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CFS for Netdev 0x15 open

Netdev 0x15 will take place July 20-23, hopefully in San Francisco, but with an online component. The call for sessions is open until June 10.

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CFP Deadlines: March 18, 2021 to May 17, 2021

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

DeadlineEvent Dates EventLocation
March 19 May 4
May 6		 sambaXP 2021 Online
March 22 July 21
July 25		 GUADEC Online
April 25 May 25
May 26		 Yocto Project Virtual Summit 2021 Online
April 25 July 9
July 11		 State of the Map Online
April 30 October 17
October 19		 All Things Open Raleigh, NC, and virtual
April 30 June 3 Live Embedded Event Online
May 2 June 18
June 25		 Akademy 2021 Online
May 4 June 18
June 20		 openSUSE conference online
May 12 June 1
June 30		 Ceph Month June Virtual
May 15 September 15
September 17		 International Workshop on OpenMP Bristol, UK
May 16 July 28
July 30		 EuroPython 2021 Online

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Upcoming Events

Events: March 18, 2021 to May 17, 2021

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

Date(s)EventLocation
March 20
March 21		 LibrePlanet 2021 Online
March 30 Open Source 101 Online
April 9
April 10		 Grazer Linuxtage 2021 Online
May 2
May 3		 PyCon Israel 2021 Online
May 4
May 6		 sambaXP 2021 Online
May 13
May 15		 Linux App Summit online
May 14
May 15		 PyCon US 2021 Online

