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Kernel: Linux 5.13 and Mesa 21.1

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 9th of April 2021 08:51:12 AM Filed under
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  • Linux 5.13 Poised To Allow Randomizing Kernel Stack Offset At Each System Call

    The ability to randomize the kernel stack offset at each system call looks like it will land for the upcoming Linux 5.13 cycle. This optional feature makes it much more difficult to carry out stack-based attacks on the Linux kernel.

    Back in 2019 was a proposal by Intel engineer Elena Reshetova to allow randomizing the kernel stack offset upon each system call. This code was inspired originally by PaX's RANDKSTACK feature to enhance the kernel security against exploits relying upon kernel stack determinism. Google engineer Kees Cook ended up taking over this effort and after ten rounds of code review it looks like the code is on deck for Linux 5.13.

  • Initial Apple M1 SoC Support Aims For Linux 5.13 Kernel - Phoronix

    While the independent effort to get the Apple M1 ARM-based SoC working under Linux has just been happening for a few months, with the upcoming Linux 5.13 cycle the very preliminary support for Apple's M1 and initial M1-powered devices looks to land.

    Hector Martin sent in the pull request looking to have the initial Apple M1 support queued up as part of the ARM SoC/platform changes for the Linux 5.13 merge window that will in turn be opening up in a few weeks.

    Since earlier this year have been a few rounds of Apple M1 Linux kernel patches for bringing up the essential drivers needed to get the Linux kernel booting on the 2020 Mac Mini, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air powered by the in-house Apple Silicon. It's in good enough shape that this very early code is likely to indeed land for Linux 5.13, which in turn will debut as stable in the June timeframe.

  • Google's VirtIO-GPU "Venus" Vulkan Driver Merged Into Mes 21.1 - Phoronix

    It was just a few days ago was the talking of the VirtIO-GPU Vulkan driver looking to be upstreamed into Mesa and now this Google "Venus" project has indeed landed. 

    The VirtIO-GPU Vulkan driver is named "Venus" and is living within the Mesa 21.1-devel source tree now for allowing Vulkan acceleration support within guest virtual machines with the native host system's Vulkan driver doing the actual leg work. 

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