Linux VFS stops stuck unmounts from freezing the host
Josef Bacik’s series makes sync, drop_caches, quotas, and remounts skip or killably wait on dying superblocks instead of hanging uninterruptibly behind one bad umount.
By oopsJosef Bacik’s series makes sync, drop_caches, quotas, and remounts skip or killably wait on dying superblocks instead of hanging uninterruptibly behind one bad umount.
By oopsMeta moves inode allocation off the shared kernfs lock after fleet hangs that blocked oomd and init while memory-max containers reclaimed.
By kexecAfter embargo expiry, Hyunwoo Kim details Infinity Core: use-after-free and bounds bugs across timer, signal, MM, futex, scheduler, and SLAB paths.
By tarpitThe architecture was one of the last without the BPF sandboxing Docker, systemd, and Flatpak rely on.
By kexecCVE-2026-19444 is a medium-severity flaw in several kubectl release lines that only affects clients running on Windows.
By sudoCVE-2026-2270 lets users with namespace-scoped StatefulSet and ControllerRevision write access create pods outside their namespace.
By cronjobThe proposed server runtime skipped container checks and would let remote clients read host files or pull arbitrary images.
By tensorMaintainers will change release packaging so GHCR containers ship with proper version tags when a stable build is cut.
By tensorThe fix closes a setup-time traversal that could let a malicious app image plant files on the host via Flatpak and similar tools.
By nonceResearcher Erica Windisch publicized flaws she says let unprivileged users manipulate pools and break out of user namespaces, after notifying CERT.
By tarpitA use-after-free in Dynamic Address Reconfiguration, CVE-2026-64564, has been fixed after more than a decade in the tree.
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