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Linus Torvalds f958d7b528 mm: make page ref count overflow check tighter and more explicit
We have a VM_BUG_ON() to check that the page reference count doesn't
underflow (or get close to overflow) by checking the sign of the count.

That's all fine, but we actually want to allow people to use a "get page
ref unless it's already very high" helper function, and we want that one
to use the sign of the page ref (without triggering this VM_BUG_ON).

Change the VM_BUG_ON to only check for small underflows (or _very_ close
to overflowing), and ignore overflows which have strayed into negative
territory.

Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-04-14 10:00:04 -07:00
arch ARM: SoC fixes for v5.0 2019-03-02 16:43:15 -08:00
block for-linus-20190215 2019-02-15 09:12:28 -08:00
certs kbuild: remove redundant target cleaning on failure 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00
crypto net: crypto set sk to NULL when af_alg_release. 2019-02-18 12:01:24 -08:00
Documentation Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-02-24 09:28:26 -08:00
drivers ARM: SoC fixes for v5.0 2019-03-02 16:43:15 -08:00
firmware kbuild: change filechk to surround the given command with { } 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00
fs Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2019-03-01 09:04:59 -08:00
include mm: make page ref count overflow check tighter and more explicit 2019-04-14 10:00:04 -07:00
init revert "initramfs: cleanup incomplete rootfs" 2019-02-21 09:00:59 -08:00
ipc ipc: IPCMNI limit check for semmni 2018-10-31 08:54:14 -07:00
kernel bpf: fix sanitation rewrite in case of non-pointers 2019-03-01 21:24:08 -08:00
lib kasan: turn off asan-stack for clang-8 and earlier 2019-03-01 09:02:33 -08:00
LICENSES This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome 2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
mm Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2019-03-01 09:04:59 -08:00
net net: sit: fix memory leak in sit_init_net() 2019-03-02 00:53:23 -08:00
samples samples: mei: use /dev/mei0 instead of /dev/mei 2019-01-30 15:24:45 +01:00
scripts kasan: turn off asan-stack for clang-8 and earlier 2019-03-01 09:02:33 -08:00
security Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-02-24 09:28:26 -08:00
sound sound fixes for 5.0 2019-02-20 09:42:52 -08:00
tools selftests: fixes for UDP GRO 2019-03-01 11:24:00 -08:00
usr user/Makefile: Fix typo and capitalization in comment section 2018-12-11 00:18:03 +09:00
virt kvm: properly check debugfs dentry before using it 2019-02-28 08:57:32 -08:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update .clang-format with the latest for_each macro list 2019-01-19 19:26:06 +01:00
.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 for DT binding schema checks 2018-12-13 09:41:32 -06:00
.mailmap A few early MIPS fixes for 4.21: 2019-01-05 12:48:25 -08:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS CREDITS/MAINTAINERS: Retire parisc-linux.org email domain 2019-02-21 20:16:10 +01:00
Kbuild kbuild: use assignment instead of define ... endef for filechk_* rules 2019-01-06 10:22:35 +09:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-02-24 09:28:26 -08:00
Makefile Linux 5.0 2019-03-03 15:21:29 -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.