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web02.fireside.fm Tue, 07 Apr 2026 04:38:24 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Linux Action News - Episodes Tagged with “Reiserfs” https://linuxactionnews.com/tags/reiserfs Thu, 19 Jan 2023 10:30:00 -0800 Weekly Linux news and analysis by Chris and Wes. The show every week we hope you'll go to when you want to hear an informed discussion about what’s happening. en-us episodic Our weekly take on the free and open source world. Jupiter Broadcasting Weekly Linux news and analysis by Chris and Wes. The show every week we hope you'll go to when you want to hear an informed discussion about what’s happening. no Jupiter Broadcasting chris@jupiterbroadcasting.com Linux Action News 276 https://linuxactionnews.com/276 b0fdfcdd-3ec2-4c0e-93c0-7bbd81219973 Thu, 19 Jan 2023 10:30:00 -0800 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting A high-profile Linux kernel network flaw, we put JFS on a death watch, and break down the controversial Firefox update this week. 16:44 no A high-profile Linux kernel network flaw, we put JFS on a death watch, and break down the controversial Firefox update this week. Linux News Podcast, Linux Action News, netfilter, Linux, kernel, security, privilege escalation, packet filtering, networking, iptables, nftables, CVE-2023-0179, Linux 6.2, buffer overflow, auditing, stack overflow, responsible disclosure, unprivileged user namespaces, sysctl, nft_payload, VLAN, Red Hat, oss-sec, libvirt 9.0, libvirt, virtualization, QEMU, Daniel Berrange, Qumranet, Windows, macOS, C, Python, Perl, Go, PASST, emulated network, JFS, journaling filesystems, ReiserFS, snapshots, Christoph Hellwig, Mozilla, Firefox 109, Firefox, Manifest V3, Browser Extensions, WebRequest API, adblocking, uBlock Origin, AdBlock Plus, declarativeNetRequest, A high-profile Linux kernel network flaw, we put JFS on a death watch, and break down the controversial Firefox update this week.

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A new privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel — The vulnerability consists of a stack buffer overflow due to an integer underflow vulnerability inside the nft_payload_copy_vlan function, which is invoked with nft_payload expressions as long as a VLAN tag is present in the current skb.
netfilter: nft_payload: add C-VLAN support · torvalds/linux@f6ae9f1
CVE-2023-0179
CVE-2023-0179- Red Hat Customer Portal
[net,3/3] netfilter: nft_payload: incorrect arithmetics when fetching VLAN header bits - Patchwork
oss-sec: Re: CVE-2023-0179: Linux kernel stack buffer overflow in nftables: PoC and writeup
libvirt 9.0 Released For Latest Linux Virtualization API — Libvirt 9.0 adds support for external snapshot deletion with QEMU using its existing API, libvirt 9.0 with QEMU now supports PASST as "Plug A Simple Socket Transport" for connecting an emulated network device to the host's network, QEMU external back-end support for SWTPM as a software Trusted Platform Module (TPM), support for passing file descriptors rather than passing files for the QEMU disk, and other additions.
JFS Filesystem’s Days are Numbered — IBM developed the JFS file-system originally in the 90's for AIX and the second-generation implementation then ported to Linux after it was made open-source.
Firefox 109.0 Ships Manifest Version 3 — Manifest Version 3 (MV3) extension support is now enabled by default (MV2 remains enabled/supported). This major update also ushers an exciting user interface change in the form of the new extensions button.
Here’s what’s going on in the world of extensions
Manage your extensions using the extensions button in the toolbar
Manifest v3 signing available November 21 on Firefox Nightly
Google delays start of Manifest V2 Chrome extension deprecation — The original plan called for Chrome Beta, Dev, and Canary builds to start experiments that turned off Manifest V2 extension support. Additionally, Manifest V3 would be required to get the “Featured” badge in the Chrome Web Store.
Firefox 109 Adds New Extensions Button, Manifest V3 Support — The biggest new feature is the new Unified Extensions button in the toolbar.
Chrome’s “Manifest V3” plan to limit ad-blocking extensions is delayed
Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 is Deceitful and Threatening — Manifest V3, or Mv3 for short, is outright harmful to privacy efforts. It will restrict the capabilities of web extensions

