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Maxim Suhanov reported that dm-verity doesn't crash if an I/O error happens. In theory, this could be used to subvert security, because an attacker can create sectors that return error with the Write Uncorrectable command. Some programs may misbehave if they have to deal with EIO. This commit fixes dm-verity, so that if "panic_on_corruption" or "restart_on_corruption" was specified and an I/O error happens, the machine will panic or restart. This commit also changes kernel_restart to emergency_restart - kernel_restart calls reboot notifiers and these reboot notifiers may wait for the bio that failed. emergency_restart doesn't call the notifiers. Reported-by: Maxim Suhanov <dfirblog@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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 reStructuredText 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.