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[PATCH] ntfs: validate final EA attribute size
 2026-07-16  2:46 UTC  (6+ messages)
` [PATCH] ntfs: remove empty EA attribute pair
` [PATCH] ntfs: rewrite EA stream before updating metadata
` [PATCH] ntfs: fix kmap_local_page() usage in compress
` [PATCH] ntfs: file extension before write submission
` [PATCH] ntfs: use pagecache_isize_extended() on size extension

[PATCH 0/6] drm/i915/dp: Enable UHBR link rates on tunneled links
 2026-07-16  2:46 UTC  (3+ messages)
` [PATCH 2/6] drm/i915/dp: End link configuration loops properly

[PATCH 0/3] riscv: Add generic SBI MPXY interface and MPXY command
 2026-07-16  2:45 UTC  (9+ messages)
` [PATCH 1/3] riscv: Add SBI MPXY generic interface
` [PATCH 2/3] cmd: Add mpxy command and add RISC-V RPMI driver

[PATCH] perf build: Fix a compiler error in util/libbfd.c
 2026-07-16  2:44 UTC  (2+ messages)

[PATCH v3 0/9] dmaengine: dw-edma: Fixes and interrupt-path groundwork
 2026-07-16  2:44 UTC  (7+ messages)
` [PATCH v3 2/9] dmaengine: dw-edma: Terminate all descriptors without callbacks
` [PATCH v3 5/9] dmaengine: dw-edma: Serialize channel state checks

[LTP] Revert "tpci: unbind driver in test_assign_resources()"
 2026-07-16  2:43 UTC  (3+ messages)

[PATCH v2] platform/chrome: sensorhub: Fix dropped timestamp events and log spam
 2026-07-16  2:43 UTC  (2+ messages)

[v3 0/2] drm/i915/display: Implement Display Wa_16030862157
 2026-07-16  2:41 UTC  (5+ messages)
` [v3 1/2] drm/i915/xe3p/dram: Interpret 0xF populated-channel count as 16
` [v3 2/2] drm/i915/xe3p/bw: Update bw calculation to account for 16 channels

[PATCH 1/5] drm/amd/ras: send RMA envent in RAS init stage
 2026-07-16  2:40 UTC  (11+ messages)
` [PATCH 4/5] drm/amd/ras: add real ras deferred error count
` [PATCH 5/5] drm/amd/ras: add ras ce log switch for uniras

[PATCH v3] drm/mediatek: mtk_hdmi: Fix DDC adapter double put in v2
 2026-07-16  2:39 UTC  (2+ messages)

[PATCH v4 02/12] rvtrace: Initial implementation of driver framework
 2026-07-16  2:37 UTC  (9+ messages)

[PATCH v5] ALSA: hda/realtek: Add inverted LED quirk for HP ZBook 8 G2a
 2026-07-16  2:38 UTC 

[PATCH sched_ext] sched/ext: Keep tick enabled for finite-slice tasks
 2026-07-16  2:37 UTC 

[PATCH v7 00/10] tracing: wprobe: x86: Add wprobe for watchpoint
 2026-07-16  2:37 UTC  (5+ messages)
` [PATCH v7 10/10] selftests: ftrace: Add wprobe trigger testcase

[PATCH 0/3] Fix two station roaming crashes
 2026-07-16  2:34 UTC  (4+ messages)
` [PATCH 1/3] station: fix use-after-free in preauthenticate_cb
` [PATCH 2/3] netdev: reject reassociation while connect pending
` [PATCH 3/3] station: fix NULL deref in ap_directed_roam

[PATCH v4 1/2] dt-bindings: qcom,snps-dwc3: Add property indicating presence of eUSB2 phy
 2026-07-16  2:35 UTC  (11+ messages)

[PATCH] drm/amdgpu: skip clearing empty freed VM list on GEM close
 2026-07-16  2:35 UTC  (3+ messages)

[PATCH 1/3] drm/amdgpu: track faulted gfx user-queue slots
 2026-07-16  2:35 UTC  (3+ messages)
` [PATCH 2/3] drm/amdgpu/gfx11: recover gfx user queues on priv-fault
` [PATCH 3/3] drm/amdgpu/gfx12: "

