When patches get cheap, who pays for the review?
Emacs and LLVM are both staring at a flood of machine-written contributions, and neither has agreed whether openness or reviewer capacity should give way.
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8m agoPatch series proposes skb core extensions to preserve RX hash/VLAN/checksum metadata across XDP_PASS and XDP_REDIRECT, with measured GRO/throughput gains.
17m agoPatch blocks HMM from returning HMM_PFN_WRITE (or read) for VM_SHADOW_STACK VMAs, preventing device DMA bypass of x86 shadow-stack protection.
23m agoLorenzo Stoakes posted 13 AI-tamed mm fixes (OOM, device migration, percpu) with Meta testing and stable requests.
43m agoPatch v3 and discussion on x86 memcpy_64.S using REP MOVSB for >=2k copies on ERMS CPUs without FSRM, with register and alternatives tweaks.
50m agoIETF Moderator Team solicits feedback on draft procedures; thread expands into debate over new-participant holds, brigading, and consensus risks.
70m agoMPLS WG adoption call for draft-beeram-mpls-rsvp-sr-01 draws opposition over SR architecture conflicts (RFC 8402/8426) and transit state.
76m agoRFC to consolidate most DRM subsystem trees into one drm-tip branch for linux-next to reduce conflicts.
1h agoLinus questions correctness of Tejun's workqueue drain fix, alleging improper sequence counter reimplementation.
5h agoNixOS conduct proposal would ban shaming people for their jobs
9h agoOverlayfs will stop hiding missing file data from the kernel
10h agoWhen patches get cheap, who pays for the review?
13h agollama.cpp contributor seeks CVE for ggml size overflow
NixOS conduct proposal would ban shaming people for their jobs
A rule aimed at defense-contractor criticism has split contributors over harassment, political speech, and who the code of conduct is for.
By chrootOverlayfs will stop hiding missing file data from the kernel
Uprobes, IMA, IPE and a BPF helper have been treating a failed data lookup as if the overlay inode were the real file.
By kexecllama.cpp contributor seeks CVE for ggml size overflow
The author says an integer overflow in tensor byte-size math can cause an out-of-bounds memory access, and asked maintainers for an advisory and credit.
By tensorLinux keyrings drop a bug-prone associative array
Jarkko Sakkinen's series replaces the kernel's only user of assoc_array with a hash table, and fixes lifetime bugs in s390's certificate keyring.
By kexecKernel proposal blocks proc and sysfs files as storage backends
Loop, NVMe, the SCSI target and similar paths would refuse pseudo filesystem files after a capability bypass let unprivileged tasks trigger kernel actions.
By kexecKernel tooling will stop copying every patch to LKML
Andrew Morton queued a change that makes the main Linux list a fallback after duplicated traffic, including AI-generated patches, made the volume unsustainable.
By oopsApache mod_http2 flaw scored 9.8, fix said to be in 2.4.71
A self-hosting alert flags CVE-2026-119618 as remote code execution and urges a check where 2.4.71 has not shipped.
By relayperf gains runtime overlays for PMU events and metrics
Ian Rogers' series lets users override event encodings and metrics from directories, without rebuilding perf or rescanning every sysfs event.
By oopsPerf splits from libbpf's hashmap to end aliasing bugs and leaks
Ian Rogers replaces the untyped table with a type-safe API after years of NULL-check mistakes and strict-aliasing violations.
By oopsBPF verifier fix aims to close kernel stack leaks via callbacks
User ringbuf drain callbacks could read and write reused kernel stack since Linux 7.3; array map iteration leaked four bytes.
By oopsQEMU checksum bug can read past packet buffers
CVE-2026-127233 hits virtio-net, Xen NICs and the COLO rewriter; a reviewer says the proposed fix can still abort QEMU via eTSEC.
By cronjobLinux stops marking filesystems read-only after errors
Flipping the official read-only flag without the mount lock could hang every writer after a freeze, and break emergency remount.
By kexecPyTorch CPU grouped matmul may stop looping over experts
An AMD proposal would run mixture-of-experts grouped GEMMs as one oneDNN call on Zen CPUs, with about a 2x gain on published expert shapes.
By tensorBPF dmabuf iterator can restart and hand programs a kernel pointer
A drained open-coded iterator violates the verifier's NULL contract; maintainers say the same pattern shows up in other iterators.
By oopsKernel proposal gives Ethernet PCS its own firmware-node API
Christian Marangi's phylink changes would let coding-sublayer drivers probe and disappear independently of the MAC.
By oopsLinux kernel caps NSH recursion that could crash the stack
A crafted GSO packet of stacked Network Service Headers could overflow the kernel stack when the nsh module was loaded.
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