Linux Kernel Daily: Networking Fixes and Driver Cleanup
The Linux kernel saw significant networking fixes with 148 commits addressing bugs in IPv6, netfilter, and various drivers, while maintainers removed several obsolete ISA and PCMCIA ethernet drivers from the 1990s and early 2000s.
Duration: PT2M9S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from Linux Kernel Daily.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Linux Kernel Daily
- Published: 2026-04-23T00:00:00Z
- Audio duration: PT2M9S
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Good morning, this is Linux Kernel Daily for April 23rd, 2026.
Today we're seeing substantial maintenance activity with 30 commits and no merged pull requests, but several significant subsystem updates from Linus Torvalds himself.
The largest update comes from networking, where Jakub Kicinski's team delivered 148 commits fixing critical issues. Notable fixes include a potential use-after-free vulnerability in ICMPv6, validation improvements for ICMP reply types, and corrections to Unix domain socket handling. The networking team reports…
Steve French's SMB client received important security fixes, including an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in ioctl query operations and multiple ACL-related fixes. The update also moves SMB3 signature calculation to the AES-CMAC library for improved performance and includes seven compression fixes for SMB 3.1.1.
In hardware support, the Xtensa architecture updated its restart handlers to use the modern sys_off_handler interface, replacing deprecated restart handlers. AMD graphics drivers received fixes for idle state management, ASPM issues, and bounds checking in the KFD subsystem.
Andrew Lunn led a significant cleanup effort, removing multiple…
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