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[CFP] Linux Security Summit 2021

Linux Security Summit (LSS) will take place September 27-29 in Dublin, Ireland. "We're seeking a diverse range of attendees and welcome participation by people involved in Linux security development, operations, and research. LSS is a unique global event that provides the opportunity to present and discuss your work or research with key Linux security community members and maintainers. It's also useful for those who wish to keep up with the latest in Linux security development and to provide input to the development process." The call for proposals ends June 27.

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CFP Deadlines: February 11, 2021 to April 12, 2021

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

DeadlineEvent Dates EventLocation
February 12 May 14
May 15		 PyCon US 2021 Online
February 28 June 15
June 16		 stackconf online 2021 Online
March 1 May 2
May 3		 PyCon Israel 2021 Online
March 15 May 13
May 15		 Linux App Summit online
March 19 May 4
May 6		 sambaXP 2021 Online
March 22 July 21
July 25		 GUADEC Online

If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.

Upcoming Events

Events: February 11, 2021 to April 12, 2021

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

Date(s)EventLocation
February 18
February 20		 DevConf.CZ Online
March 20
March 21		 LibrePlanet 2021 Online
March 30 Open Source 101 Online
April 9
April 10		 Grazer Linuxtage 2021 Online

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Security updates

Alert summary February 4, 2021 to February 10, 2021

Dist. ID Release Package Date
CentOS CESA-2021:0411 C7 flatpak 2021-02-09
CentOS CESA-2021:0348 C7 glibc 2021-02-04
CentOS CESA-2021:0339 C7 linux-firmware 2021-02-04
CentOS CESA-2021:0343 C7 perl 2021-02-04
CentOS CESA-2021:0347 C7 qemu-kvm 2021-02-04
Debian DSA-4846-1 stable chromium 2021-02-07
Debian DLA-2552-1 LTS connman 2021-02-09
Debian DSA-4847-1 stable connman 2021-02-08
Debian DSA-4844-1 stable dnsmasq 2021-02-04
Debian DSA-4849-1 stable firejail 2021-02-09
Debian DLA-2549-1 LTS gdisk 2021-02-08
Debian DSA-4848-1 stable golang-1.11 2021-02-08
Debian DLA-2546-1 LTS intel-microcode 2021-02-06
Debian DSA-4850-1 stable libzstd 2021-02-10
Debian DLA-2550-1 LTS openjpeg2 2021-02-09
Debian DLA-2548-1 LTS privoxy 2021-02-07
Debian DLA-2551-1 LTS slirp 2021-02-09
Debian DLA-2547-1 LTS wireshark 2021-02-06
Debian DLA-2553-1 LTS xcftools 2021-02-10
Fedora FEDORA-2021-05afa65d39 F33 chromium 2021-02-10
Fedora FEDORA-2021-1d8254899c F32 jackson-databind 2021-02-10
Fedora FEDORA-2021-5dcdf8b2b1 F33 java-11-openjdk 2021-02-05
Fedora FEDORA-2021-6e805a5051 F32 kernel 2021-02-05
Fedora FEDORA-2021-879c756377 F33 kernel 2021-02-05
Fedora FEDORA-2021-9d65b22041 F33 mingw-SDL2 2021-02-06
Fedora FEDORA-2021-354441fcdd F33 mingw-binutils 2021-02-06
Fedora FEDORA-2021-b1b17185fc F32 mingw-jasper 2021-02-07
Fedora FEDORA-2021-8ecb3686ca F33 mingw-jasper 2021-02-07
Fedora FEDORA-2021-fc24737ebc F32 monitorix 2021-02-05
Fedora FEDORA-2021-5f7da70bfe F33 monitorix 2021-02-05
Fedora FEDORA-2021-f62099fe51 F32 netpbm 2021-02-04
Fedora FEDORA-2021-6edfd606d3 F33 php 2021-02-06
Fedora FEDORA-2021-e24167b0e8 F32 pngcheck 2021-02-09
Fedora FEDORA-2021-674d704f6c F33 pngcheck 2021-02-09
Fedora FEDORA-2021-f08e89a0d5 F32 privoxy 2021-02-10
Fedora FEDORA-2021-6fe9346693 F33 privoxy 2021-02-10
Fedora FEDORA-2021-33abbae37b F32 python-pygments 2021-02-07
Fedora FEDORA-2021-175e686ca6 F33 python-pygments 2021-02-07
Fedora FEDORA-2021-851c6e4e2d F33 python3.10 2021-02-06
Fedora FEDORA-2021-138674557c F32 wireshark 2021-02-07
Fedora FEDORA-2021-f3011da665 F33 wireshark 2021-02-07
Fedora FEDORA-2021-5f268ab238 F33 wpa_supplicant 2021-02-07
Fedora FEDORA-2021-8b3202b783 F33 zeromq 2021-02-08
Mageia MGASA-2021-0065 7 firefox 2021-02-04
Mageia MGASA-2021-0073 7 gdisk 2021-02-06
Mageia MGASA-2021-0067 7 messagelib 2021-02-04
Mageia MGASA-2021-0070 7 mutt 2021-02-05
Mageia MGASA-2021-0069 7 nodejs 2021-02-05
Mageia MGASA-2021-0068 7 nodejs-ini 2021-02-05
Mageia MGASA-2021-0076 7 php 2021-02-08
Mageia MGASA-2021-0074 7 phppgadmin 2021-02-08
Mageia MGASA-2021-0064 7 python and python3 2021-02-04
Mageia MGASA-2021-0063 7 ruby-nokogiri 2021-02-04
Mageia MGASA-2021-0066 7 thunderbird 2021-02-04
Mageia MGASA-2021-0072 7 tomcat 2021-02-06
Mageia MGASA-2021-0075 7 wpa_supplicant 2021-02-08
