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Calls for Presentations

CFP Deadlines: November 18, 2021 to January 17, 2022

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

DeadlineEvent Dates EventLocation
December 10 April 5
April 7		 Cephalocon 2022 Portland, OR, US
December 15 March 19
March 20		 LibrePlanet 2022 Online
January 9 February 3
February 4		 CentOS Dojo, FOSDEM 2022 online, online

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

Upcoming Events

Events: November 18, 2021 to January 17, 2022

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

Date(s)EventLocation
November 27
November 28		 EmacsConf Online
November 30
December 2		 Yocto Project Summit 2021-11 virtual
December 1
December 4		 FlaskCon Online
December 2
December 3		 PGConf NYC New York, USA
December 3
December 4		 OLF Conference Columbus, OH, USA
January 14 LCA2022 Systems Administration Miniconf Online, UTC+11 (AEDT)
January 14
January 16		 linux.conf.au 2022 Online

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Security updates

Alert summary November 11, 2021 to November 17, 2021

Dist. ID Release Package Date
CentOS CESA-2021:3807 C7 389-ds-base 2021-11-17
CentOS CESA-2020:3996 C7 libxml2 2021-11-17
CentOS CESA-2021:3810 C7 libxml2 2021-11-17
Debian DLA-2820-1 LTS atftp 2021-11-17
Debian DLA-2821-1 LTS axis 2021-11-17
Debian DLA-2818-1 LTS ffmpeg 2021-11-14
Debian DLA-2816-1 LTS icinga2 2021-11-10
Debian DSA-5010-1 stable libxml-security-java 2021-11-15
Debian DSA-5004-1 stable libxstream-java 2021-11-10
Debian DSA-5004-1 stable libxstream-java 2021-11-10
Debian DSA-5008-1 stable node-tar 2021-11-11
Debian DLA-2819-1 LTS ntfs-3g 2021-11-16
Debian DSA-5006-1 stable postgresql-11 2021-11-11
Debian DSA-5007-1 stable postgresql-13 2021-11-11
Debian DLA-2817-1 LTS postgresql-9.6 2021-11-12
Debian DSA-5005-1 stable ruby-kaminari 2021-11-10
Debian DLA-2815-1 LTS salt 2021-11-10
Debian DSA-5009-1 stable tomcat9 2021-11-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-df1fa3d3e0 F35 R-magick 2021-11-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-df1fa3d3e0 F35 WindowMaker 2021-11-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-df1fa3d3e0 F35 autotrace 2021-11-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-bbe47cbab6 F33 awscli 2021-11-11
Fedora FEDORA-2021-89619b6feb F34 awscli 2021-11-11
Fedora FEDORA-2021-f916f64e5e F35 awscli 2021-11-11
Fedora FEDORA-2021-8d51cac49f F34 botan2 2021-11-16
Fedora FEDORA-2021-14b0d97496 F35 botan2 2021-11-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-cfc1913b5f F33 cacti 2021-11-11
Fedora FEDORA-2021-818ff2c12b F34 cacti 2021-11-11
Fedora FEDORA-2021-0b8814db99 F35 cacti 2021-11-11
Fedora FEDORA-2021-cfc1913b5f F33 cacti-spine 2021-11-11
Fedora FEDORA-2021-818ff2c12b F34 cacti-spine 2021-11-11
Fedora FEDORA-2021-0b8814db99 F35 cacti-spine 2021-11-11
Fedora FEDORA-2021-df1fa3d3e0 F35 chafa 2021-11-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-df1fa3d3e0 F35 converseen 2021-11-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-df1fa3d3e0 F35 digikam 2021-11-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-685f0029c7 F35 digikam 2021-11-17
Fedora FEDORA-2021-df1fa3d3e0 F35 dmtx-utils 2021-11-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-df1fa3d3e0 F35 dvdauthor 2021-11-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-df1fa3d3e0 F35 eom 2021-11-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-808fab651c F34 et 2021-11-13
Fedora FEDORA-2021-532fcdde8a F35 et 2021-11-13
