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Linus Torvalds 49f4810356 NFSD 6.8 Release Notes
The bulk of the patches for this release are clean-ups and minor bug
 fixes.
 
 There is one significant revert to mention: support for RDMA Read
 operations in the server's RPC-over-RDMA transport implementation
 has been fixed so it waits for Read completion in a way that avoids
 tying up an nfsd thread. This prevents a possible DoS vector if an
 RPC-over-RDMA client should become unresponsive during RDMA Read
 operations.
 
 As always I am grateful to NFSD contributors, reviewers, and
 testers.
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Merge tag 'nfsd-6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cel/linux

Pull nfsd updates from Chuck Lever:
 "The bulk of the patches for this release are clean-ups and minor bug
  fixes.

  There is one significant revert to mention: support for RDMA Read
  operations in the server's RPC-over-RDMA transport implementation has
  been fixed so it waits for Read completion in a way that avoids tying
  up an nfsd thread. This prevents a possible DoS vector if an
  RPC-over-RDMA client should become unresponsive during RDMA Read
  operations.

  As always I am grateful to NFSD contributors, reviewers, and testers"

* tag 'nfsd-6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cel/linux: (56 commits)
  nfsd: rename nfsd_last_thread() to nfsd_destroy_serv()
  SUNRPC: discard sv_refcnt, and svc_get/svc_put
  svc: don't hold reference for poolstats, only mutex.
  SUNRPC: remove printk when back channel request not found
  svcrdma: Implement multi-stage Read completion again
  svcrdma: Copy construction of svc_rqst::rq_arg to rdma_read_complete()
  svcrdma: Add back svcxprt_rdma::sc_read_complete_q
  svcrdma: Add back svc_rdma_recv_ctxt::rc_pages
  svcrdma: Clean up comment in svc_rdma_accept()
  svcrdma: Remove queue-shortening warnings
  svcrdma: Remove pointer addresses shown in dprintk()
  svcrdma: Optimize svc_rdma_cc_init()
  svcrdma: De-duplicate completion ID initialization helpers
  svcrdma: Move the svc_rdma_cc_init() call
  svcrdma: Remove struct svc_rdma_read_info
  svcrdma: Update the synopsis of svc_rdma_read_special()
  svcrdma: Update the synopsis of svc_rdma_read_call_chunk()
  svcrdma: Update synopsis of svc_rdma_read_multiple_chunks()
  svcrdma: Update synopsis of svc_rdma_copy_inline_range()
  svcrdma: Update the synopsis of svc_rdma_read_data_item()
  ...
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arch EFI updates for v6.8 2024-01-09 17:11:27 -08:00
block Many singleton patches against the MM code. The patch series which 2024-01-09 11:18:47 -08:00
certs This update includes the following changes: 2023-11-02 16:15:30 -10:00
crypto This push fixes a regression in ahash and hides the Kconfig sub-options for the jitter RNG. 2023-11-09 17:04:58 -08:00
Documentation New code for 6.8: 2024-01-10 08:45:22 -08:00
drivers New code for 6.8: 2024-01-10 08:45:22 -08:00
fs NFSD 6.8 Release Notes 2024-01-10 10:20:08 -08:00
include NFSD 6.8 Release Notes 2024-01-10 10:20:08 -08:00
init init/Kconfig: move more items into the EXPERT menu 2023-12-20 15:02:58 -08:00
io_uring Many singleton patches against the MM code. The patch series which 2024-01-09 11:18:47 -08:00
ipc Many singleton patches against the MM code. The patch series which are 2023-11-02 19:38:47 -10:00
kernel linux_kselftest-kunit-6.8-rc1 2024-01-09 17:16:58 -08:00
lib linux_kselftest-kunit-6.8-rc1 2024-01-09 17:16:58 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm New code for 6.8: 2024-01-10 08:45:22 -08:00
net NFSD 6.8 Release Notes 2024-01-10 10:20:08 -08:00
rust Kbuild updates for v6.7 2023-11-04 08:07:19 -10:00
samples Many singleton patches against the MM code. The patch series which 2024-01-09 11:18:47 -08:00
scripts Quite a lot of kexec work this time around. Many singleton patches in 2024-01-09 11:46:20 -08:00
security integrity-v6.8 2024-01-09 13:24:06 -08:00
sound linux_kselftest-kunit-6.8-rc1 2024-01-09 17:16:58 -08:00
tools linux_kselftest-next-6.8-rc1 2024-01-09 17:28:41 -08:00
usr usr/Kconfig: fix typos of "its" 2023-12-20 15:02:58 -08:00
virt vfs-6.8.misc 2024-01-08 10:26:08 -08:00
.clang-format iommu: Add for_each_group_device() 2023-05-23 08:15:51 +02:00
.cocciconfig
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore kbuild: rpm-pkg: generate kernel.spec in rpmbuild/SPECS/ 2023-10-03 20:49:09 +09:00
.mailmap lsm/stable-6.8 PR 20240105 2024-01-09 12:57:46 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS Quite a lot of kexec work this time around. Many singleton patches in 2024-01-09 11:46:20 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS New code for 6.8: 2024-01-10 08:45:22 -08:00
Makefile Quite a lot of kexec work this time around. Many singleton patches in 2024-01-09 11:46:20 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

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

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.

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.