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HID BUFFER OVERFLOW PATCHES LAND IN RC6

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The kernel closes critical buffer overflow vulnerabilities in Lenovo and Wacom HID drivers before the 7.1 release hardens.

Benjamin Tissoires merged a collection of HID fixes that patch buffer overflow issues in the Lenovo and Wacom drivers [1], the kind of vulnerabilities that can corrupt kernel memory if triggered by a malicious or malfunctioning device. The same merge addresses segfault prevention in the Lenovo-Go driver when paired with emulated devices [1], a real-world scenario for testing environments. Separately, the sound subsystem landed a use-after-free fix in the PCM OSS proc interface caught by fuzzer testing [2], a typical but critical kernel stability issue that could crash audio systems under load. On the networking front, an IPv6 address ordering change was reverted after causing SSH connection drops when NetworkManager reconfigures addresses [3], a regression that demonstrates how subtle ordering assumptions break production workloads. The ipsec pull also landed namespace threading fixes for MIGRATE notifications [4] and a sockmap correctness fix for fragment offset calculations in bpf_msg_push_data [5], both addressing edge cases in kernel networking that could cause data corruption or leaks.

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  1. [1] Merge tag 'hid-for-linus-2026052801' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hid/hid torvalds/linux ↗
  2. [2] Merge tag 'sound-7.1-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound torvalds/linux ↗
  3. [3] Revert "ipv6: preserve insertion order for same-scope addresses" torvalds/linux ↗
  4. [4] Merge tag 'ipsec-2026-05-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/klassert/ipsec torvalds/linux ↗
  5. [5] bpf: sockmap: fix tail fragment offset in bpf_msg_push_data torvalds/linux ↗

$ 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 30, 2026?
The kernel closes critical buffer overflow vulnerabilities in Lenovo and Wacom HID drivers before the 7.1 release hardens. In total, 35 commits landed.
What were the notable Linux updates?
Merge tag 'hid-for-linus-2026052801' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hid/hid, Merge tag 'sound-7.1-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound, and Revert "ipv6: preserve insertion order for same-scope addresses".
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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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