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Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet:
"A handful of late-arriving documentation fixes"
* tag 'docs-5.10-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
docs: Add two missing entries in vm sysctl index
docs/vm: trivial fixes to several spelling mistakes
docs: submitting-patches: describe preserving review/test tags
Documentation: Chinese translation of Documentation/arm64/hugetlbpage.rst
Documentation: x86: fix a missing word in x86_64/mm.rst.
docs: driver-api: remove a duplicated index entry
docs: lkdtm: Modernize and improve details
docs: deprecated.rst: Expand str*cpy() replacement notes
docs/cpu-load: format the example code.
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:
- Support 'make compile_commands.json' to generate the compilation
database more easily, avoiding stale entries
- Support 'make clang-analyzer' and 'make clang-tidy' for static checks
using clang-tidy
- Preprocess scripts/modules.lds.S to allow CONFIG options in the
module linker script
- Drop cc-option tests from compiler flags supported by our minimal
GCC/Clang versions
- Use always 12-digits commit hash for CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y
- Use sha1 build id for both BFD linker and LLD
- Improve deb-pkg for reproducible builds and rootless builds
- Remove stale, useless scripts/namespace.pl
- Turn -Wreturn-type warning into error
- Fix build error of deb-pkg when CONFIG_MODULES=n
- Replace 'hostname' command with more portable 'uname -n'
- Various Makefile cleanups
* tag 'kbuild-v5.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (34 commits)
kbuild: Use uname for LINUX_COMPILE_HOST detection
kbuild: Only add -fno-var-tracking-assignments for old GCC versions
kbuild: remove leftover comment for filechk utility
treewide: remove DISABLE_LTO
kbuild: deb-pkg: clean up package name variables
kbuild: deb-pkg: do not build linux-headers package if CONFIG_MODULES=n
kbuild: enforce -Werror=return-type
scripts: remove namespace.pl
builddeb: Add support for all required debian/rules targets
builddeb: Enable rootless builds
builddeb: Pass -n to gzip for reproducible packages
kbuild: split the build log of kallsyms
kbuild: explicitly specify the build id style
scripts/setlocalversion: make git describe output more reliable
kbuild: remove cc-option test of -Werror=date-time
kbuild: remove cc-option test of -fno-stack-check
kbuild: remove cc-option test of -fno-strict-overflow
kbuild: move CFLAGS_{KASAN,UBSAN,KCSAN} exports to relevant Makefiles
kbuild: remove redundant CONFIG_KASAN check from scripts/Makefile.kasan
kbuild: do not create built-in objects for external module builds
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From time to time, the novice kernel contributors do not add Reviewed-by
or Tested-by tags to the next versions of the patches. Mostly because
they are unaware that responsibility of adding these tags in next
version is on submitter, not maintainer.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201013162725.13572-1-krzk@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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The notes on replacing the deprecated str*cpy() functions didn't call
enough attention to the change in return type. Add these details and
clean up the language a bit more.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201015231730.2138505-1-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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namespace.pl is intended to help locate symbols which are defined but
are not used externally. The goal is to avoid bloat of the namespace in
the resulting kernel image.
The script relies on object data, and only finds unused symbols for the
configuration used to generate that object data. This results in a lot
of false positive warnings such as symbols only used by a single
architecture, or symbols which are used externally only under certain
configurations.
Running namespace.pl using allyesconfig, allmodconfig, and
x86_64_defconfig yields the following results:
* allmodconfig
* 11122 unique symbol names with no external reference
* 1194 symbols listed as multiply defined
* 214 symbols it can't resolve
* allyesconfig
* 10997 unique symbol names with no external reference
* 1194 symbols listed as multiply defined
* 214 symbols it can't resolve
* x86_64_defconfig
* 5757 unique symbol names with no external reference
* 528 symbols listed as multiply defined
* 154 symbols it can't resolve
The script also has no way to easily limit the scope of the checks to
a given subset of the kernel, such as only checking for symbols defined
within a module or subsystem.
Discussion on public mailing lists seems to indicate that many view the
tool output as suspect or not very useful (see discussions at [1] and
[2] for further context).
As described by Masahiro Yamada at [2], namespace.pl provides 3 types of
checks: listing multiply defined symbols, resolving external symbols,
and warnings about symbols with no reference.
