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LINUX 7.1-RC6 LANDS WITH USB, TTY, AND SMCIFS FIXES

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Greg KH shipped the final batch of USB and serial driver patches for 7.1, closing out the release cycle with fixes for typec fuzzer findings and long-standing MIPS console issues.

The USB merge [1] pulls in typec fixes discovered by fuzzer campaigns that had finally reached driver binding paths, plus a batch of device ID updates and smaller device interaction issues. The tty/serial driver pull [2] addresses what KH calls the majority of changes: MIPS serial driver fixes that resolve long-standing console interaction bugs, alongside sh-sci and 8250 regression fixes that shipped in earlier RCs. The char/misc/iio merge [3] hits the finishing line with dozens of small IIO driver fixes, Android binder bugfixes, and oddball drivers like the parport (still in use, apparently). On the storage side, Steve French landed smcifs client fixes [4] for an uninitialized variable in smb2_writev_callback and a folioq copy detection issue that was leaving data on the table. Mike Rapoport's liveupdate fixes [5] close out kexec handover regressions with order calculation corrections for both 4KB and 16KB page sizes.

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  1. [1] Merge tag 'usb-7.1-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb torvalds/linux ↗
  2. [2] Merge tag 'tty-7.1-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty torvalds/linux ↗
  3. [3] Merge tag 'char-misc-7.1-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc torvalds/linux ↗
  4. [4] Merge tag 'v7.1-rc6-smb3-client-fixes' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6 torvalds/linux ↗
  5. [5] Merge tag 'liveupdate-fixes-2026-05-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/liveupdate/linux torvalds/linux ↗

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Quick answers

What shipped in Linux on May 31, 2026?
Greg KH shipped the final batch of USB and serial driver patches for 7.1, closing out the release cycle with fixes for typec fuzzer findings and long-standing MIPS console issues. In total, 7 commits landed.
What were the notable Linux updates?
Merge tag 'usb-7.1-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb, Merge tag 'tty-7.1-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty, and Merge tag 'char-misc-7.1-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.
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$ log Linux --recent

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$ log --all # elsewhere on the wire

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