Having worked on the kernel for decades, and imposing a lot of the same code/git hygiene for liburing, there can be a disconnect for contributors on what is expected of a commit and commit message, and what series of commits should look like. I attempted to provide a basic guideline here:

https://github.com/axboe/liburing/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

and would appreciate feedback from folks on what I missed, what isn't clear, etc.

Gonna be giving a talk "SLUB Internals for Exploit Developers" at @LinuxSecSummit next week.

Plan to cover the basics one needs to know before writing exploits for slab bugs; slides coming along 😁

Also gonna stay around for @linuxplumbersconf.

https://lsseu2024.sched.com/event/1ebVN

the debugging manifesto poster I've been talking about is finally available for sale! You can get it here for $20 US + shipping: https://store.wizardzines.com/products/poster-debugging-manifesto

it was redesigned and riso printed by Inner Loop Press and I'm SO delighted with how it turned out (https://www.innerloop.press/)

Just published the #ASG2024 schedule! Lots of good stuff, and at least one terrible talk that nobody should attend.

Early bird tickets are also still available - but not for long - go grab them while they last!

https://all-systems-go.io/

It's been a while since the last one, but here is the fourth #Landlock newsletter: https://lore.kernel.org/landlock/20240716.yui4Iezai8ae@digikod.net/
Moar sandboxing! 🥳

Another relatively small update, but here are the LSM, SELinux, and audit* highlights from the Linux v6.11 merge window.

https://paul-moore.com/blog/d/2024/07/linux_v611_merge_window.html

#lsm #selinux #audit

There are three hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and getting your video game character onto a ladder.

Of course, everyone's favourite tool to build secure Linux images with dm-verity, TPM, SecureBoot is mkosi by @daandemeyer and others. It now is learning a new trick: support for AzureLinux (ex CBL Mariner) – in addition to the other 12 supported distributions.

And that's really great, because this means I can finally quickly test the stuff I am working on within the systemd project on my own company's Linux distribution, the same way I test other distributions.

Yay!

https://github.com/systemd/mkosi/pull/2833

#Landlock workshop: Linux sandboxing in practice

Let's sandbox ImageMagick at #pts24 🧂
See slides, VM, code, and setup instructions: https://cfp.pass-the-salt.org/pts2024/talk/8FVYDF/

Pioneering computer scientist, electrical engineer, and transgender activist Lynn Ann Conway has died at the age of 86. Every modern silicon chip incorporates her ideas, and her courage was an inspiration to many. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Conway Long may she run...