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syzbot is reporting crashes triggered by memory allocation fault injection at tty_ldisc_get() [1]. As an attempt to handle OOM in a graceful way, we have tried commit5362544beb("tty: don't panic on OOM in tty_set_ldisc()"). But we reverted that attempt by commita8983d01f9("Revert "tty: don't panic on OOM in tty_set_ldisc()"") due to reproducible crash. We should spend resource for finding and fixing race condition bugs rather than complicate error paths for 2 * sizeof(void *) bytes allocation failure. [1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=489d33fa386453859ead58ff5171d43772b13aa3 Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Reported-by: syzbot <syzbot+40b7287c2dc987c48c81@syzkaller.appspotmail.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com> Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Cc: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
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.