[PATCH 7.2 00/82] 7.2.1-rc1 review

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Date: Tue Aug 25 2026 - 09:48:27 EST


This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 7.2.1 release.
There are 82 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/v7.x/stable-review/patch-7.2.1-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-7.2.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 7.2.1-rc1

Laxman Acharya Padhya <acharyalaxman8848@xxxxxxxxx>
Bluetooth: hci_aml: validate firmware segment lengths

Ali Ahmet Memis <ali@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Bluetooth: MGMT: reject HCI_CMD_SYNC params_len above 255

Ali Ahmet Memis <ali@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Bluetooth: ISO: zero the sockaddr before returning it in getname

Ali Ahmet Memis <ali@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Bluetooth: ISO: do not force BT_LISTEN after a failed BIG sync

Chengfeng Ye <nicoyip.dev@xxxxxxxxx>
Bluetooth: hci_sync: Fix accept list UAF during suspend

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

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
drm/xe: Don't hand out the flat CCS storage as usable VRAM

Jose Villaseñor Montfort <pepemontfort@xxxxxxxxx>
HID: input: read battery capacity from its actual report offset

Michael Bommarito <michael.bommarito@xxxxxxxxx>
HID: hyperv: validate initial device info bounds

Ibrahim Hashimov <security@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
HID: uclogic: fix use-after-free of inrange_timer on remove

Haoxiang Li <haoxiang_li2024@xxxxxxx>
HID: sensor: custom: Fix use-after-free in enable_sensor

Raman Varabets <kernel-linux-20260610-80b7ab08@xxxxxxxxxxx>
HID: ft260: fix stack-use-after-return write in I2C read race

Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
HID: core: fix number/pointer type confusion on long items

Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
HID: rapoo: fix missing hid_is_usb() check

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()

Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
HID: huawei: fix missing hid_is_usb() check

Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
HID: asus: fix missing hid_is_usb() check

Anand Khoje <anand.a.khoje@xxxxxxxxxx>
net/ionic: avoid OOB TX partner lookup for hwstamp RXQ

Baul Lee <baul.lee@xxxxxxxx>
HID: pidff: fix OOB write when hid->inputs is empty

Baul Lee <baul.lee@xxxxxxxx>
HID: core: fix OOB read of field->usage in hid_set_field()

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

Jose Villaseñor Montfort <pepemontfort@xxxxxxxxx>
HID: magicmouse: prevent unbounded recursion in magicmouse_raw_event()

Andrei Fed <andfed.net@xxxxxxxxx>
HID: magicmouse: fix battery reporting for Bluetooth Magic Trackpad USB-C

Yifei Gao <gyf161023@xxxxxxxxx>
nvmet: pci-epf: put CQ ref on create_cq mapping failure

Shin'ichiro Kawasaki <shinichiro.kawasaki@xxxxxxx>
nvmet: pci-epf: fix use-after-free in nvmet_pci_epf_exec_iod_work()

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

Griffin Kroah-Hartman <griffin@xxxxxxxxx>
dmaengine: fsl-edma: Add error handling for devm_kasprintf

Griffin Kroah-Hartman <griffin@xxxxxxxxx>
mailbox: mchp-ipc-sbi: Add null check for devm_kasprintf()

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>
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()

Bryam Vargas <hexlabsecurity@xxxxxxxxx>
nfc: nci: add data_len bound checks to activation parameter extractors

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

Yun Zhou <yun.zhou@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
xfs: restore nofs context unconditionally in xfs_trans_roll

Hongling Zeng <zenghongling@xxxxxxxxxx>
xfs: validate attr entry pointer before field access

Jiazi Liu <jiazi.liu1984@xxxxxxxxx>
ext4: fix incorrect function call when initializing s_resgid

Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
ext4: don't enable DAX on new encrypted files

Guanghui Yang <3497809730@xxxxxx>
ext4: propagate errors from fast commit range replay

Jia Zhu <zhujia.zj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
ext4: avoid tail write_begin walk for uptodate folios

Guanghui Yang <3497809730@xxxxxx>
ext4: clear error before retrying inode xattr space fallback

Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxx>
nilfs2: reject invalid block index in GC ioctl

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

Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
io_uring: defer eventfd signaling when queued from a wakeup handler

Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
io_uring/uring_cmd: don't skip completion for a synchronous multishot cmd

Ali Ahmet Memis <ali@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
io_uring/rsrc: fix folio size overflow in io_vec_fill_bvec()

Vishnu Razdan <vrazdan@xxxxxxxxxx>
io_uring/io-wq: fix worker accounting when canceling creation callbacks

Woraphat Khiaodaeng <worapat.kd2@xxxxxxxxx>
io_uring/cmd: fix iovec leak when the async cmd is not recycled

Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
ALSA: dummy: Check card index validity at probe

Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
io_uring/futex: only mark private futex waits as inflight

Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
io_uring/futex: don't mark futex wake requests as inflight

Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@xxxxxxxxx>
futex: Fix race on the initial mm->futex.phash.ref allocation

