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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>Linux 6.12.65</title>
<updated>2026-01-11T14:25:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-11T14:25:22+00:00</published>
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Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260109112133.973195406@linuxfoundation.org
Tested-by: Brett A C Sheffield &lt;bacs@librecast.net&gt;
Tested-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;florian.fainelli@broadcom.com&gt;
Tested-by: Slade Watkins &lt;sr@sladewatkins.com&gt;
Tested-by: Shuah Khan &lt;skhan@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Tested-by: Peter Schneider &lt;pschneider1968@googlemail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ron Economos &lt;re@w6rz.net&gt;
Tested-by: Francesco Dolcini &lt;francesco.dolcini@toradex.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jeffrin Jose T &lt;jeffrin@rajagiritech.edu.in&gt;
Tested-by: Jon Hunter &lt;jonathanh@nvidia.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260109112133.973195406@linuxfoundation.org
Tested-by: Brett A C Sheffield &lt;bacs@librecast.net&gt;
Tested-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;florian.fainelli@broadcom.com&gt;
Tested-by: Slade Watkins &lt;sr@sladewatkins.com&gt;
Tested-by: Shuah Khan &lt;skhan@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Tested-by: Peter Schneider &lt;pschneider1968@googlemail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ron Economos &lt;re@w6rz.net&gt;
Tested-by: Francesco Dolcini &lt;francesco.dolcini@toradex.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jeffrin Jose T &lt;jeffrin@rajagiritech.edu.in&gt;
Tested-by: Jon Hunter &lt;jonathanh@nvidia.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Revert "iommu/amd: Skip enabling command/event buffers for kdump"</title>
<updated>2026-01-11T14:25:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-09T10:48:34+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit 3344716ddee01d7caa35b470d30fd87781c661b1 which is
commit 9be15fbfc6c5c89c22cf6e209f66ea43ee0e58bb upstream.

This causes problems in older kernel trees as SNP host kdump is not
supported in them, so drop it from the stable branches.

Reported-by: Ashish Kalra &lt;ashish.kalra@amd.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/dacdff7f-0606-4ed5-b056-2de564404d51@amd.com
Cc: Vasant Hegde &lt;vasant.hegde@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Sairaj Kodilkar &lt;sarunkod@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Joerg Roedel &lt;joerg.roedel@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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This reverts commit 3344716ddee01d7caa35b470d30fd87781c661b1 which is
commit 9be15fbfc6c5c89c22cf6e209f66ea43ee0e58bb upstream.

This causes problems in older kernel trees as SNP host kdump is not
supported in them, so drop it from the stable branches.

Reported-by: Ashish Kalra &lt;ashish.kalra@amd.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/dacdff7f-0606-4ed5-b056-2de564404d51@amd.com
Cc: Vasant Hegde &lt;vasant.hegde@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Sairaj Kodilkar &lt;sarunkod@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Joerg Roedel &lt;joerg.roedel@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>pwm: stm32: Always program polarity</title>
<updated>2026-01-11T14:25:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Nyekjaer</name>
<email>sean@geanix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-08T12:45:23+00:00</published>
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Commit 7346e7a058a2 ("pwm: stm32: Always do lazy disabling") triggered a
regression where PWM polarity changes could be ignored.

stm32_pwm_set_polarity() was skipped due to a mismatch between the
cached pwm-&gt;state.polarity and the actual hardware state, leaving the
hardware polarity unchanged.

Fixes: 7edf7369205b ("pwm: Add driver for STM32 plaftorm")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # &lt;= 6.12
Signed-off-by: Sean Nyekjaer &lt;sean@geanix.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Uwe Kleine-König &lt;ukleinek@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König &lt;ukleinek@kernel.org&gt;
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Commit 7346e7a058a2 ("pwm: stm32: Always do lazy disabling") triggered a
regression where PWM polarity changes could be ignored.

stm32_pwm_set_polarity() was skipped due to a mismatch between the
cached pwm-&gt;state.polarity and the actual hardware state, leaving the
hardware polarity unchanged.

