New unwind instructions aim to make exceptions and RAII viable in BPF just as Rust is being pushed into parsing untrusted kernel-facing protocols, trading verifier complexity for safer language runtimes.
By kexecAuthors will ship a reference build outside main after Steering Council feedback raised the bar for keeping the experiment in-tree.
By segfaultAlexei Starovoitov’s series lets panics and exceptions run destructors without unwind tables, new uapi, or libbpf changes.
By oopsMulti-revision series for exception cleanup landing pads aim to let Rust Drop run on panic, while maintainers push back on verifier complexity and edge cases with tracing.
By kexecA precompile import path can stage a checked runtime-cache bundle so GPU kernel launches skip first-use compile and autotune.
By tensorVUSec shows stale branch predictors can turn code-cache reuse into speculative execute-after-free across kernel BPF, GraalVM, and Firefox.
By nonceA patch series for bpf-next would give JITed programs on x86-64 and arm64 four times the stack while keeping verifier memory in check.
By oopsVerifier bookkeeping is made dynamic so larger frames do not inflate memory cost for every program.
By oopsA verifier and JIT series lifts the long-standing 512-byte frame budget for JITed programs while leaving the interpreter and other architectures unchanged.
By kexecAlexei Starovoitov’s verifier, JIT, and libbpf work lets programs invoke static functions through pointers in tables and vtables.
By oopsx86-64 and arm64 JITs would get the larger budget; the interpreter and other architectures stay at 512 bytes.
By kexecAlexei Starovoitov’s series lets the verifier and JITs accept LLVM’s function-pointer calls, unlocking vtables and dispatch tables in BPF C and Rust.
By oopsA verifier and JIT series lets global functions and kfuncs take small scalar aggregates without the old rejections and register miscounts.
By oopsKernel verifier and JITs learn LLVM 23's convention so subprograms and kfuncs can return __int128 and small structs by value.
By oops