[PATCH slab/for-next-fixes v3 0/4] mm/slab: fix unbounded recursion in free path with memalloc profiling
 2026-07-16  2:34 UTC  (10+ messages)
` [PATCH slab/for-next-fixes v3 1/4] mm/slab: fix a memory leak due to bootstrapping sheaves twice
` [PATCH slab/for-next-fixes v3 3/4] lib/alloc_tag: introduce mem_alloc_profiling_permanently_disabled()

[PATCH v2 0/3] smb/server: fix some bugs in preparation for change notify support
 2026-07-16  2:33 UTC  (7+ messages)
` [PATCH v2 2/3] smb/server: cancel async requests when closing connection
` [PATCH v2 3/3] smb/server: stop new async work "

[PATCH] ARM: dts: aspeed: sanmiguel: fix PWRGD_RMC_N active-low hog configuration
 2026-07-16  2:31 UTC 

[PATCH] ata: pata_ep93xx: fix double-free of DMA channel on error path
 2026-07-16  2:31 UTC  (2+ messages)
` [PATCH] pata_ep93xx: fix possible NULL pointer dereference in ep93xx_pata_release_dma()

[PATCH 0/2] thermal: loongson2: Add support for Loongson-2K0300 SoC
 2026-07-16  2:31 UTC  (4+ messages)
` [PATCH 2/2] thermal/drivers/loongson2: Add thermal driver support for Loongson-2K0300

[RFC PATCH 0/6] mem2mem_testdev: fix v4l2-compliance errors
 2026-07-16  2:31 UTC  (4+ messages)
` [RFC PATCH 1/6] mem2mem_testdev: convert to the control framework and v4l2_fh

[PATCH] mm: mglru: promote mapped executable folios after first usage
 2026-07-16  2:30 UTC  (3+ messages)

[STATUS] next/master - b8809969e1d7a591e0f49dd464a5d04b3cf02ab1
 2026-07-16  2:30 UTC 

[PATCH v3 2/2] media: s2255: Rename CamelCase goto labels to snake_case
 2026-07-16  2:29 UTC 

[RFC v2 0/3] mm/mglru: proactive aging via memory.aging
 2026-07-16  2:29 UTC  (3+ messages)

[PATCH v1 0/1] ntfs3: fix boundary check in ntfs_dir_count()
 2026-07-16  2:20 UTC  (4+ messages)
` [PATCH v1 1/1] "

[PATCH v2] RDMA/rxe: Hold netdev reference for transmit skbs
 2026-07-16  2:27 UTC  (3+ messages)
` [PATCH v3] "

[harry:kmalloc-no-objext-rfc-v1r3] [mm/slab] d6967566f4: RIP:mark_obj_codetag_empty
 2026-07-16  2:27 UTC  (2+ messages)

[PATCH] media: rkvdec: use DIV_ROUND_UP() for CTB counts
 2026-07-16  2:26 UTC  (3+ messages)

[PATCH v3 0/2] media: s2255: Fix firmware parsing OOB and cleanup coding style
 2026-07-16  2:23 UTC  (2+ messages)
` [PATCH v3 1/2] media: s2255: check firmware size before reading trailing marker

[PATCH] smb: client: clear setuid/setgid bit on write with cifsacl/modefromsid/posix extensions
 2026-07-16  2:22 UTC 

[PATCH 0/2] mm/zswap: Fixes and improves the zswap global shrinker
 2026-07-16  2:21 UTC  (7+ messages)
` [PATCH 1/2] mm/zswap: Fix global shrinker when memory cgroup is disabled

[PATCH v4 0/4] Add Agilex5 SoCDK TSN Config2 board support
 2026-07-16  2:19 UTC  (5+ messages)
` [PATCH v4 1/4] dt-bindings: arm: altera: Add Agilex5 SoCDK TSN Config2 board
` [PATCH v4 2/4] arm64: dts: socfpga: agilex5: Add "
` [PATCH v4 3/4] dt-bindings: net: altr,socfpga-stmmac: Add altr,socfpga-stmmac-agilex5-tsn compatible
` [PATCH net-next v4 4/4] net: stmmac: dwmac-socfpga: Add support for Agilex5 TSN GMAC with FPGA converter

