[PATCH 7.2 00/10] 7.2.12-rc1 review

[PATCH 7.2 00/10] 7.2.12-rc1 review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

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@linuxfoundation.org>
    Linux 7.2.12-rc1

Richard Fitzgerald <rf@opensource.cirrus.com>
    ASoC: cs35l56: Add DAI for SDCA OT25 stream

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

Hamza Mahfooz <hamzamahfooz@linux.microsoft.com>
    net: mana: reserve RX buffer headroom to fix forwarding performance

Dipayaan Roy <dipayanroy@linux.microsoft.com>
    net: mana: refactor mana_get_strings() and mana_get_sset_count() to use switch

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

Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
    nullfs: refuse file locks

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

Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
    dm-integrity: validate the superblock on resume

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

Lubos Rendek <l.rendek@proxmox.com>
    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(-)

Re: [PATCH 7.2 00/10] 7.2.12-rc1 review

[Ronald Warsow]

Hi

kernel build / boot test on x86_64 (Intel).

No regressions here.

Thanks

Tested-by: Ronald Warsow <rwarsow@gmx.de>

Re: [PATCH 7.2 00/10] 7.2.12-rc1 review

[Brett A C Sheffield]

# Librecast Test Results

044/044 [ OK ] liblcrq
010/010 [ OK ] libmld
120/120 [ OK ] liblibrecast

CPU/kernel: Linux auntie 7.2.12-rc1-g590446e5a2fe #2 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sat Oct 17 16:46:51 -00 2026 x86_64 AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

Tested-by: Brett A C Sheffield <bacs@librecast.net>

Re: [PATCH 7.2 00/10] 7.2.12-rc1 review

[Peter Schneider]

Am 17.10.2026 um 17:54 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> 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.

Builds, boots and works on my 2-socket Ivy Bridge Xeon E5-2697v2 server. No dmesg oddities or regressions found.

Tested-by: Peter Schneider <pschneider1968@googlemail.com>


Beste Grüße,
Peter Schneider

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Re: [PATCH 7.2 00/10] 7.2.12-rc1 review

[Miguel Ojeda]

On Sat, 17 Oct 2026 17:54:29 +0200 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> 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.

Boot-tested under QEMU for Rust x86_64, arm64 and riscv64; built-tested
for loongarch64 and arm32:

Tested-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>

I see some `objtool` warnings with Rust nightly (there was a change
upstream to `core`), so I will send a patch to mainline as usual.

Thanks!

Cheers,
Miguel

Re: [PATCH 7.2 00/10] 7.2.12-rc1 review

[Benjamin Boortz]

On Sat, Oct 17, 2026 at 05:54:29PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

>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.

Build and boot tested with QEMU for x86_64, i386, arm64, and riscv
across multiple configurations, and boots on AMD Ryzen 7 5800H.
No regressions observed.

Tested-by: Benjamin Boortz <bennib@mailbox.org>

Re: [PATCH 7.2 00/10] 7.2.12-rc1 review

[SJ Park]

On Sat, 17 Oct 2026 17:54:29 +0200 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> 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.

This rc kernel passes DAMON functionality test [1] on my test machine.

Tested-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>

[1] https://github.com/damonitor/damon-tests/tree/next/corr


Thanks,
SJ

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