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Security updates

Alert summary March 11, 2021 to March 17, 2021

Dist. ID Release Package Date
Debian DLA-2593-1 LTS ca-certificates 2021-03-14
Debian DSA-4868-1 stable flatpak 2021-03-12
Debian DLA-2591-1 LTS golang-1.7 2021-03-13
Debian DLA-2592-1 LTS golang-1.8 2021-03-13
Debian DLA-2589-1 LTS mupdf 2021-03-12
Debian DLA-2589-2 LTS mupdf 2021-03-14
Debian DLA-2590-1 LTS pygments 2021-03-12
Debian DSA-4870-1 stable pygments 2021-03-12
Debian DLA-2596-1 LTS shadow 2021-03-17
Debian DSA-4869-1 stable tiff 2021-03-12
Debian DLA-2596-1 LTS tomcat8 2021-03-16
Debian DSA-4871-1 stable tor 2021-03-16
Debian DLA-2595-1 LTS velocity 2021-03-17
Debian DLA-2588-1 LTS zeromq3 2021-03-10
Fedora FEDORA-2021-332fb9c796 F32 arm-none-eabi-newlib 2021-03-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-267c08cc40 F33 arm-none-eabi-newlib 2021-03-11
Fedora FEDORA-2021-470fa24f5b F33 containerd 2021-03-15
Fedora FEDORA-2021-ffd0b2108d F32 git 2021-03-15
Fedora FEDORA-2021-10ce8fcbf1 F33 golang-github-containerd-cri 2021-03-15
Fedora FEDORA-2021-faea36a9c3 F33 gsoap 2021-03-17
Fedora FEDORA-2021-755ba8968a F33 mingw-gdk-pixbuf 2021-03-15
Fedora FEDORA-2021-7c71cda8da F33 mingw-glib2 2021-03-15
Fedora FEDORA-2021-56a49b0bc6 F32 mingw-jasper 2021-03-15
Fedora FEDORA-2021-7f3323a767 F33 mingw-jasper 2021-03-15
Fedora FEDORA-2021-2ab8ebcabc F33 mingw-python-jinja2 2021-03-15
Fedora FEDORA-2021-15845d3abe F33 mingw-python-pillow 2021-03-15
Fedora FEDORA-2021-309bc2e727 F32 mingw-python3 2021-03-15
Fedora FEDORA-2021-b76ede8f4d F33 mingw-python3 2021-03-15
Fedora FEDORA-2021-f6bd75e9d4 F32 nodejs 2021-03-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-a760169c3c F33 nodejs 2021-03-11
Fedora FEDORA-2021-ef83e8525a F32 python-django 2021-03-13
Fedora FEDORA-2021-1bb399a5af F33 python-django 2021-03-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-0ece308612 F32 python-pillow 2021-03-15
Fedora FEDORA-2021-15845d3abe F33 python-pillow 2021-03-15
Fedora FEDORA-2021-0ece308612 F32 python2-pillow 2021-03-15
Fedora FEDORA-2021-15845d3abe F33 python2-pillow 2021-03-15
Fedora FEDORA-2021-2897f5366c F32 python3.10 2021-03-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-b326fcb83f F33 python3.10 2021-03-11
Fedora FEDORA-2021-6167e8e205 F33 qt5-qtsvg 2021-03-17
Fedora FEDORA-2021-6c7cfe2532 F32 suricata 2021-03-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-9747ed7427 F33 suricata 2021-03-11
Fedora FEDORA-2021-3dedd41a06 F33 switchboard-plug-bluetooth 2021-03-17
Mageia MGASA-2021-0131 7 ansible 2021-03-12
Mageia MGASA-2021-0132 8 ansible 2021-03-12
Mageia MGASA-2021-0139 8 batik 2021-03-17
Mageia MGASA-2021-0126 8 ceph 2021-03-12
Mageia MGASA-2021-0142 7, 8 chromium-browser-stable 2021-03-17
Mageia MGASA-2021-0120 7, 8 firejail 2021-03-12
Mageia MGASA-2021-0137 7, 8 git 2021-03-14
Mageia MGASA-2021-0123 8 glib2.0 2021-03-12
Mageia MGASA-2021-0138 8 glibc 2021-03-17
Mageia MGASA-2021-0127 7 gnuplot 2021-03-12
Mageia MGASA-2021-0141 7 ksh 2021-03-17
Mageia MGASA-2021-0128 7, 8 libcaca 2021-03-12
Mageia MGASA-2021-0134 7 mediainfo 2021-03-14
Mageia MGASA-2021-0140 7, 8 microcode 2021-03-17
Mageia MGASA-2021-0125 7, 8 mumble 2021-03-12
Mageia MGASA-2021-0136 8 netty 2021-03-14
Mageia MGASA-2021-0118 7 openssh 2021-03-12
Mageia MGASA-2021-0121 7, 8 postgresql 2021-03-12
Mageia MGASA-2021-0129 8 python-cryptography 2021-03-12
Mageia MGASA-2021-0135 8 python-django 2021-03-14
Mageia MGASA-2021-0122 7, 8 python-httplib2 2021-03-12
Mageia MGASA-2021-0119 7 python-yaml 2021-03-12
Mageia MGASA-2021-0133 7 quartz 2021-03-14
Mageia MGASA-2021-0130 7 roundcubemail 2021-03-12
Mageia MGASA-2021-0124 7, 8 ruby-mechanize 2021-03-12
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0418-1 15.2 389-ds 2021-03-16
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0416-1 15.2 connman 2021-03-16
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0410-1 15.2 crmsh 2021-03-14
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0428-1 15.2 freeradius-server 2021-03-16
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0415-1 15.2 froxlor 2021-03-16
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0405-1 15.2 git 2021-03-14
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0406-1 15.2 glib2 2021-03-14
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0407-1 15.2 kernel-firmware 2021-03-14
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0408-1 15.2 openldap2 2021-03-14
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0430-1 15.2 openssl-1_0_0 2021-03-17
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0427-1 15.2 openssl-1_1 2021-03-16
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0413-1 15.2 opera 2021-03-16
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0423-1 15.2 postgresql12 2021-03-16
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0429-1 15.2 python-markdown2 2021-03-16
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0409-1 15.2 stunnel 2021-03-14
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:0404-1 15.2 wpa_supplicant 2021-03-14
Oracle ELSA-2021-0788 OL8 dotnet 2021-03-10
Oracle ELSA-2021-0790 OL8 dotnet3.1 2021-03-10
Oracle ELSA-2021-9107 OL7 python 2021-03-15
Oracle ELSA-2021-9107 OL7 python 2021-03-15
Oracle ELSA-2021-9101 OL7 python3 2021-03-10
Oracle ELSA-2021-9100 OL8 python3 2021-03-10
Oracle ELSA-2021-9104 OL7 qemu 2021-03-12
Oracle ELSA-2021-0808 OL7 wpa_supplicant 2021-03-10
Oracle ELSA-2021-0808 OL7 wpa_supplicant 2021-03-10
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0922-01 EL8.2 bind 2021-03-17
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0877-01 EL7.6 curl 2021-03-16
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0860-01 EL7 ipa 2021-03-16
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0856-01 EL7 kernel 2021-03-16
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0848-01 EL7.3 kernel 2021-03-16
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0878-01 EL7.6 kernel 2021-03-16
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0857-01 EL7 kernel-rt 2021-03-16
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0862-01 EL7 kpatch-patch 2021-03-16
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0876-01 EL7.6 nss and nss-softokn 2021-03-16
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0834-01 EL7 openvswitch2.11 2021-03-15
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0837-01 EL8 openvswitch2.11 2021-03-15
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0835-01 EL7 openvswitch2.13 2021-03-15
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0883-01 EL7.6 perl 2021-03-16
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0851-01 EL7 pki-core 2021-03-16
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0819-01 EL7.6 pki-core 2021-03-15
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0881-01 EL7.6 python 2021-03-16
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0827-01 SCL rh-nodejs10-nodejs 2021-03-15
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0831-01 SCL rh-nodejs12-nodejs 2021-03-15
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0830-01 SCL rh-nodejs14-nodejs 2021-03-15
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0882-01 EL7.6 tomcat 2021-03-16
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0808-01 EL7 wpa_supplicant 2021-03-10
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0809-01 EL8 wpa_supplicant 2021-03-11
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0818-01 EL8.1 wpa_supplicant 2021-03-15
Red Hat RHSA-2021:0816-01 EL8.2 wpa_supplicant 2021-03-15
Scientific Linux SLSA-2021:0860-1 SL7 ipa 2021-03-17
Scientific Linux SLSA-2021:0856-1 SL7 kernel 2021-03-17
Scientific Linux SLSA-2021:0851-1 SL7 pki-core 2021-03-17
Scientific Linux SLSA-2021:0808-1 SL7 wpa_supplicant 2021-03-11
Slackware SSA:2021-070-01 git 2021-03-11
Slackware SSA:2021-072-01 14.2 kernel 2021-03-13
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0779-1 SLE12 apache2 2021-03-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0793-1 SLE12 compat-openssl098 2021-03-16
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0771-1 SLE12 crmsh 2021-03-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0781-1 SLE15 crmsh 2021-03-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0782-1 SLE15 crmsh 2021-03-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0801-1 OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 glib2 2021-03-16
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0778-1 SLE15 glib2 2021-03-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0770-1 SLE15 libsolv, libzypp, yast2-installation, zypper 2021-03-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0769-1 MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 openssl-1_0_0 2021-03-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0768-1 MP4.0 SLE15 SES6 python 2021-03-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0794-1 OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 python 2021-03-16
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0776-1 SLE12 s390-tools 2021-03-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0777-1 SLE15 s390-tools 2021-03-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0773-1 SLE12 slurm_20_11 and pdsh 2021-03-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0772-1 SLE15 stunnel 2021-03-12
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:0800-1 SLE15 velocity 2021-03-16
Ubuntu USN-4881-1 20.04 20.10 containerd 2021-03-17
Ubuntu USN-4764-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 glib2.0 2021-03-15
Ubuntu USN-4878-1 18.04 20.04 linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.4, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-gke-5.4, linux-gkeop, linux-gkeop-5.4, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4, linux-raspi, linux-raspi-5.4 2021-03-16
Ubuntu USN-4877-1 14.04 16.04 18.04 linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15, linux-dell300x, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon 2021-03-16
Ubuntu USN-4879-1 20.04 20.10 linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-hwe-5.8, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-raspi 2021-03-16
Ubuntu USN-4876-1 14.04 16.04 linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-lts-xenial, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon 2021-03-15
Ubuntu USN-4880-1 16.04 openjpeg2 2021-03-16
Ubuntu USN-4763-1 16.04 18.04 20.04 20.10 pillow 2021-03-11
Ubuntu USN-4754-3 18.04 20.04 python2.7, python3.7, python3.8 2021-03-12
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Kernel patches of interest

