This project keeps the Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide up to date, with working examples for recent 5.x and 6.x kernel versions. The guide has been around since ...

The Linux kernel development team has officially released Linux Kernel 7.1, marking the first major update in the 7.x series.

A newly discovered local privilege escalation vulnerability dubbed 'CIFSwitch' in the Linux kernel could allow attackers to forge CIFS authentication key descriptions, abuse the kernel's key request ...

Linux kernel maintainers released a June 20 Linux 7.2 merge that removes the legacy C string-copy function strncpy from kernel code. Kernel-side is the key scope: strncpy remains part of user-space C ...

Linus Torvalds gave the starting signal for Linux 7.1. In addition to a completely new NTFS driver, the extensive kernel ...

u-dma-buf is a Linux device driver that allocates contiguous memory blocks in the kernel space as DMA buffers and makes them available from the user space. It is intended that these memory blocks are ...

A new kernel (core program) within an operating system gives researchers a cleaner view of what's happening inside a processor. Called Fractal and developed at MIT, the kernel has already surfaced ...

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Now updated for KB5094126 (Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2) and KB5095051 (Windows 11 26H1), both released on June 9, 2026. Here's what those enrolled in the Windows 10 Extended Security Updates program need ...