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0242-1 15.2 RT kernel 2021-02-05
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0268-1 chromium 2021-02-10
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0259-1 15.2 chromium 2021-02-07
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0267-1 15.2 chromium 2021-02-10
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0253-1 15.2 cups 2021-02-05
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0241-1 15.2 kernel 2021-02-05
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0262-1 15.2 nextcloud 2021-02-08
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0239-1 15.2 openvswitch 2021-02-05
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0265-1 15.2 privoxy 2021-02-08
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0237-1 15.2 rubygem-nokogiri 2021-02-05
Oracle ELSA-2021-0411 OL7 flatpak 2021-02-04
Oracle ELSA-2021-0411 OL7 flatpak 2021-02-08
Oracle ELSA-2021-0348 OL7 glibc 2021-02-04
Oracle ELSA-2021-9030 OL6 kernel 2021-02-04
Oracle ELSA-2021-9041 OL6 kernel 2021-02-09
Oracle ELSA-2021-9043 OL6 kernel 2021-02-09
Oracle ELSA-2021-9030 OL7 kernel 2021-02-04
Oracle ELSA-2021-9035 OL7 kernel 2021-02-08
Oracle ELSA-2021-9035 OL7 kernel 2021-02-08
Oracle ELSA-2021-9037 OL7 kernel 2021-02-08
Oracle ELSA-2021-9041 OL7 kernel 2021-02-09
Oracle ELSA-2021-0336 OL7 kernel 2021-02-03
Oracle ELSA-2021-9037 OL8 kernel 2021-02-08
Oracle ELSA-2021-9037 OL8 kernel 2021-02-08
Oracle ELSA-2021-9038 OL7 kernel-container 2021-02-10
Oracle ELSA-2021-0343 OL7 perl 2021-02-03
Oracle ELSA-2021-0343 OL7 perl 2021-02-03
Oracle ELSA-2021-0347 OL7 qemu-kvm 2021-02-03
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0411-01 EL7 flatpak 2021-02-04
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0459-01 EL7 qemu-kvm-rhev 2021-02-09
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0421-01 RHSC rh-nodejs14-nodejs 2021-02-04
Scientific Linux SLSA-2021:0411-1 SL7 flatpak 2021-02-05
Slackware SSA:2021-040-01 dnsmasq 2021-02-09
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0352-1 MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 java-11-openjdk 2021-02-09
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0348-1 SLE12 kernel 2021-02-09
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0353-1 SLE12 kernel 2021-02-09
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0347-1 SLE15 kernel 2021-02-09
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0354-1 SLE15 kernel 2021-02-09
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0323-1 nutch-core 2021-02-08
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0300-1 MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 openvswitch 2021-02-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0298-1 OS7 SLE12 openvswitch 2021-02-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0297-1 OS9 SLE12 openvswitch 2021-02-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0355-1 MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 python 2021-02-09
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0342-1 OS9 python-urllib3 2021-02-08
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0299-1 SLE12 SES5 python-urllib3 2021-02-04
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0341-1 SLE15 python-urllib3 2021-02-08
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0344-1 OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 SES5 python3 2021-02-08
Ubuntu USN-4717-2 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 firefox 2021-02-09
Ubuntu USN-4721-1 18.04 20.04 20.10 flatpak 2021-02-04
Ubuntu USN-4727-1 20.04 20.10 linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-hwe-5.8, linux-kvm, linux-oem-5.6, linux-oracle, linux-raspi 2021-02-09
Ubuntu USN-4713-2 14.04 18.04 linux, linux-gke-5.0, linux-gke-5.3, linux-hwe, linux-raspi2-5.3 2021-02-09
Ubuntu USN-4722-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 minidlna 2021-02-04
Ubuntu USN-4726-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 openjdk-8, openjdk-lts 2021-02-09
Ubuntu USN-4724-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 openldap 2021-02-08
Ubuntu USN-4723-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 php-pear 2021-02-08
Ubuntu USN-4725-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 qemu 2021-02-08
Ubuntu USN-4728-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 snapd 2021-02-10
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Kernel patches of interest

