Security and hardening

A wave of BPF security fixes closes verifier bypasses, while USB, scheduler, tracing, and PREEMPT_RT subsystems receive critical correctness and performance fixes.

Bug fixes Performance Security and hardening

#bpf-verifier #preempt-rt #scheduler #security-hardening #tracing #xhci

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Daily update · Sep 5–6, 2026

NVMe/TCP security fixes, UFS and btrfs improvements, LoongArch hardening

A batch of mainline kernel fixes targets NVMe/TCP memory corruption, UFS performance, btrfs compression hangs, and LoongArch KVM security.

Security and hardening

#block layer #btrfs #LoongArch #NVMe #security #UFS

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Daily update · Sep 4–5, 2026

Linux kernel update: GPU, audio, storage, and arm64 fixes

VirtIO-GPU teardown, Nouveau GB20x HDMI, AMD OLED/8K display, ALSA mmap race, ksmbd overflows, and arm64 kexec fixes highlight today's mainline changes.

Hardware support Security and hardening

#ALSA #AMD display #arm64 #ksmbd #Nouveau #virtio-gpu

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Daily update · Sep 3–4, 2026

Linux mainline updates: NTFS corruption fixes, TCP use-after-free, Bluetooth L2CAP OOB writes, and more

A wave of NTFS data-corruption and security fixes headlines today's updates, alongside critical network protocol hardening, device-mapper integrity repairs, and memory-management fixes.

Bug fixes Security and hardening

#bluetooth-l2cap #dm-integrity #ntfs #sctp #secretmem #tcp-use-after-free

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Weekly briefing · Aug 24–31, 2026

Linux mainline: week of Aug 24

A weekly briefing built from 10 published daily update(s).

Bug fixes Hardware support Security and hardening

#I2C #NTFS #pinctrl #SCSI #security #stmmac #swap-performance #TCP

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Daily update · Aug 29–30, 2026

SCSI update: UFS busy-loop fix, mpt3sas NULL deref, libsas rediscover improvements, and compile-time lock checking for SCSI core

Today's mainline SCSI pull fixes a UFS core CPU-wasting busy loop, a mpt3sas crash on partial allocation failure, and several LeapRAID mmap races, while also introducing device-flutter detection in libsas and enabling compiler-based lock context analysis across SCSI core.

Bug fixes Security and hardening

#LeapRAID #lock-analysis #mpt3sas #SAS #SCSI #UFS

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Daily update · Aug 28–29, 2026

Linux kernel update: f2fs data integrity, AMD GPU stability, USB audio security, and more

A roundup of notable fixes and features from the latest mainline kernel pull, including f2fs corruption fixes, AMD GPU reset handling, USB MIDI security, and new hardware support.

Hardware support Security and hardening

#AMDGPU #CephFS #f2fs #hardware support #security #USB audio

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Weekly briefing · Aug 17–24, 2026

Linux mainline: week of Aug 17

A weekly briefing built from 10 published daily update(s).

New features Bug fixes Hardware support Performance Security and hardening Developer changes

#fsync #mailbox #MTD #ntfs #pcie #security #TPM #xe

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Daily update · Aug 25–28, 2026

Linux mainline update: AppArmor security fixes, swap performance, and broad SoC clock support

A busy cycle lands critical AppArmor and IPsec hardening, batched swap I/O, MGLRU improvements, new hardware support, and dozens of stability fixes across networking and power management.

Bug fixes Hardware support Security and hardening

#apparmor #bluetooth #clock-drivers #ipsec #mglru #swap-performance

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Daily update · Aug 24–25, 2026

Linux mainline: FUSE/CIFS zeroing fixes, Bluetooth hardening, Hyper-V cleanup

Today's pull brings filesystem data-integrity fixes, a batch of Bluetooth and SMB security hardening, Hyper-V modernization, and several driver crash fixes.

Bug fixes Security and hardening

#AF_XDP #Bluetooth #CIFS/SMB #erofs #FUSE #Hyper-V

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Daily update · Aug 22, 2026

Perf tooling enhancements and kernel fixes in latest mainline

A batch of perf improvements, exfat data-loss fixes, futex hardening, and an ARM boot fix.

Bug fixes Security and hardening

#ARM #exfat #futex #hardening #perf #scheduler

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Daily update · Aug 20–21, 2026

Linux kernel update: EFI hang fixes, NTFS hardening, and networking improvements

Today's mainline kernel patches address EFI runtime service hangs, NTFS memory safety, networking bugs, and more.

Bug fixes Hardware support Performance Security and hardening

#EFI #filesystems #hardware support #networking #performance #security

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Daily update · Aug 17–18, 2026

Overlayfs idmapping, fchroot(), and a binfmt_misc overhaul

Daily mainline digest: overlayfs learns idmapped mounts, a new fchroot() syscall arrives, binfmt_misc gains BPF and transparent interpreters, and fscrypt moves fully to blk-crypto.

New features Bug fixes Performance Security and hardening Developer changes

#binfmt_misc #fchroot #fscrypt #fsync #idmapped mounts #iomap

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Weekly briefing · Aug 10–17, 2026

Linux mainline: week of Aug 10

A weekly briefing built from 6 published daily update(s).

Bug fixes Hardware support Performance Security and hardening

#DRBD #ipvs #OpenRISC #rhashtable #scheduler #security #StarFive #unix-sockets

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Daily update · Aug 13–14, 2026

Linux mainline: SCTP LPE and remote UAFs, XDP memory leak, TCP ACK storms, veth GRO stall fixed

Today's mainline updates close a local privilege escalation in SCTP cookie handling, two remotely triggerable SCTP use-after-free bugs, a kernel pointer leak through XDP fragment accounting, and a stack out-of-bounds write in IPVS ICMP tunneling, alongside notable networking stability fixes.

Bug fixes Performance Security and hardening

#ipvs #netfilter #sctp #tcp #tls #unix-sockets #veth #xdp

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Weekly briefing · Aug 3–10, 2026