The BPF verifier is not magic; it cannot solve the halting problem. Therefore, it has to err on the side of assuming that a program will run too long if it cannot prove that the program will not. The ultimate check on the size of a BPF program is the ...
Sergiu Gatlan reports that the US government has extended funding for the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program, following yesterday's reports that funding would run out as of April 16. "The CVE Program is invaluable to cyber community ...
As a system runs, its memory becomes fragmented; it does not take long before the allocation of large, physically contiguous memory ranges becomes difficult or impossible. The contiguous memory allocator (CMA) is a kernel subsystem that attempts to ...
In the first filesystem-track session at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF), virtual filesystem (VFS) layer co-maintainer Christian Brauner had a few different topics he wanted to talk about. Issues on ...
Security Week is one of several outlets reporting that the funding for the CVE program at MITRE disappears as of April 16. Maintained by MITRE Corporation, a not-for-profit organization that operates federal R&D centers, the CVE program is funded ...
Version 25.0 ("Zetar") of the Arch-based Manjaro Linux distribution is now available. This release includes Linux kernel 6.12, GNOME 48, KDE 6.3, Xfce 4.18, and more.
The Fedora Project has announced the release of Fedora Linux 42, with "what's new" articles for Fedora Workstation and Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop. There is also a last-minute warning about the live media for the release: We discovered a problem with ...
Fedora Linux 42 has been released with many incremental improvements and updates. In this development cycle, the KDE Plasma Desktop has finally gotten a promotion from a spin to an edition, the new web-based user interface for the Anaconda installer ...
It is common, on NUMA systems, to try to allocate all memory on the local node, since it will be the fastest. That is not the only possible policy, though; another is weighted interleaving, which seeks to distribute allocations across memory ...
Version 3.0 of the Pinta image editor has been released. The most notable change in this release is that Pinta has been ported to GTK 4.0 and libadwaita. It also includes a number of improvements, new effects, and bug fixes.