Android Oreo has also introduced 'Privileged Access Never emulation', a software version of ARM v8.1's hardware-based PAN, which helps prevent the kernel from accessing user space memory directly ...

Google is eyeing up a generic Linux kernel for Android, but even that won't fix Android's fragmentation issues. Here's why.

Android uses the Long Term Support branch of the Linux kernel, which had 2 years of support. Now the LTS kernel will be supported for 6 years.

Android users rejoice! Linux kernel LTS releases are now good for 6 years Linux kernel lifecycle tripled to match the realities of hardware development.

The newest Linux kernel, version 3.3, includes code from Google's Android project. That should help both Android and other Linux-based projects.

The high-risk defects in the Android kernel included memory corruption flaws, memory illegal accesses and resource leaks.

One kernel to boot them all Google outlines plans for mainline Linux kernel support in Android Google wants less forking, more modularization for Android's Linux kernel.

Since the initial launch of Android in 2009, the kernel has been kept mostly up to date with Linux, usually lagging behind by 4-8 months due to development and release schedules.