Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia
22 October 2024 - Russian Linux Kernel Maintainers

Quietly merged into this week's Linux 6.12-rc4 kernel was a patch that removes a number of kernel maintainers from being noted in the official MAINTAINERS file that recognizes all of the driver and subsystem maintainers.

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Linus Torvalds Growing Frustrated By Buggy Hardware & Theoretical CPU Attacks
21 October 2024 - Frustrated Torvalds

Over the past week Linux creator Linus Torvalds has been active on a Linux kernel mailing list thread around avoiding barrier_nospec() in copy_from_user() due to being "overkill and painfully slow." The conversation evolved into low-level discussions over CPU behavior and how to best handle, differing behavior/requirements with new Intel CPUs supporting Linear Address Masking (LAM), and the overall headaches these days around CPU security mitigations.

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Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees Its First CVE Vulnerability
17 December 2025 - CVE-2025-68260

The first CVE #vulnerability has been assigned to a piece of the #Linux kernel's #Rust code.

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