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#filesystems

Daily updates and weekly briefings about filesystems.

Daily update · Oct 20–21, 2026

Linux Kernel Daily: Security Hardening, Filesystem Fixes, and New Hardware Support

Today's mainline kernel changes include SELinux policy hardening, XFS and btrfs reliability fixes, faster AES and RAID XOR, and initial Arm RMM support.

Hardware support Performance Security and hardening

#confidential-computing #crypto #filesystems #hardware-support #performance #security

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Daily update · Oct 19–20, 2026

Richer coredumps, faster opens, and io_uring hardening land in mainline

Structured sparse coredumps, close_range() cleanup flags, XFS/iomap fixes, and reduced sysfs/cgroupfs stalls headline this mainline update.

Security and hardening

#coredump #file-descriptors #filesystems #io_uring #security #vfs

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Weekly briefing · Sep 21–28, 2026

Linux mainline: week of Sep 21

A weekly briefing built from 7 published daily update(s).

Bug fixes Hardware support Performance Security and hardening

#filesystems #hibernation #KVM #log recovery #online repair #pinctrl #remoteproc #SATA

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Daily update · Sep 25–26, 2026

Linux mainline update: security hardening, GPU corrections, and filesystem reliability

A roundup of today's kernel changes: security fixes for BPF, SMB, and IPE; GPU stability patches; and filesystem/storage improvements.

Bug fixes Performance Security and hardening

#bpf #filesystems #gpu #hibernation #security #smb

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Daily update · Sep 14–15, 2026

RDMA security fixes lead this kernel update batch

Software RoCE drivers get fixes for a remotely triggerable out-of-bounds access and a Dirty COW-like flaw, alongside memory management and filesystem corrections.

#9p #DAX #filesystems #memory-management #RDMA #security

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Daily update · Aug 20–21, 2026