Linux Kernel: RC2 Stabilization on Memory and Networking
Eight merge pulls for 7.4-rc2 focus on stabilization, not features. The dominant pattern is memory-management hardening against data loss, leaks and corruption, paired with networking fixes for use-after-free bugs and regressions.
Duration: PT2M21S
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This episode is a short developer briefing from Linux Kernel.
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- Show: Linux Kernel
- Published: 2026-11-06T14:14:52Z
- Audio duration: PT2M21S
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Hello and welcome for Friday, November 6th, 2026.
This week is all about stabilization for 7.4 release candidate 2. The dominant pattern is memory and networking hardening, fixing data loss, corruption and use-after-free issues that carry stable release risk.
First, memory management. Two large merges, tagged M-M core R-C-2 and M-M hotfixes, address transparent huge pages, get user pages, same-page merging, shared memory and huge T-L-B pages. They close information leaks through memfd pinning and out-of-bounds writes, fix data loss in shared memory and huge-page…
Second, networking. The net 7.4 R-C-2 pull, merged in commit f66469d, fixes current and older regressions across T-C-P, I-P version 6, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, CAN and Ethernet drivers. Highlights include use-after-free fixes in T-C-P and I-P security migration, a Wi-Fi fix restoring aggregated transmit control to unstall…
Finally, broad driver and filesystem correctness. Hardware monitoring fixes locking, false power alarms and sensor truncation across two dozen drivers. Virtualization fixes leaks and validation in V-host, Virt-I-O and V-D-P-A. And filesystem work repairs extended-attribute corruption in O-C-F-S-2 and link-count…
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