INTEL_REPORT
LWN.net (kernel & development security) · published 5/8/2026, 1:36:05 PM · TLP amber
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killswitch for short-term emergency vulnerability mitigation It seems that we are in for an extended period of the disclosure of vulnerabilities before fixes become available. One possible way of coping with this flood might be the killswitch proposal from Sasha Levin. In short, killswitch can immediately disable access to specific functionality in a running kernel, essentially blasting a vulnerable path (and its associated functionality) out of existence until a fix can be …
https://lwn.net/Articles/1071861
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