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A new privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel — The vulnerability consists of a stack buffer overflow due to an integer underflow vulnerability inside the nft_payload_copy_vlan function, which is invoked with nft_payload expressions as long as a VLAN tag is present in the current skb.
netfilter: nft_payload: add C-VLAN support · torvalds/linux@f6ae9f1
CVE-2023-0179
CVE-2023-0179- Red Hat Customer Portal
[net,3/3] netfilter: nft_payload: incorrect arithmetics when fetching VLAN header bits - Patchwork
oss-sec: Re: CVE-2023-0179: Linux kernel stack buffer overflow in nftables: PoC and writeup
libvirt 9.0 Released For Latest Linux Virtualization API — Libvirt 9.0 adds support for external snapshot deletion with QEMU using its existing API, libvirt 9.0 with QEMU now supports PASST as "Plug A Simple Socket Transport" for connecting an emulated network device to the host's network, QEMU external back-end support for SWTPM as a software Trusted Platform Module (TPM), support for passing file descriptors rather than passing files for the QEMU disk, and other additions.
JFS Filesystem’s Days are Numbered — IBM developed the JFS file-system originally in the 90's for AIX and the second-generation implementation then ported to Linux after it was made open-source.
Firefox 109.0 Ships Manifest Version 3 — Manifest Version 3 (MV3) extension support is now enabled by default (MV2 remains enabled/supported). This major update also ushers an exciting user interface change in the form of the new extensions button.
Here’s what’s going on in the world of extensions
Manage your extensions using the extensions button in the toolbar
Manifest v3 signing available November 21 on Firefox Nightly
Google delays start of Manifest V2 Chrome extension deprecation — The original plan called for Chrome Beta, Dev, and Canary builds to start experiments that turned off Manifest V2 extension support. Additionally, Manifest V3 would be required to get the “Featured” badge in the Chrome Web Store.
Firefox 109 Adds New Extensions Button, Manifest V3 Support — The biggest new feature is the new Unified Extensions button in the toolbar.
Chrome’s “Manifest V3” plan to limit ad-blocking extensions is delayed
Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 is Deceitful and Threatening — Manifest V3, or Mv3 for short, is outright harmful to privacy efforts. It will restrict the capabilities of web extensions

]]> Linux Action News 234 https://linuxactionnews.com/234 95db305e-a64c-4ab4-9d9c-9f7506d685f5 Thu, 31 Mar 2022 05:30:00 -0700 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting A new rolling remix of Ubuntu is grabbing attention, AMD has big Linux plans, and why Linux 5.18 looks like another barn burner release. 15:18 no A new rolling remix of Ubuntu is grabbing attention, AMD has big Linux plans, and why Linux 5.18 looks like another barn burner release. Linux News Podcast, Linux Action News, Ubuntu, Canonical, Rolling Rhino Remix, Martin Wimpress, MrBeeBenson, rolling release, apt, Debian, Linux, AMD, CXL, Compute Express Link, HPC, high performance computing, PipeWire, JACK, Linux Audio, Pulseaudio, WirePlumber 0.4.9, Zoom, Linux gaming, Bluetooth, Linux 5.18, NVMe, Google, kernel shutdown time, async, aarch64, ARM64, Arm, Alibaba, ShadowCallStack, shadow call stack, GCC, llvm, security, stack buffer overflow, power management, Intel, HFI, Hardware Feedback Interface, thermal subsystem, P-State, power state, idle, power usage, battery life, ReiserFS, filesystems, XFS, deprecation, kernel maintenance, Darrick Wong, Dave Chinner, XFS online repair, design review, Phoronix, LWN, RNG, random number generator, Linus jitter dance, Linus Torvalds, entropy, urandom, A new rolling remix of Ubuntu is grabbing attention, AMD has big Linux plans, and why Linux 5.18 looks like another barn burner release.

