Chris Wright (programmer)
Encyclopedia
Chris Wright is a Linux kernel
developer. He is the current Linux kernel co-maintainer for the -stable branch with Greg Kroah-Hartman
. He is involved in Linux kernel security
related topics and is currently the maintainer for the LSM
framework.
Linux kernel
The Linux kernel is an operating system kernel used by the Linux family of Unix-like operating systems. It is one of the most prominent examples of free and open source software....
developer. He is the current Linux kernel co-maintainer for the -stable branch with Greg Kroah-Hartman
Greg Kroah-Hartman
Greg Kroah-Hartman is a Linux kernel developer. He is the current Linux kernel maintainer for the -stable branch with Chris Wright, the staging subsystem, USB, driver core, debugfs, kref, kobject, and the sysfs kernel subsystems, Userspace I/O and TTY layer. He is also the maintainer of the...
. He is involved in Linux kernel security
Computer security
Computer security is a branch of computer technology known as information security as applied to computers and networks. The objective of computer security includes protection of information and property from theft, corruption, or natural disaster, while allowing the information and property to...
related topics and is currently the maintainer for the LSM
Linux Security Modules
Linux Security Modules is a framework that allows the Linux kernel to support a variety of computer security models while avoiding favoritism toward any single security implementation. The framework is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License and is standard part of the Linux...
framework.