Fedora FEDORA-2021-2c25f03d0b F35 freerdp 2021-11-17
Fedora FEDORA-2021-2c25f03d0b F35 guacamole-server 2021-11-17
Fedora FEDORA-2021-8364530ebf F33 kernel 2021-11-14
Fedora FEDORA-2021-7de33b7016 F34 kernel 2021-11-14
Fedora FEDORA-2021-fdef34e26f F35 kernel 2021-11-14
Fedora FEDORA-2021-df1fa3d3e0 F35 kxstitch 2021-11-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-df1fa3d3e0 F35 pfstools 2021-11-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-df1fa3d3e0 F35 php-pecl-imagick 2021-11-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-df1fa3d3e0 F35 psiconv 2021-11-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-f916f64e5e F35 python-boto3 2021-11-11
Fedora FEDORA-2021-f916f64e5e F35 python-botocore 2021-11-11
Fedora FEDORA-2021-df1fa3d3e0 F35 q 2021-11-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-632bbbf893 F33 radeontop 2021-11-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-82c8dfe96d F34 radeontop 2021-11-11
Fedora FEDORA-2021-2c25f03d0b F35 remmina 2021-11-17
Fedora FEDORA-2021-df1fa3d3e0 F35 rss-glx 2021-11-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-df1fa3d3e0 F35 rubygem-rmagick 2021-11-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-443139f67c F33 rust 2021-11-11
Fedora FEDORA-2021-df1fa3d3e0 F35 synfig 2021-11-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-df1fa3d3e0 F35 synfigstudio 2021-11-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-df1fa3d3e0 F35 vdr-scraper2vdr 2021-11-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-df1fa3d3e0 F35 vdr-skinelchihd 2021-11-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-df1fa3d3e0 F35 vdr-skinnopacity 2021-11-12
Fedora FEDORA-2021-df1fa3d3e0 F35 vdr-tvguide 2021-11-12
Mageia MGASA-2021-0505 8 firefox 2021-11-10
Mageia MGASA-2021-0507 8 kernel 2021-11-11
Mageia MGASA-2021-0508 8 kernel-linus 2021-11-11
Mageia MGASA-2021-0503 8 libesmtp 2021-11-10
Mageia MGASA-2021-0504 8 libzapojit 2021-11-10
Mageia MGASA-2021-0509 8 openafs 2021-11-11
Mageia MGASA-2021-0502 8 sssd 2021-11-10
Mageia MGASA-2021-0506 8 thunderbird 2021-11-10
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1475-1 15.2 binutils 2021-11-15
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:3665-1 15.3 drbd-utils 2021-11-16
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1480-1 15.2 java-11-openjdk 2021-11-17
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:3671-1 15.3 java-11-openjdk 2021-11-16
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1477-1 15.2 kernel 2021-11-15
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:3655-1 15.3 kernel 2021-11-11
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:3675-1 15.3 kernel 2021-11-16
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1468-1 15.2 rubygem-activerecord-5_1 2021-11-12
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:3647-1 15.3 samba and ldb 2021-11-10
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1471-1 15.2 samba 2021-11-15
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:3650-1 15.3 samba 2021-11-10
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:3662-1 15.3 samba 2021-11-16
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:3674-1 15.3 samba 2021-11-16
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:1474-1 15.2 tinyxml 2021-11-15
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2021:3672-1 15.3 tomcat 2021-11-16
Oracle ELSA-2021-4619 OL7 freerdp 2021-11-12
Oracle ELSA-2021-4619 OL7 freerdp 2021-11-12
Oracle ELSA-2021-9545 OL8 httpd:2.4 2021-11-12
