer
Pavitra Jha <jhapavitra98@xxxxxxxxx>
libceph: fix OOB read in decode_watchers() via missing bounds check
Hongling Zeng <zenghongling@xxxxxxxxxx>
xfs: validate attr entry pointer before field access
Guanghui Yang <3497809730@xxxxxx>
ext4: propagate errors from fast commit range replay
Guanghui Yang <3497809730@xxxxxx>
ext4: clear error before retrying inode xattr space fallback
Matthias Goergens <matthias.goergens@xxxxxxxxx>
ext4: stop retrying saturated xattr cache entries
Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
kcov: fix data corruption and race conditions on PREEMPT_RT
Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
null_blk: fix UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds when zone_size is 0 or overflows
Ian Bridges <icb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
ocfs2: fix missing metadata reservation for large xattrs
Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
ALSA: dummy: Check card index validity at probe
Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
xfs: don't livelock in scrub on a circular unlinked list
Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
xfs: hoist per-bucket unlinked list check to helper
Ibrahim Hashimov <security@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
xfs: bounds-check buffer log item's dirty bitmap
Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
xfs: don't use a xfs_log_iovec for ri_buf in log recovery
Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
xfs: namespace the maximum length/refcount symbols
Luca Fresi <luca.fresi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
serial: sc16is7xx: enable THRI before filling TX FIFO
Hugo Villeneuve <hvilleneuve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
serial: sc16is7xx: use guards for simple mutex locks
Hugo Villeneuve <hvilleneuve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
serial: sc16is7xx: rename EFR mutex with generic name
Fan Wu <fanwu01@xxxxxxxxxx>
serial: amba-pl011: synchronize DMA teardown
Koichiro Den <den@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
NTB: ntb_netdev: Preserve RX queue depth on allocation failure
Ryan Wilbur <rwilbur633@xxxxxxxxx>
serial: 8250_of: clear stuck empty-FIFO RX-timeout on LPC32xx
Zhiling Zou <zhilinz@xxxxxxxxxx>
inet: frags: publish queues before arming timer
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
inet: frags: save a pair of atomic operations in reassembly
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
inet: frags: change inet_frag_kill() to defer refcount updates
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
ipv4: frags: remove ipq_put()
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
inet: frags: add inet_frag_putn() helper
David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
netfs: Fix potential UAF in netfs_unlock_abandoned_read_pages()
Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <nobuhiro.iwamatsu.x90@mail.toshiba>
hwmon: (ltc4286) Fix symbol namespace of MODULE_IMPORT_NS()
Jordan Rhee <jordanrhee@xxxxxxxxxx>
gve: fix zero-length skb frag with header-split
Junjie Cao <junjie.cao@xxxxxxxxx>
gpio: ml-ioh: use raw_spinlock_t for the register lock
Griffin Kroah-Hartman <griffin@xxxxxxxxx>
rndis_host: add overflow check in rndis_rx_fixup()
Geoffrey D. Bennett <g@xxxxx>
ALSA: scarlett2: Use a private URB for the notification endpoint
Ali Ahmet Memis <ali@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Bluetooth: RFCOMM: take rfcomm_mutex for the deferred setup accept
Steffen Persvold <spersvold@xxxxxxxxx>
PCI: host-generic: Fix NULL pointer dereference on 32-bit CAM systems
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +-
drivers/block/null_blk/zoned.c | 10 ++-
drivers/bluetooth/hci_aml.c | 18 ++++-
drivers/gpio/gpio-ml-ioh.c | 36 ++++-----
drivers/gpu/drm/xe/display/xe_fb_pin.c | 24 ++----
drivers/hid/hid-core.c | 11 ++-
drivers/hid/hid-hyperv.c | 27 ++++++-
drivers/hid/hid-input.c | 3 +
drivers/hid/hid-magicmouse.c | 64 +++++++++++++++-
