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Sasha Levin 950bff22a9 kbuild: clamp SUBLEVEL to 255
[ Upstream commit 9b82f13e7e ]

Right now if SUBLEVEL becomes larger than 255 it will overflow into the
territory of PATCHLEVEL, causing havoc in userspace that tests for
specific kernel version.

While userspace code tests for MAJOR and PATCHLEVEL, it doesn't test
SUBLEVEL at any point as ABI changes don't happen in the context of
stable tree.

Thus, to avoid overflows, simply clamp SUBLEVEL to it's maximum value in
the context of LINUX_VERSION_CODE. This does not affect "make
kernelversion" and such.

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2021-03-17 17:06:25 +01:00
arch sparc64: Use arch_validate_flags() to validate ADI flag 2021-03-17 17:06:24 +01:00
block blk-settings: align max_sectors on "logical_block_size" boundary 2021-03-04 11:38:22 +01:00
certs certs: Fix blacklist flag type confusion 2021-03-04 11:37:59 +01:00
crypto crypto: mips/poly1305 - enable for all MIPS processors 2021-03-17 17:06:10 +01:00
Documentation drm: Use USB controller's DMA mask when importing dmabufs 2021-03-17 17:06:19 +01:00
drivers PCI/LINK: Remove bandwidth notification 2021-03-17 17:06:24 +01:00
fs ext4: don't try to processed freed blocks until mballoc is initialized 2021-03-17 17:06:25 +01:00
include media: rc: compile rc-cec.c into rc-core 2021-03-17 17:06:20 +01:00
init kgdb: fix to kill breakpoints on initmem after boot 2021-03-04 11:38:46 +01:00
ipc ipc: adjust proc_ipc_sem_dointvec definition to match prototype 2020-09-05 12:14:29 -07:00
kernel ring-buffer: Force before_stamp and write_stamp to be different on discard 2021-03-09 11:11:12 +01:00
lib udp: fix skb_copy_and_csum_datagram with odd segment sizes 2021-02-17 11:02:28 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES/deprecated: add Zlib license text 2020-09-16 14:33:49 +02:00
mm Revert "mm, slub: consider rest of partial list if acquire_slab() fails" 2021-03-17 17:06:13 +01:00
net net: dsa: tag_mtk: fix 802.1ad VLAN egress 2021-03-17 17:06:22 +01:00
samples samples, bpf: Add missing munmap in xdpsock 2021-03-17 17:06:12 +01:00
scripts ftrace: Have recordmcount use w8 to read relp->r_info in arm64_is_fake_mcount 2021-03-09 11:11:14 +01:00
security tomoyo: recognize kernel threads correctly 2021-03-09 11:11:15 +01:00
sound ASoC: Intel: sof_sdw: add quirk for HP Spectre x360 convertible 2021-03-11 14:17:29 +01:00
tools perf report: Fix -F for branch & mem modes 2021-03-17 17:06:17 +01:00
usr Merge branch 'work.fdpic' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2020-08-07 13:29:39 -07:00
virt KVM: Use kvm_pfn_t for local PFN variable in hva_to_pfn_remapped() 2021-02-26 10:13:01 +01:00
.clang-format RDMA 5.10 pull request 2020-10-17 11:18:18 -07:00
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: docs: ignore sphinx_*/ directories 2020-09-10 10:44:31 -06:00
.mailmap mailmap: add two more addresses of Uwe Kleine-König 2020-12-06 10:19:07 -08:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Move Jason Cooper to CREDITS 2020-11-30 10:20:34 +01:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-12-10 15:30:13 -08:00
Makefile kbuild: clamp SUBLEVEL to 255 2021-03-17 17:06:25 +01:00
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.