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CFP Deadlines: December 10, 2020 to February 8, 2021

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

DeadlineEvent Dates EventLocation
December 18 January 23 LCA Systems Administration Miniconf Online, UTC+11
December 18 January 23 LCA Kernel Miniconf Online, UTC+11
January 10 January 23
January 24		 MiniDebConf India Online

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Upcoming Events

Events: December 10, 2020 to February 8, 2021

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

Date(s)EventLocation
January 23 LCA Systems Administration Miniconf Online, UTC+11
January 23 LCA Kernel Miniconf Online, UTC+11
January 23
January 24		 MiniDebConf India Online
January 23
January 25		 linux.conf.au 2021 Online
February 6
February 7		 FOSDEM 2021 Online

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Security updates

Alert summary December 3, 2020 to December 9, 2020

Dist. ID Release Package Date
Arch Linux ASA-202011-22 ceph 2020-12-05
Arch Linux ASA-202011-26 gitea 2020-12-05
Arch Linux ASA-202011-23 matrix-synapse 2020-12-05
Arch Linux ASA-202011-29 musl 2020-12-05
Arch Linux ASA-202011-25 mutt 2020-12-05
Arch Linux ASA-202011-24 neomutt 2020-12-05
Arch Linux ASA-202011-27 opensc 2020-12-05
Arch Linux ASA-202011-28 webkit2gtk 2020-12-05
Debian DLA-2482-1 LTS debian-security-support 2020-12-04
Debian DLA-2485-1 LTS golang-golang-x-net-dev 2020-12-09
Debian DSA-4806-1 stable minidlna 2020-12-07
Debian DLA-2481-1 LTS openldap 2020-12-04
Debian DSA-4807-1 stable openssl 2020-12-08
Debian DLA-2484-1 LTS python-certbot 2020-12-09
Debian DLA-2480-1 LTS salt 2020-12-04
Debian DLA-2479-1 LTS thunderbird 2020-12-04
Debian DSA-4802-1 stable thunderbird 2020-12-03
Debian DSA-4805-1 stable trafficserver 2020-12-07
Debian DSA-4804-1 stable xen 2020-12-04
Debian DLA-2486-1 LTS xorg-server 2020-12-09
Debian DSA-4803-1 stable xorg-server 2020-12-04
Fedora FEDORA-2020-307e873389 F32 c-ares 2020-12-04
Fedora FEDORA-2020-50be892d25 F32 fossil 2020-12-05
Fedora FEDORA-2020-ac6cf99f87 F33 fossil 2020-12-05
Fedora FEDORA-2020-92195be0e2 F32 pdfresurrect 2020-12-04
Fedora FEDORA-2020-e9f9bb77a0 F33 pdfresurrect 2020-12-04
Fedora FEDORA-2020-239503f5fa F32 resteasy 2020-12-09
Fedora FEDORA-2020-df970da9fc F33 resteasy 2020-12-09
Fedora FEDORA-2020-383cad71b2 F32 scap-security-guide 2020-12-09
Fedora FEDORA-2020-56374bbf85 F33 scap-security-guide 2020-12-09
Fedora FEDORA-2020-c5e78886d6 F32 tcpdump 2020-12-06
Fedora FEDORA-2020-9493cfc1ac F32 thunderbird 2020-12-05
Fedora FEDORA-2020-d82261f7b1 F32 vips 2020-12-09
Fedora FEDORA-2020-e8a7566e80 F32 webkit2gtk3 2020-12-04
Fedora FEDORA-2020-4ff32ef9be F32 xen 2020-12-04
Fedora FEDORA-2020-c8a7df24d4 F32 xorg-x11-server 2020-12-05
Fedora FEDORA-2020-e82f9b80eb F33 xorg-x11-server 2020-12-05
Gentoo 202012-05 chromium 2020-12-07
Gentoo 202012-03 firefox 2020-12-07
Gentoo 202012-08 mariadb 2020-12-07
Gentoo 202012-06 pam 2020-12-07
Gentoo 202012-07 postgresql 2020-12-07
Gentoo 202012-02 seamonkey 2020-12-07
Gentoo 202012-04 thunderbird 2020-12-07
Gentoo 202012-01 xorg-server 2020-12-07
Mageia MGASA-2020-0443 7 cimg 2020-12-03
Mageia MGASA-2020-0448 7 mutt 2020-12-05
Mageia MGASA-2020-0452 7 oniguruma 2020-12-08
Mageia MGASA-2020-0449 7 pdfresurrect 2020-12-05
Mageia MGASA-2020-0453 7 php-pear 2020-12-08
Mageia MGASA-2020-0444 7 pngcheck 2020-12-03
Mageia MGASA-2020-0445 7 poppler 2020-12-03
Mageia MGASA-2020-0447 7 privoxy 2020-12-05
Mageia MGASA-2020-0451 7 python, python3 2020-12-08
Mageia MGASA-2020-0450 7 thunderbird 2020-12-05
Mageia MGASA-2020-0442 7 tor 2020-12-03
Mageia MGASA-2020-0454 7 x11vnc 2020-12-08
Mageia MGASA-2020-0446 7 xdg-utils 2020-12-03
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2213-1 chromium 2020-12-09
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2213-1 chromium 2020-12-09
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2181-1 15.2 chromium 2020-12-07
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2181-1 15.2 chromium 2020-12-07