[PATCH] mm: shmem: make unused huge shrinker memcg aware
 2026-07-16  2:20 UTC  (5+ messages)

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Yocto Project 6.0.2 (wrynose-6.0.2) is Released
 2026-07-16  2:18 UTC 

[PATCH v1 0/7] bug fixes
 2026-07-16  2:18 UTC  (15+ messages)
` [PATCH v1 1/7] media: chips-media: wave5: Guard bit depth check with initial_info_obtained
` [PATCH v1 2/7] media: chips-media: wave5: Set inst->std during default format initialization
` [PATCH v1 3/7] media: chips-media: wave5: avoid skipping device_run while VPU has work
` [PATCH v1 4/7] media: chips-media: wave5: Add timeout while stop_streaming
` [PATCH v1 5/7] media: chips-media: wave5: Defer job_finish() only when a DEC_PIC was queued
` [PATCH v1 6/7] media: chips-media: wave5: Fix pipeline stall when queuing fails
` [PATCH v1 7/7] media: chips-media: wave5: Resume device before setting EOS flag

[PATCH + QUESTION] bpf: use cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs in bpf_fd_array_map_clear() loop
 2026-07-16  2:16 UTC  (2+ messages)

[PATCH 0/2] mm/page_alloc: fixes for free_pages_nolock() on RT/UP
 2026-07-16  2:16 UTC  (5+ messages)
` [PATCH 1/2] mm/page_alloc: don't spin_trylock() in NMI on UP
` [PATCH 2/2] mm/page_alloc: don't spin_trylock() when disallowed in free_one_page()

[PATCH] usb: gadget: dummy_hcd: fix IRQs-disabled violation in dummy_timer()
 2026-07-16  2:15 UTC  (2+ messages)

[REGRESSION] mainline/master: Apalis iMX6 no longer boots
 2026-07-16  2:15 UTC  (3+ messages)

[anolis-intel-cloud:devel-6.6 53/53] versioncheck: ./drivers/scsi/hisi_raid/hiraid_main.c: 9 linux/version.h not needed
 2026-07-16  2:11 UTC 

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 2026-07-16  2:10 UTC  (5+ messages)
` [PATCH 1/4] docs: pt_BR: Translate submit-checklist to Portuguese
` [PATCH 2/4] docs: pt_BR: Translate code-of-conduct-interpretation "
` [PATCH 3/4] docs: pt_BR: Translate Code of Conduct "
` [PATCH 4/4] docs: pt_BR: Translate deprecated interfaces guide "

[PATCH net] ipv4: icmp: fill flow parameters in icmp_route_lookup decoy lookup
 2026-07-16  2:10 UTC 

[PATCH net-next v3] net: skb: isolate skb data area allocations into a separate bucket
 2026-07-16  2:10 UTC  (6+ messages)

[PATCH] arm64: syscall: Ensure saved x0 is kept in-sync with tracer updates
 2026-07-16  2:09 UTC  (4+ messages)

[PATCH] drm/radeon: allocate dummy_page without DMA32 on fail
 2026-07-16  2:08 UTC  (3+ messages)

[PATCH v2] drm/mediatek: fix of_node leak in mtk_drm_probe loop
 2026-07-16  2:06 UTC  (2+ messages)

[PATCH] drm/panthor: add gpu_load debugfs node
 2026-07-16  2:05 UTC  (5+ messages)
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[PATCH] LoongArch: KVM: Allow to set pv_feature until vCPU run
 2026-07-16  2:03 UTC  (2+ messages)

[PATCH v10 0/6] mm/swap, memcg: Introduce swap tiers for cgroup based swap control
 2026-07-16  2:02 UTC  (11+ messages)

[bcain:bcain/qemu_boot 47/70] mm/mm_init.c:936:37: error: 'struct zone' has no member named 'pageblock_flags'
 2026-07-16  2:00 UTC 