The first category of issues is easily caught by the linker as any set
of multiply defined symbols should fail to link. The second category of
issues is also caught by linking, as undefined symbols would cause
issues. Even with modules, these types of issues where a module relies
on an external symbol are caught by modpost.
The remaining category of issues reported is the list of symbols with no
external reference, and is the primary motivation of this script.
However, it ought to be clear from the above examples that the output is
difficult to sort through. Even allyesconfig has ~10000 entries.
The current submit-checklist indicates that patches ought to go through
namespacecheck and fix any new issues arising. But that itself presents
problems. As described at [1], many cases of reports are due to
configuration where a function is used externally by some configuration
settings. Prominent maintainers appear to dislike changes modify code
such that symbols become static based on CONFIG_* flags ([3], and [4])
One possible solution is to adjust the advice and indicate that we only
care about the output of namespacecheck on allyesconfig or allmodconfig
builds...
However, given the discussion at [2], I suspect that few people are
actively using this tool. It doesn't have a maintainer in the
MAINTAINERS flie, and it produces so many warnings for unused symbols
that it is difficult to use effectively. Thus, I propose we simply
remove it.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20200708164812.384ae8ea@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190129204319.15238-1-jacob.e.keller@intel.com/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20190828.154744.2058157956381129672.davem@davemloft.net/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20190827210928.576c5fef@cakuba.netronome.com/
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
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Building the kernel with Clang doesn't rely on third party patches, and
has not for a few years now.
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200929211936.580805-1-ndesaulniers@google.com
[jc: Took out duplicated "docs" pointed out by Randy]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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There are two broken references at submitting-patches.rst:
Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst:240: WARNING: undefined label: security-bugs (if the link has no caption the label must precede a section header)
Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst:336: WARNING: undefined label: documentation/process/email-clients.rst (if the link has no caption the label must precede a section header)
Those are due to some recent renames and file moves.
It turns that maintaining :ref: is currently harder than using
:doc:, as we now have a script to help checking such references.
So, replace :ref: to :doc: there, making them to point to the
current file name.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3ba405f579cf35ef2b39dd210d8ad46adc79f0ad.1599660067.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Update information in the zero-length and one-element arrays section
and illustrate how to make use of the new flex_array_size() helper,
together with struct_size() and a flexible-array member.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200901010949.GA21398@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Add to Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst that patch
submitters should run "make htmldocs" and verify that any
Documentation/ changes (patches) are clean (no new warnings/errors).
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/cf5bbdf5-03ff-0606-a6d4-ca196d90aee9@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Git is fairly ubiquitous these days, and the additional information in
this documentation for preparing patches without it is not especially
relevant anymore and may serve to confuse new contributors.
The git request-pull comments were also removed, given that it is not a
tool well-suited to novice contributors, nor do maintainers especially
appreciate receiving unexpected request-pulls from new contributors.
Signed-off-by: Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200903160545.83185-5-sir@cmpwn.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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The repeated sign-offs necessary when a subsystem maintainer modifies an
incoming patch has been moved from submitting-patches.rst to
Documentation/maintainer, since the affairs of a subsystem maintainer
are not especially relevant to someone reading a guide for how to submit
their first patch.
Signed-off-by: Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200903160545.83185-4-sir@cmpwn.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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This adds a link to https://useplaintext.email to email-clients.rst,
which is a more exhaustive resource on configuring various mail clients
for plain text use. submitting-patches.rst is also updated to direct
readers to email-clients.rst to equip new contributors with the
requisite knowledge to become a good participant on the mailing lists.
Signed-off-by: Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200903160545.83185-3-sir@cmpwn.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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This follows similar changes throughout Documentation; these numbers
tend to get outdated and are not especially useful.
Signed-off-by: Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200903160545.83185-2-sir@cmpwn.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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In the past, these email lists where located at lists.redhat.com. This
is not longer the case and they are now at redhat.com/mailman/listinfo
Signed-off-by: Javier Garcia <javier@beren.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200901090949.14514-1-javier@beren.dev
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Greg has challenged some recent driver submitters on their license
choices. He was correct to do so, as the choices in these instances
did not always advance the aims of the submitters.
