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Linus Torvalds db78144631 I missed the merge window, which wasn't really important at the time
as there was nothing that critical that I had for 5.0.
 
 However, I say that,and then a number of critical fixes come in:
 
   ipmi: fix use-after-free of user->release_barrier.rda
   ipmi: Prevent use-after-free in deliver_response
   ipmi: msghandler: Fix potential Spectre v1 vulnerabilities
 
 which are obvious candidates for 5.0.  Then there is:
 
   ipmi:ssif: Fix handling of multi-part return messages
 
 which is less critical, but it still has some off-by-one things that
 are not great, so it seemed appropriate.  Some machines are broken
 without it.  Then:
 
   ipmi: Don't initialize anything in the core until something uses it
 
 It turns out that using SRCU causes large chunks of memory to be used
 on big iron machines, even if IPMI is never used.  This was causing
 some issues for people on those machines.
 
 Everything here is destined for stable.
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Merge tag 'for-linus-5.0' of git://github.com/cminyard/linux-ipmi

Pull IPMI fixes from Corey Minyard:
 "I missed the merge window, which wasn't really important at the time
  as there was nothing that critical that I had for 5.0.

  However, I say that,and then a number of critical fixes come in:

   - ipmi: fix use-after-free of user->release_barrier.rda
   - ipmi: Prevent use-after-free in deliver_response
   - ipmi: msghandler: Fix potential Spectre v1 vulnerabilities

  which are obvious candidates for 5.0.  Then there is:

   - ipmi:ssif: Fix handling of multi-part return messages

  which is less critical, but it still has some off-by-one things that
  are not great, so it seemed appropriate. Some machines are broken
  without it. Then:

   - ipmi: Don't initialize anything in the core until something uses it

  It turns out that using SRCU causes large chunks of memory to be used
  on big iron machines, even if IPMI is never used. This was causing
  some issues for people on those machines.

  Everything here is destined for stable"

* tag 'for-linus-5.0' of git://github.com/cminyard/linux-ipmi:
  ipmi: Don't initialize anything in the core until something uses it
  ipmi: fix use-after-free of user->release_barrier.rda
  ipmi: Prevent use-after-free in deliver_response
  ipmi: msghandler: Fix potential Spectre v1 vulnerabilities
  ipmi:ssif: Fix handling of multi-part return messages
2019-01-24 09:00:19 +13:00
Documentation XArray updates for 5.0-rc3 2019-01-22 17:08:30 +13:00
LICENSES This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome 2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
arch s390 update with bug fixes for 5.0-rc4 2019-01-24 08:58:01 +13:00
block block: Cleanup license notice 2019-01-17 21:21:40 -07:00
certs kbuild: remove redundant target cleaning on failure 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00
crypto crypto: sm3 - fix undefined shift by >= width of value 2019-01-10 21:37:32 +08:00
drivers I missed the merge window, which wasn't really important at the time 2019-01-24 09:00:19 +13:00
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ipc ipc: IPCMNI limit check for semmni 2018-10-31 08:54:14 -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.