Linux 6.12.71

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Date: Thu Feb 12 2026 - 07:20:50 EST


I'm announcing the release of the 6.12.71 kernel.

All users of the 6.12 kernel series that had issues with 6.12.69 or
6.12.70 should upgrade, as some regressions are fixed here.

The updated 6.12.y git tree can be found at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-6.12.y
and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser:
https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=summary

thanks,

greg k-h

------------

Makefile | 2
drivers/net/bareudp.c | 4
drivers/net/geneve.c | 4
drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c | 2
include/net/ip_tunnels.h | 13 +-
io_uring/rw.c | 2
tools/testing/vsock/control.c | 9 -
tools/testing/vsock/msg_zerocopy_common.c | 10 --
tools/testing/vsock/msg_zerocopy_common.h | 1
tools/testing/vsock/util.c | 142 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
tools/testing/vsock/util.h | 7 +
tools/testing/vsock/vsock_perf.c | 10 ++
tools/testing/vsock/vsock_test.c | 51 +++-------
tools/testing/vsock/vsock_test_zerocopy.c | 2
tools/testing/vsock/vsock_uring_test.c | 2
15 files changed, 197 insertions(+), 64 deletions(-)

Greg Kroah-Hartman (1):
Linux 6.12.71

Jens Axboe (1):
io_uring/rw: recycle buffers manually for non-mshot reads

Konstantin Shkolnyy (1):
vsock/test: verify socket options after setting them

Menglong Dong (1):
net: tunnel: make skb_vlan_inet_prepare() return drop reasons