But, this left submitters (and the folks who help them pick licenses)
a bit confused. They have read things like
Documentation/process/license-rules.rst which says:
individual source files can have a different license
which is required to be compatible with the GPL-2.0
and Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst:
We don't insist on any kind of exclusive GPL licensing,
and if you wish ... you may well wish to release under
multiple licenses.
As written, these appear a _bit_ more laissez faire than we've been in
practice lately. It sounds like we at least expect submitters to make
a well-reasoned license choice and to explain their rationale. It does
not appear that we blindly accept anything that is simply
GPLv2-compatible.
Drivers appear to be the most acute source of misunderstanding, so fix
the driver documentation first. Update it to clarify expectations.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <h.peter.anvin@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200814145625.8B708079@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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It's now gone from the kernel so remove it from the deprecated API text.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5e10c1645dd8f735215cf54a74db0f8dd3f6cbd5.camel@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Based on a vote at the LLVM BoF at Plumbers 2020, we decided to start
small, supporting just one formal upstream release of LLVM for now.
We can probably widen the support window of supported versions over
time. Also, note that LLVM's release process is different than GCC's.
GCC tends to have 1 major release per year while releasing minor updates
to the past 3 major versions. LLVM tends to support one major release
and one minor release every six months.
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Tested-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200826191555.3350406-1-ndesaulniers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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The submitting patches mentions criteria for a fix to be called
"security fix". Add a link to document explaining the entire process
of handling security bugs.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200827105319.9734-1-krzk@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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I noticed a double-() in the deprecated.rst rendering today. Fix that
one and two others in the Documentation/ tree.
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> # For RCU
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200817233207.4083538-1-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet:
"A handful of obvious fixes that wandered in during the merge window"
* tag 'docs-5.9-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
Documentation/locking/locktypes: fix the typo
doc/zh_CN: resolve undefined label warning in admin-guide index
doc/zh_CN: fix title heading markup in admin-guide cpu-load
docs: remove the 2.6 "Upgrading I2C Drivers" guide
docs: Correct the release date of 5.2 stable
mailmap: Update comments for with format and more detalis
docs: cdrom: Fix a typo and rst markup
Doc: admin-guide: use correct legends in kernel-parameters.txt
Documentation/features: refresh RISC-V arch support files
documentation: coccinelle: Improve command example for make C={1,2}
Core-api: Documentation: Replace deprecated :c:func: Usage
Dev-tools: Documentation: Replace deprecated :c:func: Usage
Filesystems: Documentation: Replace deprecated :c:func: Usage
docs: trace: fix a typo
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A table lists the 5.2 stable release date as September 15, but it was
released on July 7. This may confuse a reader who is trying to
understand the stable update release cycle.
Signed-off-by: Billy Wilson <billy_wilson@byu.edu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200806231754.7735-1-billy_wilson@byu.edu
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"It's been a busy cycle for documentation - hopefully the busiest for a
while to come. Changes include:
- Some new Chinese translations
- Progress on the battle against double words words and non-HTTPS
URLs
- Some block-mq documentation
- More RST conversions from Mauro. At this point, that task is
essentially complete, so we shouldn't see this kind of churn again
for a while. Unless we decide to switch to asciidoc or
something...:)
- Lots of typo fixes, warning fixes, and more"
* tag 'docs-5.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (195 commits)
scripts/kernel-doc: optionally treat warnings as errors
docs: ia64: correct typo
mailmap: add entry for <alobakin@marvell.com>
doc/zh_CN: add cpu-load Chinese version
Documentation/admin-guide: tainted-kernels: fix spelling mistake
MAINTAINERS: adjust kprobes.rst entry to new location
devices.txt: document rfkill allocation
PCI: correct flag name
docs: filesystems: vfs: correct flag name
docs: filesystems: vfs: correct sync_mode flag names
docs: path-lookup: markup fixes for emphasis
docs: path-lookup: more markup fixes
docs: path-lookup: fix HTML entity mojibake
CREDITS: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
docs: process: Add an example for creating a fixes tag
doc/zh_CN: add Chinese translation prefer section
doc/zh_CN: add clearing-warn-once Chinese version
doc/zh_CN: add admin-guide index
doc:it_IT: process: coding-style.rst: Correct __maybe_unused compiler label
futex: MAINTAINERS: Re-add selftests directory
...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux
Pull uninitialized_var() macro removal from Kees Cook:
"This is long overdue, and has hidden too many bugs over the years. The
series has several "by hand" fixes, and then a trivial treewide
replacement.
