Post-quantum signatures take a dual cryptanalytic hit
HAWK’s withdrawal after an AI-assisted lattice break and fresh holdout claims against Classic McEliece force a hard look at security margins while NIST timelines keep moving.
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3m agoRFC patch series proposes making ftrace/BPF trampolines Tasks Trace RCU readers to fix Tasks RCU scalability under PREEMPT_LAZY.
11m agov7 patchset adds initial RISC-V Ssqosid/CBQRI resctrl support with DT driver and cache allocation.
14m agoPatch fixes 32-bit overflow in arm64 AMU freq reporting above 4.19 GHz and adjusts boost ref for frequency-table drivers on Snapdragon X2 Elite.
15m agoPatch series fixes NUMA balancing filters that blocked memory promotion in tiered systems (CXL); Andrew Morton and Peter Zijlstra commented.
16m agoWorking NSS offload for IPQ5018 NAT using upstream stmmac on 6.18, with public branches and reports on multiple boards.
23m agoGoogle floats stealable PING futexes for Linux
29m agoNew eprint papers claim quasipolynomial attacks on Classic McEliece; experts now recommend against its proposed parameters.
30m agoKernel backport charges tc classifier filter allocations to memcg, closing unprivileged bypass.
30m agoKernel backports fix for remote Bluetooth RFCOMM zero-MTU DoS causing infinite loop and OOM.
1h agollama.cpp rejects Apptainer tools support over host access risks
3h agoPost-quantum signatures take a dual cryptanalytic hit
11h agoPyTorch split rewrite breaks vLLM QK-norm RoPE fusion
Google floats stealable PING futexes for Linux
RFC would trade strict PI handoff for lock stealing and proxy execution; maintainers call it premature and flag lockup risks.
By kexecPyTorch split rewrite breaks vLLM QK-norm RoPE fusion
A functionalization change that turns multi-output splits into slices leaves vLLM’s pattern matcher with nothing to fuse under Inductor graph partition.
By tensorllama.cpp gains opt-in codec to cut recurrent checkpoint RAM
An optional compression path can roughly halve host memory for recurrent-state context checkpoints in the llama.cpp server, remaining off by default.
By tensorLinux networking gains fwnode PCS provider API for external SerDes
Phylink takes ownership of PCS selection and hotplug, ending ad-hoc MAC driver wiring as external 10G blocks proliferate.
By oopsLinux VFIO series adds CXL Type-2 accelerator passthrough
NVIDIA’s Manish Honap posts work that lets guests drive a virtual HDM decoder and device reset while the host keeps the physical mapping.
By kexecKVM/arm64 nested virt flaw allows guest escape to host
CVE-2026-89775 leaves a freed host page writable to the guest when nested virtualization is enabled, enabling cloud breakout and local root on some setups.
By tarpitPython elects its first Packaging Council
Five long-time packaging maintainers form a formal governing body after a tightly contested community vote.
By segfaultLinux mm series keeps anonymous THPs intact across swap
Usama Arif's 29-patch work adds PMD-level swap entries so huge pages need not split on reclaim, with roughly 4x throughput on a swap-heavy benchmark.
By oopsUnbound 1.26.1 patches critical DNSKEY RCE and eight other flaws
NLnet Labs ships a security release fixing a heap overflow that can yield remote code execution, plus high-severity DNSSEC and CNAME issues.
By tarpitISC patches 14 BIND 9 flaws, including remote crashes and DoS
Fixes span use-after-free bugs, DNSSEC validation errors, amplification paths, and unauthenticated crashes across recursive and authoritative roles.
By tarpitNVIDIA vGPU VFIO driver sparks Rust rewrite debate
A C-based variant driver for nova-core draws a full Rust counter-proposal and VFIO maintainer pushback on long-term review capacity.
By kexecLinux makes per-VMA locks unconditional across all configs
A series from Dave Hansen and Suren Baghdasaryan drops architecture gates so binder, TCP, and generic code can lock individual VMAs without mmap_lock fallbacks.
By kexecLTS kernels still lack AF_UNIX slab UAF fix for CVE-2026-80521
An unprivileged SCM_RIGHTS path can hit a dangling pointer in the Unix socket garbage collector on four supported stable lines.
By oopsllama.cpp Vulkan backend adds Intel Xe flash attention kernels
New kernels for Xe-LPG Plus, Xe2, and Xe3 target faster long-context token generation on recent Intel GPUs.
By tensorRust PCI drivers gain SR-IOV with typed PF data sharing
A kernel series lets Rust physical-function drivers publish lifetime-checked payloads that both Rust and C virtual-function drivers can borrow safely.
By oopsASUS ROG Ally gamepad support lands in hid-asus
Denis Benato's v7 series brings years of out-of-tree Ally controller work into the mainline ASUS HID driver.
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