Linux 7.2 Protects Against Crafted Perf Data From Going Rogue
… The improved validation and handling prevents against out-of-bounds reads/writes, infinite loops, heap overflows, and segmentation faults. …
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Libinput Hit By Worrying Security Issues With Its Lua Plug-In System
… 35 Comments Libinput devised a Lua-based plug-in system for modifying devices/events . …
Linux 7.1 Sees RAID Fixes, IO_uring Enhancements
… For Linux 7.1 NVMe support there is enhanced block queue limits support, a new write zeroes devicde quirk, and updates to NVMe Fabrics authentication handling. …
Linux 7.1 Lands High Resolution Timer "HRTIMER" Overhaul
… In case that there is no immediate reschedule or soft interrupts have to be handled before reaching the reschedule point in the interrupt entry code the clock event is reprogrammed in one of those code paths to prevent that the timer becomes stale. - Support for clocksource coupled clockevents The … …
FreeBSD Working On Intel FRED Support, Laptop Improvements Continue
… The FreeBSD Foundation is also sponsoring work on bringing up support for Flexible Return and Event Delivery https://www.phoronix.com/search/Flexible+Return+and+Event+Delivery FRED with FreeBSD. …
Intel LASS In Good Shape For Linux 7.1
… For Linux 7.1 the LASS enablement is now considered "complete" with removing a LASS restriction dependent on EFI services and also vsyscall handling around LASS. …
Linux 7.1 Features: New NTFS Driver, New Intel + AMD Hardware, Performance Optimizations & Modernization
… The code still remains but the build options are initially dropped for beginning to phase out that old CPU support. - Intel FRED is enabled by default for Flexible Return and Event Delivery that is a performance win for Panther Lake systems where it debuted as well as upcoming Intel Diamond Rapids … …
AMD Linux Graphics Driver Introducing "Power Module" To Better Match Windows Behavior
… Key changes: - Introduced replay / PSR events to enable / disable replay / PSR. - Implemented replay rate control and power option - Refactored backlight control by using the power module. - Enhanced handling of VRR within replay and PSR logic." Long story short this should help in enhancing displa… …
Mir 2.27 Released With More Wayland Rust Code
… Mir 2.27 is also rolling out a new logging API, WLCS keyboard support, and many bug fixes. …
Xfce Ported To Rust-Written Redox OS For Better X11 Experience
… Redox in May also saw the EEVDF scheduler implemented for it, a 4x performance improvement on I/O event wait for Redox, "massive" performance improvement for the RedoxFS inode handling, support for incremental compilation in pre-built packages, and updating the Rust compiler. …