Kernel releases

Linus Torvalds Linux 5.11-rc7 Feb 07
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.10.15 Feb 10
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.10.14 Feb 07
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior v5.10.14-rt28 Feb 09
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.4.97 Feb 10
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.4.96 Feb 07
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.19.175 Feb 10
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.19.174 Feb 07
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.14.221 Feb 10
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.14.220 Feb 07
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.9.257 Feb 10
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.9.256 Feb 05
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.4.257 Feb 10
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.4.256 Feb 05
Daniel Wagner 4.4.256-rt214 Feb 05

Architecture-specific

Hector Martin Apple M1 SoC platform bring-up Feb 05
Marc Zyngier arm64: Early CPU feature override, and applications to VHE, BTI and PAuth Feb 08
Vincenzo Frascino arm64: ARMv8.5-A: MTE: Add async mode support Feb 08
Christophe Leroy powerpc/32: Implement C syscall entry/exit Feb 08
Thomas Gleixner x86/irq/64: Inline irq stack switching Feb 04
Andy Lutomirski x86/fault: #PF improvements, mostly related to USER bit Feb 09

Build system

Nick Desaulniers Kbuild: DWARF v5 support Feb 03

Development tools

SeongJae Park Subject: Introduce Data Access MONitor (DAMON) Feb 04

Device drivers

Gustavo Pimentel dmaengine: dw-edma: HDMA support Feb 03
Chunyan Zhang Add Unisoc IOMMU basic driver Feb 04
Erik Rosen hwmon: (pmbus) Add ST STPDDC60 pmbus driver Feb 04
Maulik Shah Introduce SoC sleep stats driver Feb 04
John Efstathiades LAN7800 USB network interface driver NAPI support Feb 04
Cristian Marussi Introduce SCMI System Power Control driver Feb 04
Robert Foss Add support for the SDM845 Camera Subsystem Feb 05
Stefano Garzarella vdpa: add vdpa simulator for block device Feb 04
Dmitry Baryshkov thermal: qcom: add support for adc-tm5 PMIC thermal monitor Feb 05
Dave Jiang Add VFIO mediated device support and DEV-MSI support for the idxd driver Feb 05
Vinod Koul pinctrl: qcom: Add SM8350 pinctrl support Feb 05
Geetha sowjanya Add Marvell CN10K support Feb 06
mgross@linux.intel.com Intel Vision Processing base enabling Feb 05
Hsin-Hsiung Wang Add SPMI support for Mediatek MT6873/8192 SoC IC Feb 07
Shengjiu Wang Add audio driver base on rpmsg on i.MX platform Feb 07
Meng Yu add ECDH and CURVE25519 algorithms support for Kunpeng 930 Feb 08
Serge Semin net: stmmac: Add DW MAC GPIOs and Baikal-T1 GMAC support Feb 08
Srinivas Kandagatla ASoC: codecs: add support for LPASS Codec TX and RX macros Feb 08
Shai Malin NVMeTCP Offload ULP and QEDN Device Driver Feb 07
Shaokun Zhang Add support for HiSilicon Hip09 uncore PMU driver Feb 08
Mikko Perttunen Host1x context isolation support Feb 08
Alistair Popple Add support for SVM atomics in Nouveau Feb 09
Michal Simek usb: misc: Add support for Microchip USB5744 Feb 09
Ben Widawsky CXL 2.0 Support Feb 09
Neil Armstrong phy: amlogic: Add support for the G12A Analog MIPI D-PHY Feb 10
Steen Hegelund Adding the Sparx5 Serdes driver Feb 10
Steen Hegelund Adding the Sparx5 Switch Reset Driver Feb 10
Robert Marko Add support for Qualcomm QCA807x PHYs Feb 10
Anilkumar Kolli ath11k: Add support for QCN9074 Feb 10
Nobuhiro Iwamatsu net: stmmac: Add Toshiba Visconti SoCs glue driver Feb 11
Matthias Kaehlcke USB: misc: Add onboard_usb_hub driver Feb 10

