Re: [PATCH 6.12 0000/1102] 6.12.111-rc1 review

[Brett A C Sheffield]

On 2026-09-17 15:59, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.12.111 release.
> There are 1102 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 Sat, 19 Sep 2026 15:13:49 +0000.
> Anything received after that time might be too late.

6.12.111-rc1 hangs on boot on this machine (AMD Ryzen 9 9950X).

Bisected:

git bisect start
# status: waiting for both 'good' and 'bad' commits
# bad: [18db24293f4d9b64614e0adf6dbe298073aa8860] Linux 6.12.111-rc1
git bisect bad 18db24293f4d9b64614e0adf6dbe298073aa8860
# status: waiting for 'good' commit(s), 'bad' commit known
# good: [fa5b06866b643cce7072a4e7c6be7ee3f0f1b95c] Linux 6.12.110
git bisect good fa5b06866b643cce7072a4e7c6be7ee3f0f1b95c
# good: [06d602e1997cdab008184b921c752f5b07fa16ef] Bluetooth: btintel: bound firmware ID by TLV length
git bisect good 06d602e1997cdab008184b921c752f5b07fa16ef
# good: [a126d69b9dd9f2cbd25d1672053851ae90ec549b] accel/ivpu: Limit firmware log name prints to field size
git bisect good a126d69b9dd9f2cbd25d1672053851ae90ec549b
# good: [efe1f0c0257ae22c17fab4f1b55c1863a4d5bd98] ipv6: add some unlikely()/likely() clauses in ip6_output.c
git bisect good efe1f0c0257ae22c17fab4f1b55c1863a4d5bd98
# bad: [8a1320dc29ad21696ba7f0aa99a3fabf295e74c5] NFSD: Prevent client use-after-free during delegation revoke
git bisect bad 8a1320dc29ad21696ba7f0aa99a3fabf295e74c5
# bad: [5e4974a45323fd751aabfdd78c04457d231ac126] mm/slab: move and refactor __kmem_cache_alias()
git bisect bad 5e4974a45323fd751aabfdd78c04457d231ac126
# good: [562e14e2bbc8c9ad3c72c193a3afadc3a0cc1527] KVM: SEV: Track the GPA of the guest-controlled VMSA used for SNP guests
git bisect good 562e14e2bbc8c9ad3c72c193a3afadc3a0cc1527
# good: [4eaf9e48d2a7b9a5067206d54ae260c0292d595f] mm/gup: fix always draining LRU caches in collect_longterm_unpinnable_folios()
git bisect good 4eaf9e48d2a7b9a5067206d54ae260c0292d595f
# bad: [091b6f51c9330d9e2cacb8d6e4ab3e6e2e8d93fe] mm/mglru: reset page lru tier bits when activating
git bisect bad 091b6f51c9330d9e2cacb8d6e4ab3e6e2e8d93fe
# good: [8417718d642fbef80df65fb3369c3fc4b38cdbdd] pidfd: hold exec_update_lock around namespace ioctl
git bisect good 8417718d642fbef80df65fb3369c3fc4b38cdbdd
# bad: [22ae428b0045981bd19f8c75f700a67198062f32] mm/hugetlb: initialize gigantic bootmem hugepage struct pages earlier
git bisect bad 22ae428b0045981bd19f8c75f700a67198062f32
# first 'bad' commit: [22ae428b0045981bd19f8c75f700a67198062f32] mm/hugetlb: initialize gigantic bootmem hugepage struct pages earlier


Brett