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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 the Alpha-Omega project. He’s a member of the Linux Kernel Self-Protection Project, and a regular speaker at Kernel Recipes and Open Source Summit. He has also presented at Linux Security Summit, Lund LinuxCon, Linux Plumbers Conference, Everything Open, The University of Adelaide, and Symposium sur la Sécurité des Technologies de l’Information et des Communications (SSTIC) as an invited speaker.
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Speaking at Everything Open 2025

Posted on May 20, 2025 by Gustavo A. R. Silva / 0 Comment

Earlier this year, I traveled to Australia 🇦🇺 to present for the second consecutive year at the Everything Open conference in Adelaide. I was so...

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My first time presenting at Lund Linux Conference (LLC)

Posted on December 9, 2024 by Gustavo A. R. Silva / 0 Comment

This year I had the amazing experience of traveling to Sweden 🇸🇪 (and Denmark 🇩🇰 ) for the first time to present at the Lund Lin...

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Yet another memory corruption bug in the Linux kernel

Posted on November 21, 2024 by Gustavo A. R. Silva / 0 Comment

Yet another memory corruption bug caught thanks to -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end! 🐛🪲🐧 The maintainer has already taken this patch, and ...

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Back to Australia to present at Everything Open 2025

Posted on November 21, 2024 by Gustavo A. R. Silva / 0 Comment

I’m really excited to share that my first presentation of 2025 will be in Adelaide, Australia. 🙌🏽😃 This will be my second time speaking ...

Kernel Self-Protection Project/Linux Kernel Bugs/Linux Kernel Hardening

Memory corruption bug in the Wireless subsystem

Posted on November 21, 2024 by Gustavo A. R. Silva / 0 Comment

-Wflex-array-member-not-at-end continues to catch memory corruption bugs in the Linux kernel 🐛🪲🐧: Here’s a link to the slides and ...

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My talk at Linux Plumbers Conference 2024 in Vienna

Posted on November 21, 2024 by Gustavo A. R. Silva / 0 Comment

I presented at Linux Plumbers Conference in Vienna this year. 🗣️🎙️🇦🇹 I really enjoyed the session and had a great ...

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My talk at SSTIC 2024 in Rennes

Posted on November 21, 2024 by Gustavo A. R. Silva / 0 Comment

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...

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My talk at Kernel Recipes 2024

Posted on November 21, 2024 by Gustavo A. R. Silva / 0 Comment

I gave a presentation at Kernel Recipes in September this year. 🇨🇵🗣️🐧 My slides are already up, and as always, I hope peo...

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ONE simple and rewarding way to contribute to the Linux Kernel: Fix Coverity issues

Posted on September 28, 2024 by Gustavo A. R. Silva / 0 Comment

Introduction Motivated by the series of events I describe below, I decided to write this short blog post about how fixing Coverity issues can open the door to y...

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Back to Paris to present at Kernel Recipes 2024

Posted on June 28, 2024 by Gustavo A. R. Silva / 0 Comment

I’m really happy to share that I will be traveling to Paris to speak at Kernel Recipes in the week after the Open Source Summit Europe. ✈️&#...

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