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Cisco has some unusual challenges when it comes to deploying security patches
across the company’s many devices running custom kernels. John Fastabend spoke
about his work preventing exploits with BPF at the 2026

Linux Storage,
Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit.
The technique could substantially reduce the time necessary to respond to kernel
vulnerabilities, but it will not be fully effective unless more hooks are added
to the kernel.