Networking Fixes and Security Patches
A major networking fixes merge from Jakub Kicinski addresses 96 issues including driver fixes and security vulnerabilities. Additional commits fix interrupt handling, memory corruption, and LED race conditions.
Duration: PT1M57S
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- Show: Linux Kernel Daily
- Published: 2026-01-23T11:05:38Z
- Audio duration: PT1M57S
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Good morning, it's January 23rd, 2026. I'm your host with Linux Kernel Daily.
Today brings significant activity with 16 commits focused primarily on stability and security fixes.
The headline change comes from Linus Torvalds merging networking fixes from Jakub Kicinski's net-6.19-rc7 tag. This substantial merge addresses 96 separate issues, including critical fixes for USB network device crashes after resume, corrections to driver seqlock usage, and security patches for the rxrpc protocol…
Wireless networking received attention through a separate merge fixing authentication and encryption issues across multiple drivers including ath10k, ath12k, and mwifiex. These patches resolve deadlocks during management frame flushing and fix bitrate calculation overflows.
Security took center stage with Cedric Xing's x86 page fault handling fix, addressing improper interrupt disabling that could lead to race conditions. The patch simplifies the approach by unconditionally disabling interrupts before returning to low-level fault handlers, replacing previous incomplete attempts.
Additional fixes include a crypto subsystem patch rejecting malformed authentication data, a LED class race condition fix…
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