#ksmbd

Weekly briefing · Oct 19–26, 2026

Linux mainline: week of Oct 19

A weekly briefing built from 9 published daily update(s).

Bug fixesHardware supportPerformanceSecurity and hardening

#ACPI#confidential-computing#execve#ksmbd#KVM#RCU#sched_ext#vfs

Daily update · Oct 25–26, 2026

Linux kernel daily: NFS/ksmbd security fixes, NTFS/exFAT improvements, kexec and MIPS updates

A wide NFS client/server stabilization push, extensive ksmbd hardening, NTFS/exFAT reliability work, kexec/kdump memory fixes, and legacy Octeon board support land in mainline.

#exFAT#kexec/kdump#ksmbd#MIPS#NFS#NTFS

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 supportSecurity and hardening

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

Daily update · Sep 1–2, 2026

SMB subsystem lands wave of security and data-corruption fixes

ksmbd gets hardened against heap leaks and buffer overflows, the CIFS client fixes multiple fallocate data-corruption bugs, and Steve French's passing is reflected in maintainer updates.

Bug fixes

#data-corruption#fallocate#ksmbd#security#SMB