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Tetsuo Handa 7c3a6aedcd kexec: bail out upon SIGKILL when allocating memory.
syzbot found that a thread can stall for minutes inside kexec_load() after
that thread was killed by SIGKILL [1].  It turned out that the reproducer
was trying to allocate 2408MB of memory using kimage_alloc_page() from
kimage_load_normal_segment().  Let's check for SIGKILL before doing memory
allocation.

[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=a0e3436829698d5824231251fad9d8e998f94f5e

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/993c9185-d324-2640-d061-bed2dd18b1f7@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Reported-by: syzbot <syzbot+8ab2d0f39fb79fe6ca40@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-09-25 17:51:40 -07:00
Documentation kernel-doc: core-api: include string.h into core-api 2019-09-25 17:51:39 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
arch augmented rbtree: add new RB_DECLARE_CALLBACKS_MAX macro 2019-09-25 17:51:39 -07:00
block for-5.4/post-2019-09-24 2019-09-24 16:31:50 -07:00
certs Revert "Merge tag 'keys-acl-20190703' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs" 2019-07-10 18:43:43 -07:00
crypto - crypto and DM crypt advances that allow the crypto API to reclaim 2019-09-21 10:40:37 -07:00
drivers augmented rbtree: add new RB_DECLARE_CALLBACKS_MAX macro 2019-09-25 17:51:39 -07:00
fs fat: delete an unnecessary check before brelse() 2019-09-25 17:51:40 -07:00
include cpumask: nicer for_each_cpumask_and() signature 2019-09-25 17:51:40 -07:00
init mm: use CPU_BITS_NONE to initialize init_mm.cpu_bitmask 2019-09-24 15:54:10 -07:00
ipc Merge branch 'work.mount-base' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-09-18 13:15:58 -07:00
kernel kexec: bail out upon SIGKILL when allocating memory. 2019-09-25 17:51:40 -07:00
lib lib/hexdump: make print_hex_dump_bytes() a nop on !DEBUG builds 2019-09-25 17:51:39 -07:00
mm augmented rbtree: add new RB_DECLARE_CALLBACKS_MAX macro 2019-09-25 17:51:39 -07:00
net net/xdp: convert put_page() to put_user_page*() 2019-09-24 15:54:08 -07:00
samples rpmsg updates for v5.4 2019-09-22 10:58:15 -07:00
scripts checkpatch: make git output use LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 2019-09-25 17:51:39 -07:00
security I have four patches for v5.4. Nothing is major. All but one are in 2019-09-23 14:25:45 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 5.4-rc1 2019-09-24 16:46:16 -07:00
tools augmented rbtree: rework the RB_DECLARE_CALLBACKS macro definition 2019-09-25 17:51:39 -07:00
usr kbuild: clean compressed initramfs image 2019-09-24 15:54:07 -07:00
virt * s390: ioctl hardening, selftests 2019-09-18 09:49:13 -07:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2019-08-31 10:00:51 +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 Modules updates for v5.4 2019-09-22 10:34:46 -07:00
.mailmap Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next 2019-09-18 12:34:53 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS CREDITS: Update email address 2019-09-13 17:21:38 +03:00
Kbuild kbuild: do not descend to ./Kbuild when cleaning 2019-08-21 21:03:58 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'i2c/for-5.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux 2019-09-24 16:48:02 -07:00
Makefile Modules updates for v5.4 2019-09-22 10:34:46 -07:00
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.