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KERNEL RC1 FIXES LAND ACROSS IRQ, X86, AND PERF SUBSYSTEMS

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Linus pulled five urgent fix sets overnight addressing resource leaks in irqchip drivers, an out-of-bounds vulnerability in Intel SNC resctrl code, and critical perf events regressions.

The irqchip fixes [1] tackle three driver-level issues: a resource leak in RISC-V imsic-early, an OF node reference leak in ARM gic-v3-its, and a dangling handler bug in the TS-4800 board driver that surfaces on module removal. The x86 fix [2] prevents out-of-bounds CPU offlining access when Intel Sub-NUMA Clustering is enabled in resctrl, a hardware resource control subsystem hitting production systems. Perf events [3] landed fixes for remove_on_exec handling in group events, uprobes CALL emulation with shadow stacks, and an uprobes unregister regression. The locking team [4] reverted an overzealous futex-requeue deadlock detection patch that introduced regressions, restoring the previous behavior. SPI fixes [5] are minor and device-specific, including Renesas DT binding improvements for power domains.

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References

  1. [1] Merge tag 'irq-urgent-2026-07-05' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip torvalds/linux ↗
  2. [2] Merge tag 'x86-urgent-2026-07-05' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip torvalds/linux ↗
  3. [3] Merge tag 'perf-urgent-2026-07-05' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip torvalds/linux ↗
  4. [4] Merge tag 'locking-urgent-2026-07-05' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip torvalds/linux ↗
  5. [5] Merge tag 'spi-fix-v7.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/spi 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 July 6, 2026?
Linus pulled five urgent fix sets overnight addressing resource leaks in irqchip drivers, an out-of-bounds vulnerability in Intel SNC resctrl code, and critical perf events regressions. In total, 7 commits landed.
What were the notable Linux updates?
Merge tag 'irq-urgent-2026-07-05' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip, Merge tag 'x86-urgent-2026-07-05' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip, and Merge tag 'perf-urgent-2026-07-05' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.
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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

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

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