15 April 2021
Virtual Event
Europe/Athens timezone

Lessons learnt from hunting an old Linux kernel bug

15 Apr 2021, 16:30
30m
Virtual Event

Virtual Event

Main Room

Speaker

Apollon Oikonomopoulos (Skroutz S.A.)

Description

The story behind a recent blogpost of ours: https://engineering.skroutz.gr/blog/uncovering-a-24-year-old-bug-in-the-linux-kernel/

I will try to cover the aspects not covered extensively in the blogpost, i.e. the interaction with the Linux kernel community, the availability of tools and how it has impacted kernel debugging over time, etc. Additionally, I will comment on the responses to the post itself, demonstrating why this bug may have remained uncovered for 24 years.

Primary author

Apollon Oikonomopoulos (Skroutz S.A.)

Presentation Materials