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KERNEL RC3 LANDS WITH NETWORKING AND AUDIO FIXES, VETH ASYMMETRY BUG PATCHED

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The 7.1-rc3 merge window closes with critical fixes across networking, sound, and SELinux—including a nasty out-of-bounds queue access bug in veth that could corrupt XDP redirects.

Linus pulled net-7.1-rc3 [1] with fixes spanning Netfilter, IPsec, Bluetooth, and WiFi, plus corrections to recently-landed resizable hash tables that were causing regressions. The veth driver caught a serious bug [2] where asymmetric queue pairs would cause out-of-bounds access during XDP redirect operations—if a peer device has fewer TX queues than RX queues, the ring index calculation overflows, corrupting the transmit path. Sound subsystem also landed rc3 [3] fixing race conditions in deferred fasync checks and UMP group filtering in the sequencer, along with codec-specific cleanups in cs35l56 and tas2. SELinux merged policy file handling improvements [4] that allow multiple concurrent opens to /sys/fs/selinux/policy without blocking readers. The sparx5 network driver [5] got a fix for uninitialized serdes configuration on 1000BASE-X ports that was leaving devices pointed at high-speed blocks instead of shadow 2.5G devices.

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  1. [1] Merge tag 'net-7.1-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net torvalds/linux ↗
  2. [2] veth: fix OOB txq access in veth_poll() with asymmetric queue counts torvalds/linux ↗
  3. [3] Merge tag 'sound-7.1-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound torvalds/linux ↗
  4. [4] Merge tag 'selinux-pr-20260507' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/selinux torvalds/linux ↗
  5. [5] net: sparx5: configure serdes for 1000BASE-X in sparx5_port_init() torvalds/linux ↗

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Quick answers

What shipped in Linux on May 8, 2026?
The 7.1-rc3 merge window closes with critical fixes across networking, sound, and SELinux—including a nasty out-of-bounds queue access bug in veth that could corrupt XDP redirects. In total, 46 commits and 13 pull requests landed.
What were the notable Linux updates?
Merge tag 'net-7.1-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net, veth: fix OOB txq access in veth_poll() with asymmetric queue counts, and Merge tag 'sound-7.1-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.
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$ log Linux --recent

drm-fixes backs out dma-buf debug, vfs closes pathwalk use-after-frees 29 shipped Netlink stops hashing the net pointer, stmmac clears a stuck RGMII interrupt 27 shipped Poly1305 carry fix lands, Omarchy locks down N1x laptops and idle fingerprint readers 23 shipped Omarchy copies agent logins over SSH, kernel queues 7.4 merges 106 shipped

$ log --all # elsewhere on the wire

Alignment & Post-training verl rejects conflicting vLLM engine_kwargs, open-instruct adds MILES OPD behind a Megatron learner Interpretability nnsight 0.8.0 cuts import time from 7.6s to 1.6s

$ ls showcases/

Safety Evals AI Red Teaming Agent Security Interpretability Alignment & Post-training

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