It has been [33] days since the last Hubris kernel bug (opens in new tab)

Finding bugs in the Hubris kernel is rare enough that we have a running joke about resetting the “days since last kernel bug” timer.

I decided to make this joke into an actual docs page; because HN has enjoyed posts about Hubris in the past [1], I figured this might be of interest!

Many of the individual bugs are terrifying dives into corner cases of an embedded OS. This one is particularly good reading: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/hubris/issues/1134

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29390751

It means they made a cool status page that lists all the bugs that have been found in the Hubris kernel, along with a bunch of detail about fixing them.

Not everything has to satisfy some arbitrary measure of usefulness to be cool/fun to look at/work on.

Numerological QA entertainment?

The second-from-most-recent bug, "Leases cannot span MPU regions", did in fact cause immediate failures in our network switch image!

Cliff wrote this up in a blog post, which also had substantial discussion:

Who killed the network switch? A Hubris Bug Story (2024) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39813365 - March 2024 (128 comments)