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2188-1 15.1 java-1_8_0-openjdk 2020-12-07
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2170-1 15.2 java-1_8_0-openjdk 2020-12-05
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2170-1 15.2 java-1_8_0-openjdk 2020-12-05
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2193-1 15.1 15.2 kernel 2020-12-07
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2193-1 15.1 15.2 kernel 2020-12-07
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2161-1 15.2 kernel 2020-12-05
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2161-1 15.2 kernel 2020-12-05
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2149-1 15.1 mariadb 2020-12-03
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2149-1 15.1 mariadb 2020-12-03
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2204-1 minidlna 2020-12-08
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2194-1 15.1 minidlna 2020-12-07
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2194-1 15.1 minidlna 2020-12-07
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2160-1 15.2 minidlna 2020-12-04
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2160-1 15.2 minidlna 2020-12-04
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2157-1 neomutt 2020-12-04
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2158-1 neomutt 2020-12-04
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2157-1 neomutt 2020-12-04
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2158-1 neomutt 2020-12-04
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2178-1 15.1 15.2 opera 2020-12-07
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2178-1 15.1 15.2 opera 2020-12-07
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2198-1 15.1 pngcheck 2020-12-07
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2198-1 15.1 pngcheck 2020-12-07
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2177-1 15.2 pngcheck 2020-12-07
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2177-1 15.2 pngcheck 2020-12-07
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2189-1 15.1 python 2020-12-07
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2189-1 15.1 python 2020-12-07
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2211-1 15.2 python 2020-12-09
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2211-1 15.2 python 2020-12-09
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2173-1 15.2 python-cryptography 2020-12-06
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2173-1 15.2 python-cryptography 2020-12-06
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2184-1 15.1 python-pip 2020-12-07
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2184-1 15.1 python-pip 2020-12-07
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2169-1 15.2 python-pip 2020-12-05
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2169-1 15.2 python-pip 2020-12-05
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2185-1 15.1 python-setuptools 2020-12-07
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2185-1 15.1 python-setuptools 2020-12-07
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2190-1 15.1 python3 2020-12-07
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2190-1 15.1 python3 2020-12-07
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2152-1 15.2 python3 2020-12-03
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2152-1 15.2 python3 2020-12-03
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2168-1 rclone 2020-12-05
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2168-1 rclone 2020-12-05
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2205-1 15.2 rpmlint 2020-12-08
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2187-1 15.1 thunderbird 2020-12-07
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2187-1 15.1 thunderbird 2020-12-07
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2192-1 15.1 xen 2020-12-07
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2162-1 15.2 xen 2020-12-05
