For those of you who remember stuxnet, more details about how the virus actually might have gotten into the system it was designed for has been disclosed thanks to the Volksrant:

https://www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v/2024/sabotage-in-iran-een-missie-in-duisternis~v989743/

(disclaimer, yes, it's in Dutch, but tools like google translate work well on it, and no, my Dutch is not good enough to read it in the native form, still working on that, ik lees een beetje Nederlands.)

Ok, Vger's MX is heading off to point to subspace on Thursday. Web services are staying put for now, so if you link to / use Vger it's staying put (possibly with a massive OS upgrade coming).

The fundamental infrastructure isn't going anywhere even if it has to change it's name, and should lists not want to head off to subspace, infradead, etc I've got https://vger.email up and running and capable of picking things up should anyone want to jump.

End of an era, Vger's been independent of kernel.org from it's start, but it's a non-trivial set of lists that literally keep the Linux kernel community moving, and has since it's inception. It's realistically needed an upgrade to deal with a plethora of problems, and frankly various large e-mail providers have made it nearly untenable to keep doing without it nearly being a full time job (at least at the scale that Vger's at)

It would be very silly to install and boot the stable kernel instead of the usual latest rc, just because it has some specific version number. But stable kernels need testing too!

Dirk: "Are you worried about bugs from LLM hallucinations getting into the #Linux kernel?" Linus: "Well I see all the bugs that come in without LLMs, and so, no I don't." (Paraphrasing the exchange)

Little known fact: first kernel releases were shipped via the postal service.

If you enjoy the hairiest of bug hunts with a thrilling conclusion, this one is for you. The hunt and hair pulling:

https://lore.kernel.org/regressions/480932026.45576726.1699374859845.JavaMail.zimbra@raptorengineeringinc.com/

and the conclusion:

https://lore.kernel.org/regressions/1105090647.48374193.1700351103830.JavaMail.zimbra@raptorengineeringinc.com/

Hats off to Timothy for seeing this one through to completion!

So, you want to read LKML with Gmail (experimental, testers needed)

https://lore.kernel.org/workflows/20231115-black-partridge-of-growth-54bf2e@nitro/

So many truths are hidden,
So many facts untold,
Queries left unbidden,
Concealed below the fold.

My head droops to the table,
But I must remain informed:
"Is the kernel stable?"
"How is babby formed?"

RFC for the replacing the Linux kernel #Android #Binder driver with a fully functional #Rust version:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20231101-rust-binder-v1-0-08ba9197f637@google.com/

All the talks from Embedded Recipes 2023 are now online, including "The TTY Layer: the Past, Present, and Future" by @gregkh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4sZUBS57OQ&list=PLwnbCeeZfQ_Mi7gjUpLZxXGOcEBS_K8kH&index=5 #er2023

This came up in a private thread about a kernel patch review where the contents were created with an "AI" tool, so I figured I might as well put it somewhere a bit more public as people don't seem to really understand the issues involved:

My policy is that I do not take any output of any "AI" tools unless the providence of the data that was used to feed the AI tool can be proven to be under the proper copyright rules as to be compatible with the GPLv2 license.

So in other words, nothing from chatgpt at all, that's obviously full of copyrighted works that are not allowed to be reused in this manner.

#Linux #kernel 6.6 is out: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wiZuU984NWVgP4snp8sEt4Ux5Mp_pxAN5MNV9VpcGUo+A@mail.gmail.com/

"""So this last week has been pretty calm, and I have absolutely no excuses to delay the v6.6 release any more, so here it is. […] Linus"""

For an overview of new features, check out the two #LinuxKernel 6.6 merge window articles from @LWN or the Kernelnewbies summary:

https://lwn.net/Articles/942954/ and https://lwn.net/Articles/943245/

https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_6.6

Not a tragedy: "The greatest value that #opensource foundations bring is the creation of a neutral collaboration hub for everyone participating in, and taking a dependency on, a project."

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/how-open-source-foundations-protect-the-licensing-integrity-of-open-source-projects

https://www.centerforcybersecuritypolicy.org/insights-and-research/joint-letter-of-experts-on-cra-and-vulnerability-disclosure A good letter to the EU governments about why the CRA isn't going to be good for vulnerability disclosure as-written. It's nice to see this portion of the CRA finally getting some exposure.

TIL there is an ISO standard for security vulnerability disclosure. First version was made final in 2014, latest version in 2018. Despite actually working in this area for 20+ years, I only now hear of this, yet can't actually see it due to crazy ISO document rules {sigh}
https://www.iso.org/standard/72311.html

So I presented today on EU CRA, NIS2 and other initiatives to regulate code/hardware/services. One consistent piece of feedback I got is that the amount of upcoming regulation is so huge that even dedicated professionals are unable to keep track of it all. So it is not just me (or you). It is _a lot_. https://berthub.eu/one/EU%20and%20you.pdf

How to fix the TTY layer in Linux?
@gregkh explains at #er2023
https://git.sr.ht/~gregkh/presentation-tty/tree/9afefcf3171a02e5eee19639ec62456511902a56/item/tty.pdf

Slides and recording of @gregkh's great @KernelRecipes talk "#Linux #Kernel security demistified" are now online:

Slides: https://git.sr.ht/~gregkh/presentation-security/blob/3547183843399d693c35b502cf4a313e256d0dd8/security-stuff.pdf

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDHTn0auo2w&t=14975s (that's a section of the live stream) #LinuxKernel

Slides for my @KernelRecipes talk from yesterday for "Linux Kernel security demistified" can be found here: https://git.sr.ht/~gregkh/presentation-security and the video will be probably online sometime "soon" for those that missed the live stream.

@davem_dokebi our godfather on stage for a sump up of netconf 2023 #kr2023