Minimal supplement to upstream Kernel Self Protection Project changes. Features already provided by SELinux + Yama and archs other than multiarch arm64 / x86_64 aren't in scope. Only tags have stable history. Shared IRC channel with KSPP: irc.libera.chat #linux-hardening
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Greg Kroah-Hartman a27fb6d983 This pull request is slightly bigger than usual at this stage, but
I swear I would have sent it the same to Linus!  The main cause for
 this is that I was on vacation until two weeks ago and it took a while
 to sort all the pending patches between 4.19 and 4.20, test them and
 so on.
 
 It's mostly small bugfixes and cleanups, mostly around x86 nested
 virtualization.  One important change, not related to nested
 virtualization, is that the ability for the guest kernel to trap CPUID
 instructions (in Linux that's the ARCH_SET_CPUID arch_prctl) is now
 masked by default.  This is because the feature is detected through an
 MSR; a very bad idea that Intel seems to like more and more.  Some
 applications choke if the other fields of that MSR are not initialized
 as on real hardware, hence we have to disable the whole MSR by default,
 as was the case before Linux 4.12.
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Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm

Paolo writes:
  "It's mostly small bugfixes and cleanups, mostly around x86 nested
   virtualization.  One important change, not related to nested
   virtualization, is that the ability for the guest kernel to trap
   CPUID instructions (in Linux that's the ARCH_SET_CPUID arch_prctl) is
   now masked by default.  This is because the feature is detected
   through an MSR; a very bad idea that Intel seems to like more and
   more.  Some applications choke if the other fields of that MSR are
   not initialized as on real hardware, hence we have to disable the
   whole MSR by default, as was the case before Linux 4.12."

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (23 commits)
  KVM: nVMX: Fix bad cleanup on error of get/set nested state IOCTLs
  kvm: selftests: Add platform_info_test
  KVM: x86: Control guest reads of MSR_PLATFORM_INFO
  KVM: x86: Turbo bits in MSR_PLATFORM_INFO
  nVMX x86: Check VPID value on vmentry of L2 guests
  nVMX x86: check posted-interrupt descriptor addresss on vmentry of L2
  KVM: nVMX: Wake blocked vCPU in guest-mode if pending interrupt in virtual APICv
  KVM: VMX: check nested state and CR4.VMXE against SMM
  kvm: x86: make kvm_{load|put}_guest_fpu() static
  x86/hyper-v: rename ipi_arg_{ex,non_ex} structures
  KVM: VMX: use preemption timer to force immediate VMExit
  KVM: VMX: modify preemption timer bit only when arming timer
  KVM: VMX: immediately mark preemption timer expired only for zero value
  KVM: SVM: Switch to bitmap_zalloc()
  KVM/MMU: Fix comment in walk_shadow_page_lockless_end()
  kvm: selftests: use -pthread instead of -lpthread
  KVM: x86: don't reset root in kvm_mmu_setup()
  kvm: mmu: Don't read PDPTEs when paging is not enabled
  x86/kvm/lapic: always disable MMIO interface in x2APIC mode
  KVM: s390: Make huge pages unavailable in ucontrol VMs
  ...
2018-09-21 16:21:42 +02:00
arch This pull request is slightly bigger than usual at this stage, but 2018-09-21 16:21:42 +02:00
block blk-cgroup: increase number of supported policies 2018-09-11 10:59:53 -06:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto DMAengine updates for v4.19-rc1 2018-08-18 15:55:59 -07:00
Documentation This pull request is slightly bigger than usual at this stage, but 2018-09-21 16:21:42 +02:00
drivers for-linus-20180920 2018-09-21 09:41:05 +02:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs This pull request contains fixes for UBIFS: 2018-09-21 15:29:44 +02:00
include This pull request is slightly bigger than usual at this stage, but 2018-09-21 16:21:42 +02:00
init Kbuild updates for v4.19 (2nd) 2018-08-25 13:40:38 -07:00
ipc ipc/shm: properly return EIDRM in shm_lock() 2018-09-04 16:45:02 -07:00
kernel kernel/sys.c: remove duplicated include 2018-09-20 22:01:11 +02:00
lib lib/Kconfig.debug: fix three typos in help text 2018-09-04 16:45:02 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add Linux-OpenIB license text 2018-04-27 16:41:53 -06:00
mm mm: slowly shrink slabs with a relatively small number of objects 2018-09-20 22:01:11 +02:00
net net/ipv6: do not copy dst flags on rt init 2018-09-17 19:42:14 -07:00
samples samples/bpf: all XDP samples should unload xdp/bpf prog on SIGTERM 2018-08-16 21:55:32 +02:00
scripts linux-kselftest-4.19-rc5 2018-09-17 07:24:28 +02:00
security Revert "x86/mm/legacy: Populate the user page-table with user pgd's" 2018-09-14 17:08:45 +02:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v4.19 2018-09-17 18:59:21 +02:00
tools This pull request is slightly bigger than usual at this stage, but 2018-09-21 16:21:42 +02:00
usr initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/ 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
virt KVM: Remove obsolete kvm_unmap_hva notifier backend 2018-09-07 15:06:02 +02:00
.clang-format clang-format: Set IndentWrappedFunctionNames false 2018-08-01 18:38:51 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap libnvdimm-for-4.19_misc 2018-08-25 18:13:10 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS 9p: remove Ron Minnich from MAINTAINERS 2018-08-17 16:20:26 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS sound fixes for 4.19-rc5 2018-09-20 09:50:49 +02:00
Makefile linux-kselftest-4.19-rc5 2018-09-17 07:24:28 +02:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -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.
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.