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CFP: Linux Security Summit North America 2020

The Linux Security Summit will take place June 24-26 in Austin, TX. "We're seeking a diverse range of attendees and welcome participation by people involved in Linux security development, operations, and research." The call for papers closes March 31.

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CFP Deadlines: February 6, 2020 to April 6, 2020

The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.

DeadlineEvent Dates EventLocation
February 9 May 11
May 13		 [RESCHEDULED] Linux Audio Conference Bordeaux, France
February 9 March 29
April 1		 [POSTPONED] foss-north Göteborg, Sweden
February 10 May 11
May 13		 [ONLINE] Power Management and Scheduling in the Linux Kernel Pisa, Italy
February 11 July 6
July 12		 [VIRTUAL] SciPy 2020 Austin, TX, USA
February 15 June 17
June 18		 [ONLINE] stackconf 2020 Berlin, Germany
February 15 March 25
March 28		 [POSTPONED] MiniDebConf Maceió 2020 Maceió, Brazil
February 16 June 29
July 2		 [VIRTUAL] Open Source Summit/Embedded Linux Conference North America Austin, TX, USA
February 28 June 23
June 25		 [CANCELED] IcingaConf 2020 Amsterdam, Netherlands
February 28 May 26
May 28		 [VIRTUAL] sambaXP 2020 Berlin, Germany
February 28 June 23
June 25		 [ONLINE] Postgres Vision 2020 Boston, MA, USA
March 6 July 6
July 9		 [Virtual] XenProject Developer and Design Summit 2020
March 8 June 25
June 26		 [CANCELED] Postgres Ibiza 2020 Ibiza, Spain
March 27 July 7
July 8		 [CANCELED] PostgresLondon 2020 London, United Kingdom
March 29 June 20
June 21		 International Conference on Networks, Blockchain and Internet of Things Dubai, UAE
March 31 June 19 [CANCELED] Open Source Camp | #5 Bareos Berlin, Germany
March 31 July 1
July 2		 [ONLINE] Linux Security Summit North America Austin, TX, USA
April 4 August 20 [Virtual] RustConf online

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Upcoming Events

Updates on Netdev conference 0x14

Here's a reminder that Netdev is coming up March 17-20 in Vancouver, Canada. Early bird tickets are still available.

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Events: February 6, 2020 to April 6, 2020

The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.

Date(s)EventLocation
February 18
February 20		 PyCon Namibia Windhoek, Namibia
March 3 Open Source 101 Columbia, SC, USA
March 5
March 6		 Incontro DevOps Italia Bologna, Italy
March 5
March 8		 Southern California Linux Expo Pasadena, CA, USA
March 14
March 15		 [CANCELED] LibrePlanet Boston, MA, USA
March 19
March 22		 [CANCELED] FOSSASIA OpenTechSummit Singapore, Singapore
March 23
March 24		 [CANCELED] Indico Workshop 3 Geneva, Switzerland
March 23
March 25		 Supercomputing Frontiers Europe Warsaw, Poland
March 23
March 27		 [CANCELED] Postgres Conference 2020 New York, NY, USA
March 23
March 27		 [CANCELED] SUSECON 2020 was Dublin, Online only
March 25
March 28		 [POSTPONED] MiniDebConf Maceió 2020 Maceió, Brazil
March 29
April 1		 [POSTPONED] foss-north Göteborg, Sweden
March 30
April 2		 POSTPONED: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Security updates

