How to use the new counted_by attribute in C (and Linux)
The counted_by attribute The counted_by attribute was introduced in Clang-18 and will soon be available in GCC-15. Its purpose is to associate a flexible-array ...
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Influencing Software Security: The Impact of the Kernel Self-Protection Project ⚔️🛡️🐧
Compiler Options Hardening Guide On November 29th, the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) released a comprehensive and thorough hardening guide aimed at ...
November 2023 – Linux Kernel work
-Wstringop-overflow Late in October I sent a patch to globally enable the -Wstringop-overflowcompiler option, which finally landed in linux-next on November 28t...