Fixes: 7edf7369205b ("pwm: Add driver for STM32 plaftorm")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # &lt;= 6.12
Signed-off-by: Sean Nyekjaer &lt;sean@geanix.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Uwe Kleine-König &lt;ukleinek@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König &lt;ukleinek@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>virtio_console: fix order of fields cols and rows</title>
<updated>2026-01-11T14:25:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maximilian Immanuel Brandtner</name>
<email>maxbr@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-24T14:42:46+00:00</published>
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commit 5326ab737a47278dbd16ed3ee7380b26c7056ddd upstream.

According to section 5.3.6.2 (Multiport Device Operation) of the virtio
spec(version 1.2) a control buffer with the event VIRTIO_CONSOLE_RESIZE
is followed by a virtio_console_resize struct containing cols then rows.
The kernel implements this the wrong way around (rows then cols) resulting
in the two values being swapped.

Signed-off-by: Maximilian Immanuel Brandtner &lt;maxbr@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20250324144300.905535-1-maxbr@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Filip Hejsek &lt;filip.hejsek@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 5326ab737a47278dbd16ed3ee7380b26c7056ddd upstream.

According to section 5.3.6.2 (Multiport Device Operation) of the virtio
spec(version 1.2) a control buffer with the event VIRTIO_CONSOLE_RESIZE
is followed by a virtio_console_resize struct containing cols then rows.
The kernel implements this the wrong way around (rows then cols) resulting
in the two values being swapped.

Signed-off-by: Maximilian Immanuel Brandtner &lt;maxbr@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20250324144300.905535-1-maxbr@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Filip Hejsek &lt;filip.hejsek@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/fair: Proportional newidle balance</title>
<updated>2026-01-11T14:25:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-07T16:01:31+00:00</published>
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commit 33cf66d88306663d16e4759e9d24766b0aaa2e17 upstream.

Add a randomized algorithm that runs newidle balancing proportional to
its success rate.

This improves schbench significantly:

 6.18-rc4:			2.22 Mrps/s
 6.18-rc4+revert:		2.04 Mrps/s
 6.18-rc4+revert+random:	2.18 Mrps/S

Conversely, per Adam Li this affects SpecJBB slightly, reducing it by 1%:

 6.17:			-6%
 6.17+revert:		 0%
 6.17+revert+random:	-1%

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann &lt;dietmar.eggemann@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Dietmar Eggemann &lt;dietmar.eggemann@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Chris Mason &lt;clm@meta.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6825c50d-7fa7-45d8-9b81-c6e7e25738e2@meta.com
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251107161739.770122091@infradead.org
[ Ajay: Modified to apply on v6.12 ]
Signed-off-by: Ajay Kaher &lt;ajay.kaher@broadcom.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 33cf66d88306663d16e4759e9d24766b0aaa2e17 upstream.

Add a randomized algorithm that runs newidle balancing proportional to
its success rate.

This improves schbench significantly:

 6.18-rc4:			2.22 Mrps/s
 6.18-rc4+revert:		2.04 Mrps/s
 6.18-rc4+revert+random:	2.18 Mrps/S

Conversely, per Adam Li this affects SpecJBB slightly, reducing it by 1%:

 6.17:			-6%
 6.17+revert:		 0%
 6.17+revert+random:	-1%

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann &lt;dietmar.eggemann@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Dietmar Eggemann &lt;dietmar.eggemann@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Chris Mason &lt;clm@meta.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6825c50d-7fa7-45d8-9b81-c6e7e25738e2@meta.com
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251107161739.770122091@infradead.org
[ Ajay: Modified to apply on v6.12 ]
Signed-off-by: Ajay Kaher &lt;ajay.kaher@broadcom.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/fair: Small cleanup to update_newidle_cost()</title>
<updated>2026-01-11T14:25:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-07T16:01:27+00:00</published>
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commit 08d473dd8718e4a4d698b1113a14a40ad64a909b upstream.

