Avoiding page reference-count overflows

The 5.1-rc5 announcement mentioned "changes all over" and highlighted a number of the areas that had been touched. One thing that was not mentioned there was the addition of four patches fixing a security-related issue in the core memory-management subsystem. The vulnerability is sufficiently difficult to exploit that almost nobody should feel the need to rush out a kernel update, but it is still interesting to look at as a demonstration of how things can go wrong.

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