Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc4
Date:
Sun, 17 May 2026 21:39:26 +0000
Description:
The 7.1-rc4 kernel prepatch is out for
testing. Some of the documentation updates might be worth highlighting: the
continued flood of AI reports has basically made the security list
almost entirely unmanageable, with enormous duplication due to
different people finding the same things with the same
tools. People spend all their time just forwarding things to the
right people or saying "that was already fixed a week/month ago"
and pointing to the public discussion. Which is all entirely
pointless churn, and we're making it clear
that AI detected bugs are pretty much by definition not secret, and
treating them on some private list is a waste of time for everybody
involved - and only makes that duplication worse because the
reporters can't even see each other's reports. (He is referring to this
pull request with patches from Willy Tarreau defining what constitutes a security
bug and responsible
ways to use AI to find bugs ).
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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1073193/
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