Simplify code by adding a few variables.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann &lt;dietmar.eggemann@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Dietmar Eggemann &lt;dietmar.eggemann@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Chris Mason &lt;clm@meta.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251107161739.655208666@infradead.org
[ Ajay: Modified to apply on v6.12 ]
Signed-off-by: Ajay Kaher &lt;ajay.kaher@broadcom.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 08d473dd8718e4a4d698b1113a14a40ad64a909b upstream.

Simplify code by adding a few variables.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann &lt;dietmar.eggemann@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Dietmar Eggemann &lt;dietmar.eggemann@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Chris Mason &lt;clm@meta.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251107161739.655208666@infradead.org
[ Ajay: Modified to apply on v6.12 ]
Signed-off-by: Ajay Kaher &lt;ajay.kaher@broadcom.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/fair: Small cleanup to sched_balance_newidle()</title>
<updated>2026-01-11T14:25:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-07T16:01:24+00:00</published>
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commit e78e70dbf603c1425f15f32b455ca148c932f6c1 upstream.

Pull out the !sd check to simplify code.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann &lt;dietmar.eggemann@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Dietmar Eggemann &lt;dietmar.eggemann@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Chris Mason &lt;clm@meta.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251107161739.525916173@infradead.org
[ Ajay: Modified to apply on v6.12 ]
Signed-off-by: Ajay Kaher &lt;ajay.kaher@broadcom.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit e78e70dbf603c1425f15f32b455ca148c932f6c1 upstream.

Pull out the !sd check to simplify code.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann &lt;dietmar.eggemann@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Dietmar Eggemann &lt;dietmar.eggemann@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Chris Mason &lt;clm@meta.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251107161739.525916173@infradead.org
[ Ajay: Modified to apply on v6.12 ]
Signed-off-by: Ajay Kaher &lt;ajay.kaher@broadcom.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: Remove RTNL dance for SIOCBRADDIF and SIOCBRDELIF.</title>
<updated>2026-01-11T14:25:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo</name>
<email>cascardo@igalia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-07T17:19:50+00:00</published>
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commit ed3ba9b6e280e14cc3148c1b226ba453f02fa76c upstream.

SIOCBRDELIF is passed to dev_ioctl() first and later forwarded to
br_ioctl_call(), which causes unnecessary RTNL dance and the splat
below [0] under RTNL pressure.

Let's say Thread A is trying to detach a device from a bridge and
Thread B is trying to remove the bridge.

In dev_ioctl(), Thread A bumps the bridge device's refcnt by
netdev_hold() and releases RTNL because the following br_ioctl_call()
also re-acquires RTNL.

In the race window, Thread B could acquire RTNL and try to remove
the bridge device.  Then, rtnl_unlock() by Thread B will release RTNL
and wait for netdev_put() by Thread A.

Thread A, however, must hold RTNL after the unlock in dev_ifsioc(),
which may take long under RTNL pressure, resulting in the splat by
Thread B.

  Thread A (SIOCBRDELIF)           Thread B (SIOCBRDELBR)
  ----------------------           ----------------------
  sock_ioctl                       sock_ioctl
  `- sock_do_ioctl                 `- br_ioctl_call
     `- dev_ioctl                     `- br_ioctl_stub
        |- rtnl_lock                     |
        |- dev_ifsioc                    '
        '  |- dev = __dev_get_by_name(...)
           |- netdev_hold(dev, ...)      .
       /   |- rtnl_unlock  ------.       |
       |   |- br_ioctl_call       `---&gt;  |- rtnl_lock
  Race |   |  `- br_ioctl_stub           |- br_del_bridge
  Window   |     |                       |  |- dev = __dev_get_by_name(...)
       |   |     |  May take long        |  `- br_dev_delete(dev, ...)
       |   |     |  under RTNL pressure  |     `- unregister_netdevice_queue(dev, ...)
       |   |     |               |       `- rtnl_unlock
       \   |     |- rtnl_lock  &lt;-'          `- netdev_run_todo
           |     |- ...                        `- netdev_run_todo
           |     `- rtnl_unlock                   |- __rtnl_unlock
           |                                      |- netdev_wait_allrefs_any
           |- netdev_put(dev, ...)  &lt;----------------'
                                                Wait refcnt decrement
                                                and log splat below

To avoid blocking SIOCBRDELBR unnecessarily, let's not call
dev_ioctl() for SIOCBRADDIF and SIOCBRDELIF.