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Ubuntu gets a new rolling-release remix — The new flavor is the brainchild of MrBeeBenson, building on work by Martin Wimpress, who is the project leader of the Ubuntu MATE remix.
AMD Recruiting More Linux Engineers For Debug, CXL Enablement & More — Notable with their latest batch of Linux openings is hiring a CXL engineer. This role will focus on AMD's support for Compute Express Link (CXL) hardware enablement under Linux.
WirePlumber 0.4.9 Fixes Surround Sound For Some Linux Games — It was reported that some games within Steam were not able to enjoy 5.1 surround sound with PipeWire in a year-old bug report. A fix landed in WirePlumber a month ago to relax the format parsing within the si-audio-adapter module and this appears to fix up that issue
New Linux kernel patch speeds up server shutdowns — The problem is caused by the relatively long time it takes to properly shut down an NVMe drive: apparently, as much as four-and-a-half seconds.
Linux 5.18 Hardens The Kernel For 64-bit Arm With Shadow Call Stack Support — With the Linux 5.18 hardening updates there is support added for ARM64 (AArch64) Shadow Call Stack support when building the Linux kernel with GCC 12 and newer.
Linux 5.18 Power Management Brings Improvements For Both Intel & AMD — Intel's P-State driver will now use the default default Energy Performance Preference (EPP) exposed by the firmware, and over on the AMD CPU side, the CPUPower utility that lives within the kernel source tree now supports running in conjunction with the AMD P-State driver.
Linux 5.18 Moves Ahead With Deprecating ReiserFS — The plan is to treat it as deprecated and formally remove it from the mainline Linux kernel in 2025.
XFS Online Repair Functionality To Undergo A Massive Design Review — XFS online repair has been talked about for years along with online scrubbing and it looks like it's about all buttoned up. Darrick Wong will be spending the next roughly two months focusing on the "massive" design review for XFS online repair code.
Problems emerge for a unified /dev/*random — A bunch of changes for the kernel random-number generator (RNG) were merged by Linus Torvalds on March 21. Unfortunately a user-space regression surfaced that led Torvalds to say that he would revert the patch. The idea was good, but it "causes problems for various platforms that can't do jitter entropy and have nothing else happening either".

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Ubuntu gets a new rolling-release remix — The new flavor is the brainchild of MrBeeBenson, building on work by Martin Wimpress, who is the project leader of the Ubuntu MATE remix.
AMD Recruiting More Linux Engineers For Debug, CXL Enablement & More — Notable with their latest batch of Linux openings is hiring a CXL engineer. This role will focus on AMD's support for Compute Express Link (CXL) hardware enablement under Linux.
WirePlumber 0.4.9 Fixes Surround Sound For Some Linux Games — It was reported that some games within Steam were not able to enjoy 5.1 surround sound with PipeWire in a year-old bug report. A fix landed in WirePlumber a month ago to relax the format parsing within the si-audio-adapter module and this appears to fix up that issue
New Linux kernel patch speeds up server shutdowns — The problem is caused by the relatively long time it takes to properly shut down an NVMe drive: apparently, as much as four-and-a-half seconds.
Linux 5.18 Hardens The Kernel For 64-bit Arm With Shadow Call Stack Support — With the Linux 5.18 hardening updates there is support added for ARM64 (AArch64) Shadow Call Stack support when building the Linux kernel with GCC 12 and newer.
Linux 5.18 Power Management Brings Improvements For Both Intel & AMD — Intel's P-State driver will now use the default default Energy Performance Preference (EPP) exposed by the firmware, and over on the AMD CPU side, the CPUPower utility that lives within the kernel source tree now supports running in conjunction with the AMD P-State driver.
Linux 5.18 Moves Ahead With Deprecating ReiserFS — The plan is to treat it as deprecated and formally remove it from the mainline Linux kernel in 2025.
XFS Online Repair Functionality To Undergo A Massive Design Review — XFS online repair has been talked about for years along with online scrubbing and it looks like it's about all buttoned up. Darrick Wong will be spending the next roughly two months focusing on the "massive" design review for XFS online repair code.
Problems emerge for a unified /dev/*random — A bunch of changes for the kernel random-number generator (RNG) were merged by Linus Torvalds on March 21. Unfortunately a user-space regression surfaced that led Torvalds to say that he would revert the patch. The idea was good, but it "causes problems for various platforms that can't do jitter entropy and have nothing else happening either".

]]> Linux Action News 230 https://linuxactionnews.com/230 4c776afb-edcd-4049-b2bb-d05df8111273 Thu, 03 Mar 2022 07:30:00 -0800 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting Why it might be time to lower your RISC-V expectations, Intel's moves to close up CPU firmware, and a quick state of the Deck. 23:07 no Why it might be time to lower your RISC-V expectations, Intel's moves to close up CPU firmware, and a quick state of the Deck. Linux News Podcast, Linux Action News, Jupiter Broadcasting, RISC-V, Valve, Steam Deck, Collabora, Proton, Gaming on Linux, anti-cheat, Bungie, Destiny 2, Stadia, ReiserFS, filesystems, XFS, David Chinner, Matthew Wilcox, y2038k, software maintenance, AutoSD, CentOS Stream, CentOS SIG, RHEL, automative Linux, Coreboot, FSP 3.0, USF, Firmware Support Package, Philipp Deppenwiese, software-defined silicon, Why it might be time to lower your RISC-V expectations, Intel's moves to close up CPU firmware, and a quick state of the Deck.

