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In a few months, SUBLEVEL will overflow, and some userspace may start treating 4.19.256 as 4.20. While out of tree modules have different ways of extracting the version number (and we're generally ok with breaking them), we do care about breaking userspace and it would appear that this overflow might do just that. Our rules around userspace ABI in the stable kernel are pretty simple: we don't break it. Thus, while userspace may be checking major/minor, it shouldn't be doing anything with sublevel. This patch applies a big band-aid to the 4.19 kernel in the form of clamping the sublevel to 255. The clamp is done for the purpose of LINUX_VERSION_CODE only, and extracting the version number from the Makefile or "make kernelversion" will continue to work as intended. We might need to do it later in newer trees, but maybe we'll have a better solution by then, so I'm ignoring that problem for now. Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.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 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.