{"id":2613,"date":"2026-01-11T02:34:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T08:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/embeddedor.com\/blog\/?p=2613"},"modified":"2026-04-14T15:50:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T21:50:51","slug":"first-linux-kernel-patch-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/embeddedor.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/11\/first-linux-kernel-patch-of-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"First Linux kernel patch of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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First kernel patch of 2026 addressing 2,600 -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warnings at once:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

▫️ [PATCH v2][next] ipv4\/inet_sock.h: Avoid thousands of -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warnings<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has been taken into the net-next tree and it\u2019s now in linux-next. 🙌🏼<\/p>\n\n\n\n

▫️ https:\/\/git.kernel.org\/pub\/scm\/linux\/kernel\/git\/netdev\/net-next.git\/commit\/?id=c86af46b9c7af2041495231fd59834da6da1543c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

▫️ https:\/\/git.kernel.org\/pub\/scm\/linux\/kernel\/git\/next\/linux-next.git\/commit\/?id=c86af46b9c7af2041495231fd59834da6da1543c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I continue making progress toward enabling -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end in mainline. 👨🏽‍💻🙌🏼<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you want to learn more about this ongoing work, check out this presentation I gave at Open Source Summit Japan last December:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

▫️ Upstream Kernel Hardening: Progress on enabling -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Linux Kernel Self-Protection Project ⚔️ 🛡️ 🐧<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First kernel patch of 2026 addressing 2,600 -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warnings at once: ▫️ [PATCH v2][next] ipv4\/inet_sock.h: Avoid thousands of -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warnings It has been taken into the net-next tree and it\u2019s now in linux-next. 🙌🏼 ▫️ https:\/\/git.kernel.org\/pub\/scm\/linux\/kernel\/git\/netdev\/net-next.git\/commit\/?id=c86af46b9c7af2041495231fd59834da6da1543c ▫️ https:\/\/git.kernel.org\/pub\/scm\/linux\/kernel\/git\/next\/linux-next.git\/commit\/?id=c86af46b9c7af2041495231fd59834da6da1543c I continue making progress toward enabling -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end in mainline. 👨🏽‍💻🙌🏼 If you want to learn more about…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,13,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wfamnae","category-kernel-self-protection-project","category-linux-kernel-hardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/embeddedor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/embeddedor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/embeddedor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embeddedor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embeddedor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2613"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/embeddedor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2620,"href":"https:\/\/embeddedor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions\/2620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/embeddedor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embeddedor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embeddedor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}