In the dev_ioctl() path, we do the following:

  1. Copy struct ifreq by get_user_ifreq in sock_do_ioctl()
  2. Check CAP_NET_ADMIN in dev_ioctl()
  3. Call dev_load() in dev_ioctl()
  4. Fetch the master dev from ifr.ifr_name in dev_ifsioc()

3. can be done by request_module() in br_ioctl_call(), so we move
1., 2., and 4. to br_ioctl_stub().

Note that 2. is also checked later in add_del_if(), but it's better
performed before RTNL.

SIOCBRADDIF and SIOCBRDELIF have been processed in dev_ioctl() since
the pre-git era, and there seems to be no specific reason to process
them there.

[0]:
unregister_netdevice: waiting for wpan3 to become free. Usage count = 2
ref_tracker: wpan3@ffff8880662d8608 has 1/1 users at
     __netdev_tracker_alloc include/linux/netdevice.h:4282 [inline]
     netdev_hold include/linux/netdevice.h:4311 [inline]
     dev_ifsioc+0xc6a/0x1160 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:624
     dev_ioctl+0x255/0x10c0 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:826
     sock_do_ioctl+0x1ca/0x260 net/socket.c:1213
     sock_ioctl+0x23a/0x6c0 net/socket.c:1318
     vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
     __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:906 [inline]
     __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:892 [inline]
     __x64_sys_ioctl+0x1a4/0x210 fs/ioctl.c:892
     do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
     do_syscall_64+0xcb/0x250 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
     entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Fixes: 893b19587534 ("net: bridge: fix ioctl locking")
Reported-by: syzkaller &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Reported-by: yan kang &lt;kangyan91@outlook.com&gt;
Reported-by: yue sun &lt;samsun1006219@gmail.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/SY8P300MB0421225D54EB92762AE8F0F2A1D32@SY8P300MB0421.AUSP300.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM/
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@fomichev.me&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@nvidia.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;razor@blackwall.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250316192851.19781-1-kuniyu@amazon.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
[cascardo: fixed conflict at dev_ifsioc]
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo &lt;cascardo@igalia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit ed3ba9b6e280e14cc3148c1b226ba453f02fa76c upstream.

SIOCBRDELIF is passed to dev_ioctl() first and later forwarded to
br_ioctl_call(), which causes unnecessary RTNL dance and the splat
below [0] under RTNL pressure.

Let's say Thread A is trying to detach a device from a bridge and
Thread B is trying to remove the bridge.

In dev_ioctl(), Thread A bumps the bridge device's refcnt by
netdev_hold() and releases RTNL because the following br_ioctl_call()
also re-acquires RTNL.

In the race window, Thread B could acquire RTNL and try to remove
the bridge device.  Then, rtnl_unlock() by Thread B will release RTNL
and wait for netdev_put() by Thread A.

Thread A, however, must hold RTNL after the unlock in dev_ifsioc(),
which may take long under RTNL pressure, resulting in the splat by
Thread B.

