Who contributed to Linux on July 25, 2026?

6 developers shipped this update, including Linus Torvalds, Chengfeng Ye, David Heinemeier Hansson, correctmost, codefiles, and Steev Klimaszewski.

What were the notable Linux updates?

Merge tag 'io_uring-7.2-20260724' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux, bpf, sockmap: Fix cork use-after-free in tcp_bpf_sendmsg(), and Merge tag 'drm-fixes-2026-07-25' of https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/kernel.

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IO_URING FIXES AND SOCKMAP USE-AFTER-FREE PATCH LAND IN 7.2-RC

By RepoJournal · Filed 06:57 UTC on July 25, 2026 · About Linux

6 people shipped this

Linus Torvalds @torvalds 4 cited

Chengfeng Ye @Ychame 1 cited

correctmost @correctmost 1 cited

David Heinemeier Hansson @dhh

codefiles @codefiles

Steev Klimaszewski @steev

Linus merged critical io_uring corrections and a high-impact sockmap race condition fix that closes a threading vulnerability in TCP BPF message handling.

The io_uring pull [1] addresses a missing ERESTARTSYS conversion in read paths that regressed during code consolidation, plus a zcrx UAPI rename dropping the ambiguous "notif" terminology for "event" consistency. More urgent: a sockmap use-after-free in tcp_bpf_sendmsg() [2] that exposed a race condition between threads sharing the same socket, where the error path unsafely compares msg_tx pointers after lock release. The fix hardens this against concurrent access patterns that could trigger kernel crashes. Parallel to core fixes, the drm subsystem [3] pulled TTM backup page ordering corrections and gpusvm memory leak plugs, while ceph [4] landed hardening against malformed input that could trigger use-after-free in real deployments. Arm64 [5] patched early_ioremap() unaligned table handling, rounding out a week of defensive fixes across the stack.

Action items

→ Test io_uring workloads and TCP BPF sockmap code on 7.2-rc and flag any threading anomalies torvalds/linux [immediate]
→ Review ceph hardening changes if running distributed storage in production torvalds/linux [plan]
→ Monitor archinstall aarch64 GRUB/Limine EFI support for ARM deployments archlinux/archinstall [monitor]

References

[1] Merge tag 'io_uring-7.2-20260724' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux torvalds/linux
[2] bpf, sockmap: Fix cork use-after-free in tcp_bpf_sendmsg() torvalds/linux
[3] Merge tag 'drm-fixes-2026-07-25' of https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/kernel torvalds/linux
[4] Merge tag 'ceph-for-7.2-rc5' of https://github.com/ceph/ceph-client torvalds/linux
[5] Merge tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux torvalds/linux
[6] Enable flake8-gettext checks in ruff (#4664) archlinux/archinstall

Quick answers

What shipped in Linux on July 25, 2026?: Linus merged critical io_uring corrections and a high-impact sockmap race condition fix that closes a threading vulnerability in TCP BPF message handling. In total, 69 commits and 14 pull requests landed.
Who contributed to Linux on July 25, 2026?: 6 developers shipped this update, including Linus Torvalds, Chengfeng Ye, David Heinemeier Hansson, correctmost, codefiles, and Steev Klimaszewski.
What were the notable Linux updates?: Merge tag 'io_uring-7.2-20260724' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux, bpf, sockmap: Fix cork use-after-free in tcp_bpf_sendmsg(), and Merge tag 'drm-fixes-2026-07-25' of https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/kernel.

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