Kernel releases

Linus Torvalds Linux 5.12-rc3 Mar 14
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.11.7 Mar 17
gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 5.11.6 Mar 11
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.10.24 Mar 17
gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 5.10.23 Mar 11
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.4.106 Mar 17
gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 5.4.105 Mar 11
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.19.181 Mar 17
gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 4.19.180 Mar 11
Tom Zanussi 4.19.180-rt73 Mar 12
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.14.226 Mar 17
gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 4.14.225 Mar 11
gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 4.9.262 Mar 17
gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 4.9.261 Mar 11
gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 4.4.262 Mar 17
gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 4.4.261 Mar 11
Daniel Wagner 4.4.261-rt218 Mar 15

Architecture-specific

Vincenzo Frascino arm64: ARMv8.5-A: MTE: Add async mode support Mar 12
madvenka@linux.microsoft.com arm64: Implement reliable stack trace Mar 15
Christophe Leroy powerpc/32: Switch to interrupt entry/exit in C Mar 12
Anup Patel RISC-V CPU Idle Support Mar 16
kan.liang@linux.intel.com Uncore PMON discovery mechanism support Mar 12
Chang S. Bae x86: Improve Minimum Alternate Stack Size Mar 15
Yu-cheng Yu Control-flow Enforcement: Shadow Stack Mar 16
Yu-cheng Yu Control-flow Enforcement: Indirect Branch Tracking Mar 16

Core kernel

Florent Revest Add a snprintf eBPF helper Mar 10
Valentin Schneider sched/fair: misfit task load-balance tweaks Mar 11
Huaixin Chang sched/fair: Burstable CFS bandwidth controller Mar 16
Martin KaFai Lau bpf: Support calling kernel function Mar 15
John Ogness printk: remove safe buffers Mar 17

