security things in Linux v4.11

Previously: v4.10. Here’s a quick summary of some of the interesting security things in this week’s v4.11 release of the Linux kernel: refcount_t infrastructure Building on the efforts of Elena Reshetova, Hans Liljestrand, and David Windsor to port PaX’s PAX_REFCOUNT protection, Peter Zijlstra implemented a new kernel API for reference counting with the addition of … Continue reading security things in Linux v4.11