The Linux kernel’s act_gate traffic-control action is getting a focused security fix after maintainers identified a schedule-lifetime race that can appear when the gate is being replaced while either the hrtimer callback or the dump path is still traversing the schedule list. The upstream patch...
The Linux kernel received a targeted fix addressing a race-related use‑after‑free in the SMC (Shared Memory Communications) networking code: smc_clc_prfx_set now uses __sk_dst_get and dst_dev_rcu under an RCU read‑lock to prevent dereferencing a freed device pointer when the function runs...