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Valve expect to make ‘hundreds of thousands’ of Steam Decks next month — The good news is though, production is quickly ramping up. Yang mentioned how "in production terms it'll ramp very quickly, in the first month very quickly we'll be in the tens of thousands, by the second month we'll be in the hundreds of thousands and beyond that it'll grow even quicker".
Steam Deck gets an OS update to help solve stick drift
Bungie rejects Steam Deck’s Linux, threatens to ban Destiny 2 players there
Collabora talk briefly about their work with Valve on SteamOS, Steam Deck — With its new “A/B” design, there are now two operating system partitions, with two different versions of SteamOS. When upgrading, a new operating system image is written to whichever partition is not currently in use, before rebooting the system. A specialized bootloader module then automatically selects the newer operating system and boots into it.
Portable Linux gaming with the Steam Deck
Linux kernel edges closer to dropping ReiserFS — The problem was that ReiserFS code in the kernel used some API calls that nothing else did, preventing them from being changed or enhanced. For now, one of the other ReiserFS developers has contributed a patch that removes the issue.
CentOS New “AutoSD” Distribution Announced For In-Vehicle Linux Distro — CentOS Automotive Stream Distribution is their binary distribution that will serve as a public, in-development preview of Red Hat's upcoming in-vehicle operating system. CentOS formed their Automotive SIG last year with Red Hat working on a RHEL-based in-vehicle Linux platform that is yet to be publicly released.
Future Intel Systems To Reportedly Be Even Less Friendly For Open-Source Firmware
Zaolin on Twitter — For everyone wondering what’s @IntelSoftware planning for the Firmware Support Package 3.0 #fsp and USF is basically going fully closed-source on the firmware side. This means Intel’s #fsp decides to drop #OSF open-source firmware. It’s really a shame…
Why RISC-V Is Succeeding
Intel’s software-defined silicon set to debut in Linux 5.18 — The existence of software-defined silicon (SDSI) emerged in October 2021 when Intel staffers posted to the Linux Kernel mailing list with hints about new functionality that would allow users to purchase licenses that turned on capabilities physically present in processors, but which are not available to use out of the box.

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Valve expect to make ‘hundreds of thousands’ of Steam Decks next month — The good news is though, production is quickly ramping up. Yang mentioned how "in production terms it'll ramp very quickly, in the first month very quickly we'll be in the tens of thousands, by the second month we'll be in the hundreds of thousands and beyond that it'll grow even quicker".
Steam Deck gets an OS update to help solve stick drift
Bungie rejects Steam Deck’s Linux, threatens to ban Destiny 2 players there
Collabora talk briefly about their work with Valve on SteamOS, Steam Deck — With its new “A/B” design, there are now two operating system partitions, with two different versions of SteamOS. When upgrading, a new operating system image is written to whichever partition is not currently in use, before rebooting the system. A specialized bootloader module then automatically selects the newer operating system and boots into it.
Portable Linux gaming with the Steam Deck
Linux kernel edges closer to dropping ReiserFS — The problem was that ReiserFS code in the kernel used some API calls that nothing else did, preventing them from being changed or enhanced. For now, one of the other ReiserFS developers has contributed a patch that removes the issue.
CentOS New “AutoSD” Distribution Announced For In-Vehicle Linux Distro — CentOS Automotive Stream Distribution is their binary distribution that will serve as a public, in-development preview of Red Hat's upcoming in-vehicle operating system. CentOS formed their Automotive SIG last year with Red Hat working on a RHEL-based in-vehicle Linux platform that is yet to be publicly released.
Future Intel Systems To Reportedly Be Even Less Friendly For Open-Source Firmware
Zaolin on Twitter — For everyone wondering what’s @IntelSoftware planning for the Firmware Support Package 3.0 #fsp and USF is basically going fully closed-source on the firmware side. This means Intel’s #fsp decides to drop #OSF open-source firmware. It’s really a shame…
Why RISC-V Is Succeeding
Intel’s software-defined silicon set to debut in Linux 5.18 — The existence of software-defined silicon (SDSI) emerged in October 2021 when Intel staffers posted to the Linux Kernel mailing list with hints about new functionality that would allow users to purchase licenses that turned on capabilities physically present in processors, but which are not available to use out of the box.

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