SOSP'26, which will host the eBPF workshop this year, published its list of accepted papers. I reproduced the list on my blog to complement it with all the preprints I could find: pchaigno.github.io/academic/202.... Happy reading!

ACM SOSP’26 Papers & Preprints

This post lists the accepted papers at ACM SOSP 2026, along with their preprint version when one was found. An illustration bar plot also shows the distribution of papers across research areas.

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I had missed that the program and slides of bpfconf 2026 had been published at the beginning of summer: bpfconf.ebpf.io. This year there were talks on BPF Coroutines, KASAN support, backpressure support for sockmap, arena libraries, BPF signing, and a lot more.

We've received 37 submissions for the eBPF workshop this year, up again from the previous year! We've accepted 15 submissions following the peer-review process. I can't wait to see everyone discuss their work in Prague!

The program for USENIX Sec'26, one of the top security conferences, is public: www.usenix.org/conference/u...! As usual with security, the scope is large: from the privacy of LLMs to fuzzing for concurrency bugs in the kernel with eBPF, for a total of 364 papers.

The list of papers accepted at @sigcomm.bsky.social 2026 has been published: conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2026...! As usual with the top networking conference, the scope is large: networking for LLMs, certificate revocation in Firefox, end-host networking (inc. eBPF), DPUs, etc.

eBPF now has a new type of hashmap, resizable and sometimes drastically faster: lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260605...! I'm expecting it to be released in Linux v7.3. It might be time for some of us to replace our hashmaps.

Apparently, you can now also write BPF programs in Ruby: github.com/yuskesh/spin.... As with the similar Java project, it's actually transpiled to C before being compiled to #eBPF bytecode. People go to great length to keep writing in their favorite language 😅

Tomorrow at 2:30pm, I'll present @cilium.io at the @breizhcamp.org (French) conference! I'll explain how Kubernetes network plugins work, how Cilium leverages #eBPF, and how to secure your cluster with Cilium. www.breizhcamp.org/programme/se...

We're extending the deadline for the #eBPF workshop at SOSP'26 by one week, to Friday the 26th of June. That leaves two weeks to finalize your papers!

The Cilium community adopted a first version of a policy for Generative AI use: github.com/cilium/commu.... Hopefully, that sets clear guidelines and helps us move past the spammy interactions.

After troubleshooting the BPF selftests one time too many, I decided to keep a few notes on how to solve each issue I encountered: pchaigno.github.io/ebpf/2026/05.... I hope it'll be useful to other Linux contributors!

Running into stack size issues with #eBPF? My colleague Dylan Reimerink wrote a tool to figure out what is taking space on your stack! github.com/cilium/stack...

We published the Program Committee for the eBPF'26 workshop at SOSP! It highlights the diverse eBPF research community, with experts from networking, formal verification, OS research, security, and more, across both academia and industry. ebpf.github.io/2026

I've updated the list of academic #eBPF papers with recent papers from SOSP'25, S&P'25, and CCS'25: pchaigno.github.io/bpf/2025/01/.... That makes 19 eBPF papers published in the top conferences in 2025 vs. 17 in 2024.

eBPF Research Papers

Interactive list of eBPF research papers from top conferences according to CSRankings. The list can be filtered according to types of publications (ex., improving, using) and areas (ex., networking, v...

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SOSP'26 published the list of accepted workshops for this year: sigops.org/s/conference...! Looks like the #eBPF workshop is in good company, in between HotStorage and PLOS 😄

The call for papers for the eBPF'26 workshop is open: ebpf.github.io/2026/cfp.html. This year, the workshop will be hosted by the SOSP conference, the top academic conference in OS research! The deadline for submissions is June 19th, in just over 4 months.

Following our talk at Plumbers, we're starting a series of articles with Mahé Tardy on the state pruning optimization in the #eBPF verifier. I'm kicking off this series with a timeline of the main changes: pchaigno.github.io/ebpf/2026/01....

My colleague Mahé Tardy wrote a blog post covering state pruning points in the #eBPF verifier: mtardy.com/posts/prune-.... State pruning is an optimization to the eBPF verifier to help it scale to larger programs. Pruning points are instructions in the program where this optimization is triggered.

In his latest blog, @vincent.bernat.ch looked at how to load balance uneven traffic flows across multiple workers all listening on the same port: vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026.... And of course, eBPF can help here! As usual, very easy to follow along and with code walkthroughs.

There's a new eBPF sandbox by David Ventura to learn BPF development with exercises and detailed explanations: ebpf.party. Looks great for a first quick introduction!

I updated my blog post on the @sigcomm.bsky.social #eBPF workshop with slides for most presentations over the past three years! pchaigno.github.io/ebpf/2025/09... This was possible thanks to Sebastiano Miano who kept archives from the workshops over the years 🙏

Syzkaller has been fuzzing Linux patchsets since August! It already caught more than 100 bugs before they were merged. At #LinuxPlumbers, Aleksandr Nogikh explained why your patchset may not be covered. Website: ci.syzbot.org Slides: lpc.events/event/19/con... Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=69Pj...

After accelerating pod networking with netkit devices, @cilium.io will tackle the challenge of KubeVirt pods. At #LinuxPlumbers, Daniel Borkmann et al. explained what it will look like and the required changes. Recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qy4... Slides: lpc.events/event/19/con...

Peilin Ye gave an easy-to-follow introduction to the new BPF_ATOMIC instructions for Load-Acquire and Store-Release in eBPF. Only at #LinuxPlumbers! ;) Recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF7J... Slides: lpc.events/event/19/con...

Justin Ngai presented a BPF regex engine to be able to match file paths and command lines in the kernel. He explained how it works, its limitations, and some of the challenges involved. #LinuxPlumbers Recording: youtu.be/n0xMU3XkXYM Slides: lpc.events/event/19/con...

Related to the previous #LinuxPlumbers talk, Raman Shukhau implemented and presented a small DNS server in eBPF! Recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=di2R... Slides: lpc.events/event/19/con...

Cilium can enforce network policies based on FQDNs using a userspace proxy. At #LinuxPlumbers, @hemanthmalla.bsky.social proposed to move this to the kernel by implementing DNS parsing in #eBPF! Recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecQo... Demo: youtu.be/0qmQ1bTBLHo Slides: lpc.events/event/19/con...

Work on the BPF Verifier Visualizer (bpfvv) is continuing! Ihor Solodrai and Jordan Rome presented the many new features at #LinuxPlumbers. Recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_P1... Slides: lpc.events/event/19/con...

After a great recap of how uprobes work, Jiri Olsa presented recent optimizations and discussed how uprobes could overwrite userspace functions. As usual with Jiri, the slides are minimalist but effective #LinuxPlumbers Recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sydT... Slides: lpc.events/event/19/con...

At #LinuxPlumbers, @breakawaybilly.bsky.social presented what the eBPF Foundation is doing, where its funds are going, and asked the attendees what should be next. Recording: www.youtube.com/live/ZLRngpd... Slides: lpc.events/event/19/con...