Recap – Safety Critical Linux Features – Annual Update (Feb 11, 2026) (opens in new tab)

The LFSCS Working Group approaches Linux from a safety perspective by asking not whether it works, but how it could fail within a safety-critical system. Its role is not to certify systems or build safety cases, but to investigate Linux kernel and, where relevant, user space behavior to identify where safety assumptions may break. The group focuses on areas such as memory isolation, allocation behavior, and process boundaries domains where failures could have real safety implications. These i...