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2162-1 15.2 xen 2020-12-05
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2186-1 15.1 xorg-x11-server 2020-12-07
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2020:2186-1 15.1 xorg-x11-server 2020-12-07
Oracle ELSA-2020-5968 OL6 kernel 2020-12-08
Oracle ELSA-2020-5968 OL7 kernel 2020-12-08
Oracle ELSA-2020-5350 OL7 net-snmp 2020-12-07
Oracle ELSA-2020-5350 OL7 net-snmp 2020-12-08
Red Hat RHSA-2020:5333-01 RHEL 7 go-toolset-1.14-golang 2020-12-03
Red Hat RHSA-2020:5374-01 EL8.1 kernel 2020-12-08
Red Hat RHSA-2020:5352-01 EL7.2 ksh 2020-12-07
Red Hat RHSA-2020:5351-01 EL7.3 ksh 2020-12-07
Red Hat RHSA-2020:5379-01 OSP10 mariadb-galera 2020-12-08
Red Hat RHSA-2020:5369-01 EL8.1 microcode_ctl 2020-12-08
Red Hat RHSA-2020:5350-01 EL7 net-snmp 2020-12-07
Red Hat RHSA-2020:5372-01 EL8.1 net-snmp 2020-12-08
Slackware SSA:2020-342-01 seamonkey 2020-12-07
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:3624-1 OS7 crowbar-openstack, grafana, influxdb, python-urllib3 2020-12-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:3628-1 SLE12 fontforge 2020-12-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:3614-1 OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 SES5 gdm 2020-12-03
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:3715-1 SLE12 kernel 2020-12-09
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:3717-1 SLE12 kernel 2020-12-09
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:3717-1 SLE12 kernel 2020-12-09
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:3713-1 SLE15 kernel 2020-12-09
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:3714-1 SLE15 kernel 2020-12-09
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:3718-1 SLE15 kernel 2020-12-09
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:3718-1 SLE15 kernel 2020-12-09
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:3625-1 OS7 mariadb 2020-12-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:3632-1 OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 SES5 mutt 2020-12-07
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:3630-1 OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 SES5 postgresql12 2020-12-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:3629-1 OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 SES5 python-cryptography 2020-12-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:3599-1 OS7 SLE12 python-pip 2020-12-02
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:3613-1 SLE15 rpmlint 2020-12-03
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:3642-1 SLE15 thunderbird 2020-12-07
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:3631-1 OS8 SLE12 SES5 xen 2020-12-07
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:3653-1 OS9 SLE12 xen 2020-12-07
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:14557-1 SLE11 xen 2020-12-08
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:3612-1 SLE12 xen 2020-12-03
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:3615-1 SLE15 xen 2020-12-03
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:3611-1 SLE15 xen 2020-12-03
SUSE SUSE-SU-2020:3627-1 SLE15 xen 2020-12-04
Ubuntu USN-4664-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 aptdaemon 2020-12-08
Ubuntu USN-4665-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 curl 2020-12-09
Ubuntu USN-4663-1 20.04 20.10 gdk-pixbuf 2020-12-08
Ubuntu USN-4660-1 14.04 16.04 18.04 linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-gke-4.15, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oem, linux-oracle, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon 2020-12-02
Ubuntu USN-4666-1 12.04 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 lxml 2020-12-09
Ubuntu USN-4662-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 openssl, openssl1.0 2020-12-08
Ubuntu USN-4661-1 16.04 18.04 snapcraft 2020-12-03
Ubuntu USN-4656-2 14.04 xorg-server 2020-12-07
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Kernel patches of interest

