11–13 Dec 2025
Asia/Tokyo timezone

KernelSBOM: Reconstructing Linux Kernel Builds into Trusted SPDX Bills of Materials

11 Dec 2025, 10:00
45m
"Hall A1" (Toranomon Hills Mori Tower)

"Hall A1"

Toranomon Hills Mori Tower

330
LPC Refereed Track LPC Refereed Track

Speaker

Maximilian Huber

Description

This talk presents KernelSBOM, a tool that reconstructs the complete
Linux kernel build graph by analyzing .cmd files to recover the exact
commands, inputs, and outputs used during compilation. KernelSBOM
generates three interlinked SPDX 3.0 documents—source, build, and
output—that comprehensively encode all build metadata and dependencies.
We demonstrate our approach, discuss its benefits for supply chain
security and compliance, and examine current limitations. Our ultimate
goal: make kernel SBOMs practical and integrate SBOM generation directly
into the kernel build process.

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