Blacklisting modules prevents them from being loaded and used, and it is sometimes an important step in keeping a system running properly. The Linux kernel is modular — composed of modules that ...

This includes such things as whenever an inode is accessed, a module is loaded or a task is created. As of the 2.5.31 kernel, there were 88 different function pointers needed. The majority of these ...

Here it is: Position Statement on Linux Kernel Modules, June 2008 We, the undersigned Linux kernel developers, consider any closed-source Linux kernel module or driver to be harmful and undesirable.

The new feature will ship as a LSM (Linux Security Module) in the soon-to-be-released Linux kernel 5.4 branch, where it will be turned off by default; usage being optional due to the risk of ...

LKRG kernel modules are currently available for main Linux distros such as RHEL7, OpenVZ 7, Virtuozzo 7, and Ubuntu 16.04 to latest mainlines. Not a perfect solution ...

A patch was finalized by the module's maintainers by October 21 and released on lore.kernel.org four days later. The fix has now also been added to the mainline repository, released on October 29 ...

PLEASANTON, Calif., June 10, 2025--OpenVPN Data Channel Offload (DCO) has been officially green-lit for inclusion in the Linux kernel and will be part of Linux version 6.16.