  Thread A (SIOCBRDELIF)           Thread B (SIOCBRDELBR)
  ----------------------           ----------------------
  sock_ioctl                       sock_ioctl
  `- sock_do_ioctl                 `- br_ioctl_call
     `- dev_ioctl                     `- br_ioctl_stub
        |- rtnl_lock                     |
        |- dev_ifsioc                    '
        '  |- dev = __dev_get_by_name(...)
           |- netdev_hold(dev, ...)      .
       /   |- rtnl_unlock  ------.       |
       |   |- br_ioctl_call       `---&gt;  |- rtnl_lock
  Race |   |  `- br_ioctl_stub           |- br_del_bridge
  Window   |     |                       |  |- dev = __dev_get_by_name(...)
       |   |     |  May take long        |  `- br_dev_delete(dev, ...)
       |   |     |  under RTNL pressure  |     `- unregister_netdevice_queue(dev, ...)
       |   |     |               |       `- rtnl_unlock
       \   |     |- rtnl_lock  &lt;-'          `- netdev_run_todo
           |     |- ...                        `- netdev_run_todo
           |     `- rtnl_unlock                   |- __rtnl_unlock
           |                                      |- netdev_wait_allrefs_any
           |- netdev_put(dev, ...)  &lt;----------------'
                                                Wait refcnt decrement
                                                and log splat below

To avoid blocking SIOCBRDELBR unnecessarily, let's not call
dev_ioctl() for SIOCBRADDIF and SIOCBRDELIF.

In the dev_ioctl() path, we do the following:

  1. Copy struct ifreq by get_user_ifreq in sock_do_ioctl()
  2. Check CAP_NET_ADMIN in dev_ioctl()
  3. Call dev_load() in dev_ioctl()
  4. Fetch the master dev from ifr.ifr_name in dev_ifsioc()

3. can be done by request_module() in br_ioctl_call(), so we move
1., 2., and 4. to br_ioctl_stub().

Note that 2. is also checked later in add_del_if(), but it's better
performed before RTNL.

SIOCBRADDIF and SIOCBRDELIF have been processed in dev_ioctl() since
the pre-git era, and there seems to be no specific reason to process
them there.

[0]:
unregister_netdevice: waiting for wpan3 to become free. Usage count = 2
ref_tracker: wpan3@ffff8880662d8608 has 1/1 users at
     __netdev_tracker_alloc include/linux/netdevice.h:4282 [inline]
     netdev_hold include/linux/netdevice.h:4311 [inline]
     dev_ifsioc+0xc6a/0x1160 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:624
     dev_ioctl+0x255/0x10c0 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:826
     sock_do_ioctl+0x1ca/0x260 net/socket.c:1213
     sock_ioctl+0x23a/0x6c0 net/socket.c:1318
     vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
     __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:906 [inline]
     __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:892 [inline]
     __x64_sys_ioctl+0x1a4/0x210 fs/ioctl.c:892
     do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
     do_syscall_64+0xcb/0x250 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
     entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Fixes: 893b19587534 ("net: bridge: fix ioctl locking")
Reported-by: syzkaller &lt;syzkaller@googlegroups.com&gt;
Reported-by: yan kang &lt;kangyan91@outlook.com&gt;
Reported-by: yue sun &lt;samsun1006219@gmail.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/SY8P300MB0421225D54EB92762AE8F0F2A1D32@SY8P300MB0421.AUSP300.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM/
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev &lt;sdf@fomichev.me&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@nvidia.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;razor@blackwall.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250316192851.19781-1-kuniyu@amazon.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
[cascardo: fixed conflict at dev_ifsioc]
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo &lt;cascardo@igalia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpufreq: intel_pstate: Check IDA only before MSR_IA32_PERF_CTL writes</title>
<updated>2026-01-11T14:25:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richa Bharti</name>
<email>richa.bharti@siemens.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-07T11:49:38+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=b03136582acb583fc5d4bf5bff3808f63fcec7d4'/>
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[ Upstream commit 4b747cc628d8f500d56cf1338280eacc66362ff3 ]

Commit ac4e04d9e378 ("cpufreq: intel_pstate: Unchecked MSR aceess in
legacy mode") introduced a check for feature X86_FEATURE_IDA to verify
turbo mode support. Although this is the correct way to check for turbo
mode support, it causes issues on some platforms that disable turbo
during OS boot, but enable it later [1]. Before adding this feature
check, users were able to get turbo mode frequencies by writing 0 to
/sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/no_turbo post-boot.