Development tools

Jim Cromie dynamic debug diet plan Mar 15

Device drivers

Mirela Rabulea (OSS) Add V4L2 driver for i.MX8 JPEG Encoder/Decoder Mar 11
Cristian Ciocaltea Add support for Actions Semi Owl Ethernet MAC Mar 11
Calvin Johnson ACPI support for dpaa2 driver Mar 11
eli.billauer@gmail.com Submission of XillyUSB driver Mar 11
Venkata Lakshmi Narayana Gubba Enable Bluetooth functinality for WCN6750 Mar 11
Dmitry Osipenko Add memory bandwidth management to NVIDIA Tegra DRM driver Mar 11
Shengjiu Wang Add audio driver base on rpmsg on i.MX platform Mar 12
Michael Kao thermal: mediatek: Add LVTS architecture thermal controller Mar 12
Suravee Suthikulpanit iommu/amd: Add Generic IO Page Table Framework Support for v2 Page Table Mar 12
Nicolas Saenz Julienne Raspberry Pi PoE HAT fan support Mar 12
Srinivas Kandagatla ASoC: codecs: add wcd938x support Mar 11
Robert Foss Add support for the SDM845 Camera Subsystem Mar 11
Dmitry Osipenko NVIDIA Tegra core power domain driver and OPP helper Mar 14
Sander Vanheule Add Realtek Otto GPIO support Mar 15
Russ Weight Intel MAX10 BMC Secure Update Driver Mar 12
Hsin-Hsiung Wang Add SPMI support for Mediatek MT6873/8192 SoC IC Mar 14
Elaine Zhang clk: rockchip: add clock controller for rk3568 Mar 15
Henning Schild add device drivers for Siemens Industrial PCs Mar 15
Álvaro Fernández Rojas pinctrl: add BCM63XX pincontrol support Mar 15
Noralf Trønnes GUD USB Display driver Mar 13
Hsin-Hsiung Wang Add Support for MediaTek PMIC MT6359 Mar 16
Steen Hegelund Adding the Sparx5 Switch Reset Driver Mar 16
Taniya Das Add support for DISP/VIDEO/GPU CCs for SC7280 Mar 17
Liu Ying Add some DRM bridge drivers support for i.MX8qm/qxp SoCs Mar 17
Sai Krishna Potthuri Add ZynqMP pinctrl driver Mar 17

Device-driver infrastructure

Mathieu Poirier remoteproc: Add support for detaching a remote processor Mar 10
Matti Vaittinen Extend regulator notification support Mar 11
Dmitry Osipenko Introduce devm_pm_opp_* API Mar 11
Xie Yongji Introduce VDUSE - vDPA Device in Userspace Mar 15
Jason Ekstrand dma-buf: Add an API for exporting sync files (v6) Mar 15

Filesystems and block layer

Sergei Shtepa block device interposer Mar 12
Konstantin Komarov NTFS read-write driver GPL implementation by Paragon Software Mar 15
Matteo Croce block: add a sequence number to disks Mar 15
Ming Lei block: support bio based io polling Mar 16
Harshad Shirwadkar ext4: Block allocator improvements Mar 15
Omar Sandoval fs: interface for directly reading/writing compressed data Mar 16
Omar Sandoval btrfs: implement send/receive of compressed extents without decompressing Mar 16
Manivannan Sadhasivam Add support for secure regions in NAND Mar 17
Qiaowei Ren nvm page allocator for bcache Mar 17

Memory management

Huang Ying NUMA balancing: optimize memory placement for memory tiering system Mar 11
Muchun Song Free some vmemmap pages of HugeTLB page Mar 15
Mel Gorman Introduce a bulk order-0 page allocator with two in-tree users Mar 12
Yu Zhao Multigenerational LRU Mar 13
Feng Tang Introduced multi-preference mempolicy Mar 17
Nicholas Piggin huge vmalloc mappings Mar 17
David Hildenbrand mm/madvise: introduce MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE) to prefault/prealloc memory Mar 17

Networking

Cong Wang sockmap: introduce BPF_SK_SKB_VERDICT and support UDP Mar 16

Security-related

Sami Tolvanen Add support for Clang CFI Mar 11
Mickaël Salaün Enable root to update the blacklist keyring Mar 12
Kees Cook Optionally randomize kernel stack offset each syscall Mar 15
Ahmad Fatoum KEYS: trusted: Introduce support for NXP CAAM-based trusted keys Mar 16
Mickaël Salaün Unprivileged chroot Mar 16
Mickaël Salaün Landlock LSM Mar 16
Stefan Berger Add support for x509 certs with NIST P384/256/192 keys Mar 16

Virtualization and containers

Steven Price MTE support for KVM guest Mar 12
Like Xu KVM: x86/pmu: Guest Architectural LBR Enabling Mar 14
Quentin Perret KVM: arm64: A stage 2 for the host Mar 15
Marc Zyngier KVM: arm64: Initial host support for the Apple M1 Mar 16

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