LWN reports on Greg Kroah-Hartman’s talk at Kernel Recipes 2026 about how the kernel’s security team is handling the flood of bug reports that large language models have made cheap to produce. His core message was “don’t panic”, with the kernel leaning on its existing triage and maintainer processes rather than treating the rising volume of AI-assisted reports as an emergency.
[$] Coping with the onslaught of kernel security bugs
LWN reports on Greg Kroah-Hartman's talk at Kernel Recipes 2026 about how the kernel's security team is handling the flood of bug reports that large language models have made cheap to produce. His core message was "don't panic", with the kernel leaning on its existing triage and maintainer processes rather than treating the rising volume of AI-assisted reports as an emergency.
Source: Lwn