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- Address several use-after-free and memory leak bugs
 
 - Prevent a backchannel livelock
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Merge tag 'nfsd-5.7-rc-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/cel/cel-2.6

Pull nfsd fixes from Chuck Lever:
 "The first set of 5.7-rc fixes for NFS server issues.

  These were all unresolved at the time the 5.7 window opened, and
  needed some additional time to ensure they were correctly addressed.
  They are ready now.

  At the moment I know of one more urgent issue regarding the NFS
  server. A fix has been tested and is under review. I expect to send
  one more pull request, containing this fix (which now consists of 3
  patches).

  Fixes:

   - Address several use-after-free and memory leak bugs

   - Prevent a backchannel livelock"

* tag 'nfsd-5.7-rc-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/cel/cel-2.6:
  svcrdma: Fix leak of svc_rdma_recv_ctxt objects
  svcrdma: Fix trace point use-after-free race
  SUNRPC: Fix backchannel RPC soft lockups
  SUNRPC/cache: Fix unsafe traverse caused double-free in cache_purge
  nfsd: memory corruption in nfsd4_lock()
2020-04-23 09:33:43 -07:00
Documentation hwmon fixes for v5.7-rc2 2020-04-18 13:28:09 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
arch Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2020-04-21 13:26:54 -07:00
block blk-wbt: Use tracepoint_string() for wbt_step tracepoint string literals 2020-04-17 08:21:44 -06:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto x86: update AS_* macros to binutils >=2.23, supporting ADX and AVX2 2020-04-09 00:12:48 +09:00
drivers remoteproc fixes for v5.7 2020-04-23 09:28:15 -07:00
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init Kbuild updates for v5.7 (2nd) 2020-04-11 09:46:12 -07:00
ipc ipc/util.c: sysvipc_find_ipc() should increase position index 2020-04-10 15:36:22 -07:00
kernel audit: check the length of userspace generated audit records 2020-04-20 17:10:58 -04:00
lib Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-04-16 14:52:29 -07:00
mm mm: shmem: disable interrupt when acquiring info->lock in userfaultfd_copy path 2020-04-21 11:11:56 -07:00
net Fixes: 2020-04-23 09:33:43 -07:00
samples vmalloc: fix remap_vmalloc_range() bounds checks 2020-04-21 11:11:56 -07:00
scripts checkpatch: fix a typo in the regex for $allocFunctions 2020-04-21 11:11:55 -07:00
security selinux/stable-5.7 PR 20200416 2020-04-16 10:45:47 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 5.7-rc2 2020-04-17 09:48:50 -07:00
tools linux-kselftest-5.7-rc3 2020-04-22 10:47:49 -07:00
usr kbuild: fix comment about missing include guard detection 2020-04-11 12:09:48 +09:00
virt KVM: Pass kvm_init()'s opaque param to additional arch funcs 2020-03-31 10:48:03 -04:00
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CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Hand MIPS over to Thomas 2020-02-24 22:43:18 -08:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2020-04-21 13:26:54 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.7-rc2 2020-04-19 14:35:30 -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.