Speaking about Linux kernel hardening in Tokyo
(Part of the group hanging out after the event. 😎) On August 21, I had the opportunity to speak about the work we do in the Linux Kernel Self-Protection...
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 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.
Speaking at Open Source Summit Europe 2025
I presented at the Open Source Summit Europe in Amsterdam this afternoon. 🇳🇱🐧🛡⚔️ Upstream Kernel Hardening: Progre...
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...
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...
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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...