linux-kernel - Linux 6.12.65

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Message-ID: <2026011142--18e1@gregkh>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2026 15:32:41 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc: lwn@....net,
	jslaby@...e.cz,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Linux 6.12.65

I'm announcing the release of the 6.12.65 kernel.

All users of the 6.12 kernel series must upgrade.

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/char/virtio_console.c          |    2 -
 drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c         |    9 ++--
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vm.c |    6 ++-
 drivers/iommu/amd/init.c               |   28 ++++----------
 drivers/net/phy/mediatek-ge-soc.c      |    2 -
 drivers/pwm/pwm-stm32.c                |    3 -
 include/linux/if_bridge.h              |    6 +--
 include/linux/mm.h                     |   10 ++---
 include/linux/sched/topology.h         |    3 +
 kernel/sched/core.c                    |    3 +
 kernel/sched/fair.c                    |   65 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 kernel/sched/features.h                |    5 ++
 kernel/sched/sched.h                   |    7 +++
 kernel/sched/topology.c                |    6 +++
 mm/page_alloc.c                        |   24 ++++++------
 net/bridge/br_ioctl.c                  |   36 ++++++++++++++++--
 net/bridge/br_private.h                |    3 -
 net/core/dev_ioctl.c                   |   16 --------
 net/mac80211/rx.c                      |    5 ++
 net/mptcp/options.c                    |   10 +++++
 net/mptcp/protocol.c                   |    8 ++--
 net/mptcp/protocol.h                   |    9 ++--
 net/mptcp/subflow.c                    |   10 -----
 net/socket.c                           |   19 ++++-----
 25 files changed, 185 insertions(+), 112 deletions(-)

Alexander Gordeev (1):
      mm/page_alloc: change all pageblocks migrate type on coalescing

Bijan Tabatabai (1):
      mm: consider non-anon swap cache folios in folio_expected_ref_count()

David Hildenbrand (1):
      mm: simplify folio_expected_ref_count()

Greg Kroah-Hartman (2):
      Revert "iommu/amd: Skip enabling command/event buffers for kdump"
      Linux 6.12.65

Jouni Malinen (1):
      wifi: mac80211: Discard Beacon frames to non-broadcast address

Maximilian Immanuel Brandtner (1):
      virtio_console: fix order of fields cols and rows

Miaoqian Lin (1):
      net: phy: mediatek: fix nvmem cell reference leak in mt798x_phy_calibration

Natalie Vock (1):
      drm/amdgpu: Forward VMID reservation errors

Paolo Abeni (2):
      mptcp: fallback earlier on simult connection
      mptcp: ensure context reset on disconnect()

Peter Zijlstra (3):
      sched/fair: Small cleanup to sched_balance_newidle()
      sched/fair: Small cleanup to update_newidle_cost()
      sched/fair: Proportional newidle balance

Richa Bharti (1):
      cpufreq: intel_pstate: Check IDA only before MSR_IA32_PERF_CTL writes

Sean Nyekjaer (1):
      pwm: stm32: Always program polarity

Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo (1):
      net: Remove RTNL dance for SIOCBRADDIF and SIOCBRDELIF.