Yes, the Linux kernel networking stack is too slow for high-speed networks, but kernel bypass solutions aren’t the answer Sujal Das is chief strategy and marketing officer at Netronome, a provider of ...

The Linux 6.8 kernel, which is under development at the time of writing, has several important improvements in the networking area, and is said to improve TCP performance by up to 40% with a large ...

The Linux kernel stack is a tempting target for attack. This is because the kernel needs to keep track of where it is. If a function gets called, which then calls another, which then calls another, ...

Thomas Herbert's book The Linux TCP/IP Stack: Networking for Embedded Systems is a thorough guided tour of the Linux kernel TCP/IP implementation. Herbert builds his description of Linux networking, ...

An information disclosure vulnerability in the Linux kernel can be exploited to leak data and act as a springboard for further compromise. Disclosed by Cisco Talos researchers on Tuesday, the bug is ...

Here are the benefits and some caveats to running data-path applications in the user space. Discussed is Linux's UIO framework. Traditionally, packet-processing or data-path applications in Linux have ...

Kernel-mode Hardware-enforced Stack Protection is a security feature introduced in Windows 11 22H2 that protects systems from various memory attacks, such as stack buffer overflows. Microsoft added ...