Alert summary January 30, 2020 to February 5, 2020

Dist. ID Release Package Date
Arch Linux ASA-202001-6 opensmtpd 2020-01-31
Arch Linux ASA-202001-7 salt 2020-02-04
CentOS CESA-2020:0316 C6 git 2020-02-03
Debian DLA-2093-1 LTS firefox-esr 2020-02-01
Debian DLA-2084-1 LTS graphicsmagick 2020-01-29
Debian DSA-4613-1 stable libidn2 2020-02-01
Debian DLA-2091-1 LTS libjackson-json-java 2020-01-31
Debian DLA-2088-1 LTS libsolv 2020-01-30
Debian DLA-2078-1 LTS libxmlrpc3-java 2020-01-30
Debian DLA-2089-1 LTS openjpeg2 2020-01-30
Debian DSA-4611-1 stable opensmtpd 2020-01-29
Debian DSA-4612-1 stable prosody-modules 2020-01-31
Debian DLA-2090-1 LTS qemu 2020-01-31
Debian DSA-4616-1 stable qemu 2020-02-02
Debian DLA-2092-1 LTS qtbase-opensource-src 2020-02-01
Debian DSA-4617-1 stable qtbase-opensource-src 2020-02-03
Debian DSA-4615-1 stable spamassassin 2020-02-01
Debian DLA-2095-1 LTS storebackup 2020-02-05
Debian DLA-2094-1 LTS sudo 2020-02-01
Debian DSA-4614-1 stable sudo 2020-02-01
Debian DLA-2087-1 LTS suricata 2020-01-30
Debian DSA-4610-1 stable webkit2gtk 2020-01-29
Debian DLA-2086-1 LTS wget 2020-01-29
Debian DLA-2085-1 LTS zlib 2020-01-29
Fedora FEDORA-2020-caf7f7d0d9 F31 ansible 2020-01-31
Fedora FEDORA-2020-9382ceb2f8 F31 chromium 2020-01-31
Fedora FEDORA-2020-01ed02451f F30 e2fsprogs 2020-02-02
Fedora FEDORA-2020-202cb87e26 F31 java-1.8.0-openjdk 2020-02-02
Fedora FEDORA-2020-7e042e371a F31 java-11-openjdk 2020-02-04
Fedora FEDORA-2020-ebbf986d01 F30 java-latest-openjdk 2020-01-31
Fedora FEDORA-2020-2ed6716c30 F31 java-latest-openjdk 2020-01-31
Fedora FEDORA-2020-3eef0246a7 F31 links 2020-01-31
Fedora FEDORA-2020-6c8804daaa F30 mingw-openjpeg2 2020-02-02
Fedora FEDORA-2020-ab8553f302 F31 mingw-openjpeg2 2020-01-31
Fedora FEDORA-2020-9254bf8b94 F30 nss 2020-01-31
Fedora FEDORA-2020-6c8804daaa F30 openjpeg2 2020-02-02
Fedora FEDORA-2020-ab8553f302 F31 openjpeg2 2020-01-31
Fedora FEDORA-2020-df444e464e F31 python-pillow 2020-01-31
Fedora FEDORA-2020-6bd386c7eb F31 samba 2020-02-02
Fedora FEDORA-2020-1dfaa1963b F31 sox 2020-02-03
Fedora FEDORA-2020-d18d24c943 F30 thunderbird 2020-01-31
Fedora FEDORA-2020-20cf0743f5 F30 upx 2020-02-03
Fedora FEDORA-2020-f11a905fc2 F30 webkit2gtk3 2020-02-01
Fedora FEDORA-2020-97e849ce46 F31 webkit2gtk3 2020-01-31
Fedora FEDORA-2020-bbd24dd0cf F30 xar 2020-02-03
Fedora FEDORA-2020-2d9a75fadb F30 xen 2020-01-31
Mageia MGASA-2020-0068 7 gdal 2020-01-30
Mageia MGASA-2020-0069 7 java-1.8.0-openjdk 2020-01-30
Mageia MGASA-2020-0073 7 kernel 2020-02-04
Mageia MGASA-2020-0072 7 mariadb 2020-01-30
Mageia MGASA-2020-0071 7 openjpeg2 2020-01-30
Mageia MGASA-2020-0074 7 openjpeg2 2020-02-04
Mageia MGASA-2020-0070 7 sqlite3 2020-01-30
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0145-1 GraphicsMagick 2020-01-29
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0146-1 apt-cacher-ng 2020-01-29
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0166-1 15.1 e2fsprogs 2020-02-05
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0147-1 15.1 java-1_8_0-openjdk 2020-01-29
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0156-1 mailman 2020-02-04
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0148-1 15.1 mailman 2020-01-29
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0137-1 mumble 2020-01-29
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0160-1 15.1 python-reportlab 2020-02-04
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0139-1 rubygem-excon 2020-01-29
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0140-1 sarg 2020-01-29
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0142-1 shadowsocks-libev 2020-01-29
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0162-1 15.1 ucl 2020-02-04
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0163-1 15.1 upx 2020-02-04
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:0165-1 15.1 wicked 2020-02-05
