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NTFS AND MEMORY HOTFIXES LAND AHEAD OF 7.1 FINAL

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The kernel is closing rc5 with critical fixes for filesystem corruption, uninitialized memory leaks, and power profile detection on USB-C laptops.

Three major fix sets hit the tree in the last 24 hours. The NTFS subsystem merged four patches [1] addressing index depth validation, security descriptor memory leaks, and volume label state corruption, the kind of silent data corruption that ships to production undetected. Simultaneously, Andrew Morton's MM hotfixes [2] pulled 14 patches including nine memory-related fixes marked stable and two critical memory-hotplug corrections from Muchun Song. On the userspace side, omarchy fixed a race condition [5] where udev power_supply events fire before sysfs updates on Lenovo Yoga Pro 7 systems, leaving performance mode locked after USB-C unplug. The ATA subsystem [3] corrected deferred command handling to prevent incorrect workqueue usage in PATA drivers, and ksmbd server [4] closed three null pointer dereferences and a memory leak in ACL parsing. Build tooling saw a pacman versioning fix [6] to allow smooth rc-to-stable upgrades without triggering downgrades, and archinstall refactored logging internals [8] for maintainability. Docker multi-arch support lands in omarchy [7] by default, eliminating arm64 build friction.

Action items

References

  1. [1] Merge tag 'ntfs-for-7.1-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linkinjeon/ntfs torvalds/linux ↗
  2. [2] Merge tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2026-05-18-21-07' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm torvalds/linux ↗
  3. [3] Merge tag 'ata-7.1-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/libata/linux torvalds/linux ↗
  4. [4] Merge tag 'v7.1-rc4-ksmbd-server-fixes' of git://git.samba.org/ksmbd torvalds/linux ↗
  5. [5] Fix power profile race on plug/unplug events (#5898) basecamp/omarchy ↗
  6. [6] kbuild: pacman-pkg: make "rc" releases adhere to pacman versioning scheme torvalds/linux ↗
  7. [7] Enable Docker multi-arch builds by default (#5901) basecamp/omarchy ↗
  8. [8] Refactor logging and formatting logic ↗ archlinux/archinstall

$ ls linux/reviews/ # the step-back reads

the week in review Omarchy polkit PAM stack skipped system-auth the month in review Linux 7.3 rc cycle fixes cgroup kill, SMB corruption
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Quick answers

What shipped in Linux on May 20, 2026?
The kernel is closing rc5 with critical fixes for filesystem corruption, uninitialized memory leaks, and power profile detection on USB-C laptops. In total, 10 commits and 3 pull requests landed.
Who contributed to Linux on May 20, 2026?
1 developer shipped this update, including svartkanin.
What were the notable Linux updates?
Merge tag 'ntfs-for-7.1-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linkinjeon/ntfs, Merge tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2026-05-18-21-07' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm, and Merge tag 'ata-7.1-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/libata/linux.
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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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