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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2026-09-25 15:55:03 -0700
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Merge tag 'ipe-pr-20260925' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wufan/ipegrafted
Pull IPE fixes from Fan Wu: "Two fixes for use-after-free issues found by recent LLM-assisted code analysis. - move successful policy load auditing under the new policy directory's inode lock, preventing a concurrent policy deletion from freeing the policy while it is still being audited - protect the dm-verity root hash with RCU, preventing policy evaluation from racing with root hash replacement during preresume" * tag 'ipe-pr-20260925' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wufan/ipe: ipe: protect the dm-verity root hash with RCU ipe: fix use-after-free when auditing a newly loaded policy
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
+
+================================
+Documentation for /proc/sys/abi/
+================================
+
+.. See scripts/check-sysctl-docs to keep this up to date:
+.. scripts/check-sysctl-docs -vtable="abi" \
+.. Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/abi.rst \
+.. $(git grep -l register_sysctl_)
+
+Copyright (c) 2020, Stephen Kitt
+
+For general info, see Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/index.rst.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+The files in ``/proc/sys/abi`` can be used to see and modify
+ABI-related settings.
+
+Currently, these files might (depending on your configuration)
+show up in ``/proc/sys/kernel``:
+
+.. contents:: :local:
+
+vsyscall32 (x86)
+================
+
+Determines whether the kernels maps a vDSO page into 32-bit processes;
+can be set to 1 to enable, or 0 to disable. Defaults to enabled if
+``CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO`` is set, disabled otherwise.
+
+This controls the same setting as the ``vdso32`` kernel boot
+parameter.