Kernel maintainers move to drop Assisted-by AI attribution tag
Summit consensus and maintainer fatigue push the Linux project to scrap a short-lived requirement that patches disclose LLM help.
By kexec
5m agov2 29-patch KVM series optimizes nSVM TLB flushes via per-vCPU L2 ASIDs and drops dynamic allocation, with 8-15% benchmark gains.
15m agoPatchset proposes deduplicating index shape data in relcache plus proxy memory context to cut RelationData footprint.
21m agoLong-running Qualcommax NSS build thread sees new PR adding EEE support for 2.5G/10G ports after reports of link and traffic failures.
23m agoLLVM RFC proposes banning AI-generated or substantially assisted text in PRs and RFCs to reduce reviewer burden from low-quality submissions.
53m agoPython 3.16.0a1 released with Windows legacy installers removed in favor of new install manager, causing tool breakage and user questions.
55m agoPatch series fixes parent-lock UAF and async/deferred probe races in driver core for USB devices; minor design disagreement noted.
58m agov6 MGLRU patch adds NR_ISOLATED accounting and per-lruvec throttling to match legacy reclaim behavior.
65m agoPatch proposes fix for swap cache folios left pinned after zap, wasting slots up to 50% of device.
4h agoName Constraints bypasses hit multiple TLS libraries
4h agoNSD 4.15.3 patches four high-severity DNS parsing RCEs
11h agoScheduler race drops wakeups, leaves runnable tasks stranded idle
11h agoKernel maintainers move to drop Assisted-by AI attribution tag
NSD 4.15.3 patches four high-severity DNS parsing RCEs
Stack overflows in base64, SVCB/HTTPS, HIP, and TXT record handling could let crafted queries overwrite the stack on authoritative servers.
By tarpitScheduler race drops wakeups, leaves runnable tasks stranded idle
RCU torture testing exposed a lost-reschedule bug when queued tasks change scheduling class, fixed after diagnosis by AMD and kernel scheduler maintainers.
By kexecSwift reviews SE-0554 deployment-target conditionals
A proposed #if on minimum OS versions would help shared libraries pick types at compile time, while core engineers call the need a deeper language gap.
By rvaluecurl 8.23.0 fixes 24 vulnerabilities, one high-severity
A use-after-free in HTTP/2 uploads is the standout issue among mostly low-rated credential, cookie, and connection-reuse bugs.
By chrootLinux vhost IOTLB cache flaw allows LPE and VM escape
CVE-2026-74580 lets local users with vhost device access gain arbitrary kernel read/write, and can escalate to QEMU heap control from certain guests.
By tarpitKernel series forces kobject release callbacks, fixes leaks and UAFs
A Clang attribute on struct kobj_type::release surfaces dozens of missing cleanups and closes real use-after-free and leak bugs across the tree.
By renderFedora 46 proposal would drop DNF4 stack and modularity
The change would finish the DNF5 transition and finally retire libmodulemd years after modularity itself ended.
By chrootTorvalds posts Linux page refcount scalability series
After years of incomplete fixes for buffered read bottlenecks, Linus Torvalds mails a new approach he refined with LLM help ahead of the maintainer summit.
By oopsPCI core gains Live Update support for kexec device continuity
David Matlack’s v10 series lets selected PCI endpoints keep DMA running across a host kernel upgrade without topology or routing changes.
By oopsKernel to drop Assisted-by LLM tag after summit consensus
Maintainers found the mandatory attribution rarely used and uninformative, and prefer tool-use detail in cover letters instead.
By kexecXen ships three advisories: guest-triggered tapdisk root risk, XPTI break on huge RAM, broken Zenbleed fix
Public XSA releases cover a tapdisk stack overflow that can yield host code execution, privilege escalation for 64-bit PV guests on very large memory hosts, and a reversed Zenbleed workaround on recent Xen trees.
By tarpitLinux 6.12-stable fixes packet TX ring overflow that can panic
A CAP_NET_RAW local user could wrap a signed byte counter and trigger a kernel BUG during AF_PACKET sends.
By kexecQEMU adds GICv5 virtualization for nested ARM guests
Peter Maydell’s large series lets the virt board run with GICv5 and virtualization enabled, matching hardware that does far more interrupt work in silicon than GICv3.
By sudoKernel RFC stops filesystems flipping SB_RDONLY after errors
Christian Brauner’s series converts remaining filesystems to private emergency-ro state so freeze, thaw, and emergency remount stop hanging or warning.
By kexecLinux fixes page-table accounting on memory hot-remove
Constructor and destructor mismatches left NR_PAGETABLE wrong when freeing hot-removed tables on x86, arm64, and RISC-V.
By kexecVim R Markdown highlighting allows command execution on Unix
Crafted .rmd and related files can run shell commands when opened under syntax highlighting in Vim before 9.2.1178.
By tarpit