- Clean up non-trivial uses of uninitialized_var()
- Update documentation and checkpatch for uninitialized_var() removal
- Treewide removal of uninitialized_var()"
* tag 'uninit-macro-v5.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
compiler: Remove uninitialized_var() macro
treewide: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
checkpatch: Remove awareness of uninitialized_var() macro
mm/debug_vm_pgtable: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
f2fs: Eliminate usage of uninitialized_var() macro
media: sur40: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
clk: spear: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
clk: st: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
spi: davinci: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
ide: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
b43: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
drbd: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
x86/mm/numa: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
docs: deprecated.rst: Add uninitialized_var()
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To make it a little clearer how to create a fixes tag,
add an example based on the preceeding gitconfig setup.
Signed-off-by: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200710200115.21176-1-trix@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Fix the following warning:
WARNING: toctree contains reference to nonexistent document
'process/unaligned-memory-access'
The path to the document was wrong.
Signed-off-by: Daniel W. S. Almeida <dwlsalmeida@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200718165107.625847-5-dwlsalmeida@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Nothing should be using this macro, and the entire idea of tricking the
compiler into silencing such warnings is a mistake.
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/linux
Pull coding style terminology documentation from Dan Williams:
"The discussion has tapered off as well as the incoming ack, review,
and sign-off tags. I did not see a reason to wait for the next merge
window"
* tag 'inclusive-terminology' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/linux:
CodingStyle: Inclusive Terminology
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Update Documentation for the gcc v4.9 upgrade requirement.
Fixes: 5429ef62bcf3 ("compiler/gcc: Raise minimum GCC version for kernel builds to 4.8")
Fixes: 6ec4476ac825 ("Raise gcc version requirement to 4.9")
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linux maintains a coding-style and its own idiomatic set of terminology.
Update the style guidelines to recommend replacements for the terms
master/slave and blacklist/whitelist.
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/r/159389297140.2210796.13590142254668787525.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Acked-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Laura Abbott <laura@labbott.name>
Acked-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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A big set of fixes and RST conversions from Mauro. He swears that this is
the last RST conversion set, which is certainly cause for celebration.
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There are a number of random documents that seem to be
describing some aspects of the core-api. Move them to such
directory, adding them at the core-api/index.rst file.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/86d979ed183adb76af93a92f20189bccf97f0055.1592918949.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Rationale:
Reduces attack surface on kernel devs opening the links for MITM
as HTTPS traffic is much harder to manipulate.
Deterministic algorithm:
For each file:
If not .svg:
For each line:
If doesn't contain `\bxmlns\b`:
For each link, `\bhttp://[^# \t\r\n]*(?:\w|/)`:
If both the HTTP and HTTPS versions
return 200 OK and serve the same content:
Replace HTTP with HTTPS.
Signed-off-by: Alexander A. Klimov <grandmaster@al2klimov.de>
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200621133630.46435-1-grandmaster@al2klimov.de
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Add zero-length and one-element arrays to the list.
While I continue replacing zero-length and one-element arrays with
flexible-array members, I need a reference to point people to, so
they don't introduce more instances of such arrays. And while here,
add a note to the "open-coded arithmetic in allocator arguments"
section, on the use of struct_size() and the arrays-to-deprecate
mentioned here.
Co-developed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200608213711.GA22271@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/will/linux
Pull READ/WRITE_ONCE rework from Will Deacon:
"This the READ_ONCE rework I've been working on for a while, which
bumps the minimum GCC version and improves code-gen on arm64 when
stack protector is enabled"
[ Side note: I'm _really_ tempted to raise the minimum gcc version to
4.9, so that we can just say that we require _Generic() support.
That would allow us to more cleanly handle a lot of the cases where we
depend on very complex macros with 'sizeof' or __builtin_choose_expr()
with __builtin_types_compatible_p() etc.
