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Juergen Gross 136d7987fc x86: Clear .brk area at early boot
[ Upstream commit 38fa5479b41376dc9d7f57e71c83514285a25ca0 ]

The .brk section has the same properties as .bss: it is an alloc-only
section and should be cleared before being used.

Not doing so is especially a problem for Xen PV guests, as the
hypervisor will validate page tables (check for writable page tables
and hypervisor private bits) before accepting them to be used.

Make sure .brk is initially zero by letting clear_bss() clear the brk
area, too.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220630071441.28576-3-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2022-07-21 21:20:17 +02:00
Documentation ipv4: Fix data-races around sysctl_ip_dynaddr. 2022-07-21 21:20:10 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES/deprecated: add Zlib license text 2020-09-16 14:33:49 +02:00
arch x86: Clear .brk area at early boot 2022-07-21 21:20:17 +02:00
block block: Fix handling of offline queues in blk_mq_alloc_request_hctx() 2022-06-22 14:13:17 +02:00
certs certs/blacklist_hashes.c: fix const confusion in certs blacklist 2022-06-22 14:13:17 +02:00
crypto crypto: memneq - move into lib/ 2022-06-22 14:13:18 +02:00
drivers irqchip: or1k-pic: Undefine mask_ack for level triggered hardware 2022-07-21 21:20:17 +02:00
fs ext4: fix race condition between ext4_write and ext4_convert_inline_data 2022-07-21 21:20:02 +02:00
include net/tls: Check for errors in tls_device_init 2022-07-21 21:20:13 +02:00
init Kconfig: Add option for asm goto w/ tied outputs to workaround clang-13 bug 2022-06-09 10:21:25 +02:00
ipc ipc/mqueue: use get_tree_nodev() in mqueue_get_tree() 2022-06-09 10:21:17 +02:00
kernel mm: sysctl: fix missing numa_stat when !CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE 2022-07-21 21:20:13 +02:00
lib ida: don't use BUG_ON() for debugging 2022-07-12 16:32:23 +02:00
mm mm: split huge PUD on wp_huge_pud fallback 2022-07-21 21:19:59 +02:00
net net: tipc: fix possible refcount leak in tipc_sk_create() 2022-07-21 21:20:14 +02:00
samples samples/bpf, xdpsock: Fix race when running for fix duration of time 2022-04-08 14:40:21 +02:00
scripts modpost: fix section mismatch check for exported init/exit sections 2022-06-29 08:59:54 +02:00
security ima: Fix potential memory leak in ima_init_crypto() 2022-07-21 21:20:11 +02:00
sound ASoC: madera: Fix event generation for rate controls 2022-07-21 21:20:16 +02:00
tools selftests: forwarding: fix error message in learning_test 2022-07-12 16:32:22 +02:00
usr usr/include/Makefile: add linux/nfc.h to the compile-test coverage 2022-02-01 17:25:48 +01:00
virt KVM: Prevent module exit until all VMs are freed 2022-04-08 14:40:38 +02:00
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Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
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README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README

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.