Heelan writes in a blog post that he was auditing the ksmbd module for vulnerabilities using the OpenAI o3 AI model through the API without any tool use. ksmbd is “a linux kernel server which ...

As the Kernel Turns: Rust in Linux saga reaches the “Linus in all-caps” phase Torvalds: You can avoid Rust as a C maintainer, but you can't interfere with it.

In a post to the same Linux patch maintainers mailing list, Torvalds spoke about his concerns that there were lots of Russian trolls who could potentially infiltrate the Linux kernel. “It’s ...

The attack’s success rate surpasses earlier techniques, making it a critical concern for systems utilizing Linux kernels. The threat model assumes that an attacker has unprivileged code execution and ...

Google has committed to a 4 year support lifetime for its Linux forks, starting with 6.6. This is longer than the 2-years for LTS kernels.

In context: Linux offers developers and engineers a means to "tune" its operations, providing thousands of individual parameters that can adjust how the open-source kernel manages resources ...

For example, by using DAMON, a Linux kernel subsystem for memory access monitoring and optimization, with the framework, they were able to find the best scheme for a MySQL application.

The new regime. When 4.19 reaches its end of life, so will 5.4, leaving the end-of-2020 kernel 5.10 the oldest longterm release. This change was discussed at the time, but now it looks like what is ...