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Linus Torvalds 77d6465695 There's been a few memory issues found with ftrace.
One was simply a memory leak where not all was being freed that should
 have been in releasing a file pointer on set_graph_function.
 
 Then Thomas found that the ftrace trampolines were marked for read/write
 as well as execute. To shrink the possible attack surface, he added
 calls to set them to ro. Which also uncovered some other issues with
 freeing module allocated memory that had its permissions changed.
 
 Kprobes had a similar issue which is fixed and a selftest was added
 to trigger that issue again.
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Merge tag 'trace-v4.12-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull ftrace fixes from Steven Rostedt:
 "There's been a few memory issues found with ftrace.

  One was simply a memory leak where not all was being freed that should
  have been in releasing a file pointer on set_graph_function.

  Then Thomas found that the ftrace trampolines were marked for
  read/write as well as execute. To shrink the possible attack surface,
  he added calls to set them to ro. Which also uncovered some other
  issues with freeing module allocated memory that had its permissions
  changed.

  Kprobes had a similar issue which is fixed and a selftest was added to
  trigger that issue again"

* tag 'trace-v4.12-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  x86/ftrace: Make sure that ftrace trampolines are not RWX
  x86/mm/ftrace: Do not bug in early boot on irqs_disabled in cpu_flush_range()
  selftests/ftrace: Add a testcase for many kprobe events
  kprobes/x86: Fix to set RWX bits correctly before releasing trampoline
  ftrace: Fix memory leak in ftrace_graph_release()
2017-05-27 08:30:30 -07:00
arch There's been a few memory issues found with ftrace. 2017-05-27 08:30:30 -07:00
block Merge branch 'nvme-4.12' of git://git.infradead.org/nvme into for-linus 2017-05-26 09:11:19 -06:00
certs scripts/spelling.txt: add "intialise(d)" pattern and fix typo instances 2017-05-08 17:15:13 -07:00
crypto crypto: skcipher - Add missing API setkey checks 2017-05-18 13:04:05 +08:00
Documentation Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input 2017-05-26 16:45:13 -07:00
drivers Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input 2017-05-26 16:45:13 -07:00
firmware firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
fs Changed since last update: 2017-05-26 12:13:08 -07:00
include Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-05-26 13:51:01 -07:00
init Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-05-10 10:30:46 -07:00
ipc mm: introduce kv[mz]alloc helpers 2017-05-08 17:15:12 -07:00
kernel There's been a few memory issues found with ftrace. 2017-05-27 08:30:30 -07:00
lib test_bpf: Add a couple of tests for BPF_JSGE. 2017-05-25 14:37:56 -04:00
mm mm: vmscan: scan until it finds eligible pages 2017-05-12 15:57:16 -07:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-05-26 13:51:01 -07:00
samples samples/bpf: run cleanup routines when receiving SIGTERM 2017-05-11 21:43:30 -04:00
scripts DeviceTree fixes for 4.12-rc: 2017-05-19 15:03:24 -07:00
security Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-05-09 09:12:53 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 4.12-rc3 2017-05-26 09:03:09 -07:00
tools There's been a few memory issues found with ftrace. 2017-05-27 08:30:30 -07:00
usr initramfs: provide a way to ignore image provided by bootloader 2017-05-08 17:15:12 -07:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: Hold slots_lock when unregistering kvm io bus devices 2017-05-18 11:18:16 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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.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 power supply and reset changes for the v4.12 series (part 2) 2017-05-12 12:02:21 -07:00
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CREDITS avr32: remove support for AVR32 architecture 2017-05-01 09:27:15 +02:00
Kbuild kbuild: Consolidate header generation from ASM offset information 2017-04-13 05:43:37 +09:00
Kconfig
MAINTAINERS Staging driver fixes for 4.12-rc2 2017-05-20 09:02:27 -07:00
Makefile Linux 4.12-rc2 2017-05-21 19:30:23 -07:00
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.