[PATCH v12 0/7] Bluetooth: btmtk: Add MT7928 support
 2026-07-16  1:59 UTC  (8+ messages)
` [PATCH v12 1/7] Bluetooth: btmtksdio: Fix DMA out-of-bounds access in TX path
` [PATCH v12 2/7] Bluetooth: btmtk: Add firmware size validation in btmtk_setup_firmware_79xx()
` [PATCH v12 3/7] Bluetooth: btmtksdio: Pass hardware dev_id to mt79xx_setup()
` [PATCH v12 4/7] Bluetooth: btmtk: Improve BT firmware logging
` [PATCH v12 5/7] Bluetooth: btmtksdio: Remove redundant firmware filename override
` [PATCH v12 6/7] Bluetooth: btmtk: Replace magic numbers with WMT packet flag enum
` [PATCH v12 7/7] Bluetooth: btmtk: Add MT7928 support

[PATCH BlueZ] adapter: Trigger profile connection on inbound device connection
 2026-07-16  1:59 UTC  (3+ messages)

[PATCH v2 0/3] ath11k/ath12k: implement TX flow control
 2026-07-16  1:57 UTC  (5+ messages)
` [PATCH v2 2/3] wifi: ath11k: implement custom wake_tx_queue with "
` [PATCH v2 3/3] wifi: ath12k: "

障害者の就労を支援する事業 新規開業パートナー募集
 2026-07-16  1:56 UTC 

[PATCH v7 00/22] dma-mapping: Track shared DMA state through direct, pool and swiotlb paths
 2026-07-16  1:55 UTC  (5+ messages)
` [PATCH v7 16/22] dma-direct: make dma_direct_map_phys() honor DMA_ATTR_CC_SHARED

[GSoC] [Blog] week 1: Improving the new git repo command
 2026-07-16  1:52 UTC  (6+ messages)
` [GSoC] [Blog] week 2: "
  ` [GSoC] [Blog] week 3: "
    ` [GSoC] [Blog] week 4: "
      ` [GSoC] [Blog] week 5: "
        ` [GSoC] [Blog] week 6 & 7: "

ipv4: icmp: icmp_route_lookup() relookups pick wrong netdev with policy routing + strict rp_filter
 2026-07-16  1:50 UTC  (3+ messages)

[PATCH v3] rust: hrtimer: Restrict expires() to safe contexts
 2026-07-16  1:50 UTC  (4+ messages)

[PATCH] media: chips-media: wave5: Check decoder qbuf runtime resume
 2026-07-16  1:50 UTC  (2+ messages)

[PATCH GSoC v17 00/13] cat-file: add remote-object-info to batch-command
 2026-07-16  1:47 UTC  (9+ messages)
` [PATCH GSoC v18 "
  ` [PATCH GSoC v18 13/13] cat-file: make remote-object-info allow-list dynamic

[PATCH RFC 00/12] mm/slab, alloc_tag: reduce obj_ext memory waste
 2026-07-16  1:44 UTC  (9+ messages)
` [PATCH RFC 04/12] mm/slab: make slab_obj_ext() determine object index
` [PATCH RFC 05/12] mm/slab: abstract slabobj_ext.objcg access
` [PATCH RFC 06/12] mm/slab: abstract slabobj_ext.ref access
` [PATCH RFC 07/12] mm/slab: replace slab.stride with obj_exts_in_object

[PATCH v4] ARM: mm: acquire mmap write lock around show_pte() for user faults
 2026-07-16  1:40 UTC 

[PATCH] selinux: compute the IMA configuration settings string length once at boot
 2026-07-16  1:41 UTC  (2+ messages)

[PATCH] [makedumpfile] Avoid glibc lazy-unwind machinery in parallel teardown
 2026-07-16  1:41 UTC  (2+ messages)

[PATCH v7] net: gro: fix double aggregation of flush-marked skbs
 2026-07-16  1:41 UTC  (3+ messages)

[PATCH v5 0/4] drm/xe: Prioritize BO eviction based on VM exec queue priority
 2026-07-16  1:41 UTC  (2+ messages)
` ✗ Xe.CI.FULL: failure for drm/xe: Prioritize BO eviction based on VM exec queue priority (rev4)

[PATCH 0/2] arm64: dts: rockchip: Add ArmSoM CM5 and CM5-IO
 2026-07-16  1:40 UTC  (7+ messages)
` [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: arm: "
` [PATCH 2/2] arm64: dts: "

