Kernel Watch
Jon Masters summarises the latest happenings in the Linux kernel, so you don’t have to.
Jon Masters
Linus Torvalds announced the release of Linux 5.8, which has among its many headline features support for Branch Target Identification (BTI) and Shadow Call Stacks on Arm64. This will improve the security of many platforms, but especially future Android devices, including the prevention of control flow hijacking attacks using buffer overruns on the kernel stack.