Linux Kernel: Weekly Recap - Late-Cycle Fixes and a Security Patch for OpenRISC
This was a stabilization week ahead of the 7.2 release, with maintainer pull requests fixing regressions in DRM's fair scheduler, clock drivers, and SPI, alongside a standout security fix closing a privilege escalation hole in OpenRISC signal handling.
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This episode is a short developer briefing from Linux Kernel.
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- Show: Linux Kernel
- Published: 2026-08-17T09:42:46Z
- Audio duration: PT3M17S
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This is the Linux Kernel Weekly Recap for August 10th through August 17th. Zero pull request activity items, 30 additional commits this week — and nearly all of them are late-cycle merge commits from subsystem maintainers, a clear signal we're in final polish mode before the 7.2 release.
The dominant theme this week is regression control. The DRM pull, commit dac3e89, is the biggest of these: Dave Airlie's team caught a regression in the fair scheduler patches that landed back at rc1, and the fix here reverts that scheduler back to an opt-in experimental setting rather than the default. That single…
A second theme is driver correctness fixes across subsystems that all follow the same shape — something worked in most configurations but broke on specific hardware. Clock drivers got three separate corrections: Rockchip rk3588 audio clocks were being disabled when they shouldn't be, SpacemiT's USB2 and HDMA clocks…
The third theme is timing and low-level platform quirks. The timers pull, commit 240de1a, works around a broken EL2 virtual timer on Raspberry Pi 5's bcm2712 SoC, falling back to the physical timer. The x86 pull adds a new kernel command-line switch to control TLB…
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