Articles tagged kernel on devtake.dev.https://devtake.dev/en-ushttps://devtake.dev/article/linux-gaming-windows-api-kernel/https://devtake.dev/article/linux-gaming-windows-api-kernel/Linux 6.14 merged the NTSYNC driver Elizabeth Figura wrote at CodeWeavers. SteamOS 3.7.20 loads it by default; Wine 11 went mainline on it. Here's what changed.Thu, 14 May 2026 09:45:00 GMTopen-sourcelinuxkernelntsyncwineprotonsteam-deckvalvegamingsoren-vanekhttps://devtake.dev/article/linux-dirty-frag-kernel-privilege-escalation/https://devtake.dev/article/linux-dirty-frag-kernel-privilege-escalation/Dirty Frag chains two page-cache flaws in the ESP and RxRPC subsystems into a deterministic privilege escalation that hits every major distro. A PoC exploit is public.Sun, 10 May 2026 10:00:00 GMTsecuritysecuritylinuxkernelcve-2026-43284privilege-escalationzero-daydirty-fragluca-reinhardthttps://devtake.dev/article/copy-fail-linux-kernel-page-cache-root/https://devtake.dev/article/copy-fail-linux-kernel-page-cache-root/CVE-2026-31431 chains AF_ALG and splice() to write into the page cache of /usr/bin/su. Xint Code disclosed it on April 29, nine years after the bug shipped.Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:15:00 GMTsecuritysecuritylinuxcve-2026-31431kernelprivilege-escalationsupply-chainubunturhelluca-reinhardthttps://devtake.dev/article/linux-7-1-ham-radio-isdn-removal/https://devtake.dev/article/linux-7-1-ham-radio-isdn-removal/Jakub Kicinski's networking pull request removes 138,161 lines of decades-old code. Kernel maintainers say LLM-generated bug reports made the old subsystems un-maintainable.Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:00:00 GMTopen-sourcelinuxlinux-kernellinux-7-1kernelai-securitynetworkingopen-sourcesecuritysoren-vanek