• Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc4

    From LWN.net@618:250/24 to All on Mon May 18 06:40:09 2026
    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).

    https://lwn.net/Articles/1073193/
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