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Ard Biesheuvel 2f195f0ecb efivarfs: revert "fix memory leak in efivarfs_create()" 
[ Upstream commit ff04f3b6f2 ]

The memory leak addressed by commit fe5186cf12 is a false positive:
all allocations are recorded in a linked list, and freed when the
filesystem is unmounted. This leads to double frees, and as reported
by David, leads to crashes if SLUB is configured to self destruct when
double frees occur.

So drop the redundant kfree() again, and instead, mark the offending
pointer variable so the allocation is ignored by kmemleak.

Cc: Vamshi K Sthambamkadi <vamshi.k.sthambamkadi@gmail.com>
Fixes: fe5186cf12 ("efivarfs: fix memory leak in efivarfs_create()")
Reported-by: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
 		2020-12-02 08:34:44 +01:00
Documentation powerpc/64s: flush L1D after user accesses 2020-11-22 10:00:24 +01:00
arch perf/x86: fix sysfs type mismatches 2020-12-02 08:34:42 +01:00
block blk-cgroup: Pre-allocate tree node on blkg_conf_prep 2020-11-10 10:29:05 +01:00
certs Replace magic for trusting the secondary keyring with #define 2018-09-09 19:55:54 +02:00
crypto crypto: algif_skcipher - EBUSY on aio should be an error 2020-10-29 09:07:01 +01:00
drivers ibmvnic: fix NULL pointer dereference in ibmvic_reset_crq 2020-12-02 08:34:43 +01:00
firmware Fix built-in early-load Intel microcode alignment 2020-01-23 08:20:30 +01:00
fs efivarfs: revert "fix memory leak in efivarfs_create()" 2020-12-02 08:34:44 +01:00
include scsi: libiscsi: Fix NOP race condition 2020-12-02 08:34:42 +01:00
init printk: reduce LOG_BUF_SHIFT range for H8300 2020-11-05 11:06:55 +01:00
ipc ipc/util.c: sysvipc_find_ipc() incorrectly updates position index 2020-05-20 08:17:07 +02:00
kernel reboot: fix overflow parsing reboot cpu number 2020-11-18 18:28:02 +01:00
lib random32: make prandom_u32() output unpredictable 2020-11-18 18:28:00 +01:00
mm mm/userfaultfd: do not access vma->vm_mm after calling handle_userfault() 2020-12-02 08:34:39 +01:00
net batman-adv: set .owner to THIS_MODULE 2020-12-02 08:34:42 +01:00
samples misc: vop: add round_up(x,4) for vring_size to avoid kernel panic 2020-10-29 09:07:17 +01:00
scripts scripts/setlocalversion: make git describe output more reliable 2020-11-05 11:06:51 +01:00
security selinux: Fix error return code in sel_ib_pkey_sid_slow() 2020-11-18 18:27:58 +01:00
sound ALSA: hda/hdmi: fix incorrect locking in hdmi_pcm_close 2020-12-02 08:34:40 +01:00
tools perf event: Check ref_reloc_sym before using it 2020-12-02 08:34:39 +01:00
usr initramfs: restore default compression behavior 2020-04-13 10:34:19 +02:00
virt KVM: fix overflow of zero page refcount with ksm running 2020-10-01 13:12:33 +02:00
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MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Update drm/i915 bug filing URL 2020-02-28 16:36:12 +01:00
Makefile Linux 4.14.209 2020-11-24 13:05:58 +01:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

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.