Fixing the _DEFINE_FLEX() helper in the Linux kernel
A couple of months ago, I submitted a patch to address a dozen -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warnings in ACPI: Originally, I opted for the __struct_group() app...
Author: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Gustavo A. R. Silva works full-time as an Upstream Linux Kernel Engineer focused on hardening and proactive security. He has spent the past several years fixing all sorts of bugs and hardening the Linux kernel. His work is supported by The Linux Foundation and Alpha-Omega. He’s a member of the Kernel Self-Protection Project and a regular speaker at Kernel Recipes. He has also presented at Linux Security Summit, LinuxCon, Lund LinuxCon, Linux Plumbers, Everything Open, and SSTIC as an invited speaker.
Speaking at The University of Adelaide
While in Australia 🇦🇺, I had the honor of being invited to give a guest talk to graduate and master’s students at The University of Adelai...
Speaking at Everything Open 2025
Earlier this year, I traveled to Australia 🇦🇺 to present for the second consecutive year at the Everything Open conference in Adelaide. I was so...
Protected: Some notes on my Linux kernel work this year
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My first time presenting at Lund Linux Conference (LLC)
This year I had the amazing experience of traveling to Sweden 🇸🇪 (and Denmark 🇩🇰 ) for the first time to present at the Lund Lin...
Yet another memory corruption bug in the Linux kernel
Yet another memory corruption bug caught thanks to -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end! 🐛🪲🐧 The maintainer has already taken this patch, and ...
Back to Australia to present at Everything Open 2025
I’m really excited to share that my first presentation of 2025 will be in Adelaide, Australia. 🙌🏽😃 This will be my second time speaking ...
Memory corruption bug in the Wireless subsystem
-Wflex-array-member-not-at-end continues to catch memory corruption bugs in the Linux kernel 🐛🪲🐧: Here’s a link to the slides and ...
My talk at Linux Plumbers Conference 2024 in Vienna
I presented at Linux Plumbers Conference in Vienna this year. 🗣️🎙️🇦🇹 I really enjoyed the session and had a great ...
My talk at SSTIC 2024 in Rennes
A few months ago, I had the wonderful experience of presenting as an invited speaker at Symposium sur la Sécurité des Technologies de l’Information et des...