Priority inversion comes about when a low-priority task holds a resource that is also needed by a high-priority task, preventing the latter from running. This problem is made much worse if the ...

The Asahi Linux developers have put out a new report on their progress toward a Linux distribution for Apple devices. Some time ago, we were made aware of multiple attempts to exploit our permissive ...

The Asahi Linux developers have put out a new report on their progress toward a Linux distribution for Apple devices. Some time ago, we were made aware of multiple attempts to exploit our permissive ...

Lennart Poettering, Michael Vogt, and Joaquim Rocha have put together a detailed overview of what the Amutable Operating System (AOS) and associated infrastructure will look like. The image-based OS ...

Version 10.6p2 of OpenSSH has been released with a workaround for a critical vulnerability that affects Linux systems that use musl libc with PAM disabled, such as Alpine Linux. OpenSSH developer ...

Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 7.3.2 and 6.18.61 stable kernels. Each contains quite a few changes throughout the tree; users are advised to upgrade. The LWN site is currently under high scraper ...

The LWN kernel-source database is a subscriber-only feature offering deep insights into Linux kernel releases, the code that went into them, and the developers who contributed to them. A few of the ...

The dynamic linker is a critical component of modern Linux systems, being responsible for setting up the address space of most processes. While statically linked binaries have become more popular over ...

Storage code has to cope with hardware that fails in inconvenient ways, but coaxing a healthy disk into producing those failures on demand, for testing, is usually not possible. The kernel provides ...

Last week, Google and industry partners dismantled the XCPE backdoor which enrolled more than 1.3 million set-top boxes into a botnet. We assess with high confidence that the backdoor and botnet ...

For reasons that should be reasonably obvious, there is an increasing level of awareness of the wisdom of encrypting sensitive data stored on devices — especially on devices that, like a phone handset ...

Conversations about the kernel's filesystem implementations often involve a layer called "iomap", but relatively few people can reliably say what iomap actually is. That is just the kind of gap that ...