Linux kernel is in the process of replacing the HTTP links in its source code with HTTPS links. HTTPS is considered more secure than HTTP and can prevent lots of attacks like Man-In-The-Middle attack. Currently there are more than 150 patches submitted by Linux Kernel developers to replace these HTTP links. One thing to be noted is this replacement process is not a manual search and replace process. Indeed, some scripts are created to find out these links and try to find whether there is corresponding HTTPS link available and then do the replacement only if the HTTPS link works....

On Oct 2, Linus Torvalds proudly announced the release of Linux 4.8. But just days after the release, a bug was found in the kernel and Linus came out and apologized for this bug.I'm really sorry I applied that last series from Andrew just before doing the 4.8 release, because they cause problems, and now it is in 4.8 (and that buggy crap is marked for stable too).In particular, I just got this kernel BUG at ./include/linux/swap.h:276 and the end result was a dead kernel.The bug that commit 22f2ac51b6d64 ("mm: workingset: fix crash in shadow node shrinker cau...