“Do not panic”: -stable maintainer on LLM security impact

Greg Kroah-Hartman, “Fellow at the Linux Foundation… responsible for the Linux kernel stable releases… maintainer of a variety of different kernel subsystems (USB, char/misc, tty/serial, driver core, staging, etc.)”, has a couple of interesting talks on the impact of LLMs on security: Linux in the Land of LLMs (August 11, 2026) and Kernel Recipes 2026 – Security in the LLM age (September 22, 2026). There are already nice discussions and summaries of these, like this one from sparsenotes.com or this Reddit thread on the first talk, but I wanted to capture the links that Greg KH shared plus a thought or two. Slides are currently available online for the first talk: LLMs and the kernel security process [PDF]. I think the overall message is captured by the slide seen in these photos from the 2nd talk: “Do not panic” — a lot of the bug reports are not of real concern: some are pure fakery, some are known issues (and likely were “discovered” by reading the original reports), some are…