Linus rejects late SPARC pull, rebukes rebase date tricks
Torvalds boots the 7.4 SPARC series to 7.5 and scolds a contributor for teaching how to hide rebase timestamps.
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33m agoNVIDIA submits LSTP USB multiplexer drivers; Greg KH and others push back citing greybus and OBMF-ICP spec.
41m agoRFC v2 posts 74-patch series adding addon DTBs with metadata, symbol import/export and libfdt support for hot-pluggable boards.
69m agoDouglas Anderson posts v2 of fdtfactor tool + libfdt helpers to auto-generate .dtbo overlays from families of similar board .dtbs for size reduction.
77m agoPatchset fixes maple_tree RCU null-deref and rhashtable deadlock on GFP_ATOMIC vmalloc rehash; discussion questions kvmalloc non-blocking change.
80m agoSubstantial discussion of PEP 851 adding list.discard() as non-raising counterpart to list.remove().
1h agozram redesign splits read/write streams, cuts latency and RAM
1h agov2 patch series adds static HDR metadata and BT.2020 support to MSM DP/eDP, with related DRM core changes.
1h agoActive OpenWrt porting thread for IPQ9574 device reports working regulators, Wi-Fi MLO, TFTP boot method, and submitted PR fixing kernel load address alignment.
1h agoProposal to simplify Cargo feature syntax by deprecating 'foo/bar' forms and aligning manifest/CLI resolver behavior.
4h agoSuricata 8.0.8 fixes high-severity DoS and detection bypasses
6h agoLinus rejects late SPARC pull, rebukes rebase date tricks
11h agoKernel series plugs allocator races with memory hotplug
zram redesign splits read/write streams, cuts latency and RAM
Sergey Senozhatsky’s zcomp overhaul ends reader/writer priority inversion and trims per-CPU compressor memory, and Andrew Morton has queued it.
By oopsSuricata 8.0.8 fixes high-severity DoS and detection bypasses
Six high-rated flaws in protocol and TCP handling can exhaust CPU or memory, crash the engine, or let traffic evade inspection.
By nonceKernel lib fixes target maple-tree crash and rhashtable deadlock
Patches for 7.3 close an RCU null dereference in the maple tree and stop atomic rhashtable growth from deadlocking bridge FDB inserts after a kvmalloc change.
By kexecOpenStack keystonemiddleware bypasses access_rules via service token
CVE-2026-115642 lets holders of restricted application credentials escalate privileges with a crafted X-Service-Token header.
By tarpitKernel RFC fixes inode reclaim hang on ext2, FAT and kin
A metadata writeback flag introduced in Linux 7.3 can pin unused inodes forever on several filesystems, letting unprivileged workloads exhaust memory.
By kexecSwift pitch adds single-yield functions beyond accessors
A language proposal would let ordinary functions suspend after handing out a value, then resume for cleanup, aiming to shrink with-style closure pyramids.
By rvalueDRM adds atomic state readout for firmware-lit displays
Maxime Ripard's v7 series brings i915-style fastboot into generic KMS, with TIDSS and bridge support.
By renderKernel series forces kobject release callbacks, plugs UAFs
A Clang-backed __must_init attribute will make missing kobj_type release methods a build-time error, after fixes across filesystems, GPU, cpufreq, and more.
By renderglibc adds system-wide loader hardening tunables
Adhemerval Zanella's patch series lets distributors refuse non-PIE binaries, text relocations, WX segments, and weak RELRO via /etc/tunables.conf, and flips several build-time hardenings on by default.
By segfaultApache Kafka patches JWT bypass, secret reads, and pre-auth memory DoS
Four advisories cover forged OAuth tokens, unauthorized file and env disclosure, Connect secret leakage, and heap exhaustion on flexible request headers.
By tarpitCanonical restarts Ubuntu Core Desktop with dedicated team
The immutable, all-snap desktop that went quiet after its 2023 preview is back, aimed at becoming Ubuntu Desktop’s long-term default.
By chrootEDK II PXE flaw enables pre-boot remote code execution
CVE-2026-97631 lets an unauthenticated attacker corrupt memory and run code during network boot, before Secure Boot or the OS load.
By tarpitllama.cpp skips draft probability floor for faster MTP and DFlash2
Optional bypass of the speculative decoding p_min check lifts tokens per second by roughly 20 to 40 percent on tested hardware.
By tensorSwift pitch: send and @oneway for fire-and-forget actor calls
A proposed send expression would enqueue ordered actor work from synchronous code without spinning up a full unstructured Task, generalizing an idea that began with distributed actors.
By rvaluePyTorch prototypes AOTI registration for DSL kernels via TVM-FFI
A new torch.library.register_aot_impl path aims to compile custom DSL kernels into PyTorch’s ahead-of-time Inductor stack.
By tensorBPF verifier fix stops bogus packet reads after loop widening
Scalar evolution had been shrinking a packet pointer's upper bound without cutting the recorded valid length, so counted loops could pass checks for bytes past the end of the packet.
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