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It should never happen that get_file() is called on a file with f_count equal to zero. If this happens, a use-after-free condition has happened[1], and we need to attempt a best-effort reporting of the situation to help find the root cause more easily. Additionally, this serves as a data corruption indicator that system owners using warn_limit or panic_on_warn would like to have detected. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/7c41cf3c-2a71-4dbb-8f34-0337890906fc@gmail.com/ [1] Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240503201620.work.651-kees@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@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.