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Kernel & Low-Level desk
Stable kernel blocks IV race in userspace skcipher sockets
An unprivileged local attacker could overwrite an in-flight IV and reuse keystream on concurrent cipher operations.
Kernel gains fwnode PCS API as external serdes become common
Christian Marangi’s net-next series gives phylink a proper producer-consumer model for Physical Coding Sublayer devices, with Airoha AN7581 as the first in-tree user.
RFC proposes in-kernel AMD GPU offload for XDP and IPsec
knod would JIT-compile packet programs on the GPU from the kernel, with no CUDA or ROCm in the data path.