Red Hat RHSA-2021:4669-01 SCL devtoolset-11-gcc 2021-11-15
Red Hat RHSA-2021:4619-01 EL7 freerdp 2021-11-11
Red Hat RHSA-2021:4622-01 EL8 freerdp 2021-11-11
Red Hat RHSA-2021:4620-01 EL8.1 freerdp 2021-11-11
Red Hat RHSA-2021:4621-01 EL8.2 freerdp 2021-11-11
Red Hat RHSA-2021:4623-01 EL8.4 freerdp 2021-11-11
Red Hat RHSA-2021:4649-01 EL8 gcc-toolset-10-binutils 2021-11-15
Red Hat RHSA-2021:4692-01 EL7.4 kernel 2021-11-16
Red Hat RHSA-2021:4647-01 EL8 kernel 2021-11-15
Red Hat RHSA-2021:4687-01 EL8.1 kernel 2021-11-16
Red Hat RHSA-2021:4650-01 EL8.4 kernel 2021-11-15
Red Hat RHSA-2021:4646-01 EL8 kernel-rt 2021-11-15
Red Hat RHSA-2021:4648-01 EL8.4 kernel-rt 2021-11-15
Red Hat RHSA-2021:4645-01 EL8 kpatch-patch 2021-11-15
Red Hat RHSA-2021:4644-01 EL8.4 kpatch-patch 2021-11-15
Red Hat RHSA-2021:4686-01 EL8.1 webkit2gtk3 2021-11-16
Scientific Linux SLSA-2021:4619-1 SL7 freerdp 2021-11-15
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3657-1 SLE12 bind 2021-11-11
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3665-1 SLE15 drbd-utils 2021-11-16
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3721-1 OS8 OS9 SLE12 firefox 2021-11-17
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3651-1 SLE15 SES6 firefox 2021-11-10
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3671-1 SLE15 SES6 java-11-openjdk 2021-11-16
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3723-1 SLE12 kernel 2021-11-17
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3658-1 SLE15 kernel 2021-11-11
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3655-1 SLE15 kernel 2021-11-11
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3675-1 SLE15 kernel 2021-11-16
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3722-1 SLE12 libarchive 2021-11-17
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3652-1 OS8 OS9 SLE12 pcre 2021-11-10
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3653-1 OS8 SLE12 qemu 2021-11-10
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3647-1 SLE15 samba and ldb 2021-11-10
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3649-1 SLE12 samba 2021-11-10
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3673-1 SLE12 samba 2021-11-16
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3650-1 SLE15 samba 2021-11-10
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3662-1 SLE15 samba 2021-11-16
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3674-1 SLE15 SES6 samba 2021-11-16
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3670-1 SLE15 tomcat 2021-11-16
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3672-1 SLE15 tomcat 2021-11-16
SUSE SUSE-SU-2021:3669-1 SLE15 SES6 tomcat 2021-11-16
Ubuntu USN-5149-1 20.04 21.04 21.10 accountsservice 2021-11-16
Ubuntu USN-5141-1 20.04 firejail 2021-11-10
Ubuntu USN-5148-1 18.04 20.04 21.04 21.10 hivex 2021-11-16
Ubuntu USN-5137-2 18.04 20.04 linux-bluefield, linux-gke-5.4, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4 2021-11-10
Ubuntu USN-5139-1 20.04 linux-oem-5.10 2021-11-10
Ubuntu USN-5140-1 20.04 linux-oem-5.14 2021-11-10
Ubuntu USN-5144-1 16.04 18.04 openexr 2021-11-11
Ubuntu USN-5150-1 16.04 18.04 openexr 2021-11-17
Ubuntu USN-5145-1 18.04 20.04 21.04 21.10 postgresql-10, postgresql-12, postgresql-13 2021-11-11
Ubuntu USN-5138-1 18.04 20.04 python-py 2021-11-10
Ubuntu USN-5142-1 20.04 21.04 21.10 samba 2021-11-11
Ubuntu USN-5147-1 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 21.04 21.10 vim 2021-11-15
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Kernel patches of interest

