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User-space shadow stacks (maybe) for 6.4 [LWN.net]

User-space shadow stacks (maybe) for 6.4 [LWN.net]
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Florian Weimer , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Jonathan Corbet , Rick Edgecombe , Gnuc Library ,

The push to save Itanium [LWN.net]

The push to save Itanium [LWN.net]
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Linus Torvalds , Joseph Myers , Florian Weimer , Frank Scheiner , Jonathan Corbet , Adhemerval Zanella , Carlos Odonell , John Paul Adrian Glaubitz , Gnuc Library , Red Hat , Next Big Thing , Initial Itanium , Ard Biesheuvel , Tony Luck , Carloso Donell ,

A container-confinement breakout [LWN.net]


The recently announced
container-confinement breakout for containers started with runc is interesting from
a few different perspectives.
For one, it affects more than just runc-based containers as privileged LXC-based containers (and likely
others) are also
affected, though the LXC-based variety are harder to compromise than the
runc ones.
But it also, once again, shows that privileged
containers are difficult perhaps impossible to create in a secure manner.
Beyond that, it
exploits some Linux kernel interfaces in novel ways and the fixes use a
perhaps lesser-known system call that was added to Linux less than five
years back.
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Aleksa Sarai , Adam Iwaniuk , Christian Brauner , Sarai Po , Florian Weimer , Steve Grubb , Container Initiative , Open Container Initiative , Borys Pop ,

Fedora's tempest in a stack frame [LWN.net]

It is rare to see an extensive and unhappy discussion over the selection of
compiler options used to build a distribution, but it does happen. A case
in point is the debate over whether Fedora should be built with frame
pointers or not. It comes down to a tradeoff between a performance loss on
current systems and hopes for gains that exceed that loss in the future
and some
disagreements over how these decisions should be made within the Fedora
community.
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Brendan Gregg , Neal Gompa , Vitaly Zaitsev , Matthew Miller , Andrii Nakryiko , Florian Weimer , Jonathan Corbet , Ian Rogers , Michael Catanzaro , Kevin Kofler , Fedora Engineering Steering Council Fesco , Red Hat , Fedora Engineering Steering Council ,