Virtual swap collides with what memory.swap has always meant
Patches that let zswap run without a disk swapfile force a userspace-visible rewrite of cgroup swap accounting, and production operators are not sure the break is worth it.
By kexec
8m agoProposal to drop legacy __author__/__copyright__ attrs from ~20 Python stdlib modules triggers debate on credit vs. namespace ownership.
9m agoRFC proposes common attestation subsystem + CTLV char-dev UAPI to replace per-provider interfaces for TPM/TDX/SEV/etc.
19m agoRFC v4 proposes hierarchical named Arm64 CPU models for KVM plus QMP introspection to enable live migration across heterogeneous hosts.
22m agoBrauner posts 15 VFS superblock fixes (deadlock, UAF, thaw/warn, quotactl, reconfig via fspick) tagged for stable; applied to vfs tree.
23m agoNVIDIA submits LSTP USB multiplexer drivers; Greg KH and others push back citing greybus and OBMF-ICP spec.
27m agoPull request merges 11 USB fixes, several addressing guest-triggerable crashes and memory errors in QEMU emulation.
36m agov6 patch series adds ARM64 guest support to QEMU MSHV accelerator via x86 refactor and new ARM backend for vCPU/MMIO/vGIC.
36m agoRFC adds sleepable uprobe kfuncs for allocating, exec-sealing, and faultable writes to user pages; early review flags capability and icache issues.
64m agoLinux bridge MST bypasses blocking without VLAN filtering
10h agoPyTorch Dynamo guard paths race into use-after-free
10h agoQPACK bugs let attackers OOM many HTTP/3 servers
11h agoSwift opens review of Cell and Volatile interior mutability types
Linux bridge MST bypasses blocking without VLAN filtering
CVE-2025-40297 lets ports marked blocking still forward frames, defeating STP and MRP loop protection.
By kexecCPython supported-JIT PEP 836 withdrawn over bandwidth
Authors will ship a reference build outside main after Steering Council feedback raised the bar for keeping the experiment in-tree.
By segfaultPyTorch Dynamo guard paths race into use-after-free
Unlocked raw pointers in invalidation and cache updates can outlive a concurrent dynamo reset.
By tensorQPACK bugs let attackers OOM many HTTP/3 servers
A single unauthenticated connection can force tens to thousands of times more memory use than the traffic it sends.
By tarpitSwift opens review of Cell and Volatile interior mutability types
SE-0556 would add Cell, ConstCell, and Volatile primitives, with early debate on naming, library placement, and safety under concurrency and C interop.
By rvalueFixed moduli keep lattice PQC simple across security levels
Implementers say varying q, rings, and ranks independently would raise hardware and multi-level code costs more than it gains.
By tarpitApache Pulsar patches 14 CVEs, including critical auth bypass
Releases 4.0.14, 4.2.5, and 5.0.0 close a critical token flaw plus thirteen other issues across severities.
By tarpitLinux 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 oopsPostgreSQL moves toward custom storage options for table access methods
A long-running patch would let non-heap table AMs own their WITH/SET parameters instead of inheriting heap’s, with dump and locking rough edges still under review.
By sudoPHP patches critical unauthenticated RCE in 8.2 through 8.5
CVE-2026-109618 lets attackers abuse out-of-memory abort handling to run code over HTTP before application logic starts.
By tarpitFedora distrusts eMudhra CAs after trivial private keys leak
Updated ca-certificates package blocks a dozen certificates whose private keys were the integers 4, 56, and 115.
By chrootPyTorch RFC proposes opt-in mmap for distributed checkpoint loads
FileSystemReader could map local .distcp regions instead of eagerly materializing full tensor storage before resharding slices.
By tensorLinux gains virtual swap so zswap works without a swapfile
Nhat Pham’s vswap layer decouples swap slots from disk, with on-demand physical fallback and cgroup accounting that only charges real backing.
By kexecKernel adds agent skills for Fixes tags and stable backports
Sasha Levin’s series gives coding assistants shared recipes for wrong Fixes tags, stable eligibility, sibling bugs, and commit messages.
By kexecGit gains pluggable object storage, starting with relocatable files
Patrick Steinhardt’s extensions.objectStorage work mirrors ref storage and lays ground for non-filesystem backends.
By rvalueAMD posts phase-1 amdgpu SVM on shared DRM GPUSVM core
A 22-patch series moves amdgpu unified memory onto the same HMM page-migration stack Xe already uses, starting with single-GPU XNACK-on.
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