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Sven Eckelmann b00d0e6a2c batman-adv: Add inconsistent backbone netlink dump detection
The netlink dump functionality transfers a large number of entries from the
kernel to userspace. It is rather likely that the transfer has to
interrupted and later continued. During that time, it can happen that
either new entries are added or removed. The userspace could than either
receive some entries multiple times or miss entries.

Commit 670dc2833d ("netlink: advertise incomplete dumps") introduced a
mechanism to inform userspace about this problem. Userspace can then decide
whether it is necessary or not to retry dumping the information again.

The netlink dump functions have to be switched to exclusive locks to avoid
changes while the current message is prepared. The already existing
generation sequence counter from the hash helper can be used for this
simple hash.

Reported-by: Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@universe-factory.net>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2018-11-12 10:41:51 +01:00
Documentation This pull request contains updates for UBIFS: 2018-11-04 14:46:04 -08:00
LICENSES This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome 2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
arch Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-11-03 18:25:17 -07:00
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certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto KEYS: asym_tpm: Add support for the sign operation [ver #2] 2018-10-26 09:30:47 +01:00
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firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
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include NFS client bugfixes for Linux 4.20 2018-11-04 08:20:09 -08:00
init memblock: stop using implicit alignment to SMP_CACHE_BYTES 2018-10-31 08:54:16 -07:00
ipc ipc: IPCMNI limit check for semmni 2018-10-31 08:54:14 -07:00
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mm memory_hotplug: cond_resched in __remove_pages 2018-11-03 10:09:38 -07:00
net batman-adv: Add inconsistent backbone netlink dump detection 2018-11-12 10:41:51 +01:00
samples VFIO updates for v4.20 2018-10-31 11:01:38 -07:00
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usr initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/ 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
virt Revert "mm, mmu_notifier: annotate mmu notifiers with blockable invalidate callbacks" 2018-10-26 16:25:19 -07:00
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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.