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Ralph Campbell a9b576f725 mm: move call to compound_head() in release_pages()
The function is_huge_zero_page() doesn't call compound_head() to make sure
the page pointer is a head page. The call to is_huge_zero_page() in
release_pages() is made before compound_head() is called so the test would
fail if release_pages() was called with a tail page of the huge_zero_page
and put_page_testzero() would be called releasing the page.
This is unlikely to be happening in normal use or we would be seeing all
sorts of process data corruption when accessing a THP zero page.

Looking at other places where is_huge_zero_page() is called, all seem to
only pass a head page so I think the right solution is to move the call
to compound_head() in release_pages() to a point before calling
is_huge_zero_page().

Signed-off-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200917173938.16420-1-rcampbell@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Documentation KASAN: Testing Documentation 2020-10-13 18:38:32 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
arch mm: account PMD tables like PTE tables 2020-10-13 18:38:31 -07:00
block drivers-5.10-2020-10-12 2020-10-13 13:04:41 -07:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto drivers-5.10-2020-10-12 2020-10-13 13:04:41 -07:00
drivers virtio-mem: don't special-case ZONE_MOVABLE 2020-10-13 18:38:33 -07:00
fs mm: proc: smaps_rollup: do not stall write attempts on mmap_lock 2020-10-13 18:38:31 -07:00
include mmzone: clean code by removing unused macro parameter 2020-10-13 18:38:33 -07:00
init io_uring-5.10-2020-10-12 2020-10-13 12:36:21 -07:00
ipc ipc: adjust proc_ipc_sem_dointvec definition to match prototype 2020-09-05 12:14:29 -07:00
kernel mm: remove src/dst mm parameter in copy_page_range() 2020-10-13 18:38:32 -07:00
lib KASAN: port KASAN Tests to KUnit 2020-10-13 18:38:32 -07:00
mm mm: move call to compound_head() in release_pages() 2020-10-13 18:38:33 -07:00
net io_uring-5.10-2020-10-12 2020-10-13 12:36:21 -07:00
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MAINTAINERS mm,kmemleak-test.c: move kmemleak-test.c to samples dir 2020-10-13 18:38:27 -07:00
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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.