To restore the old behavior on the affected systems while still
addressing the unchecked MSR issue on some Skylake-X systems, check
X86_FEATURE_IDA only immediately before updates of MSR_IA32_PERF_CTL
that may involve setting the Turbo Engage Bit (bit 32).

Fixes: ac4e04d9e378 ("cpufreq: intel_pstate: Unchecked MSR aceess in legacy mode")
Reported-by: Aaron Rainbolt &lt;arainbolt@kfocus.org&gt;
Closes: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/2122531 [1]
Tested-by: Aaron Rainbolt &lt;arainbolt@kfocus.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada &lt;srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com&gt;
[ rjw: Subject adjustment, changelog edits ]
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251111010840.141490-1-srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
[ richa: Backport to 6.12.y with context adjustments ]
Signed-off-by: Richa Bharti &lt;richa.bharti@siemens.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
[ Upstream commit 4b747cc628d8f500d56cf1338280eacc66362ff3 ]

Commit ac4e04d9e378 ("cpufreq: intel_pstate: Unchecked MSR aceess in
legacy mode") introduced a check for feature X86_FEATURE_IDA to verify
turbo mode support. Although this is the correct way to check for turbo
mode support, it causes issues on some platforms that disable turbo
during OS boot, but enable it later [1]. Before adding this feature
check, users were able to get turbo mode frequencies by writing 0 to
/sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/no_turbo post-boot.

To restore the old behavior on the affected systems while still
addressing the unchecked MSR issue on some Skylake-X systems, check
X86_FEATURE_IDA only immediately before updates of MSR_IA32_PERF_CTL
that may involve setting the Turbo Engage Bit (bit 32).

Fixes: ac4e04d9e378 ("cpufreq: intel_pstate: Unchecked MSR aceess in legacy mode")
Reported-by: Aaron Rainbolt &lt;arainbolt@kfocus.org&gt;
Closes: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/2122531 [1]
Tested-by: Aaron Rainbolt &lt;arainbolt@kfocus.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada &lt;srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com&gt;
[ rjw: Subject adjustment, changelog edits ]
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251111010840.141490-1-srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
[ richa: Backport to 6.12.y with context adjustments ]
Signed-off-by: Richa Bharti &lt;richa.bharti@siemens.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>drm/amdgpu: Forward VMID reservation errors</title>
<updated>2026-01-11T14:25:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Natalie Vock</name>
<email>natalie.vock@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-07T10:53:17+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=c4d18e9540bf20f6c53ecc501b6702d141e8bda5'/>
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[ Upstream commit 8defb4f081a5feccc3ea8372d0c7af3522124e1f ]

Otherwise userspace may be fooled into believing it has a reserved VMID
when in reality it doesn't, ultimately leading to GPU hangs when SPM is
used.

Fixes: 80e709ee6ecc ("drm/amdgpu: add option params to enforce process isolation between graphics and compute")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christian König &lt;christian.koenig@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Natalie Vock &lt;natalie.vock@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher &lt;alexander.deucher@amd.com&gt;
[ adapted 3-argument amdgpu_vmid_alloc_reserved(adev, vm, vmhub) call to 2-argument version and added separate error check to preserve reserved_vmid tracking logic. ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 8defb4f081a5feccc3ea8372d0c7af3522124e1f ]

Otherwise userspace may be fooled into believing it has a reserved VMID
when in reality it doesn't, ultimately leading to GPU hangs when SPM is
used.

Fixes: 80e709ee6ecc ("drm/amdgpu: add option params to enforce process isolation between graphics and compute")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christian König &lt;christian.koenig@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Natalie Vock &lt;natalie.vock@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher &lt;alexander.deucher@amd.com&gt;
[ adapted 3-argument amdgpu_vmid_alloc_reserved(adev, vm, vmhub) call to 2-argument version and added separate error check to preserve reserved_vmid tracking logic. ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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