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At the 2023 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management and BPF Summit, Hannes Reinecke led a plenary session ostensibly dedicated to the "limits of development". The actual discussion focused on the frustrations of the kernel development process as experienced by both developers and maintainers. It is probably fair to say that no problems were solved here, but perhaps the nature of some of the challenges is a bit more clear.

Static analysis tools can help find security gaps in source code, such as in the Linux kernel, but such tools are notorious for generating false positive results. Here's a look at some of the tools used with Linux, including their challenges.

How a university got itself banned from the Linux kernel The University of Minnesota’s path to banishment was long, turbulent, and full of emotion On the evening of April 6th, a student emailed a patch to a list of developers. Fifteen days later, the University of Minnesota was banned from contributing to the Linux kernel. “I suggest you find a different community to do experiments on,” wrote Linux Foundation fellow Greg Kroah-Hartman in a livid email. “You are not welcome here.” How did one email lead to a university-wide ban? I’ve spent the past week digging into this world �...

The Linux Foundation's demands to the University of Minnesota for its bad Linux patches security project ZDNet 4 hrs ago © Fatos Bytyqi To say that Linux kernel developers are livid about a pair of University of Minnesota (UMN) graduate students playing at inserting security vulnerabilities into the Linux kernel for the purposes of a research paper "On the Feasibility of Stealthily Introducing Vulnerabilities in Open-Source Software via Hypocrite Commits" is a gross understatement.  Greg Kroah-Hartman, the Linux kernel maintainer for the stable branch, well-known for being the most gener...

iTWire Monday, 26 April 2021 06:55 Uni bid to patch up with Linux kernel project fails to move maintainer Featured Image by MasterTux from Pixabay The maintainer of the stable Linux kernel, Greg Kroah-Hartman, has snubbed an effort by a group at the University of Minnesota to get back in his good graces, after the group submitted known buggy patches to him in order to write a paper based on it. The two students who wrote the paper — Kangjie Lu and Qiushi Wu — and their instructor, Aditya Pakki, sent an "open letter to the Linux community" on 24 April, apologisin...