Linux Kernel

Daily updates from the world's most important open source project. Track kernel development, driver updates, and security patches.

About this developer podcast

Linux Kernel turns GitHub activity into short audio updates.

Episodes cover commits, pull requests, issues, and release work.

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Recent episodes from Linux Kernel

  1. A Stable Cycle of Memory and Subsystem Hardening

    Today's activity was entirely stabilization work heading into release: seven subsystem pull requests brought fixes for memory management, s390, networking, NTFS, device mapper, and SELinux, with two memory management fixes standing out…

  2. Randstruct and Rust Compatibility Fix

    Linus Torvalds merged a hardening fix from Kees Cook that turns off randstruct by default when Rust is enabled, improving build coverage for allmodconfig testing.

  3. SMB Stack Gets a Security and Corruption Sweep

    Two merge commits pulled a wave of fixes into both the SMB client and the ksmbd server, closing data corruption paths and heap overflow vulnerabilities across the Windows file-sharing stack.

  4. Race Conditions Take Center Stage in RC Fixes

    This cycle's fixes converge on a single theme: race conditions and lifetime bugs in core subsystems, from cgroup fork handling to workqueue pool cleanup to scheduler dispatch queues. Multiple maintainers landed targeted fixes for issues…

  5. Cleanup Season Ahead of 7.3

    Merges landing for kernel 7.3 are dominated by teardown and use-after-free fixes across subsystems—I2C, tracing, and Rust tooling—plus a reverted locking change that shows how fragile guard-based cleanup patterns can be.

  6. Weekly Recap - Merge Window Cleanup and Cross-Subsystem Fixes

    This week's tree activity was dominated by late merge-window pulls into 7.3, with I2C, tracing, SCSI, DRM, and ARM subsystems all landing teardown and error-path fixes; a locking regression in spinlock guards was also reverted.

  7. SCSI Layer Gets Context Analysis and a String Function Cleanup

    Martin Petersen's final SCSI pull for the 7.3 merge window brings compile-time lock checking to the SCSI core and UFS, alongside a broad cleanup replacing the deprecated string-concatenation function across the LPFC driver, plus assorted…

  8. Merge Window Wraps With a Hardening Sweep

    Linus pulled fourteen subsystem trees on August 29th, and the dominant thread across drm, ceph, f2fs, UBIFS, sound, and TPM is defensive hardening: bounds checks, use-after-free fixes, and error-path cleanup, alongside targeted arm64…

  9. Networking Denial-of-Service Fixes Take Center Stage
  10. Late-Cycle Merge Wave Tightens Up 7.3
  11. The Merge Window Lands
  12. Merge Window Opens for 7.3, Confidential Computing and Error-Path Hardening Lead the Way
  13. The Merge Window Hardening Wave
  14. Weekly Recap - Merge Window Hardening Across Subsystems
  15. A Merge Window of Race Conditions and Edge Cases
  16. Merge Window Brings Use-After-Free Fixes Across the Board
  17. The Merge Window Lands
  18. The Great String Function Cleanup
  19. The Great Merge Window Cleanup
  20. The Great Crypto and Filesystem Consolidation
  21. 7.2 Ships With a Wave of Late Fixes
  22. Weekly Recap - Late-Cycle Fixes and a Security Patch for OpenRISC
  23. Late-Cycle Fixes and a Security Patch
  24. Late-Cycle Fixes and a Scheduler Retreat
  25. Late-Cycle Fixes and a Wireless Regression Reversal
  26. SCSI Deadlock and Power Management Fixes
  27. Uprobe Test Fix Lands Late in the RC Cycle
  28. Late-Cycle Fixes for Crypto and Regmap Cache Sorting
  29. Late-Cycle Fixes for Ring Buffer and Zcrypt Memory Safety
  30. Weekly Recap - Late-Cycle Fixes Across the Stack
  31. Pre-Release Hardening Push for 7.2
  32. The Late-Cycle Fixes Convergence
  33. Late-Cycle Race Conditions Take Center Stage
  34. A Quiet Memory Management Fix With Sharp Teeth
  35. Late-Cycle Security Fixes Converge on Release Candidate
  36. Late-Cycle Locking and Lifecycle Fixes
  37. RC6 Security and Stability Sweep
  38. Weekly Recap - Late-Cycle Fixes and Race Condition Cleanup
  39. I2C Driver Fixes Land for RC6
  40. A Week of Race Conditions and Resource Leaks
  41. Late Cycle Fix Wave Across Subsystems
  42. A Security Hole in Nested Virtualization
  43. Late-Cycle Fixes Converge on Btrfs Zoned Mode
  44. Late-Cycle Hotfix Sweep
  45. RC5 Fixes Sweep Across the Stack
  46. Weekly Recap - Late-Cycle Fixes Across the Stack
  47. Late-Cycle Fixes Roll In Ahead of 7.2
  48. A Release Candidate Full of Hardening Fixes
  49. Rc4 Cleanup Brings Memory Safety Fixes Across Networking and File Sharing
  50. Late-Cycle Fixes Converge on Rc5
  51. Late-Cycle Fixes Converge on Safety Checks
  52. Memory Management Hotfixes Land
  53. Release Candidate 4 Steadies the Ship
  54. Weekly Recap - Late-Cycle Fixes Across Storage, Graphics, and Security
  55. Late-Cycle Fix Wave Across Subsystems
  56. Display Timing Fixes and a Server-Side Security Sweep
  57. Release Candidate Cleanup Across the Board
  58. Testing Infrastructure Fixes Land for 7.2
  59. Late-Cycle Fixes Land for Sound and Btrfs
  60. Late-Cycle Cleanup as 7.2 Nears Release
  61. The RC3 Security Sweep
  62. Weekly Recap - Late-Cycle Fix Convergence Across Subsystems
  63. Late-Cycle Bug Sweep Across Storage and Core Subsystems
  64. A Week of Race Conditions and Bounds Checks
  65. Session Security and Network Hardening
  66. Memory Management Hotfix Sweep
  67. RC2 Cleanup Wave
  68. Weekly Recap - Post-Merge Window Fixes Across the Stack
  69. Two Architecture Fix Pulls Land
  70. Merge Window Cleanup Hits Use-After-Free Bugs Across the Stack
  71. Breaking Up the Device ID Header Monolith
  72. Low-Level Architecture Overhaul
  73. Weekly Recap - Timer Infrastructure Modernization
  74. Late-Cycle Maintainer Transition and Hardware Fixes
  75. Memory Safety and Resource Management Fixes
  76. Release Candidate Stabilization Push
  77. Security Fix and Late-Stage Bug Resolution
  78. Critical Memory Safety and Validation Fixes
  79. Hyperv Stability and Build Fixes
  80. Critical Locking and Timer Fixes
  81. Weekly Recap - Security and Stability Hardening
  82. Release Candidate Seven Stabilization
  83. Graphics Security and Race Condition Fixes
  84. Network Stack Security and Race Condition Fixes
  85. Memory Management and Firmware Stability Fixes
  86. Cache Policy Race Condition and Minor Subsystem Updates
  87. Security and Buffer Safety Focus
  88. Weekly Recap - Security and Driver Stability Focus
  89. Critical Security and Memory Management Fixes
  90. Critical Filesystem and Device Mapper Fixes
  91. Weekly Recap - Stability & Hardware Support
  92. Graphics Drivers and Platform Fixes
  93. Critical Filesystem and RCU Fixes
  94. Storage and Memory Subsystem Fixes
  95. VFS Fixes and Performance Tool Updates
  96. Critical Security and Stability Fixes in RC4
  97. Graphics and Core System Fixes
  98. KVM Virtualization Fixes and Live Update Patches
  99. Probes Subsystem Fixes
  100. KUnit Testing Fixes and Critical Task Exit Bug