This branch has a workaround for sparse not handling _Generic(),
either, but that was already fixed in the sparse development branch,
so it's really just gcc-4.9 that we'd require. - Linus ]
* 'rwonce/rework' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/will/linux:
compiler_types.h: Use unoptimized __unqual_scalar_typeof for sparse
compiler_types.h: Optimize __unqual_scalar_typeof compilation time
compiler.h: Enforce that READ_ONCE_NOCHECK() access size is sizeof(long)
compiler-types.h: Include naked type in __pick_integer_type() match
READ_ONCE: Fix comment describing 2x32-bit atomicity
gcov: Remove old GCC 3.4 support
arm64: barrier: Use '__unqual_scalar_typeof' for acquire/release macros
locking/barriers: Use '__unqual_scalar_typeof' for load-acquire macros
READ_ONCE: Drop pointer qualifiers when reading from scalar types
READ_ONCE: Enforce atomicity for {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() memory accesses
READ_ONCE: Simplify implementations of {READ,WRITE}_ONCE()
arm64: csum: Disable KASAN for do_csum()
fault_inject: Don't rely on "return value" from WRITE_ONCE()
net: tls: Avoid assigning 'const' pointer to non-const pointer
netfilter: Avoid assigning 'const' pointer to non-const pointer
compiler/gcc: Raise minimum GCC version for kernel builds to 4.8
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Pull more documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"A handful of late-arriving docs fixes, along with a patch changing a
lot of HTTP links to HTTPS that had to be yanked and redone before the
first pull"
* tag 'docs-5.8-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
docs/memory-barriers.txt/kokr: smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic(): update Documentation
Documentation: devres: add missing entry for devm_platform_get_and_ioremap_resource()
Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: documentation
docs: it_IT: address invalid reference warnings
doc: zh_CN: use doc reference to resolve undefined label warning
docs: Update the location of the LF NDA program
docs: dev-tools: coccinelle: underlines
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The improved paragraph about line lengths contains a sentence with a
duplicate word: there is one "are" at the end of a line, followed by a
second one at the beginning of the next line.
Drop the first one, as that one is part of the longest line.
Fixes: bdc48fa11e46f867 ("checkpatch/coding-style: deprecate 80-column warning")
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Rationale:
Reduces attack surface on kernel devs opening the links for MITM
as HTTPS traffic is much harder to manipulate.
Deterministic algorithm:
For each file:
For each line:
If doesn't contain `\bxmlns\b`:
For each link, `\bhttp://[^# \t\r\n]*(?:\w|/)`:
If both the HTTP and HTTPS versions
return 200 OK and serve the same content:
Replace HTTP with HTTPS.
Signed-off-by: Alexander A. Klimov <grandmaster@al2klimov.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200526060544.25127-1-grandmaster@al2klimov.de
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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The link to the Linux Foundation NDA program got broken in one of their
web-site thrashups; now that the information is back online, point to its
current location. This should last until the next thrashup...
Reported-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/robh/linux
Pull devicetree updates from Rob Herring:
- Convert various DT (non-binding) doc files to ReST
- Various improvements to device link code
- Fix __of_attach_node_sysfs refcounting bug
- Add support for 'memory-region-names' with reserved-memory binding
- Vendor prefixes for Protonic Holland, BeagleBoard.org, Alps, Check
Point, Würth Elektronik, U-Boot, Vaisala, Baikal Electronics,
Shanghai Awinic Technology Co., MikroTik, Silex Insight
- A bunch more binding conversions to DT schema. Only 3K to go.
- Add a minimum version check for schema tools
- Treewide dropping of 'allOf' usage with schema references. Not needed
in new json-schema spec.
- Some formatting clean-ups of schemas
* tag 'devicetree-for-5.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/robh/linux: (194 commits)
dt-bindings: clock: Add documentation for X1830 bindings.
