Josef Bacik's net-next work replaces 17 hard panics in packet buffer code with WARN_ON_ONCE and existing error returns, after dozens of real-world crashes including some reachable from user namespaces.
By kexecHost and target support for Rapid Path Failure Recovery lets multipath NVMe fence a dead path before failover, avoiding double completion and data corruption.
By kexecElijah Newren fixes multi-pack-index lookups that treat present objects as missing when a concurrent repack retires their owning pack, plus a replay crash and mktree --batch bugs.
By rvalueHaas flags foreign-key batching, REPACK, and online checksums as post-freeze risk areas; Gustafsson offers a checksums revert while others urge caution.
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