[$] 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.