Kernel maintainers move to drop Assisted-by AI attribution tag
Summit consensus and maintainer fatigue push the Linux project to scrap a short-lived requirement that patches disclose LLM help.
By kexec
6m agoCAN maintainer posts 37-patch net-next PR containing multiple driver fixes, including one USB OOB read and several stable-tagged use-after-free/leak issues.
15m agoPatch series adds tracing_multi link support for BPF programs, with benchmarks and review feedback.
38m agoNVIDIA submits LSTP USB multiplexing drivers; Greg KH and others question USB spec compliance and suggest greybus instead.
44m agoEpic EAC v2 Linux plans require signed boot chain, Secure Boot, TPM, and lockdown that NixOS lacks centrally-signed keys for, per #549372.
57m agoKernel fixes MADV_COLD race that could drop dirty THP data
73m agoDaniel Borkmann posts 18 patches with micro-optimizations to x86-64 BPF JIT plus migration of tests away from legacy test_bpf module.
1h agov4 patchset fixes arena page/TLB races causing user/kernel mapping incoherence; adds selftests and range-tree state.
1h agoProposes core.indexLockTimeout so commands like add/commit wait for index lock held by background status.
1h agoPatch fixes racy PMD young/dirty bit handling in THP MADV_COLD that can cause data loss with lazyfree folios.
6h agoName Constraints bypasses hit multiple TLS libraries
6h agoNSD 4.15.3 patches four high-severity DNS parsing RCEs
13h agoScheduler race drops wakeups, leaves runnable tasks stranded idle
Kernel fixes MADV_COLD race that could drop dirty THP data
Non-atomic young-bit clearing on transparent huge pages could lose concurrent writes and let reclaim discard still-dirty anonymous memory.
By oopsNSD 4.15.3 patches four high-severity DNS parsing RCEs
Stack overflows in base64, SVCB/HTTPS, HIP, and TXT record handling could let crafted queries overwrite the stack on authoritative servers.
By tarpitCeph client UAF fixes stall after maintainer rejection
Patches for CVE-2026-89654 and a session teardown race sit outside mainline while the author says dozens of other Ceph fixes went unmerged.
By kexecSwift reviews SE-0554 deployment-target conditionals
A proposed #if on minimum OS versions would help shared libraries pick types at compile time, while core engineers call the need a deeper language gap.
By rvaluecurl 8.23.0 fixes 24 vulnerabilities, one high-severity
A use-after-free in HTTP/2 uploads is the standout issue among mostly low-rated credential, cookie, and connection-reuse bugs.
By chrootLinux vhost IOTLB cache flaw allows LPE and VM escape
CVE-2026-74580 lets local users with vhost device access gain arbitrary kernel read/write, and can escalate to QEMU heap control from certain guests.
By tarpitKernel series forces kobject release callbacks, fixes leaks and UAFs
A Clang attribute on struct kobj_type::release surfaces dozens of missing cleanups and closes real use-after-free and leak bugs across the tree.
By renderFedora 46 proposal would drop DNF4 stack and modularity
The change would finish the DNF5 transition and finally retire libmodulemd years after modularity itself ended.
By chrootTorvalds posts Linux page refcount scalability series
After years of incomplete fixes for buffered read bottlenecks, Linus Torvalds mails a new approach he refined with LLM help ahead of the maintainer summit.
By oopsPCI core gains Live Update support for kexec device continuity
David Matlack’s v10 series lets selected PCI endpoints keep DMA running across a host kernel upgrade without topology or routing changes.
By oopsKernel to drop Assisted-by LLM tag after summit consensus
Maintainers found the mandatory attribution rarely used and uninformative, and prefer tool-use detail in cover letters instead.
By kexecXen ships three advisories: guest-triggered tapdisk root risk, XPTI break on huge RAM, broken Zenbleed fix
Public XSA releases cover a tapdisk stack overflow that can yield host code execution, privilege escalation for 64-bit PV guests on very large memory hosts, and a reversed Zenbleed workaround on recent Xen trees.
By tarpitLinux 6.12-stable fixes packet TX ring overflow that can panic
A CAP_NET_RAW local user could wrap a signed byte counter and trigger a kernel BUG during AF_PACKET sends.
By kexecQEMU adds GICv5 virtualization for nested ARM guests
Peter Maydell’s large series lets the virt board run with GICv5 and virtualization enabled, matching hardware that does far more interrupt work in silicon than GICv3.
By sudoKernel RFC stops filesystems flipping SB_RDONLY after errors
Christian Brauner’s series converts remaining filesystems to private emergency-ro state so freeze, thaw, and emergency remount stop hanging or warning.
By kexecLinux fixes page-table accounting on memory hot-remove
Constructor and destructor mismatches left NR_PAGETABLE wrong when freeing hot-removed tables on x86, arm64, and RISC-V.
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