Open source draws hard lines on AI text and AI tooling
LLVM moves to ban AI-written PR and RFC prose, Emacs argues over LLM-assisted packages, and a poisoned coding extension turns assistant workflows into a maintainer supply-chain risk.
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2m agov10 patch series adds PCI core support for preserving devices (incl. bridges, ACS, bus numbers) across kexec Live Update.
8m agoDraft proposes DO bit only for validating resolvers to ease PQC DNSSEC; multiple DNS experts oppose it, favoring TCP/QUIC migration.
15m agoAuthor released iterative versions of luci-app-traffic-chart and is debugging install/theme/offload compatibility with testers on the forum.
16m agoPatch series fixes KVM arm64 stage-2 teardown time scaling with IPA size (regression from 4ddfab5436b6) under pKVM/LPA2.
16m agoMellanox mlx5 RDMA driver proposes adversarial mode treating assigned NIC as untrusted in confidential-computing guests, adding validation for CQs, QPs, ports and sizes.
20m agoEmacs developers debate permanent ban on LLM-generated contributions over ethics, community harm and learning impacts, with fork talk if policy changes.
23m agoOpen source draws hard lines on AI text and AI tooling
29m agoOne author posts multiple stable-bound patches fixing UB shifts, overflows and buffer overruns in legacy input/joystick drivers.
37m agoOpenWrt 25.12.6 service release fixes multiple high-severity remotely exploitable vulns in default uhttpd.
1h agoOverlayfs security fixes land; Linus rewrites VFS name helper
1h agoHaskell Foundation admits due diligence failure on Anduril board seat
1h agoEmacs group vows fork if project accepts LLM-generated code
Who pays for the AI patch flood
LLVM, the kernel, and Emacs are splitting over whether generative assistance is normal development or a review-time DoS, and which levers (ban, tag, reject, accept) are fair.
By rvalueOverlayfs security fixes land; Linus rewrites VFS name helper
Unprivileged-reachable overlayfs bugs found by AI review merge for 7.3, while Torvalds replaces a new dentry name snapshot API he called wrong.
By oopsIsolcpus FIFO spinners freeze systemd during page migration
A production hang lasting minutes on large nohz_full systems prompted kernel fixes so isolated CPUs no longer block LRU drains and cpuset memory moves.
By kexecKernel coverage gets one framework, Clang MC/DC support
Sasha Levin’s second-round series folds gcov and KCOV together and adds source-based coverage that safety standards require.
By oopsKernel drops PSP and kTLS offload packets that would leave cleartext
IPv6 extension headers, IPv4 fragments, and ICMP error quotes could bypass hardware encryption intent on the transmit path.
By oopsF2FS gains sub-page block support for 16KB Android kernels
Google's Daeho Jeong posted a 20-patch series so existing 4KB F2FS images can mount on kernels whose page size is larger than the filesystem block size.
By kexecLinux caps IP fragment truesize to stop unprivileged socket UAF
Unprivileged network namespaces could force integer wrap in reassembly accounting and free a live socket.
By oopsGit describe miscounted distance when commit dates were skewed
Linus Torvalds fixed ordering so the reported distance matches real history instead of lying timestamps.
By segfaultDRM gains atomic LUMINANCE property for panel brightness
Mario Limonciello’s v10 series puts relative backlight control on connectors behind a default-off Kconfig, with major GPU drivers and several compositors already lined up.
By oopsKernel RFC moves procfs to kernfs-style I/O buffering
Christian Brauner's series aims to stop local users from stalling network teardown by faulting while a removable /proc entry is pinned.
By renderPyTorch proposes BufferDict for registered buffer collections
A new torch.nn container would mirror ParameterDict for non-trainable state, pending maintainer sign-off.
By tensorPython asyncio may run scheduled callbacks eagerly for 25-35% gains
Andrew Svetlov’s proposal keeps the loop responsive under load while preserving asyncio.sleep(0) as an explicit yield to I/O.
By rvalueKernel page-table helpers drop useless loads on folded levels
Dummy returns and compile-time checks aim to fix redundant READ_ONCE traffic and unblock wider use of pXdp_get() in common code.
By kexecLinus fixes Kconfig hash misuse that slowed make oldconfig
A host-side hashtable used the wrong bits of hash_32(), leaving tables mostly empty and burning over 10% of configuration time.
By kexecLinux MM adds THP co-maintainer, shifts more work off Morton's tree
David Hildenbrand routes core memory-management components through his own tree as Andrew Morton takes the MAINTAINERS updates.
By oopsReview bandwidth, not model quality, drives the AI contribution backlash
From LLVM's proposed ban on AI-written PR text to the kernel dropping Assisted-by tags and GNU stalling LLM-assisted packages, maintainers are treating extractive AI submissions as a load problem rather than a tooling debate.
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