dt-bindings: mailbox: Convert imx mu to json-schema
dt-bindings: power: Convert imx gpcv2 to json-schema
dt-bindings: power: Convert imx gpc to json-schema
dt-bindings: Merge gpio-usb-b-connector with usb-connector
dt-bindings: timer: renesas: cmt: Convert to json-schema
dt-bindings: clock: Convert i.MX8QXP LPCG to json-schema
dt-bindings: timer: Convert i.MX GPT to json-schema
dt-bindings: thermal: rcar-thermal: Add device tree support for r8a7742
dt-bindings: serial: Add binding for UART pin swap
dt-bindings: geni-se: Add interconnect binding for GENI QUP
dt-bindings: geni-se: Convert QUP geni-se bindings to YAML
dt-bindings: vendor-prefixes: Add Silex Insight vendor prefix
dt-bindings: input: touchscreen: edt-ft5x06: change reg property
dt-bindings: usb: qcom,dwc3: Introduce interconnect properties for Qualcomm DWC3 driver
dt-bindings: timer: renesas: mtu2: Convert to json-schema
of/fdt: Remove redundant kbasename function call
dt-bindings: clock: Convert i.MX1 clock to json-schema
dt-bindings: clock: Convert i.MX21 clock to json-schema
dt-bindings: clock: Convert i.MX25 clock to json-schema
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"A fair amount of stuff this time around, dominated by yet another
massive set from Mauro toward the completion of the RST conversion. I
*really* hope we are getting close to the end of this. Meanwhile,
those patches reach pretty far afield to update document references
around the tree; there should be no actual code changes there. There
will be, alas, more of the usual trivial merge conflicts.
Beyond that we have more translations, improvements to the sphinx
scripting, a number of additions to the sysctl documentation, and lots
of fixes"
* tag 'docs-5.8' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (130 commits)
Documentation: fixes to the maintainer-entry-profile template
zswap: docs/vm: Fix typo accept_threshold_percent in zswap.rst
tracing: Fix events.rst section numbering
docs: acpi: fix old http link and improve document format
docs: filesystems: add info about efivars content
Documentation: LSM: Correct the basic LSM description
mailmap: change email for Ricardo Ribalda
docs: sysctl/kernel: document unaligned controls
Documentation: admin-guide: update bug-hunting.rst
docs: sysctl/kernel: document ngroups_max
nvdimm: fixes to maintainter-entry-profile
Documentation/features: Correct RISC-V kprobes support entry
Documentation/features: Refresh the arch support status files
Revert "docs: sysctl/kernel: document ngroups_max"
docs: move locking-specific documents to locking/
docs: move digsig docs to the security book
docs: move the kref doc into the core-api book
docs: add IRQ documentation at the core-api book
docs: debugging-via-ohci1394.txt: add it to the core-api book
docs: fix references for ipmi.rst file
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Yes, staying withing 80 columns is certainly still _preferred_. But
it's not the hard limit that the checkpatch warnings imply, and other
concerns can most certainly dominate.
Increase the default limit to 100 characters. Not because 100
characters is some hard limit either, but that's certainly a "what are
you doing" kind of value and less likely to be about the occasional
slightly longer lines.
Miscellanea:
- to avoid unnecessary whitespace changes in files, checkpatch will no
longer emit a warning about line length when scanning files unless
--strict is also used
- Add a bit to coding-style about alignment to open parenthesis
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This documents ignore-unaligned-usertrap, unaligned-dump-stack, and
unaligned-trap, based on arch/arc/kernel/unaligned.c,
arch/ia64/kernel/unaligned.c, and arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c.
While we're at it, integrate unaligned-memory-access.txt into the docs
tree.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200515212443.5012-1-steve@sk2.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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- Add a SPDX header;
- Adjust document and section titles;
- Mark literal blocks as such;
- Add it to bindings/index.rst.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
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Some filesystem references got broken by a previous patch
series I submitted. Address those.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> # fs/affs/Kconfig
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/57318c53008dbda7f6f4a5a9e5787f4d37e8565a.1586881715.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Several references got broken due to txt to ReST conversion.
Several of them can be automatically fixed with:
scripts/documentation-file-ref-check --fix
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> # hwtracing/coresight/Kconfig
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> # memory-barrier.txt
Acked-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com> # translations/zh_CN
Acked-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it> # translations/it_IT
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> # kvm/arm64
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/6f919ddb83a33b5f2a63b6b5f0575737bb2b36aa.1586881715.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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It is very rare to see versions of GCC prior to 4.8 being used to build
the mainline kernel. These old compilers are also know to have codegen
issues which can lead to silent miscompilation:
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58145
Raise the minimum GCC version for kernel build to 4.8 and remove some
tautological Kconfig dependencies as a consequence.
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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The currently minimum-supported binutils version 2.21 has the problem of
promoting symbols which are defined outside of a section into absolute.