Kernel releases

Linus Torvalds Linux 5.10-rc7 Dec 06
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.9.13 Dec 08
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.4.82 Dec 08
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.19.162 Dec 08
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.14.211 Dec 08
Luis Claudio R. Goncalves 4.9.247-rt162 Dec 08

Architecture-specific

Will Deacon An alternative series for asymmetric AArch32 systems Dec 08
Lakshmi Ramasubramanian Carry forward IMA measurement log on kexec on ARM64 Dec 04
Andy Lutomirski x86/mm: Lightweight lazy mm refcounting Dec 02

Core kernel

Brendan Jackman Atomics for eBPF Dec 03
Thomas Gleixner softirq: Make it RT aware Dec 04
Mel Gorman Reduce worst-case scanning of runqueues in select_idle_sibling Dec 07
Vipin Sharma cgroup: KVM: New Encryption IDs cgroup controller Dec 08

Device drivers

Neil Armstrong media: meson: Add support for the Amlogic GE2D Accelerator Unit Dec 02
Tyrel Datwyler ibmvfc: initial MQ development Dec 02
Liu Ying drm/imx: Introduce i.MX8qm/qxp DPU DRM Dec 03
Neil Armstrong drm: panel: add support for the Khadas TS050 panel Dec 04
Kevin Tang Add Unisoc's drm kms module Dec 07
Ye Xiang add custom hinge sensor support Dec 03
Vinod Koul Add clock drivers for SM8350 Dec 03
Christian Eggers net: dsa: microchip: PTP support for KSZ956x Dec 03
daire.mcnamara@microchip.com PCI: microchip: Add host driver for Microchip PCIe controller Dec 03
Steen Hegelund Adding the Sparx5 Serdes driver Dec 03
Eric Biggers eMMC inline encryption support Dec 02
Maximilian Luz Add support for Microsoft Surface System Aggregator Module Dec 03
Sowjanya Komatineni tegra-video: Add support for capturing from HDMI-to-CSI bridge Dec 03
Dmitry Osipenko Introduce memory interconnect for NVIDIA Tegra SoCs Dec 03
Russ Weight FPGA Security Manager Class Driver Dec 03
trix@redhat.com fpga: dfl: a prototype uio driver Dec 06
Hemant Kumar userspace MHI client interface driver Dec 03
Jason Wang vDPA driver for virtio-pci device Dec 04
Liu Ying phy: phy-fsl-imx8-mipi-dphy: Add i.MX8qxp LVDS PHY mode support Dec 04
Wilken Gottwalt hwspinlock: add sunxi hardware spinlock support Dec 04
Martina Krasteva IMX334 Camera Sensor Driver Dec 04
Grzegorz Jaszczyk Add a PRU remoteproc driver Dec 04
Cristian Ciocaltea Add initial support for ATC260x PMICs Dec 06
Michael Kao Add LVTS architecture thermal controller Dec 07
Pawel Laszczak Introduced new Cadence USBSSP DRD Driver. Dec 07
Jayshri Pawar Driver for Cadence xSPI flash controller Dec 09
Michael Grzeschik microchip: add support for ksz88x3 driver family Dec 07
Zong Li clk: add driver for the SiFive FU740 Dec 08
Jonathan Neuschäfer Netronix embedded controller driver for Kobo and Tolino ebook readers Dec 08
Qing Zhang spi: LS7A: Add Loongson LS7A SPI controller driver support Dec 08
Yoshihiro Shimoda mfd: bd9571mwv: Add support for BD9574MWF Dec 08
Maxime Chevallier media: rockchip: Introduce driver for Rockchip's camera interface Dec 08
Ankit Nautiyal Add support for DP-HDMI2.1 PCON Dec 08
Ben Widawsky CXL 2.0 Support Dec 08
Pavana Sharma Add support for mv88e6393x family of Marvell Dec 09
Yong Wu MT8192 IOMMU support Dec 09
Troy Lee hwmon: aspeed2600-pwm-tacho: Add driver support Dec 09
Sai Krishna Potthuri pinctrl: Added ZynqMP pinctrl driver Dec 09
Info Staging: silabs si4455 serial driver Dec 09

Device-driver infrastructure

Kyung Min Park Audit Capability and Extended Capability among IOMMUs Dec 05
Jianxin Xiong RDMA: Add dma-buf support Dec 07
Daniel Lezcano powercap/dtpm: Add the DTPM framework Dec 08
Lukasz Luba Thermal devfreq cooling improvements with Energy Model Dec 09

Documentation

Thorsten Leemhuis New documentation text describing how to report issues (aka "reporting-bugs rewritten") Dec 04
Stephen Kitt close_range.2: new page documenting close_range(2) Dec 08

Filesystems and block layer

Christian Brauner idmapped mounts Dec 04
Konstantin Komarov NTFS read-write driver GPL implementation by Paragon Software Dec 04
Palmer Dabbelt dm: dm-user: New target that proxies BIOs to userspace Dec 03
Miklos Szeredi allow unprivileged overlay mounts Dec 07
Gabriel Krisman Bertazi Superblock Notifications Dec 07
Sergei Shtepa block: blk_interposer - Block Layer Interposer Dec 09
Pavel Begunkov nocopy bvec for direct IO Dec 09

Memory management

Mike Rapoport mm: introduce memfd_secret system call to create "secret" memory areas Dec 03
Nicholas Piggin huge vmalloc mappings Dec 05
yulei.kernel@gmail.com Enhance memory utilization with DMEMFS Dec 07
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Page folios Dec 08
Joao Martins mm, sparse-vmemmap: Introduce compound pagemaps Dec 08

Networking

Daniel Winkler Bluetooth: Add new MGMT interface for advertising add Dec 03
Kuniyuki Iwashima Socket migration for SO_REUSEPORT. Dec 07
Wei Wang implement kthread based napi poll Dec 08

Security-related

Mickaël Salaün Add trusted_for(2) (was O_MAYEXEC) Dec 03
Mickaël Salaün Landlock LSM Dec 09

Virtualization and containers

David Brazdil Opt-in always-on nVHE hypervisor Dec 02
Ashish Kalra Add AMD SEV guest live migration support Dec 08

Miscellaneous

Nick Terrell Update to zstd-1.4.6 Dec 02
Bartosz Golaszewski configfs: implement committable items and add sample code Dec 04

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