[$] KASAN for JIT-compiled BPF code

Alexis Lothoré has been working to add support for the kernel's memory-access checker, KASAN, to just-in-time-compiled BPF code. He spoke about that work at the 2026 Linux Storag [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1077740/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #BPF #LSFMMBPF

[$] Suspending and resuming BPF programs

BPF programs can be used to extend many aspects the Linux kernel, but BPF programs must run to completion in the same context that they began. Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi is working on [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1076210/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Rust #BPF #LSFMMBPF

[$] BPF loop verification with scalar evolution

The BPF verifier has, in the course of wrestling with the difficult problem of statically analyzing loops, grown special support for many kinds of loops over its history, but its f [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1076121/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #GCC #LLVM #BPF #LSFMMBPF

[$] BPF in the agentic era

Alexei Starovoitov gave "less of a presentation, more of a scream of realization" at the BPF track of the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit. He sha [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1075067/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #GCC #Rust #BPF #LSFMMBPF

[$] Representing the true signatures of kernel functions

Optimizing compilers can, under some circumstances, infer when a parameter to a function is not needed, and remove it. This is all well and good until the kernel's tracing or BPF s [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1073762/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #GCC #Clang #Rust #BPF #LSFMMBPF

[$] BPF support in GCC 16 and beyond

José Marchesi and the GCC-BPF developers opened the BPF track at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-management, and BPF Summit with a 90-minute summary of what has changed [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1071973/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #Gentoo #GCC #LLVM #Clang #systemd #BPF #LSFMMBPF

Great discussions happening at the Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management & BPF Summit today! Lots of topics related to the future developments and improvements in these key kernel subsystems.

#LSFMMBPF #Linux #Kernel

We’ll be attending the Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management & BPF Summit 2026 next week. André Almeida and Luís Henriques will be there — feel free to say hi!

📍 Zagreb, Croatia
📅 May 4–6

#LSFMMBPF #Linux #Kernel

Any active LSM devs invited to LSF/MM/BPF this year? According to a preliminary schedule, there are a number of LSM topics in the BPF track, but it isn't clear to me if any LSM maintainers have been invited.

#lsfmmbpf #lsm