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Landlock Access Controls Extended To Networking With Linux 6.7

Phoronix - Fri, 11/03/2023 - 18:46
Landlock was merged back in 2021 with Linux 5.13 for unprivileged application sandboxing. Landlock is focused on restricting ambient rights and is implemented as a stackable Linux security module (LSM). With Linux 6.7 the Landlock LSM is now moving beyond just file-system access controls to also introduce initial networking support...

Linux 6.7 Adds A Cross-Vendor Solution For Confidential Computing Attestation Reports

Phoronix - Fri, 11/03/2023 - 18:36
While confidential computing is a hot area right now, there's been a limited amount of cross-vendor cooperation with AMD having their own route with Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) and Intel designing the Trusted Domain Extensions (TDX) that is still available in limited form. As one improvement coming with Linux 6.7, "configfs-tsm" has been submitted for pulling as a cross-vendor solution for confidential computing attestation reports...

Fedora Linux 39 To Be Released On Tuesday

Phoronix - Fri, 11/03/2023 - 04:49
Following some release delays the past few weeks, it's been decided today that Fedora Linux 39 is now ready to ship next week...

Linux 6.7 Continues Work On printk Threaded Printing

Phoronix - Fri, 11/03/2023 - 03:21
One of the last major blockers before the remaining real-time "PREEMPT_RT" patches can be upstreamed is sorting out threaded / atomic console printing. With the in-development Linux 6.7 kernel, there's been more work upstreamed in that endeavor...

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