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the week in review · Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

secretmem locked-page accounting fix lands

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Linux 7.3-rc2 carries the fix plus SMB data-corruption and cgroup kill patches this week.

132 commits 32 PRs merged 1 releases 7 briefings covered
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What shipped: The week's most substantial kernel development is the secretmem locked-page accounting fix [1] and its mm hotfixes merge [2], closing an accounting hole that could misreport locked memory. Alongside it, 7.3-rc2 merges landed fixes for cgroup kill behavior, SMB data corruption and DACL handling [3], and DRM display issues targeting Blackwell hardware [4]. Ceph's nearfull_sync now behaves correctly on remount [5], and driver core, NVMe, and LoongArch updates are in [6][7].

Why it matters: The secretmem fix affects any workload using memfd_secret; if you rely on accurate locked-page counters, the accounting hole could lead to unexpected OOM or mlock failures. The SMB data-corruption fix is critical for filesystem integrity on CIFS mounts, so prioritize that backport in enterprise kernels.

Also: On the omarchy side, sshd -T hardening verification is now case-insensitive [8], the Hermes CLI readiness probe was fixed and teardown completed on uninstall [3][9], keepLoaded is honored during plugin hot-reload [10], and OpenClaw joined as a desktop app and coding agent [11].

References

  1. [1] mm/secretmem: properly account locked pages ↗ torvalds/linux
  2. [2] Merge tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2026-09-03-17-45' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm ↗ torvalds/linux
  3. [3] Fix the Hermes CLI readiness probe, and tear the CLI down on uninstall ↗ basecamp/omarchy
  4. [4] Merge tag 'drm-fixes-2026-09-05' of https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/kernel ↗ torvalds/linux
  5. [5] Merge tag 'ceph-for-7.3-rc2' of https://github.com/ceph/ceph-client ↗ torvalds/linux
  6. [6] Merge tag 'driver-core-7.3-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/driver-core/driver-core ↗ torvalds/linux
  7. [7] Merge tag 'loongarch-fixes-7.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chenhuacai/linux-loongson ↗ torvalds/linux
  8. [8] Match sshd -T keywords case-insensitively when verifying hardening ↗ basecamp/omarchy
  9. [9] Say how to finish a failed teardown, and record the probe's real history ↗ basecamp/omarchy
  10. [10] Honor keepLoaded for services during plugin hot-reload ↗ basecamp/omarchy
  11. [11] Add OpenClaw as a desktop app and a coding agent ↗ basecamp/omarchy

$ ls linux/week/ # the briefings behind this review

Mon Aug 31 OpenSSH 10 hardening failure and security policy land across omarchy Tue Sep 1 Cgroup kill fix, EDAC orphanings land in 7.3-rc2 Wed Sep 2 SMB fixes land in 7.3-rc2: data corruption and DACL handling Thu Sep 3 randstruct off with Rust, Hermes probe and keepLoaded fixes Fri Sep 4 secretmem locked-page accounting hole closed across Linux tree Sat Sep 5 DRM fixes target Blackwell display, ceph nearfull_sync on remount Sun Sep 6 Driver core, NVMe, LoongArch fixes land in 7.3-rc2; Omarchy gains OpenClaw app
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