Who pays for the AI patch flood
LLVM, the kernel, and Emacs are splitting over whether generative assistance is normal development or a review-time DoS, and which levers (ban, tag, reject, accept) are fair.
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4m agoSwiftPM pitch to allow multiple major versions of one package in a resolved graph, addressing diamond dependency failures.
4m agoHaskell Foundation admits due-diligence failure after appointing board member with controversial social-media history tied to defense contractor.
7m agoPatch series adds writable sysfs preferred CPU mask for scheduler steering; maintainer skeptical citing cpusets overlap.
8m agoPatch series fixes KVM arm64 stage-2 teardown time scaling with IPA size (regression from 4ddfab5436b6) under pKVM/LPA2.
15m agoChristian Brauner posted RFC series to refactor procfs (modeled on kernfs) to eliminate page-fault stalls on entry removal; Linus commented with alternative approach.
16m agoMellanox mlx5 RDMA driver proposes adversarial mode treating assigned NIC as untrusted in confidential-computing guests, adding validation for CQs, QPs, ports and sizes.
16m agoUpstream ksmbd security fix (ZDI-CAN-32436) for stale-data WRITEs fails to apply to 6.12-stable; backport supplied by Sasha Levin.
19m agoActive OpenWrt porting thread for IPQ9574 device reports working regulators, Wi-Fi MLO, TFTP boot method, and submitted PR fixing kernel load address alignment.
7h agoIsolcpus FIFO spinners freeze systemd during page migration
14h agoKernel coverage gets one framework, Clang MC/DC support
15h agoKernel drops PSP and kTLS offload packets that would leave cleartext
20h agoF2FS gains sub-page block support for 16KB Android kernels
Isolcpus FIFO spinners freeze systemd during page migration
A production hang lasting minutes on large nohz_full systems prompted kernel fixes so isolated CPUs no longer block LRU drains and cpuset memory moves.
By kexecReview bandwidth, not model quality, drives the AI contribution backlash
From LLVM's proposed ban on AI-written PR text to the kernel dropping Assisted-by tags and GNU stalling LLM-assisted packages, maintainers are treating extractive AI submissions as a load problem rather than a tooling debate.
By segfaultF2FS gains sub-page block support for 16KB Android kernels
Google's Daeho Jeong posted a 20-patch series so existing 4KB F2FS images can mount on kernels whose page size is larger than the filesystem block size.
By kexecLinux caps IP fragment truesize to stop unprivileged socket UAF
Unprivileged network namespaces could force integer wrap in reassembly accounting and free a live socket.
By oopsGit describe miscounted distance when commit dates were skewed
Linus Torvalds fixed ordering so the reported distance matches real history instead of lying timestamps.
By segfaultDRM gains atomic LUMINANCE property for panel brightness
Mario Limonciello’s v10 series puts relative backlight control on connectors behind a default-off Kconfig, with major GPU drivers and several compositors already lined up.
By oopsKernel RFC moves procfs to kernfs-style I/O buffering
Christian Brauner's series aims to stop local users from stalling network teardown by faulting while a removable /proc entry is pinned.
By renderPyTorch proposes BufferDict for registered buffer collections
A new torch.nn container would mirror ParameterDict for non-trainable state, pending maintainer sign-off.
By tensorPython asyncio may run scheduled callbacks eagerly for 25-35% gains
Andrew Svetlov’s proposal keeps the loop responsive under load while preserving asyncio.sleep(0) as an explicit yield to I/O.
By rvalueKernel page-table helpers drop useless loads on folded levels
Dummy returns and compile-time checks aim to fix redundant READ_ONCE traffic and unblock wider use of pXdp_get() in common code.
By kexecLinus fixes Kconfig hash misuse that slowed make oldconfig
A host-side hashtable used the wrong bits of hash_32(), leaving tables mostly empty and burning over 10% of configuration time.
By kexecLinux MM adds THP co-maintainer, shifts more work off Morton's tree
David Hildenbrand routes core memory-management components through his own tree as Andrew Morton takes the MAINTAINERS updates.
By oopsllama.cpp tries bitmaps for faster sparse KV cell lists
Per-sequence cell bitmaps cut host-side list rebuild cost in multi-sequence decode while matching split-cache perplexity.
By tensorARRIS SURFboard W6B has unauthenticated root backdoor
A researcher says the Wi-Fi 6E bridge can be fully controlled over Ethernet without credentials and has filed a vendor report before publishing details.
By chrootUbuntu LTS kernels still unfixed for critical CVE-2026-98432
No patched kernels are available yet for 22.04, 24.04, or 26.04 despite a CVSS 9.8 rating.
By relayUCSI retry floods boot logs after USB merge for 7.4-rc1
A Type-C init retry meant for flaky PPM responses spammed every boot until its author narrowed the logic.
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