Oracle ELSA-2020-0316 OL6 git 2020-02-03
Oracle ELSA-2020-5526 OL7 kernel 2020-01-30
Oracle ELSA-2020-5528 OL7 kernel 2020-01-30
Oracle ELSA-2020-5528 OL7 kernel 2020-01-30
Oracle ELSA-2020-5526 OL7 kernel 2020-01-30
Oracle ELSA-2020-0271 OL8 libarchive 2020-01-29
Oracle ELSA-2020-0274 OL8 openjpeg2 2020-01-29
Red Hat RHSA-2020:0293-01 EL8.0 SDL 2020-01-30
Red Hat RHSA-2020:0348-01 EL8 container-tools:rhel8 2020-02-04
Red Hat RHSA-2020:0406-01 EL7 containernetworking-plugins 2020-02-04
Red Hat RHSA-2020:0295-01 EL8.0 firefox 2020-01-30
Red Hat RHSA-2020:0291-01 EL8.0 fribidi 2020-01-30
Red Hat RHSA-2020:0316-01 EL6 git 2020-02-03
Red Hat RHSA-2020:0329-01 EL8 go-toolset:rhel8 2020-02-04
Red Hat RHSA-2020:0335-01 EL8 grub2 2020-02-04
Red Hat RHSA-2020:0378-01 EL7 ipa 2020-02-04
Red Hat RHSA-2020:0374-01 EL7 kernel 2020-02-04
Red Hat RHSA-2020:0339-01 EL8 kernel 2020-02-04
Red Hat RHSA-2020:0375-01 EL7 kernel-rt 2020-02-04
Red Hat RHSA-2020:0328-01 EL8 kernel-rt 2020-02-04
Red Hat RHSA-2020:0431-01 EL8.0 ksh 2020-02-05
Red Hat RHSA-2020:0296-01 EL8.0 openjpeg2 2020-01-30
Red Hat RHSA-2020:0322-01 EL8.0 php:7.2 2020-02-03
Red Hat RHSA-2020:0366-01 EL7 qemu-kvm 2020-02-04
Red Hat RHSA-2020:0310-01 RHSC rh-java-common-xmlrpc 2020-01-30
Red Hat RHSA-2020:0388-01 EL8.0 sudo 2020-02-04
Red Hat RHSA-2020:0292-01 EL8.0 thunderbird 2020-01-30
Scientific Linux SLSA-2020:0316-1 SL6 git 2020-02-03
Scientific Linux SLSA-2020:0378-1 SL7 ipa 2020-02-05
Scientific Linux SLSA-2020:0262-1 SL7 openjpeg2 2020-01-30
Scientific Linux SLSA-2020:0366-1 SL7 qemu-kvm 2020-02-05
Slackware SSA:2020-031-01 sudo 2020-01-31
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:0275-1 SLE15 ImageMagick 2020-01-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:0296-1 SLE15 SES6 ceph 2020-01-31
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:0311-1 OS7 crowbar-core, crowbar-openstack, openstack-neutron-fwaas, rubygem-crowbar-client 2020-02-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:0265-1 SLE15 e2fsprogs 2020-01-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:0262-1 SLE15 glibc 2020-01-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:0261-1 OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES5 java-1_8_0-openjdk 2020-01-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:0318-1 OS7 SLE12 libqt5-qtbase 2020-02-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:0317-1 OS8 SLE12 SES5 libqt5-qtbase 2020-02-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:0319-1 SLE12 libqt5-qtbase 2020-02-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:0267-1 SLE12 php72 2020-01-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:0324-1 SLE12 python-reportlab 2020-02-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:0302-1 SLE12 python36 2020-02-03
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:0260-1 SLE15 rmt-server 2020-01-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:0278-1 SLE15 rmt-server 2020-01-31
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:0320-1 SLE15 terraform 2020-02-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:0266-1 SLE12 tigervnc 2020-01-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:0264-1 SLE15 wicked 2020-01-30
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:0263-1 SLE15 wicked 2020-01-30
Ubuntu USN-4259-1 16.04 Apache Solr 2020-01-29
Ubuntu USN-4268-1 18.04 19.10 OpenSMTPD 2020-02-05
Ubuntu USN-4266-1 16.04 graphicsmagick 2020-02-04
Ubuntu USN-4262-1 19.10 keystone 2020-01-30
Ubuntu USN-4264-1 18.04 19.10 python-django 2020-02-04
Ubuntu USN-4265-2 12.04 14.04 spamassassin 2020-02-04
Ubuntu USN-4265-1 16.04 18.04 19.10 spamassassin 2020-02-04
Ubuntu USN-4263-2 12.04 14.04 sudo 2020-02-05
Ubuntu USN-4263-1 16.04 18.04 19.10 sudo 2020-02-03
Ubuntu USN-4261-1 18.04 19.10 webkit2gtk 2020-01-29
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Kernel patches of interest