Episode archive for Linux Kernel

  1. Bug Fixes and Driver Updates
  2. Networking and Audio Fixes for RC3
  3. Critical Subsystem Fixes for RC3
  4. Spring Cleaning & Bug Squashing Bonanza
  5. RC2 Stability Fixes for v7.1
  6. Critical KVM and Scheduler Fixes
  7. Weekly Recap - Audio and SPI Driver Stability
  8. RTC Updates and Driver Fixes
  9. Spring Merge Window Fixes
  10. Major Subsystem Updates and Driver Cleanup
  11. S390 Architecture Updates and Auth Protocol Fixes
  12. Weekly Recap - Driver Updates & Memory Management
  13. Memory Management and Driver Updates
  14. Pin Control Updates and Network Driver Fixes
  15. Major NTFS Revival and BPF Security Fixes
  16. Major Subsystem Updates and BPF Token Fixes
  17. Major ARM64 Updates and Security Enhancements
  18. Weekly Recap - SMB Security & Protocol Improvements
  19. Network Bridge STP Enhancements and BPF Static Analysis
  20. Weekly Recap - Memory Management and Architecture Fixes
  21. Gaming Controllers and Touch Fixes
  22. Release Candidate Cleanup - Polishing the Diamond
  23. The Great Stabilization - 25 Critical Fixes Land
  24. Race Condition Cleanup Day
  25. Spring Cleaning & Security Fixes
  26. The Great Stability Sprint - Thirteen Critical Fixes Land
  27. Security Hardening and Stability Fixes
  28. Spring Cleaning Brings Rock-Solid Stability
  29. Power Management & Security Hardening Sprint
  30. The Great RCU Rescue Mission
  31. Spring Cleaning Season - Fixes Galore!
  32. Spring Cleaning - Bug Fixes and System Hardening
  33. Hardware Heroes and Bug Busters
  34. Spring Cleaning in the Graphics Stack
  35. Network Security & Stability Spring Cleaning
  36. Spring Cleaning - Bug Squashing and Security Hardening
  37. Btrfs Gets Some Love with Quality-of-Life Fixes
  38. Spring Cleaning and Rust Reality Check
  39. Friday Fix Fest - DRM, Performance Tools, and Stability Patches
  40. Security Lockdown and System Stability
  41. PowerPC Fixes and Remote Processor Repairs
  42. Security Cleanup Day
  43. RC3 Stability Push - EFI Memory Fixes and I2C Lock Reverts
  44. The Big Fix Weekend
  45. Bug Hunt Success - 22 Critical Fixes Land
  46. Spring Cleaning and Bug Squashing
  47. Fixing the Foundation - When Stability Takes Center Stage
  48. Linux 6.19 Ships with Critical I2C Fix
  49. Last-Minute Fixes and a Changing of the Guard
  50. Critical Bug Hunt Success
  51. Sound & Build System Spring Cleaning
  52. The Polish Phase - Bug Squashing and Rust Refinements
  53. Pin Control Cleanup Day
  54. DMA Security Tightened
  55. VFS Spring Cleaning - Fixes Galore and Stability Wins
  56. Linux 6.19-RC7: The Final Polish
  57. The Great Kernel Fix-Up - 18 Merges of Refinement
  58. Network Fixes and Security Hardening
  59. Memory Management Deep Dive
  60. The Great Cleanup - When 18 Fixes Tell a Story
  61. Cleanup Day - When Maintenance Makes Everything Better
  62. Kernel Fix-a-Palooza
  63. The Great Fix-It Friday - When Reversing Course is Progress

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