- An extensive rework of kexec and crash Kconfig from Eric DeVolder

("refactor Kconfig to consolidate KEXEC and CRASH options").
 
 - kernel.h slimming work from Andy Shevchenko ("kernel.h: Split out a
   couple of macros to args.h").
 
 - gdb feature work from Kuan-Ying Lee ("Add GDB memory helper
   commands").
 
 - vsprintf inclusion rationalization from Andy Shevchenko
   ("lib/vsprintf: Rework header inclusions").
 
 - Switch the handling of kdump from a udev scheme to in-kernel handling,
   by Eric DeVolder ("crash: Kernel handling of CPU and memory hot
   un/plug").
 
 - Many singleton patches to various parts of the tree
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Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-08-28-22-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - An extensive rework of kexec and crash Kconfig from Eric DeVolder
   ("refactor Kconfig to consolidate KEXEC and CRASH options")

 - kernel.h slimming work from Andy Shevchenko ("kernel.h: Split out a
   couple of macros to args.h")

 - gdb feature work from Kuan-Ying Lee ("Add GDB memory helper
   commands")

 - vsprintf inclusion rationalization from Andy Shevchenko
   ("lib/vsprintf: Rework header inclusions")

 - Switch the handling of kdump from a udev scheme to in-kernel
   handling, by Eric DeVolder ("crash: Kernel handling of CPU and memory
   hot un/plug")

 - Many singleton patches to various parts of the tree

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-08-28-22-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (81 commits)
  document while_each_thread(), change first_tid() to use for_each_thread()
  drivers/char/mem.c: shrink character device's devlist[] array
  x86/crash: optimize CPU changes
  crash: change crash_prepare_elf64_headers() to for_each_possible_cpu()
  crash: hotplug support for kexec_load()
  x86/crash: add x86 crash hotplug support
  crash: memory and CPU hotplug sysfs attributes
  kexec: exclude elfcorehdr from the segment digest
  crash: add generic infrastructure for crash hotplug support
  crash: move a few code bits to setup support of crash hotplug
  kstrtox: consistently use _tolower()
  kill do_each_thread()
  nilfs2: fix WARNING in mark_buffer_dirty due to discarded buffer reuse
  scripts/bloat-o-meter: count weak symbol sizes
  treewide: drop CONFIG_EMBEDDED
  lockdep: fix static memory detection even more
  lib/vsprintf: declare no_hash_pointers in sprintf.h
  lib/vsprintf: split out sprintf() and friends
  kernel/fork: stop playing lockless games for exe_file replacement
  adfs: delete unused "union adfs_dirtail" definition
  ...

fs/exec.c

@@ -1277,8 +1277,8 @@ int begin_new_exec(struct linux_binprm * bprm)
 
 	/*
 	 * Must be called _before_ exec_mmap() as bprm->mm is
-	 * not visible until then. This also enables the update
-	 * to be lockless.
+	 * not visible until then. Doing it here also ensures
+	 * we don't race against replace_mm_exe_file().
 	 */
 	retval = set_mm_exe_file(bprm->mm, bprm->file);
 	if (retval)