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KERNEL RC7 PLUGS FUTEX RACE AND MCE BUG; OMARCHY FIXES UPGRADE TRAP

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Linus Torvalds dhh Scott Jones
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Linus Torvalds @torvalds 5 cited dhh @dhh 4 cited Scott Jones @scottjones 1 cited

Linus merged five critical subsystem fixes overnight, including a futex race that can leave tasks stuck and a Quattro upgrade script that silently fails mid-transition, leaving the system in an unsafe state.

The kernel is tightening up for 7.2 final. A race in futex_pivot_pending() during private hash resize can cause stuck tasks [1], while an MCE CMCI discovery initialization ordering bug required setting up the polling timer first [2]. Greg KH's char-misc and tty/serial/USB trees landed documentation updates and device quirks [3] [4] [5], all standard RC7 fare. Meanwhile, omarchy faces more urgent ground-level pain. The Quattro upgrade script aborts silently two-thirds through when bin/omarchy-done is missing, leaving NetworkManager enabled while iwd remains active, and nothing printed to signal failure [6]. The About window also couldn't fit its content in the default 875x600 float, causing lines to wrap over the logo [7]. Both issues shipped fixes in the latest PRs [8] [9] [10], with test harness improvements to catch these failures earlier by running the full suite instead of stopping at first failure.

Action items

References

  1. [1] Merge tag 'locking-urgent-2026-08-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip torvalds/linux ↗
  2. [2] Merge tag 'x86-urgent-2026-08-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip torvalds/linux ↗
  3. [3] Merge tag 'char-misc-7.2-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc torvalds/linux ↗
  4. [4] Merge tag 'usb-7.2-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb torvalds/linux ↗
  5. [5] Merge tag 'tty-7.2-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty torvalds/linux ↗
  6. [6] Keep the Quattro upgrade from aborting silently into an unsafe state ↗ basecamp/omarchy
  7. [7] Fit the About window to its rendered content ↗ basecamp/omarchy
  8. [8] Remove the omarchy-update-perform compatibility wrapper basecamp/omarchy ↗
  9. [9] Run every test file instead of stopping at the first failure (#6622) basecamp/omarchy ↗
  10. [10] Keep the Quattro upgrade from aborting silently into an unsafe state (#6617) basecamp/omarchy ↗

$ 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 August 9, 2026?
Linus merged five critical subsystem fixes overnight, including a futex race that can leave tasks stuck and a Quattro upgrade script that silently fails mid-transition, leaving the system in an unsafe state. In total, 26 commits and 6 pull requests landed.
Who contributed to Linux on August 9, 2026?
3 developers shipped this update, including Linus Torvalds, dhh, and Scott Jones.
What were the notable Linux updates?
Merge tag 'locking-urgent-2026-08-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip, Merge tag 'x86-urgent-2026-08-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip, and Merge tag 'char-misc-7.2-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.
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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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