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.

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Access request for Linux Coverity scans

Posted on January 9, 2026 by Gustavo A. R. Silva / 0 Comment

I received the following request this evening and it absolutely made my day. 🙂 I’m a mechatronics student and I discovered the project from this b...

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Presenting at Open Source Summit Korea 2025

Posted on November 8, 2025 by Gustavo A. R. Silva / 0 Comment

First time in South Korea. Three talks in two days. Over 200 minutes of public speaking. Two packed rooms. Made new connections. (My luggage arrived four days a...

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Protected: My kernel work this year

Posted on October 1, 2025 by Gustavo A. R. Silva

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Speaking about Linux kernel hardening in Tokyo

Posted on August 28, 2025 by Gustavo A. R. Silva / 0 Comment

(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...

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Speaking at Open Source Summit Europe 2025

Posted on August 25, 2025 by Gustavo A. R. Silva / 0 Comment

I presented at the Open Source Summit Europe in Amsterdam this afternoon. 🇳🇱🐧🛡⚔️ Upstream Kernel Hardening: Progre...

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Fixing the _DEFINE_FLEX() helper in the Linux kernel

Posted on May 21, 2025 by Gustavo A. R. Silva / 0 Comment

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...