[PATCH] media: mediatek: jpeg: retry HW selection after successful wait
 2026-07-16  1:39 UTC  (2+ messages)

[PATCH] ppdev: prevent overflow when setting port timeout
 2026-07-16  1:39 UTC 

[PATCH] Input: wacom_w8001 - replace strlcat() with a strscpy() helper
 2026-07-16  1:39 UTC  (2+ messages)

[PATCH] xfs/333: require external scratch device
 2026-07-16  1:37 UTC 

[LTP] [PATCH v2 1/2] test macros: Fix TST_EXP_FD_OR_FAIL()
 2026-07-16  1:36 UTC  (2+ messages)

[PATCH v3 0/4] ntfs: Remove __folio_index from ntfs
 2026-07-16  1:34 UTC  (2+ messages)

Quantas CCLA Schedule A update 20250602
 2026-07-16  1:34 UTC  (11+ messages)
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[PATCH v2] iommu/msm: unwind probe state on registration failure
 2026-07-16  1:32 UTC 

[BUG] bpf, sockmap: spurious wakeup by tcp_msg_wait_data() causing unexpected EAGAIN in recvfrom()
 2026-07-16  1:30 UTC  (3+ messages)
` [PATCH v4 0/2] bpf, sockmap: handle spurious tcp_msg_wait_data() wakeup

eDP support for RK3568
 2026-07-16  1:29 UTC  (2+ messages)

[PATCH] fuse: disable default bdi strictlimiting
 2026-07-16  1:28 UTC  (12+ messages)

[PATCH v2 1/2] liveupdate: fix GET_NAME ioctl argument validation
 2026-07-16  1:26 UTC  (2+ messages)
` [PATCH v2 2/2] liveupdate: reject nonzero reserved value for SESSION_FINISH

[GSoC Patch 0/7] repo: add more path keys to git repo info
 2026-07-16  1:21 UTC  (8+ messages)
` [GSoC Patch 1/7] repo: add path.toplevel with absolute and relative suffix formatting
` [GSoC Patch 2/7] repo: add path.superproject-working-tree with absolute and relative suffixes
` [GSoC Patch 3/7] repo: add path.objects with absolute and relative suffix formatting
` [GSoC Patch 4/7] repo: add path.hooks "
` [GSoC Patch 5/7] repo: add path.index "
` [GSoC Patch 6/7] repo: add path.grafts "
` [GSoC Patch 7/7] repo: add path.git-prefix path key validation

[PATCH 1/2] iommu/virtio: Set driver data before enabling virtqueues
 2026-07-16  1:25 UTC 

[PATCH v2 0/5] mm: fix inode UAF when splitting a file folio past EOF
 2026-07-16  1:24 UTC  (10+ messages)
` [PATCH v2 1/5] mm/memory-failure: keep the folio, not the poisoned subpage, locked across split

[PATCH net v3] tun/tap & vhost-net: make qdisc backpressure opt-in via IFF_BACKPRESSURE
 2026-07-16  1:22 UTC  (4+ messages)
    ` [LTP] "

[PATCH] iommu/virtio: Set driver data before enabling virtqueues
 2026-07-16  1:21 UTC  (2+ messages)
` [PATCH] iommu/virtio: Handle iommu_device_register() failures

[PATCH] media: meson: vdec: fix NULL pointer deref in vdec_try_fmt_common
 2026-07-16  1:21 UTC  (3+ messages)

[PATCH 6.12.y-cip 00/23] Add support for RZ/G3L pincontrol
 2026-07-16  1:19 UTC  (4+ messages)
` [PATCH 6.12.y-cip 02/23] dt-bindings: pinctrl: renesas: Document RZ/G3L SoC
    ` [cip-dev] "

[PATCH v2] fs: push nr_cached_objects memcg gating into individual filesystems
 2026-07-16  1:20 UTC  (2+ messages)

[PATCH] iommu/virtio: Handle iommu_device_register() failures
 2026-07-16  1:18 UTC 

