Q: "Why have you suddenly been reworking coredumping, Christian?"
A: "Because I'm a clown and also I had it with all the CVEs because we provide a **** API for userspace."

So now that @torvalds merged the pidfs and initial coredump work things are already better but I have more work there.

In other news, there's two new CVEs in userpace that should be gone completely by installing a pidfd into the umh or by using the coredump socket.

[1]: https://www.qualys.com/2025/05/29/apport-coredump/apport-coredump.txt

[2]: https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research/2025/05/29/qualys-tru-discovers-two-local-information-disclosure-vulnerabilities-in-apport-and-systemd-coredump-cve-2025-5054-and-cve-2025-4598

ER2025 is over, and thanks to all of our sponsors it was a big success!
https://embedded-recipes.org/2025/blog/wrap/

The slides & videos are now available on the Speakers page
of the website: https://embedded-recipes.org/2025/speakers/

Please don’t hesitate to send us your feedback, critiques,
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[deep LTC cut] Who would have guessed that the unwanted task of working on MCP at IBM 20 years ago would finally pay off on the resume!

This is a great interview with @gregkh on corporate involvement in the #Linux kernel and #opensource. He goes in depth on justifying working upstream and how it made him a better engineer.

https://youtu.be/DZzFG_zhFnY?si=HWHmpsOtwXATUm5v

@ljs @vitaut Expect a very pedantic patch review in the near future :)

@rpardini https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git/ but watch out, it's rebased all the time.

But, 6.1.140 is already released, why not just use the normal stable git tree for that?

COBOL c:

Another podcast interview with me from a few weeks ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZzFG_zhFnY
that focuses a lot on the corporate interaction and involvement in open source projects.

Really excited for Zim's talk at Embedded Recipes showing off all the cool things Perfetto can do! It's a really useful tool.

I helped with one of the examples, and had seen the slides prior, but even so, I *still* learned some new tricks from watching.

https://www.youtube.com/live/802-CNevuY8?feature=shared&t=7608

#LLMs are not a knowledge base!

Stop spreading misinformation!

They are statistical models that _simulate_ knowledge!

We, as a #society, really have to pay attention to the words and #language we're using.

But I guess, when talking about LLMs, details are not really important, are they!? Oh, such beautiful irony!

#LLM #SALAMI

"If all these big companies are shouting from the rooftops that AI is up to production code the money relies on, then zero open source contributions of substance is a glaring absence."

(Original title: If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?)

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/13/if-ai-is-so-good-at-coding-where-are-the-open-source-contributions/

@embeddedrecipes has just kicked off!

New organizers are running the show this year — big thanks to BayLibre for picking up the torch and keeping the spirit of Recipes alive: small-scale, sharing, and real exchange.

You can follow the conference live!

https://www.youtube.com/live/U5L8XHkP-lI?feature=shared

The 2025 edition of @embeddedrecipes starts with @gregkh
https://www.youtube.com/live/U5L8XHkP-lI?si=h5-X2I97Rnb1hey8
#er2025 #embeddedrecipes

Long but cheering+ practical from @bert_hubert

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/a-coherent-non-us-cloud-strategy/

"Europe has ample compute capacity and skills.... the carrot won’t be enough to make Europe sovereign again. We must have our own technology under our own control, but we must also make sure that it gets used"

@ljs I'm confused, AUTOSEL is there to pick up stuff that people don't tag that look like other bug fixes, it was created because many subsystems/maintainers do NOT tag anything, so this is needed to get those fixes.

For subsystems/authors that do properly tag them, and don't want to get picked up by AUTOSEL, let us know and they can be added to the list not to.

I thought that is what you were referring to here, if not, then I think it's time to just discuss it over beers in person :)

@ljs If you don't want stuff picked up by AUTOSEL, let us know and you can be added to the regex of files / directories to ignore. Many subsystems do as they do properly tag stuff. But for all the others, that's why AUTOSEL is there.

Sasha's "AUTOSEL" logic has been revamped and published so that now you too, can dig in the Linux kernel commit logs to find patches that developers and maintainers forgot to tag to be backported to stable kernels:

The announcement:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/aBj_SEgFTXfrPVuj@lappy/

And the code itself:
https://git.sr.ht/~sashal/autosel

@mansr @broonie @geert It's a bot, and it is saying "next time, please properly mark this for stable backport as that is what you are saying you want to have happen, but yet that's not what is going to happen with the tags you provided".

If you can think of better wording for this, please let me know. Don't take bots personally please, they are trying to help.

@geert @mansr @broonie No, it's not guaranteed to be backported at all, cc: stable is still required if you want it to show up AND want to be notified if it does not apply. We get to "Fixes:" only patches on a "when we have the spare cycles let's go look for things that people did not properly mark and attempt to do a backport if it works easily"

Good programming is 99% sweat and 1% coffee.

— anonymous

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