zswap

Linux is adopting a subtle but powerful tweak to its in‑kernel compressed‑swap subsystem — zswap — that gives administrators and container orchestrators fine‑grained control to keep cold pages compressed in RAM instead of writing them to disk, a capability Windows has provided system‑wide for...

The Linux kernel has a newly cataloged use‑after‑free in the zswap compression path—tracked as CVE‑2025‑21693—that can be triggered when a CPU is hot‑unplugged while compression or decompression is still using per‑CPU resources, allowing those resources to be freed under active use and producing...