[RFC PATCH] x86/apic: Fix lost IRQ during forced vector migration on Hyper-V
 2026-07-16  1:17 UTC  (2+ messages)

[PATCH] media: mediatek: vcodec: fix use-after-free in decoder release path
 2026-07-16  1:17 UTC  (2+ messages)

[PATCH] KVM: x86: Only reset TSC Deadline Timer in apic_timer_expired on KVM_RUN
 2026-07-16  1:14 UTC  (2+ messages)

[Bug 221755] New: amd_pmc: ThinkPad T14 Gen 2 AMD machine type 20XL missing from s2idle quirk list - intermittent ~10s resume from s2idle
 2026-07-16  1:13 UTC  (2+ messages)
` [Bug 221755] "

[PATCH] virtio_net: fix spelling of aggressively in comments
 2026-07-16  1:12 UTC 

[PATCH] selftests/seccomp: Fix pointer type mismatch build error
 2026-07-16  1:11 UTC  (2+ messages)

[PATCH 0/2] mach-omap2: am33xx: ddr JEDEC spec fixups
 2026-07-16  1:08 UTC  (2+ messages)

[PATCH] clk: ti: Use CPU ticks to count timeout
 2026-07-16  1:08 UTC  (2+ messages)

[PATCH] selftests/lkdtm: rename STACKLEAK_ERASING to KSTACK_ERASE
 2026-07-16  1:08 UTC  (2+ messages)

[PATCH v12 0/4] vfio/dma-buf: add TPH support for peer-to-peer access
 2026-07-16  1:07 UTC  (2+ messages)

[PATCH] media: mtk-jpeg: drain hardware completion before freeing context
 2026-07-16  1:06 UTC  (2+ messages)

[PATCH v3] iio: light: tsl2583: migrate to sysfs_emit() and sysfs_emit_at()
 2026-07-16  1:04 UTC 

[PATCH] cmd/mtd.c: fix do_mtd_io doesn't support 64bit user address
 2026-07-15 23:28 UTC 

[PATCH] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Fix use-after-free in arm_smmu_get_by_fwnode
 2026-07-16  1:04 UTC 

U-Boot NFS READLINK short reply reads uninitialized path byte
 2026-07-15 22:21 UTC 

[PATCH 0/4] Initial MSM8953 support
 2026-07-15 15:17 UTC  (5+ messages)
` [PATCH 1/4] clk/qcom: Add MSM8953 clock driver
` [PATCH 2/4] qcom_defconfig: Enable "
` [PATCH 3/4] drivers: pinctrl: Add Qualcomm MSM8953 TLMM driver
` [PATCH 4/4] mach-snapdragon: Do reserved memory carveout for MSM8953/SDM632

[PATCH v3 0/9] media: bound stateless HEVC/AV1 tile counts
 2026-07-16  1:03 UTC  (3+ messages)

[PATCH RFC 0/3] RFC: Fixing rust segfault (#16058) to support Ubuntu 26.04 on Scarthgap
 2026-07-16  1:01 UTC  (9+ messages)
            ` [OE-core] "

[PATCH v2] wifi: ath11k/ath12k: release QMI handles on late init failures
 2026-07-16  0:59 UTC  (2+ messages)

[RESEND PATCH 00/22] IIO: Clean out superfluous I2C checks for single transfers
 2026-07-16  0:57 UTC  (11+ messages)
` [PATCH 01/22] iio: adc: ltc2471: Remove redundant i2c_master_recv() length check
` [PATCH 02/22] iio: adc: ti-ads7138: Remove redundant i2c_master_send() length checks
` [PATCH 03/22] iio: adc: versal-sysmon: Remove redundant i2c_master_{send,recv}() "
` [PATCH 08/22] iio: chemical: sps30: "
` [PATCH 09/22] iio: dac: ad5446: Remove redundant i2c_master_send() length check
` [PATCH 10/22] iio: dac: ad5696: "
` [PATCH 13/22] iio: dac: max5821: Remove redundant i2c_master_{send,recv}() length checks
` [PATCH 15/22] iio: dac: mcp4728: "
` [PATCH 17/22] iio: potentiometer: ad5110: "
` [PATCH 21/22] iio: pressure: mprls0025pa: "


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