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Linux Kernel

Development

Greg Kroah-Hartman
[email protected]

github.com/gregkh/kernel-development
62,800 files
25,560,000 lines

Kernel release 4.16.0


4,466 developers
≈530 companies

Kernel releases 4.11.0 – 4.16.0


April 2016 – April 2017
9,500 lines added
2,700 lines removed
2,000 lines modified

Kernel releases 4.11.0 – 4.16.0


April 2016 – April 2017
9,500 lines added
2,700 lines removed
2,000 lines modified
Every day

Kernel releases 4.9.0 – 4.14.0


December 2016 – November 2017
8.5 changes per hour

Kernel releases 4.11.0 – 4.16.0


April 2016 – April 2017
2.6.20 to 2.6.24-rc
How we stay sane
Time based releases
Incremental changes

2.6.20 to 2.6.24-rc
New release every
2½ months

Kernel releases 3.10.0 – 3.14.0


“Longterm kernels”
One picked per year
Maintained for two years

4.4 4.9 4.14

2.6.20 to 2.6.24-rc
commit ecf85e481a716cfe07406439fdc7ba9526bbfaeb
Author: Robert Jarzmik <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Tue Apr 21 20:33:10 2009 -0700
Commit: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
CommitDate: Thu Apr 23 14:15:31 2009 -0700
USB: otg: Fix bug on remove path without transceiver

In the case where a gadget driver is removed while no


transceiver was found at probe time, a bug in
otg_put_transceiver() will trigger.

Signed-off-by: Robert Jarzmik <[email protected]>


Acked-by: David Brownell <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
--- a/drivers/usb/otg/otg.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/otg/otg.c
@@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(otg_get_transceiver);
void otg_put_transceiver(struct otg_transceiver *x)
{
- put_device(x->dev);
+ if (x)
+ put_device(x->dev);
}
Developer's Certificate of Origin
(a) I created this change; or

(b) Based this on a previous work with a


compatible license; or

(c) Provided to me by (a), (b), or (c) and not


modified

(d) This contribution is public.


Top developers by quantity
Chris Wilson 1356
Johan Hovold 920
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 867
Arnd Bergmann 826
Christoph Hellwig 790
Arvind Yadav 710
Colin Ian King 641
Viresh Kumar 566
Greg Kroah-Hartman 507
Geert Uytterhoeven 492
Kernel releases 4.9.0 – 4.14.0
Top Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller 9430
Greg Kroah-Hartman 9342
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 3039
Mark Brown 2385
Linus Torvalds 2261
Alex Deucher 2095
Andrew Morton 2013
Ingo Molnar 1989
Martin Petersen 1681
Chris Wilson 1520

Kernel releases 4.9.0 – 4.14.0


Who is funding this work?
1. Intel 12.4%
2. “Amateurs” 8.5%
3. Red Hat 6.8%
4. Linaro 5.4%
5. IBM 3.9%
6. Google 3.4%
7. Consultants 3.3%
8. SUSE 3.1%
9. AMD 2.8%
10. Samsung 2.7%
Kernel releases 4.9.0 – 4.14.0
Who is funding this work?
11. Mellanox 2.2%
12. Renesas Electronics 2.1%
13. Oracle 1.7%
14. Broadcom 1.5%
15. ARM 1.5%
16. Huawei Technologies 1.5%
17. Texas Instruments 1.2%
18. Linux Foundation 1.1%
19. Free Electrons 1.1%
20. Canonical 1.1%
Kernel releases 4.9.0 – 4.14.0
“Working upstream
saves time and money”
Dan Frye – VP Open Systems, IBM
Dirk Hohndel – Chief Technologist, Intel

2.6.20 to 2.6.24-rc
How to change

2.6.20 to 2.6.24-rc
How to change
Submit code early and often

2.6.20 to 2.6.24-rc
How to change
Send small pieces

2.6.20 to 2.6.24-rc
How to change
Ask community for feedback

2.6.20 to 2.6.24-rc
How to change
Act on it

2.6.20 to 2.6.24-rc
How to change
Remove legal hurdles

2.6.20 to 2.6.24-rc
How to change
Force them to work in public

2.6.20 to 2.6.24-rc
How to change
Allow them to be the community

2.6.20 to 2.6.24-rc
Kernel Security
Kernel Security
Almost all bugs can be a “security” issue.
Kernel Security
Almost all bugs can be a “security” issue.

Fix them as soon as possible.


Kernel Security
Averaging 21 fixes per day
“If you are not using a stable /
longterm kernel, your machine
is insecure”
– me
“The kernel needs airbags”
– Konstantin Ryabitsev
slides.com/mricon/giant-bags-of-mostly-water#/
“We will always have bugs,
we must stop their exploitation”
– Kees Cook
outflux.net/slides/2015/ks/security.pdf
Kernel Hardening
kernsec.org/wiki/index.php/Kernel_Self_Protection_Project

Core Infrastructure Initiative


“Ceaseless change is the only
constant thing in Nature.”
– John Candee Dean
github.com/gregkh/kernel-development

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