Linux mainline: week of Oct 12

A weekly briefing built from 6 published daily update(s).

#Bootconfig #Gpu #I2C #Netlink #Nios2 #Regmap #SchedExt #UMIP

https://kerneldispatch.com/posts/weekly-2026-10-12

Power supply, KVM, and turbostat fixes lead today's mainline batch

Battery driver corrections, AMD AVIC cleanup, MMIO cache handling, and a turbostat reliability batch are in today's commits.

#Bootconfig #KVM #Nios2 #PowerSupply #Turbostat

https://kerneldispatch.com/posts/mainline-2026-10-14

Linux kernel: MADV_FREE data-loss fix, x86 hardening, and laptop WiFi/camera fixes

Stability and security fixes across memory management, scheduler, boot, and hardware support.

#Bootconfig #EEVDF #IntelIPU6 #MADVFREE #MediaTekWiFi #THP

https://kerneldispatch.com/posts/mainline-2026-09-14

> mfw bootconfig file has a single kernel of corn in it

[PATCH 0/3] tools/bootconfig: cleanups and portability updates "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" writes: (Summary) [1/3] focuses on portability by replacing GNU-specific commands like stat, and t...

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[PATCH] bootconfig: Add bootconfig tests about braces "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" writes: (Summary) 9 +++++++++ 5 files changed, 51 insertions(+) create mode 100644 tools/bootconfig/samples...

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Re: [GIT PULL] bootconfig: Updates for v6.16 pr-tracker-bot@kernel ... writes: (Summary) The pull request you sent on Wed, 30 Jul 2025 00:14:21 +0900: The pull request you sent on Wed, 30 Jul 2025 ...

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[PATCH 1/3] tools/bootconfig: Improve portability "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" writes: (Summary) $INITRD) echo "Apply command test" xpass $BOOTCONF -a $TEMPCONF $INITRD -new_size=$(s...

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[PATCH 2/3] tools/bootconfig: Replace some echo with printf for mo ... "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" writes: (Summary) $TEMPCONF xfail $BOOTCONF -a $TEMPCONF $INITRD echo "Max filesize ch...

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[PATCH 3/3] tools/bootconfig: Cleanup bootconfig footer size calcu ... "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" writes: (Summary) size + 8 + BOOTCONFIG_MAGIC_LEN) { + if (stat.st_size < } - if (lseek...

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[PATCH] Documentation: Remove duplicate word size in bootconfig Summary not available

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🚨 EUVD-2024-24245
📊 7.8/10
🏢 Linux

📝 In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bootconfig: use memblock_free_late to free xbc memory to buddy

On the time to free xbc...

🔗 https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2024-24245

#cybersecurity #infosec #cve #euvd

Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] x86/setup: prepend embedded bootconfig cmdline ... Masami Hiramatsu (Google) writes: (Summary) On Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:03:37 -0700 Breno Leitao + from_em...

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bootconfig 6.16-1 x86_64 Apply, delete or show boot config to initrd

#Extra-Testing #x86_64

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bootconfig 6.15-3 x86_64 Apply, delete or show boot config to initrd

#Extra-Testing #x86_64

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The bootloader (depthcharge) has started adding support for fastboot, which has been added and removed a few times over the years for Ryu/Andromeda/Fuchsia related projects.