Kernel releases

Linus Torvalds Linux 5.16-rc1 Nov 14
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.15.2 Nov 12
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior v5.15.2-rt19 Nov 12
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.14.19 Nov 17
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.14.18 Nov 12
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.10.79 Nov 12
Steven Rostedt 5.10.78-rt55 Nov 15
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.4.160 Nov 17
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 5.4.159 Nov 12
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.19.217 Nov 12
Clark Williams 4.19.217-rt95 Nov 12
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.14.255 Nov 12
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.9.290 Nov 12
Greg Kroah-Hartman Linux 4.4.292 Nov 12

Architecture-specific

Ard Biesheuvel ARM: add support for IRQ stacks Nov 15
Ard Biesheuvel ARM: add vmap'ed stack support Nov 15
Kefeng Wang ARM: Support KFENCE feature Nov 15
Mark Brown arm64: Enable BTI for the executable as well as the interpreter Nov 15
Mark Brown arm64/sme: Initial support for the Scalable Matrix Extension Nov 15
Reiji Watanabe KVM: arm64: Make CPU ID registers writable by userspace Nov 16
Stephane Eranian perf/x86/amd: Add AMD Fam19h Branch Sampling support Nov 11
Brian Gerst x86-64: Stack protector and percpu improvements Nov 13

Core kernel

Marcelo Tosatti extensible prctl task isolation interface and vmstat sync Nov 12
Alexei Starovoitov bpf: CO-RE support in the kernel Nov 11
Jeff Xie trace: Add trace any kernel object Nov 13
Masami Hiramatsu tracing: Add __rel_loc support Nov 15
Beau Belgrave user_events: Enable user processes to create and write to trace events Nov 15
ebiederm@xmission.com signal: requeuing undeliverable signals Nov 15
Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi Introduce BPF iterators for io_uring and epoll Nov 16

Device drivers

Lad Prabhakar Renesas RZ/G2L IRQC support Nov 10
Ansuel Smith Adds support for PHY LEDs with offload triggers Nov 11
James Lo Add SPMI support for Mediatek SoC IC Nov 11
Matt Johnston MCTP I2C driver Nov 11
Luca Ceresoli Add MAX77714 PMIC minimal driver (RTC and watchdog only) Nov 11
Xiantao Hu Add watchdog driver for Sunplus SP7021 SoC Nov 12
Wells Lu This is a patch series for pinctrl driver for Sunplus SP7021 SoC. Nov 11
Hannes Reinecke nvme: In-band authentication support Nov 12
Bryan O'Donoghue CAMSS: Add SM8250 support Nov 11
Eugen Hristev media: atmel: atmel-isc: implement media controller Nov 12
Marc Zyngier drivers/perf: CPU PMU driver for Apple M1 Nov 13
Bhaskara Budiredla drivers: perf: Add Marvell CN10K LLC-TAD pmu driver Nov 15
Gilles Talis iio: humidity: add support for Sensirion SHTC3 Nov 14
Liam Beguin iio: afe: add temperature rescaling support Nov 14
Dmitry Osipenko Support HannStar HSD101PWW2 display panel Nov 14
Dmitry Osipenko Add NVIDIA Tegra114 support to video decoder driver Nov 15
Chen Yu Introduce Platform Firmware Runtime Update and Telemetry drivers Nov 15
Julien Massot Initial Renesas R-Car remoteproc support Nov 15
Richard Zhu Add the imx8m pcie phy driver and imx8mm pcie support Nov 16
Vinod Koul drm/msm: Add Display Stream Compression Support Nov 16
quic_vamslank@quicinc.com Add pinctrl support for SDX65 Nov 15
quic_vamslank@quicinc.com Add Pdc, GCC and RPMh clock support for SDX65 Nov 15
Yicong Yang Add support for HiSilicon PCIe Tune and Trace device Nov 16
Horatiu Vultur phy: Add driver for lan966x Serdes driver Nov 16
Matti Vaittinen power: supply: Add some fuel-gauge logic Nov 16
Gerhard Engleder TSN endpoint Ethernet MAC driver Nov 15
Yoshihiro Shimoda treewide: Initial support for R-Car S4-8 Nov 16
Emil Renner Berthing Basic StarFive JH7100 RISC-V SoC support Nov 16
Anand Ashok Dumbre Add Xilinx AMS Driver Nov 16
Tony Huang Add iop driver for Sunplus SP7021 Nov 17
Biju Das Add Thermal support for RZ/G2L Nov 16
Nancy.Lin Add MediaTek SoC DRM (vdosys1) support for mt8195 Nov 17
Matthias Kaehlcke usb: misc: Add onboard_usb_hub driver Nov 16
Denis Pauk Update ASUS WMI supported boards Nov 16
Horatiu Vultur net: lan966x: Add lan966x switch driver Nov 17