Device-driver infrastructure

Dongli Zhang swiotlb: 64-bit DMA buffer Feb 03
Arnaud Pouliquen introduce a generic IOCTL interface for RPMsg channels management Feb 04
John Stultz Generic page pool & deferred freeing for system dmabuf heap Feb 05
Claire Chang Restricted DMA Feb 09
Alexandru Ardelean iio: core,buffer: add support for multiple IIO buffers per IIO device Feb 10

Filesystems and block layer

Naohiro Aota btrfs: zoned block device support Feb 04
Boris Burkov btrfs: support fsverity Feb 04
Konstantin Komarov NTFS read-write driver GPL implementation by Paragon Software Feb 05
Matteo Croce block: add a sequence number to disks Feb 06
Shiyang Ruan fsdax: introduce fs query to support reflink Feb 08
Jeffle Xu dm: support IO polling Feb 08
Qiaowei Ren nvm page allocator for bcache Feb 08
Sergei Shtepa block-layer interposer Feb 09
Michal Rostecki Add roundrobin raid1 read policy Feb 09

Memory management

Muchun Song Free some vmemmap pages of HugeTLB page Feb 04
Huang Ying autonuma: Optimize memory placement for memory tiering system Feb 04
Axel Rasmussen userfaultfd: add minor fault handling Feb 04
Johannes Weiner mm: memcontrol: switch to rstat v2 Feb 05
Mike Rapoport mm: introduce memfd_secret system call to create "secret" memory areas Feb 08
Oscar Salvador Allocate memmap from hotadded memory (per device) Feb 09
Yang Shi Make shrinker's nr_deferred memcg aware Feb 09

Networking

Hangbin Liu xdp: add a new helper for dev map multicast support Feb 04
Andreas Roeseler add support for RFC 8335 PROBE Feb 03
Wei Wang implement kthread based napi poll Feb 04
George McCollister add HSR offloading support for DSA switches Feb 04
Arseny Krasnov virtio/vsock: introduce SOCK_SEQPACKET support Feb 07
Jesper Dangaard Brouer bpf: New approach for BPF MTU handling Feb 09
Petr Machata nexthop: Resilient next-hop groups Feb 08
Alexander Lobakin skbuff: introduce skbuff_heads bulking and reusing Feb 09
Lorenz Bauer Expose network namespace cookies to user space Feb 10

Security-related

Lakshmi Ramasubramanian Carry forward IMA measurement log on kexec on ARM64 Feb 04
David Howells keys: request_key() interception in containers Feb 04
Mickaël Salaün Enable root to update the blacklist keyring Feb 10

Virtualization and containers

Ashish Kalra Add AMD SEV guest live migration support Feb 04
Atish Patra Add SBI v0.2 support for KVM Feb 03
Chenyi Qiang KVM: PKS Virtualization support Feb 05
Zhimin Feng Support timer passthrough for VM Feb 05
shuo.a.liu@intel.com HSM driver for ACRN hypervisor Feb 07
Jing Liu Introduce support for guest AMX feature Feb 07
Gavin Shan Support SDEI Virtualization Feb 09
Gavin Shan Support Asynchronous Page Fault Feb 09
Hikaru Nishida Introduce a way to adjust CLOCK_BOOTTIME from userspace for VM guests Feb 10

Miscellaneous

Jiri Olsa perf tools: Add daemon command Feb 08
Namjae Jeon exfatprogs-1.1.0 version released Feb 10

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