The kernel, however, including modules, has no such restriction. That can make debugging modules tricky because you can easily bring the system to its knees.

Microsoft heeft een Linux Security Module met de naam Integrity Policy Enforcement ontwikkeld. De beveiligings-add-on voor de Linux-kernel is volgens Microsoft voor een specifieke doelgroep bedoeld.

Bestandssysteem bcachefs wordt voortaan alleen nog door externe partijen beheerd. Linux-hoofdontwikkelaar Linus Torvalds heeft de status van de ontwikkeling voor maintainers aangepast naar 'extern beh ...

Although Linux does not (yet) support this binary format, the good news is that you can learn how to write kernel modules by implementing COM support for the Linux kernel.

In our previous installment, the author introduced methods for accessing peripherals from user space in Linux. In this installment, Abbott describes kernel modules and device drivers followed by a ...

What are Linux modules? Kernel modules are chunks of code that are loaded and unloaded into the kernel as needed, thus extending the functionality of the kernel without requiring a reboot.

In this second excerpt, Abbott discusses kernel modules and device drivers. In Part 1 of this excerpt the author worked through an example of a simple kernel module. In this installment, Abbott ...

Remote code execution flaw patched in Linux Kernel TIPC module The bug was spotted within a year of introduction to the codebase.

New Linux kernel "lockdown" module to limit high-privileged users -- even root -- from tampering with some kernel functionality.

The Linux kernel is pretty nice to its own code. Sometimes it can survive a panic, if you are doing something wrong that is relatively benign (these panics are typically called oopses).