Device-driver infrastructure

Russ Weight Firmware Upload Framework Nov 10
Paul Cercueil iio: buffer-dma: write() and new DMABUF based API Nov 15
Iwona Winiarska Introduce PECI subsystem Nov 15
Andrzej Pietrasiewicz VP9 codec V4L2 control interface Nov 16

Documentation

David Hildenbrand Summary of COW (Copy On Write) Related Issues in Upstream Linux Nov 15

Filesystems and block layer

David Howells netfs, 9p, afs, ceph: Support folios, at least partially Nov 10
Lukas Czerner ext4: implement support for get/set fs label Nov 12
NeilBrown Repair SWAP-over-NFS Nov 16
Eric Biggers Support for hardware-wrapped inline encryption keys Nov 15
David Anderson overlayfs override_creds=off & nested get xattr fix Nov 17
Allison Henderson xfs: Log Attribute Replay Nov 16

Memory management

Georgi Djakov psi: Add additional PSI counters for each type of memory pressure Nov 10
Yu Zhao Multigenerational LRU Framework Nov 10
Claudio Imbrenda Two alternatives for mm async teardown Nov 11
Peter Xu userfaultfd-wp: Support shmem and hugetlbfs Nov 15
Joao Martins mm, dax: Introduce compound pages in devmap Nov 12
Huang Ying NUMA balancing: optimize memory placement for memory tiering system Nov 16
Alex Sierra Add MEMORY_DEVICE_COHERENT for coherent device memory mapping Nov 15
Vlastimil Babka Separate struct slab from struct page Nov 16
Aneesh Kumar K.V mm: add new syscall set_mempolicy_home_node Nov 16
Pasha Tatashin page table check Nov 16
Pasha Tatashin Hardening page _refcount Nov 17

Networking

Maciej Machnikowski Add RTNL interface for SyncE Nov 10
Sabrina Dubroca xfrm: start adding netlink extack support Nov 11
Kuniyuki Iwashima af_unix: Replace unix_table_lock with per-hash locks. Nov 14

Security-related

Mickaël Salaün Add trusted_for(2) (was O_MAYEXEC) Nov 10
Roberto Sassu shmem/fsverity: Prepare for mandatory integrity enforcement Nov 12
David Malcolm RFC: adding support to GCC for detecting trust boundaries Nov 13
Stephan Müller Add SP800-108 KDF implementation to crypto API Nov 15
Eric Snowberg Enroll kernel keys thru MOK Nov 15

Virtualization and containers

Brijesh Singh Add AMD Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) Guest Support Nov 10
Ben Gardon KVM: x86/mmu: Optimize disabling dirty logging Nov 10
Chao Peng KVM: mm: fd-based approach for supporting KVM guest private memory Nov 11
Paolo Bonzini Add AMD SEV and SEV-ES intra host migration support Nov 11
Xiaoyao Li KVM: x86: TDX preparation of introducing vm_type and blocking ioctls based on vm_type Nov 12
Raghavendra Rao Ananta KVM: arm64: Add support for hypercall services selection Nov 13
Tianyu Lan x86/Hyper-V: Add Hyper-V Isolation VM support(Second part) Nov 16

Miscellaneous

Douglas Gilbert sg3_utils-1.47 available Nov 11

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