Kernel releases

Greg KH Linux 5.5.2 Feb 04
Greg KH Linux 5.5.1 Feb 01
Greg KH Linux 5.4.18 Feb 05
Greg KH Linux 5.4.17 Feb 01
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior v5.4.17-rt9 Feb 04
Greg KH Linux 5.4.16 Jan 30
Greg KH Linux 4.19.102 Feb 05
Greg KH Linux 4.19.101 Feb 01
Greg KH Linux 4.19.100 Jan 30
Steven Rostedt 4.19.100-rt41 Jan 31
Greg KH Linux 4.14.170 Feb 05
Greg KH Linux 4.14.169 Jan 30
Greg KH Linux 4.9.213 Feb 05
Greg KH Linux 4.9.212 Jan 30
Greg KH Linux 4.4.213 Feb 05
Greg KH Linux 4.4.212 Jan 30

Architecture-specific

Jarkko Sakkinen Intel SGX foundations Feb 04
Yu-cheng Yu Control-flow Enforcement: Shadow Stack Feb 05
Yu-cheng Yu Control-flow Enforcement: Indirect Branch Tracking Feb 05

Core kernel

Peter Zijlstra locking: Percpu-rwsem rewrite Jan 31
Christophe Leroy [PATCH 1/4] uaccess: Add user_read_access_begin/end and user_write_access_begin/end Feb 04
Christian Brauner clone3 & cgroups: allow spawning processes into cgroups Feb 05

Development tools

Brendan Higgins [PATCH v2 0/7] kunit: create a centralized executor to dispatch all KUnit tests Jan 30
sj38.park@gmail.com Introduce Data Access MONitor (DAMON) Feb 04

Device drivers

Taniya Das Add modem Clock controller (MSS CC) driver for SC7180 Jan 30
Kunihiko Hayashi dmaengine: Add UniPhier XDMAC driver Jan 30
Ji-Ze Hong (Peter Hong) Add Fintek F81534A series usb-to-serial driver Jan 30
Rahul Tanwar clk: intel: Add a new driver for a new clock controller IP Jan 30
Sameer Pujar add ASoC components for AHUB Jan 30
Bharat Kumar Gogada Adding support for Versal CPM as Root Port driver Jan 30
Dan Williams libnvdimm: Cross-arch compatible namespace alignment Jan 30
Prashant Malani platform/chrome: Add Type C connector class driver Jan 30
christopher.s.hall@intel.com Add support for Intel PMC Time GPIO Driver with PHC interface changes to support additional H/W Features Dec 11
Peter Ujfalusi drm/bridge: Support for Toshiba tc358768 RGB to DSI bridge Jan 31
Manivannan Sadhasivam Add MHI bus support Jan 31
Avi Shchislowski scsi: ufs: ufs device as a temperature sensor Feb 02
Hadar Gat hw_random: introduce Arm CryptoCell TRNG driver Feb 02
shiva.linuxworks@gmail.com Add new series Micron SPI NAND devices Feb 02
Hsin-Hsiung Wang Add Support for MediaTek PMIC MT6358 Feb 03
Nagarjuna Kristam Tegra XUSB OTG support Feb 04
Saravanan Sekar Add regulator support for mpq5416 Feb 04
Baolin Wang Add MMC software queue support Feb 05

Device-driver infrastructure

Chris Packham SPI bus multiplexing Jan 31
Sergey Senozhatsky Implement V4L2_BUF_FLAG_NO_CACHE_* flags Feb 04
Thomas Hellström (VMware) Huge page-table entries for TTM Feb 05

Documentation

Aleksa Sarai document openat2(2) Feb 03

Filesystems and block layer

Miklos Szeredi ovl: allow virtiofs as upper Jan 31
Matthew Wilcox Change readahead API Feb 01
Weiping Zhang Add support Weighted Round Robin for blkcg and nvme Feb 04
Ross Zwisler Add a "nosymfollow" mount option. Feb 04

Memory management

John Hubbard mm/gup: track FOLL_PIN pages Jan 31
Mina Almasry hugetlb_cgroup: Add hugetlb_cgroup reservation counter Feb 03

Security-related

Roberto Sassu ima: support stronger algorithms for attestation Feb 05

Virtualization and containers

Tiwei Bie vhost: introduce vDPA based backend Jan 31
Xiaoyao Li kvm/split_lock: Add feature split lock detection support in kvm Feb 03
Sean Christopherson KVM: x86: Introduce KVM cpu caps Feb 01
Jan Kiszka Jailhouse 0.12 released Feb 04
Alex Williamson vfio/pci: SR-IOV support Feb 04
Hajime Tazaki Unifying LKL into UML Feb 05

Miscellaneous

Karel Zak util-linux v2.35.1 Jan 31
Eric Sandeen xfspdump v3.1.9 released Jan 31

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