According to Arvind:
binutils-2.21 and -2.22. An x86-64 defconfig will fail with
Invalid absolute R_X86_64_32S relocation: _etext
and after fixing that one, with
Invalid absolute R_X86_64_32S relocation: __end_of_kernel_reserve
Those two versions of binutils have a bug when it comes to handling
symbols defined outside of a section and binutils 2.23 has the proper
fix, see: https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/binutils/2012-06/msg00155.html
Therefore, up to the fixed version directly, skipping the broken ones.
Currently shipping distros already have the fixed binutils version so
there should be no breakage resulting from this.
For more details about the whole thing, see the thread in Link.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200110202349.1881840-1-nivedita@alum.mit.edu
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Acked-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc
Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the big set of char/misc/other driver patches for 5.7-rc1.
Lots of things in here, and it's later than expected due to some
reverts to resolve some reported issues. All is now clean with no
reported problems in linux-next.
Included in here is:
- interconnect updates
- mei driver updates
- uio updates
- nvmem driver updates
- soundwire updates
- binderfs updates
- coresight updates
- habanalabs updates
- mhi new bus type and core
- extcon driver updates
- some Kconfig cleanups
- other small misc driver cleanups and updates
As mentioned, all have been in linux-next for a while, and with the
last two reverts, all is calm and good"
* tag 'char-misc-5.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (174 commits)
Revert "driver core: platform: Initialize dma_parms for platform devices"
Revert "amba: Initialize dma_parms for amba devices"
amba: Initialize dma_parms for amba devices
driver core: platform: Initialize dma_parms for platform devices
bus: mhi: core: Drop the references to mhi_dev in mhi_destroy_device()
bus: mhi: core: Initialize bhie field in mhi_cntrl for RDDM capture
bus: mhi: core: Add support for reading MHI info from device
misc: rtsx: set correct pcr_ops for rts522A
speakup: misc: Use dynamic minor numbers for speakup devices
mei: me: add cedar fork device ids
coresight: do not use the BIT() macro in the UAPI header
Documentation: provide IBM contacts for embargoed hardware
nvmem: core: remove nvmem_sysfs_get_groups()
nvmem: core: use is_bin_visible for permissions
nvmem: core: use device_register and device_unregister
nvmem: core: add root_only member to nvmem device struct
extcon: axp288: Add wakeup support
extcon: Mark extcon_get_edev_name() function as exported symbol
extcon: palmas: Hide error messages if gpio returns -EPROBE_DEFER
dt-bindings: extcon: usbc-cros-ec: convert extcon-usbc-cros-ec.txt to yaml format
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"This has been a busy cycle for documentation work.
Highlights include:
- Lots of RST conversion work by Mauro, Daniel ALmeida, and others.
Maybe someday we'll get to the end of this stuff...maybe...
- Some organizational work to bring some order to the core-api
manual.
- Various new docs and additions to the existing documentation.
- Typo fixes, warning fixes, ..."
* tag 'docs-5.7' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (123 commits)
Documentation: x86: exception-tables: document CONFIG_BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT
MAINTAINERS: adjust to filesystem doc ReST conversion
docs: deprecated.rst: Add BUG()-family
doc: zh_CN: add translation for virtiofs
doc: zh_CN: index files in filesystems subdirectory
docs: locking: Drop :c:func: throughout
docs: locking: Add 'need' to hardirq section
docs: conf.py: avoid thousands of duplicate label warning on Sphinx
docs: prevent warnings due to autosectionlabel
docs: fix reference to core-api/namespaces.rst
docs: fix pointers to io-mapping.rst and io_ordering.rst files
Documentation: Better document the softlockup_panic sysctl
docs: hw-vuln: tsx_async_abort.rst: get rid of an unused ref
docs: perf: imx-ddr.rst: get rid of a warning
docs: filesystems: fuse.rst: supress a Sphinx warning
docs: translations: it: avoid duplicate refs at programming-language.rst
docs: driver.rst: supress two ReSt warnings
docs: trace: events.rst: convert some new stuff to ReST format
Documentation: Add io_ordering.rst to driver-api manual
Documentation: Add io-mapping.rst to driver-api manual
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Provide IBM contact for embargoed hardware issues. As POWER and Z are
different teams with different designs it makes sense to have separate
persons for the first contact.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200326093831.428337-1-borntraeger@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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