{"id":258720,"date":"2026-05-29T09:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/linux-networking-still-seeing-significantly-bigger-pull-requests-due-to-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T10:05:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:05:19","slug":"linux-networking-still-seeing-significantly-bigger-pull-requests-due-to-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/linux-networking-still-seeing-significantly-bigger-pull-requests-due-to-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux Networking Still Seeing “Significantly Bigger” Pull Requests Due To AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Linux Networking Still Seeing “Significantly Bigger” Pull Requests Due To AI<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Linux-Net-Significantly-Bigger<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-29 09:39:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.phoronix.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Last week’s collection of networking subsystem fixes for Linux 7.1 noted craziness continuing with no end in sight with a large pull request of fixes with many of them spurred on by AI\/LLM coding agents. This week it’s “significantly bigger” than prior kernel cycles for this late stage of kernel development due to this assistance of large language models.<\/p>\n

The likes of Claude Code and ChatGPT Codex are still leading to increased patch activity with various fixes coming in heavy. Even with Linus Torvalds on Sunday in Linux 7.1-rc5 noting his disappointment in the many patches causing unnecessary churn, it’s continuing ahead of Linux 7.1-rc6 due out this weekend.
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Paolo Abeni wrote in yesterday’s networking pull request:
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“This is again significantly bigger than the same point into the previous cycle, but at least smaller than last week.<\/p>\n

I’m not aware of any pending regression for the current cycle.\n<\/p>\n

Including fixes from netfilter.\n<\/p>\n

Current release – regressions:\n<\/p>\n

– netfilter: walk fib6_siblings under RCU\n<\/p>\n

Previous releases – regressions:\n<\/p>\n

– netlink: fix sending unassigned nsid after assigned one\n<\/p>\n

– bridge: fix sleep in atomic context in netlink path\n<\/p>\n

– sched: fix ethx:ingress – ethy:egress – ethx:ingress mirred loop\n<\/p>\n

– ipv4: fix net-ipv4.sysctl_local_reserved_ports UaF\n<\/p>\n

– eth: tun: free page on short-frame rejection in tun_xdp_one()\n<\/p>\n

Previous releases – always broken:\n<\/p>\n

– skbuff: fix missing zerocopy reference in pskb_carve helpers\n<\/p>\n

– handshake: drain pending requests at net namespace exit\n<\/p>\n

– ethtool:
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– rss: avoid modifying the RSS context response
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– module: avoid leaking a netdev ref on module flash errors
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– coalesce: cap profile updates at NET_DIM_PARAMS_NUM_PROFILES\n<\/p>\n

– netfilter: fix dst corruption in same register operation\n<\/p>\n

– nfc: hci: fix out-of-bounds read in HCP header parsing\n<\/p>\n

– ipv6: exthdrs: refresh nh pointer after ipv6_hop_jumbo()\n<\/p>\n

– eth:
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– vti: use ip6_tnl.net in vti6_changelink().
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– vxlan: do not reuse cached ip_hdr() value after…<\/p>\n

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