[PATCH 7.2 00/10] 7.2.12-rc1 review

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Date: Sat Oct 17 2026 - 11:54:59 EST


This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 7.2.12 release.
There are 10 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 Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:50:51 +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-7.2.12-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 7.2.12-rc1

Richard Fitzgerald <rf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
ASoC: cs35l56: Add DAI for SDCA OT25 stream

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@xxxxxxx>
wifi: atk9k: Revert "wifi: ath9k: reject short WMI command responses"

Hamza Mahfooz <hamzamahfooz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
net: mana: reserve RX buffer headroom to fix forwarding performance

Dipayaan Roy <dipayanroy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
net: mana: refactor mana_get_strings() and mana_get_sset_count() to use switch

Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
readdir: take no inode lock on an immutable directory

Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
nullfs: refuse file locks

Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
sched_ext: Fix CPU hotplug hang when a dying CPU's tasks sit in the BPF scheduler

Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
dm-integrity: validate the superblock on resume

Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
dm-integrity: fix NULL pointer dereference when the 'R' flag is used

Lubos Rendek <l.rendek@xxxxxxxxxxx>
nfsd: fix all-zero stateid in CB_OFFLOAD for async COPY


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Diffstat:

Makefile | 4 +-
drivers/md/dm-integrity.c | 55 +++++++++++++
drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_bpf.c | 8 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_en.c | 60 ++++++++++----
drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_ethtool.c | 95 +++++++++++++---------
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/wmi.c | 16 +---
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/wmi.h | 1 -
fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c | 2 +
fs/nullfs.c | 30 +++++++
fs/readdir.c | 13 ++-
include/linux/fs.h | 2 +
include/net/mana/mana.h | 14 +++-
include/sound/cs35l56.h | 1 +
kernel/sched/ext/ext.c | 29 ++++++-
kernel/sched/sched.h | 5 +-
sound/soc/codecs/cs35l56-sdw.c | 9 +-
sound/soc/codecs/cs35l56.c | 54 ++++++++++++
17 files changed, 312 insertions(+), 86 deletions(-)