Linux Kernel Daily: Late-Cycle Fixes for MIPS and S390
Linus Torvalds merged two architecture-specific fix batches today, covering MIPS platform reliability issues and two S390 security-relevant bugs involving key handling and buffer copies.
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- Show: Linux Kernel Daily
- Published: 2026-07-05T06:00:16Z
- Audio duration: PT1M56S
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Good morning. It's July 5th, 2026, and this is Linux Kernel Daily.
Today's activity is small but focused: two merges from Linus Torvalds, both late-cycle fix pulls for specific architectures, MIPS and S390. No new features here, just cleanup of edge cases before things settle.
On the MIPS side, commit 410430b brings in fixes from Thomas Bogendoerfer covering a handful of platform quirks. There's a highmem check added before removing a memory block, which guards against a bad memory operation on certain configurations. There's also an IRQ work mechanism added for Loongson 64 systems using…
The more notable theme today is on S390, in commit 7404ce5. Two fixes here touch security-sensitive code paths. First, the protected key verification ioctl had a flawed key-type check based on key length, which could miscalculate bit sizes, that generic check has been removed in favor of letting the pkey handler…
The pattern across both merges is the same: these are hardening and correctness passes on architecture-specific code, not new capability. For MIPS and S390 users, these are the fixes you want in your next stable pull rather than urgent action items.
That's the briefing for today. Stay…
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