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Linus Torvalds 503f7e297d Testing a new trace event format, I triggered a bug by doing:
# modprobe trace-events-sample
   # echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sample-trace/enable
   # rmmod trace-events-sample
 
 This would cause an oops. The issue is that I added another trace
 event sample that reused a reg function of another trace event to
 create a thread to call the tracepoints. The problem was that the
 reg function couldn't handle nested calls (reg; reg; unreg; unreg;)
 and created two threads (instead of one) and only removed one
 on exit.
 
 This isn't a critical bug as the bug is only in sample code. But sample
 code should be free of known bugs to prevent others from copying
 it. This is why this is also marked for stable.
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Merge tag 'trace-v4.14-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull tracing fix from Steven Rostedt:
 "Testing a new trace event format, I triggered a bug by doing:

    # modprobe trace-events-sample
    # echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sample-trace/enable
    # rmmod trace-events-sample

  This would cause an oops. The issue is that I added another trace
  event sample that reused a reg function of another trace event to
  create a thread to call the tracepoints. The problem was that the reg
  function couldn't handle nested calls (reg; reg; unreg; unreg;) and
  created two threads (instead of one) and only removed one on exit.

  This isn't a critical bug as the bug is only in sample code. But
  sample code should be free of known bugs to prevent others from
  copying it. This is why this is also marked for stable"

* tag 'trace-v4.14-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  tracing/samples: Fix creation and deletion of simple_thread_fn creation
2017-10-18 06:43:30 -04:00
arch Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-10-14 15:26:38 -04:00
block bio_copy_user_iov(): don't ignore ->iov_offset 2017-10-10 23:55:14 -04:00
certs modsign: add markers to endif-statements in certs/Makefile 2017-07-14 11:01:37 +10:00
crypto crypto: shash - Fix zero-length shash ahash digest crash 2017-10-11 00:34:07 +08:00
Documentation mm, swap: use page-cluster as max window of VMA based swap readahead 2017-10-13 16:18:33 -07:00
drivers SCSI fixes on 20171017 2017-10-17 15:54:41 -04:00
firmware firmware: Restore support for built-in firmware 2017-09-16 10:58:48 -07:00
fs fs/binfmt_misc.c: node could be NULL when evicting inode 2017-10-13 16:18:33 -07:00
include Char/Misc driver fixes for 4.14-rc5 2017-10-15 07:50:38 -04:00
init Merge branch 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-09-14 18:54:01 -07:00
ipc fix a typo in put_compat_shm_info() 2017-09-25 20:41:46 -04:00
kernel Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-10-14 15:20:38 -04:00
lib Merge branch 'locking-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-10-14 15:14:20 -04:00
mm mm, swap: use page-cluster as max window of VMA based swap readahead 2017-10-13 16:18:33 -07:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-10-09 16:25:00 -07:00
samples Testing a new trace event format, I triggered a bug by doing: 2017-10-18 06:43:30 -04:00
scripts scripts/kallsyms.c: ignore symbol type 'n' 2017-10-13 16:18:32 -07:00
security lsm: fix smack_inode_removexattr and xattr_getsecurity memleak 2017-10-04 18:03:15 +11:00
sound ALSA: caiaq: Fix stray URB at probe error path 2017-10-11 17:01:18 +02:00
tools Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-10-14 15:16:49 -04:00
usr ramfs: clarify help text that compression applies to ramfs as well as legacy ramdisk. 2017-07-06 16:24:30 -07:00
virt Revert "KVM: Don't accept obviously wrong gsi values via KVM_IRQFD" 2017-09-19 08:37:17 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: Add support to generate LLVM assembly files 2017-04-25 08:13:52 +09:00
.mailmap Update James Hogan's email address 2017-10-04 17:11:53 -07:00
COPYING
CREDITS selinux/stable-4.14 PR 20170831 2017-09-12 13:21:00 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: Consolidate header generation from ASM offset information 2017-04-13 05:43:37 +09:00
Kconfig
MAINTAINERS Another latent bug related to PCID, an out-of-bounds access, 2017-10-12 10:42:03 -07:00
Makefile Linux 4.14-rc5 2017-10-15 21:01:12 -04:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.