Linux Kernel Daily: SMB Server and Memory Management Fixes
Linus Torvalds merged critical SMB server security fixes addressing use-after-free vulnerabilities and key logging issues, plus 15 memory management hotfixes including race condition patches and documentation updates.
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- Show: Linux Kernel Daily
- Published: 2026-03-11T10:03:06Z
- Audio duration: PT2M2S
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Good morning, this is Linux Kernel Daily for March 11th, 2026.
Two significant merge commits landed in the mainline kernel yesterday, both addressing critical stability and security issues.
Linus Torvalds merged SMB server fixes from Steve French, targeting multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in the ksmbd implementation. The most notable security improvement prevents logging of SMB3 signing and encryption keys, addressing a potential information disclosure risk. The fixes also resolve…
The second merge brings 15 hotfixes for memory management from Andrew Morton's tree. Six of these fixes are tagged for stable kernel backporting. Key improvements include resolving a race condition in folio_split() operations with folio_try_get(), fixing memory accounting issues in the SLAB allocator's refill path,…
Additional maintenance updates include email address changes in MAINTAINERS, with Lorenzo Stoakes updating his contact information and new co-maintainer assignments for the SLAB allocator subsystem. Documentation improvements cover kernel-doc formatting for memory management and user access functions.
What's next: These fixes target kernel version 7.0-rc3, suggesting we're in the later…
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