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Wednesday, April 21st, 2021

    Time Event
    1:09a
    [$] Rust heads into the kernel?
    In a lengthy
    message     to the linux-kernel mailing list, Miguel Ojeda "introduced" the
    Rust for Linux project. It
    was likely not the first time that most kernel developers had heard of the
    effort; there was an extensive discussion
    of the project at the 2020 Linux Plumbers
    Conference    , for example. It has also been raised
    before     on the list. Now, the project is looking for feedback from
    the kernel community about its plans, thus the RFC posting on April 14.
    3:24p
    Security updates for Wednesday
    Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr, php-pear, wordpress, and zabbix), Oracle (java-1.8.0-openjdk and java-11-openjdk), Red Hat (java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, kernel, and kpatch-patch), Scientific Linux (java-1.8.0-openjdk and java-11-openjdk), Slackware (seamonkey), SUSE (apache-commons-io, ImageMagick, kvm, ruby2.5, and sudo), and Ubuntu (edk2, libcaca, ntp, and ruby2.3, ruby2.5, ruby2.7).
    3:32p
    Three stable kernels
    Stable kernels 5.11.16, 5.10.32, and 5.4.114 have been released. They contain
    important fixes and users should upgrade.
    10:00p
    [$] Intentionally buggy commits for fame—and papers
    A buggy patch
    posted to the linux-kernel mailing list in early April was apparently the
    last
    straw for Greg Kroah-Hartman as it led to the planned reversion of a whole slew of
    commits with one thing in common: their origin at the University of
    Minnesota (UMN). The patch to the NFSv4 authorization mechanism was duly
    questioned by two NFS developers, but it is
    not an honest mistake; according to Kroah-Hartman, there has been an attack
    of sorts underway as part of some academic research at the university. In
    order to be sure that these intentional bugs, many with security
    implications, do not continue to haunt Linux, he is working
    on reverting commits that came from email addresses with the
    umn.edu domain.

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