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Alastair D'Silva dca4436d1c mm/memory_hotplug.c: add a bounds check to __add_pages()
On PowerPC, the address ranges allocated to OpenCAPI LPC memory are
allocated from firmware.  These address ranges may be higher than what
older kernels permit, as we increased the maximum permissable address in
commit 4ffe713b75 ("powerpc/mm: Increase the max addressable memory to
2PB").  It is possible that the addressable range may change again in
the future.

In this scenario, we end up with a bogus section returned from
__section_nr (see the discussion on the thread "mm: Trigger bug on if a
section is not found in __section_nr").

Adding a check here means that we fail early and have an opportunity to
handle the error gracefully, rather than rumbling on and potentially
accessing an incorrect section.

Further discussion is also on the thread ("powerpc: Perform a bounds
check in arch_add_memory")
  http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190827052047.31547-1-alastair@au1.ibm.com

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191001004617.7536-2-alastair@au1.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Alastair D'Silva <alastair@d-silva.org>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-12-01 12:59:04 -08:00
arch ARC: mm: remove __ARCH_USE_5LEVEL_HACK 2019-12-01 06:29:19 -08:00
block for-5.5/disk-revalidate-20191122 2019-11-25 11:37:01 -08:00
certs PKCS#7: Refactor verify_pkcs7_signature() 2019-08-05 18:40:18 -04:00
crypto Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2019-11-25 19:49:58 -08:00
Documentation Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst: document why inactive_X + active_X may not equal X 2019-12-01 06:29:18 -08:00
drivers mm, soft-offline: convert parameter to pfn 2019-12-01 12:59:04 -08:00
fs fs/direct-io.c: keep dio_warn_stale_pagecache() when CONFIG_BLOCK=n 2019-12-01 06:29:18 -08:00
include mm, soft-offline: convert parameter to pfn 2019-12-01 12:59:04 -08:00
init Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next 2019-11-25 20:02:57 -08:00
ipc ipc/sem.c: convert to use built-in RCU list checking 2019-09-25 17:51:41 -07:00
kernel mm/mmap.c: use IS_ERR_VALUE to check return value of get_unmapped_area 2019-12-01 06:29:19 -08:00
lib rss_stat: add support to detect RSS updates of external mm 2019-12-01 06:29:18 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm mm/memory_hotplug.c: add a bounds check to __add_pages() 2019-12-01 12:59:04 -08:00
net for-5.5/io_uring-post-20191128 2019-11-28 10:43:39 -08:00
samples New tracing features: 2019-11-27 11:42:01 -08:00
scripts scripts/spelling.txt: add more spellings to spelling.txt 2019-12-01 06:29:17 -08:00
security drm main pull for 5.5-rc1 2019-11-27 17:45:48 -08:00
sound sound updates for 5.5-rc1 2019-11-26 20:04:35 -08:00
tools memfd: add test for COW on MAP_PRIVATE and F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE mappings 2019-12-01 12:59:03 -08:00
usr kbuild: update compile-test header list for v5.4-rc2 2019-10-05 15:29:49 +09:00
virt KVM: Fix jump label out_free_* in kvm_init() 2019-11-23 11:29:17 +01:00
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Kbuild kbuild: do not descend to ./Kbuild when cleaning 2019-08-21 21:03:58 +09:00
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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.