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16-17 June, 2026
Mumbai, India
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Wednesday June 17, 2026 1:40pm - 2:20pm IST
The Linux kernel can feel impenetrable to newcomers — millions of lines of code and a mailing-list workflow unlike anything else in open source. But what if there was a repeatable, beginner-friendly path in?
During my LFX Mentorship (Fall 2025), which I successfully graduated from, I merged 21 patches across 15+ kernel subsystems — including ext4, gfs2, btrfs, ocfs2, f2fs, mm, tracing, networking, and BPF — all using syzbot bug reports as my starting point.
This lightning talk distills that experience into a practical playbook for first-time contributors:

Finding your first bug: navigating the syzbot dashboard and picking approachable reports like memory leaks and missing validations.
Understanding the bug: reading KASAN/KMSAN reports, tracing call stacks, and using git blame.
Writing the fix: structuring kernel patches with good commit messages following kernel conventions.
Surviving code review: handling v2/v3 revisions and learning from maintainer feedback.

If you have ever wanted to contribute to the kernel but did not know where to start, this talk gives you a concrete, battle-tested roadmap.
Speakers
avatar for Deepanshu Kartikey

Deepanshu Kartikey

Performance Engineer, Clickpost
Deepanshu Kartikey is a Linux kernel developer with patches merged across BPF, networking, ext4, and memory management subsystems. His contributions have been reviewed by maintainers including Alexei Starovoitov and Theodore Ts'o. He specializes in eBPF-based observability, building... Read More →
Wednesday June 17, 2026 1:40pm - 2:20pm IST
Jasmine 2 (Third Floor)
  Linux for Emerging Countries

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