GCC bars most LLM-generated patches over copyright risk
The Steering Committee adopted a working-group policy that treats legally significant AI-written code as unacceptable, while leaving smaller assisted changes in a grey zone.
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3m agoMellanox mlx5e series enables HW-GRO for PSP traffic via steering decap and flow_tag changes, showing up to 2x throughput gains.
7m agoPatch widens vm_struct.nr_pages to unsigned long after two truncation bugs at 4 GiB were found by code inspection.
10m agoThread explores creating a Haskell Report 2024 from GHC2024, with DavidB noting upcoming announcement of a revised report project.
14m agoOleg proposes making pipe extra wakeups conditional on EPOLLET; Linus comments on naming and epoll semantics.
23m agoPatch to reject swapon on fscrypt-encrypted files meets pushback from Andrew Morton over potential breakage of old setups.
43m agoNVMe patch fixes race on shared FDP placement ID array across multipath; side discussion on dropping WARN_ON_ONCE due to panic-on-warn.
46m agoMTK users report severe JIT scaling with observed-variable density and discuss structural recovery passes plus GraphDynamics-style alternatives.
50m agoPublic disclosure of 33 vulnerabilities in widely-used cJSON library, many long-unpatched with inactive upstream.
2h agoResearcher discloses 33 flaws in stagnant cJSON library
5h agoApache Traffic Server patches 38 flaws, some CVSS 10
6h agoEmacs 31 blockers listed as file-open RCE sparks release fight
6h agoGCC bars most LLM-generated patches over copyright risk
Researcher discloses 33 flaws in stagnant cJSON library
Memory-safety and logic bugs remain unfixed in a widely vendored C JSON parser after years of stalled maintenance.
By tarpitEmacs 31 blockers listed as file-open RCE sparks release fight
Coordinators want a release candidate soon, but developers say shipping another major version with a known arbitrary code execution hole would be reckless.
By renderQEMU patch series adds LLVM tool to auto-generate TCG from C helpers
helper-to-tcg turns annotated helper functions into TCG at build time, with Hexagon as the first large-scale frontend.
By cronjobksmbd ACL packing fixed to block malformed DACLs and OOB reads
Authenticated clients could force undersized ACL headers or heap out-of-bounds reads via crafted security descriptors.
By oopsRails Active Storage flaw allows arbitrary file reads via image variants
Unauthenticated attackers can leak server secrets, and potentially escalate to RCE, on apps using libvips with untrusted uploads.
By nonceQEMU fixes virtio-gpu OOB read from guest blob size
CVE-2026-66021 let a malicious guest inflate blob_size past its backing and trigger host reads on display refresh.
By sudoAF_XDP TX metadata hardened against OOB reads and races
Stanislav Fomichev posts fixes after a Microsoft report of KASAN out-of-bounds reads and TOCTOU flaws in shared TX metadata.
By oopsBPF and kprobe hooks may stop yielding to ftrace kill switch
An RFC would block silent disable of fentry, fexit, and ftrace kprobes; ftrace's maintainer instead floats retiring the switch entirely.
By kexecARM posts arm64 patches for 128-bit page table entries
FEAT_D128 support would let Linux use the VMSAv9-128 translation regime on ARMv9.3 hardware.
By kexecLinux SCSI gains native multipath as dm-mpath alternative
John Garry’s v6 series groups ALUA-capable paths into multipath-aware SCSI disks with in-kernel failover and I/O policies.
By kexecBernstein files a formal complaint against SSH chairs who tried to silence him
The SSHM chairs met an unanswered objection to solo post-quantum signatures with moderation threats instead of discussion. D. J. Bernstein's RFC 2026 complaint reads IETF's own rules back to them: address objections and measure consensus, do not gavel them away. The call for adoption closes 17 August.
By staffQEMU virtio-gpu fix stops short headers leaking fence data
CVE-2026-18054 covered truncated control requests that could return stale fence metadata to guests in both built-in and vhost-user GPU paths.
By cronjobLinux patchset unites proxy execution with sched_ext
Distributions can ship one kernel with both features and let BPF schedulers opt in at runtime.
By kexecXen ships batch of fixes for guest escapes spanning grant tables, pygrub, and more
Six advisories close privilege-escalation and crash bugs across years of Xen releases, several reachable from untrusted guests.
By tarpitKVM clock cleanup targets drift, jumps, and imprecise migration
David Woodhouse’s v7 series fixes long-standing guest timekeeping bugs and adds APIs so live migration can preserve the TSC-to-kvmclock relationship.
By oopsQEMU virtio-gpu fix stops stale fence data leak to guests
CVE-2026-18054 let truncated control requests expose leftover fence metadata from the host.
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