drivers/hid/hid-nintendo.c | 22 ++++--
drivers/hid/hid-sensor-custom.c | 21 ++---
drivers/hwmon/pmbus/ltc4286.c | 2 +-
drivers/input/keyboard/atkbd.c | 23 +++++-
drivers/input/mouse/byd.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_rx_dqo.c | 6 ++
drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_lif.c | 17 +++-
drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_txrx.c | 7 +-
drivers/net/ntb_netdev.c | 15 ++--
drivers/net/usb/rndis_host.c | 6 +-
drivers/nfc/fdp/i2c.c | 27 +++++++
drivers/nfc/microread/microread.c | 31 +++++++-
drivers/nfc/pn533/pn533.c | 1 +
drivers/nfc/st21nfca/dep.c | 3 +
drivers/nvme/target/fabrics-cmd-auth.c | 2 +-
drivers/nvme/target/fc.c | 2 +-
drivers/nvme/target/tcp.c | 18 ++++-
drivers/pci/controller/pci-host-generic.c | 11 +--
drivers/pci/ecam.c | 13 ++++
drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_of.c | 41 ++++++++++
drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c | 8 +-
drivers/tty/serial/sc16is7xx.c | 40 +++++-----
fs/ext4/fast_commit.c | 16 +++-
fs/ext4/xattr.c | 7 +-
fs/netfs/buffered_read.c | 4 +-
fs/netfs/read_collect.c | 2 +-
fs/netfs/read_retry.c | 2 +-
fs/ocfs2/xattr.c | 18 +++--
fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_leaf.c | 14 ++++
fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_format.h | 4 +-
fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_log_recover.h | 4 +-
fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_refcount.c | 18 ++---
fs/xfs/scrub/agheader.c | 94 +++++++++++++++++------
fs/xfs/scrub/agheader_repair.c | 17 +++-
fs/xfs/scrub/refcount.c | 2 +-
fs/xfs/scrub/refcount_repair.c | 4 +-
fs/xfs/xfs_attr_item.c | 32 ++++----
fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_item.c | 18 ++---
fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item.c | 8 +-
fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item.h | 2 +-
fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item_recover.c | 95 ++++++++++++++---------
fs/xfs/xfs_dquot_item_recover.c | 20 ++---
fs/xfs/xfs_exchmaps_item.c | 8 +-
fs/xfs/xfs_extfree_item.c | 43 ++++++-----
fs/xfs/xfs_icreate_item.c | 2 +-
fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.c | 6 +-
fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.h | 4 +-
fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item_recover.c | 26 +++----
fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.c | 16 ++--
fs/xfs/xfs_refcount_item.c | 16 ++--
fs/xfs/xfs_rmap_item.c | 16 ++--
fs/xfs/xfs_trans.h | 1 -
include/linux/netfs.h | 2 +-
include/linux/pci-ecam.h | 3 +
include/linux/sched.h | 8 ++
include/net/inet_frag.h | 6 +-
include/net/ipv6_frag.h | 5 +-
kernel/kcov.c | 90 +++++++++++-----------
lib/Kconfig.debug | 5 +-
net/bluetooth/hci_event.c | 8 +-
net/bluetooth/iso.c | 30 ++++++--
net/bluetooth/rfcomm/core.c | 24 +++++-
net/ceph/osd_client.c | 5 +-
net/ieee802154/6lowpan/reassembly.c | 27 ++++---
net/ipv4/icmp.c | 6 +-
net/ipv4/inet_fragment.c | 33 ++++----
net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c | 54 ++++++-------
net/ipv4/ip_output.c | 4 +
net/ipv4/ipmr.c | 2 +-
net/ipv4/route.c | 4 +-
net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 2 +
net/ipv6/ndisc.c | 8 +-
net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_conntrack_reasm.c | 27 ++++---
net/ipv6/reassembly.c | 29 +++----
net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c | 9 ++-
net/mptcp/pm_userspace.c | 7 +-
net/mptcp/protocol.c | 9 +++
net/mptcp/protocol.h | 7 +-
net/nfc/digital_technology.c | 2 +
net/nfc/llcp_commands.c | 18 ++++-
net/nfc/llcp_core.c | 15 +++-
net/nfc/nci/ntf.c | 10 ++-
net/nfc/nci/rsp.c | 1 +
net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c | 4 +-
security/selinux/ss/policydb.c | 57 ++++++++++++--
sound/drivers/dummy.c | 6 ++
sound/soc/codecs/lpass-tx-macro.c | 4 +-
sound/usb/mixer.c | 6 ++
sound/usb/mixer.h | 2 +
sound/usb/mixer_scarlett2.c | 98 +++++++++++++++---------
99 files changed, 1128 insertions(+), 543 deletions(-)