January 11, 2026
Good morning, this is Linux Kernel Daily for January 13th, 2026. No merged pull requests today, but Linus Torvalds integrated nine maintenance commits addressing critical fixes across multiple subsystems. The most…
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- Show: Linux Kernel Daily
- Published: 2026-01-11T00:00:00Z
- Audio duration: PT2M4S
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Good morning, this is Linux Kernel Daily for January 13th, 2026.
No merged pull requests today, but Linus Torvalds integrated nine maintenance commits addressing critical fixes across multiple subsystems.
The most significant updates include a RISC-V security fix that prevents branch predictor poisoning attacks by sanitizing syscall table indexing under speculation. The RISC-V merge also resolves CONFIG_RELOCATABLE boot failures and fixes a deadlock in SBI ecall tracing.
Character and miscellaneous driver fixes arrived with a much-reported rust_binder spinlock fix and new device IDs for the MEI driver. Counter driver interrupt handling also received corrections.
The IRQ subsystem saw two targeted fixes: a gic-v5 endianness bug correction and a reverted commit that was causing issues in the RISC-V IMSIC driver.
Additional fixes span multiple areas. The scheduler received a NULL pointer dereference fix in memory context handling. Performance events got a swevent hrtimer destruction regression fix. The x86 SEV subsystem disabled GCOV instrumentation for better code robustness.
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