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experimenting with Clang CFI on upstream Linux « codeblog
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July 2021 ClangBuiltLinux Work | Nathan Chancellor
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| | Linux kernel patches [PATCH] Hexagon: Export raw I/O routines for modules: Hexagon is a digital signal processor architecture by Qualcomm, which is a little special in terms of the Linux kernel because it is the only architecture that does not have a GCC backend so LLVM has to be used to build it, meaning that it is important to keep it building. This patch fixes an issue with allmodconfig, which enables us to build a wide variety of code and verify the compiler is able to handle all of it.
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Patching the Linux kernel (Raspbian & CVE-2016-0728) | William Durand
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| | CVE-2016-0728 has been disclosed earlier this week and it is a serious security issue. The vulnerability affects most of the Linux kernel versions (3.8 and above). Although the exploit seems tricky to successfully use, it is still a flaw that has to be patched ASAP.
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Finding the slab cache for each object in Linux kernel using static analysis | Erin Avllazagaj
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| | [AI summary] This blog post details the process of using static analysis with LLVM bitcode to identify the slab cache for kernel objects in the Linux kernel.
| | tecadmin.net
(Resolved) Key is stored in legacy trusted.gpg Keyring - TecAdmin
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| I recently created a new Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Linux virtual machine. When I attempted to set up the PostgreSQL server on it, I saw a warning message like the one shown below on the screen: Warning: apt-key is deprecated. Manage keyring files in trusted.gpg.d instead (see apt-key(8)). Even after the warning message appeared, I was