2026-03-24T07:12:14Z https://nostr.now Kees Cook https://nostr.now/npub17q5j4ty2qxulwkef3n3n7zvsn4yh4uechcg4d70zqu4klnjv2hhs46t6ax https://media.hachyderm.io/accounts/avatars/114/496/361/371/860/664/original/73cb705a2f20c70f.jpg https://media.hachyderm.io/accounts/avatars/114/496/361/371/860/664/original/73cb705a2f20c70f.jpg https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxq2zg9zc26j40tw47am7lkvk72t42v9vwjag5rzxy3v2vkk3tfhczyrczj24v3gqmna6m9xxwx0cfjzw5j7hn8zlpz4heugrjkm7wf3277e6hft6 We can remove strncpy() from the Linux kernel finally! I did the last 6 instances, and dropped all the implementations:<br/><a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git/log/?h=dev/v7.0-rc2/strncpy">https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git/log/?h=dev/v7.0-rc2/strncpy</a><br/><br/>Over the last 6 years working on this, there were 362 commits by 70 contributors. The folks with more than 1 commit were:<br/><br/> 211 Justin Stitt &lt;justinstitt@google.com&gt;<br/> 22 Xu Panda &lt;xu.panda@zte.com.cn&gt;<br/> 21 Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;<br/> 17 Thorsten Blum &lt;thorsten.blum@linux.dev&gt;<br/> 12 Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;<br/> 4 Pranav Tyagi &lt;pranav.tyagi03@gmail.com&gt;<br/> 4 Lee Jones &lt;lee@kernel.org&gt;<br/> 2 Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;<br/> 2 Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;<br/> 2 Marcelo Moreira &lt;marcelomoreira1905@gmail.com&gt;<br/> 2 Krzysztof Kozlowski &lt;krzk@kernel.org&gt;<br/> 2 Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@kernel.org&gt;<br/> 2 Jaroslav Kysela &lt;perex@perex.cz&gt;<br/> 2 Daniel Thompson &lt;danielt@kernel.org&gt;<br/> 2 Andrew Lunn &lt;andrew@lunn.ch&gt;<br/><br/>Thank you to all of you! (And especially to Justin Stitt who took on the brunt of the work.) 2026-03-24T06:31:30Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrm9phxml4gxd9rn46l8gtsgtddpdz3vu97ewmlau5jvs4uehpwpczyrczj24v3gqmna6m9xxwx0cfjzw5j7hn8zlpz4heugrjkm7wf3277gsfy2s In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsv28wqn9sdqf6me4nwv90k2frxtpyn00ule4mm7t03jr3pyzt6r7spzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerfw36x7tnsw43z79e7eww'>nevent1q…7eww</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kytcqyq6ce9npjetvwjp6galfsvx6eghm7kgdam54whsmveeqdf8s8u8cc50tq3v" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Linus Torvalds</span> (<span class="italic">nprofile…tq3v</span>)</a></span> The &#34;continue to function properly&#34; language came from Vizio, though. That&#39;s not a claim SFC ever made. That wouldn&#39;t even be covered by GPLv3. 🤷<br/><a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2025/dec/24/vizio-msa-irrelevant-ruling/">https://sfconservancy.org/news/2025/dec/24/vizio-msa-irrelevant-ruling/</a> 2025-12-25T00:21:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs97wcrs7xv6hfm79n5q6smy5lyaxhay77ztrpuhvvstp7pjpk5u8czyrczj24v3gqmna6m9xxwx0cfjzw5j7hn8zlpz4heugrjkm7wf327743mekg When a kernel commit starts with &#34;In A.D. 1582 Pope Gregory XIII found that ...&#34; you know you&#39;re in for a ride:<br/><a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f076ef44a44d02ed91543f820c14c2c7dff53716">https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f076ef44a44d02ed91543f820c14c2c7dff53716</a><br/>tl;dr: Rockchip decided November should have 31 days... 2025-12-01T16:27:52Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsygwksve3m58zqrg9e2ctkksrwclef9jd6r2z7z4ex3sepd2hg0tszyrczj24v3gqmna6m9xxwx0cfjzw5j7hn8zlpz4heugrjkm7wf3277ddt8sa In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstgjsc8j23r572qz34mvq2urxujlngmrq68xv08ld2ufpmvhrl75gpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerfw36x7tnsw43z7tj6dsr'>nevent1q…6dsr</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kytcqyplqplmnaynrc3tuu0q2ckz8fq7t23vz80g6chjq7uw8nkked805qjugkm9" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kytcqyplqplmnaynrc3tuu0q2ckz8fq7t23vz80g6chjq7uw8nkked805qjugkm9</span> (<span class="italic">nprofile…gkm9</span>)</a></span> I think you mean the yellow circle (&#34;publicly know flaws&#34;) where it is outside the green circle (&#34;fixed flaws&#34;) and pink circle (&#34;security flaws&#34;)? Does that match? 2025-11-08T00:43:05Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfruw3p7d7zvum8v5tfugkh4skv5g7s0s8v0yejqpywyl42dy48qszyrczj24v3gqmna6m9xxwx0cfjzw5j7hn8zlpz4heugrjkm7wf32775zgfmz Today is also the 10 year anniversary of the Linux Kernel Self-Protection Project. <a href="https://kspp.github.io/">https://kspp.github.io/</a><br/>I&#39;m proud that we&#39;ve gotten A LOT done in the last decade to harden Linux against security flaws.<br/><br/>I posted this before, but here&#39;s a review of the last ten years:<br/><a href="https://outflux.net/slides/2025/lss/kspp-decade.pdf">https://outflux.net/slides/2025/lss/kspp-decade.pdf</a><br/>And the video:<br/><a href="https://youtu.be/c_NxzSRG50g">https://youtu.be/c_NxzSRG50g</a> 2025-11-06T03:18:53Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0wr5mm22czst30f66yhqjnfwvestcu4lhvddfryw2ehvga529tmszyrczj24v3gqmna6m9xxwx0cfjzw5j7hn8zlpz4heugrjkm7wf3277svv92h Happy 70th birthday to the Flux Capacitor!<br/><br/><video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/115/498/186/554/939/357/original/210106bf3269ea88.mp4"></video> 2025-11-05T17:09:33Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvfsk9ld5pagrngwlpludt6cuh55tjwmnzqh6g389hthdfx6t6jzgzyrczj24v3gqmna6m9xxwx0cfjzw5j7hn8zlpz4heugrjkm7wf32775qr679 This graph is the one I&#39;m most excited about: the lifetime of security flaws in Linux is finally starting to get shorter (and the number of fixed flaws continues to rise).<br/><br/><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@LinuxSecSummit@social.kernel.org/114750428620118674">https://hachyderm.io/@LinuxSecSummit@social.kernel.org/114750428620118674</a><br/><br/> <img src="https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/114/750/908/087/006/458/original/e0cfd3d62a9ae344.jpg"> 2025-06-26T17:45:19Z