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Pull x86 vsyscall updates from Thomas Gleixner: "Further hardening of the legacy vsyscall by providing support for execute only mode and switching the default to it. This prevents a certain class of attacks which rely on the vsyscall page being accessible at a fixed address in the canonical kernel address space" * 'x86-entry-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: selftests/x86: Add a test for process_vm_readv() on the vsyscall page x86/vsyscall: Add __ro_after_init to global variables x86/vsyscall: Change the default vsyscall mode to xonly selftests/x86/vsyscall: Verify that vsyscall=none blocks execution x86/vsyscall: Document odd SIGSEGV error code for vsyscalls x86/vsyscall: Show something useful on a read fault x86/vsyscall: Add a new vsyscall=xonly mode Documentation/admin: Remove the vsyscall=native documentation
Linux kernel
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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.