Felix Hoffmann <f3lix.dev@xxxxxx>
futex: Avoid private hash use-after-free on final put

Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxx>
futex/pi: Plug private futex exec() race

Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxx>
futex: Sanitize and document task_struct::futex::state transitions

Kyle Zeng <kylebot@xxxxxxxxxx>
futex/pi: Reject cross-mm private futex owners

Guixin Liu <kanie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
nvmet: fix NULL pointer dereference in nvmet_execute_identify_nslist()

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

Geoffrey D. Bennett <g@xxxxx>
ALSA: FCP: Use a private URB for the notification endpoint

Peiyang He <peiyang_he@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
iommu/iommufd: Fix NULL pointer deref in iommufd_ioas_change_process when racing with iopt_map_file_pages

Shameer Kolothum <skolothumtho@xxxxxxxxxx>
iommu/tegra241-cmdqv: Fix CMD_SYNC use-after-free on teardown

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/dma/fsl-edma-main.c | 2 +
drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_vram.c | 23 ++++-
drivers/hid/Kconfig | 1 +
drivers/hid/hid-asus.c | 2 +-
drivers/hid/hid-core.c | 11 +-
drivers/hid/hid-ft260.c | 25 ++++-
drivers/hid/hid-huawei.c | 5 +-
drivers/hid/hid-hyperv.c | 27 ++++-
drivers/hid/hid-input.c | 20 +++-
drivers/hid/hid-magicmouse.c | 73 +++++++++++--
drivers/hid/hid-nintendo.c | 22 ++--
drivers/hid/hid-rapoo.c | 2 +-
drivers/hid/hid-sensor-custom.c | 21 ++--
drivers/hid/hid-uclogic-core.c | 12 ++-
drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-pidff.c | 13 ++-
drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.c | 2 +
drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/arm-smmu-v3.h | 1 +
drivers/iommu/arm/arm-smmu-v3/tegra241-cmdqv.c | 15 ++-
drivers/iommu/iommufd/ioas.c | 4 +
drivers/mailbox/mailbox-mchp-ipc-sbi.c | 2 +
drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_lif.c | 17 ++-
drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_txrx.c | 7 +-
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/admin-cmd.c | 2 +-
drivers/nvme/target/fabrics-cmd-auth.c | 2 +-
drivers/nvme/target/fc.c | 2 +-
drivers/nvme/target/pci-epf.c | 10 +-
drivers/nvme/target/tcp.c | 19 +++-
drivers/pci/controller/pci-host-generic.c | 11 +-
drivers/pci/ecam.c | 13 +++
fs/exec.c | 7 +-
fs/ext4/crypto.c | 40 ++++----
fs/ext4/fast_commit.c | 16 ++-
fs/ext4/ialloc.c | 4 +
fs/ext4/inode.c | 11 +-
fs/ext4/super.c | 2 +-
fs/ext4/xattr.c | 7 +-
fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c | 20 +++-
fs/ocfs2/xattr.c | 18 ++--
fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_leaf.c | 14 +++
fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c | 16 +--
include/linux/futex.h | 2 +
include/linux/hid.h | 2 +
include/linux/io_uring_types.h | 8 ++
include/linux/pci-ecam.h | 3 +
include/linux/sched.h | 8 ++
io_uring/eventfd.c | 8 +-
io_uring/eventfd.h | 2 +-
io_uring/futex.c | 32 ++++--
io_uring/futex.h | 1 +
io_uring/io-wq.c | 9 +-
io_uring/io_uring.c | 2 +-
io_uring/opdef.c | 2 +-
io_uring/poll.c | 23 +++--
io_uring/rsrc.c | 2 +-
io_uring/tw.c | 2 +-
io_uring/uring_cmd.c | 8 +-
io_uring/waitid.c | 2 +-
kernel/futex/core.c | 96 +++++++++++------
kernel/futex/pi.c | 125 +++++++++++++++++------
kernel/kcov.c | 90 ++++++++--------
lib/Kconfig.debug | 5 +-
net/bluetooth/hci_event.c | 8 +-
net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c | 46 +++++++--
net/bluetooth/iso.c | 32 ++++--
net/bluetooth/mgmt.c | 8 ++
net/bluetooth/rfcomm/core.c | 24 ++++-
net/ipv4/ip_output.c | 4 +
net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 2 +
net/nfc/digital_technology.c | 2 +
net/nfc/llcp_commands.c | 18 +++-
net/nfc/llcp_core.c | 15 ++-
net/nfc/nci/ntf.c | 36 +++++--
net/nfc/nci/rsp.c | 1 +
sound/drivers/dummy.c | 6 ++
sound/usb/fcp.c | 38 ++++---
sound/usb/mixer.c | 6 ++
sound/usb/mixer.h | 2 +
sound/usb/mixer_scarlett2.c | 98 +++++++++++-------
86 files changed, 1042 insertions(+), 357 deletions(-)