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Thursday, April 22nd, 2021
| Time |
Event |
| 12:41a |
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 22, 2021
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 22, 2021 is available. | | 1:17p |
Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (thunderbird and wordpress), Fedora (curl, firefox, mediawiki, mingw-binutils, os-autoinst, and rpm-ostree), Oracle (java-1.8.0-openjdk and java-11-openjdk), SUSE (kernel, pcp, and tomcat6), and Ubuntu (linux, linux-aws, linux-gke-5.3, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-lts-xenial, linux-oem-5.6, linux-raspi2-5.3, linux-snapdragon). | | 1:52p |
[$] Toward signed BPF programs The kernel's BPF virtual machine is versatile; it is possible to load BPF programs into the kernel to carry out a large (and growing) set of tasks. The growing body of BPF code can reasonably be thought of as kernel code in its own right. But, while the kernel can check signatures on loadable modules and prevent the loading of modules that are not properly signed, there is no such mechanism for BPF programs; any sufficiently privileged process can load any program that will pass the verifier. One might think that adding this checking for BPF would be straightforward, but that subsystem has some unique characteristics that make things more challenging than one might expect. There may be a solution in the works, though; fittingly, it works by loading yet another BPF program. | | 2:55p |
Ubuntu 21.04 released The Ubuntu
21.04 distribution release is available. " Today, Canonical
released Ubuntu 21.04 with native Microsoft Active Directory integration,
Wayland graphics by default, and a Flutter application development
SDK. Separately, Canonical and Microsoft announced performance optimization
and joint support for Microsoft SQL Server on Ubuntu." | | 10:12p |
A statement on the UMN mess Speaking for the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board, Kees Cook has
posted a brief statement on the controversy
over patches submitted from the University of Minnesota.
The LF Technical Advisory Board is taking a look at the history of
UMN's contributions and their associated research projects. At
present, it seems the vast majority of patches have been in good
faith, but we're continuing to review the work. Several public
conversations have already started around our expectations of
contributors.
Stay tuned for more. |
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