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Linus Torvalds
d0989d01c6 hardening updates for v6.1-rc1
Various fixes across several hardening areas:
 
 - loadpin: Fix verity target enforcement (Matthias Kaehlcke).
 
 - zero-call-used-regs: Add missing clobbers in paravirt (Bill Wendling).
 
 - CFI: clean up sparc function pointer type mismatches (Bart Van Assche).
 
 - Clang: Adjust compiler flag detection for various Clang changes (Sami
   Tolvanen, Kees Cook).
 
 - fortify: Fix warnings in arch-specific code in sh, ARM, and xen.
 
 Improvements to existing features:
 
 - testing: improve overflow KUnit test, introduce fortify KUnit test,
   add more coverage to LKDTM tests (Bart Van Assche, Kees Cook).
 
 - overflow: Relax overflow type checking for wider utility.
 
 New features:
 
 - string: Introduce strtomem() and strtomem_pad() to fill a gap in
   strncpy() replacement needs.
 
 - um: Enable FORTIFY_SOURCE support.
 
 - fortify: Enable run-time struct member memcpy() overflow warning.
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Merge tag 'hardening-v6.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux

Pull kernel hardening updates from Kees Cook:
 "Most of the collected changes here are fixes across the tree for
  various hardening features (details noted below).

  The most notable new feature here is the addition of the memcpy()
  overflow warning (under CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE), which is the next step
  on the path to killing the common class of "trivially detectable"
  buffer overflow conditions (i.e. on arrays with sizes known at compile
  time) that have resulted in many exploitable vulnerabilities over the
  years (e.g. BleedingTooth).

  This feature is expected to still have some undiscovered false
  positives. It's been in -next for a full development cycle and all the
  reported false positives have been fixed in their respective trees.
  All the known-bad code patterns we could find with Coccinelle are also
  either fixed in their respective trees or in flight.

  The commit message in commit 54d9469bc5 ("fortify: Add run-time WARN
  for cross-field memcpy()") for the feature has extensive details, but
  I'll repeat here that this is a warning _only_, and is not intended to
  actually block overflows (yet). The many patches fixing array sizes
  and struct members have been landing for several years now, and we're
  finally able to turn this on to find any remaining stragglers.

  Summary:

  Various fixes across several hardening areas:

   - loadpin: Fix verity target enforcement (Matthias Kaehlcke).

   - zero-call-used-regs: Add missing clobbers in paravirt (Bill
     Wendling).

   - CFI: clean up sparc function pointer type mismatches (Bart Van
     Assche).

   - Clang: Adjust compiler flag detection for various Clang changes
     (Sami Tolvanen, Kees Cook).

   - fortify: Fix warnings in arch-specific code in sh, ARM, and xen.

  Improvements to existing features:

   - testing: improve overflow KUnit test, introduce fortify KUnit test,
     add more coverage to LKDTM tests (Bart Van Assche, Kees Cook).

   - overflow: Relax overflow type checking for wider utility.

  New features:

   - string: Introduce strtomem() and strtomem_pad() to fill a gap in
     strncpy() replacement needs.

   - um: Enable FORTIFY_SOURCE support.

   - fortify: Enable run-time struct member memcpy() overflow warning"

* tag 'hardening-v6.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: (27 commits)
  Makefile.extrawarn: Move -Wcast-function-type-strict to W=1
  hardening: Remove Clang's enable flag for -ftrivial-auto-var-init=zero
  sparc: Unbreak the build
  x86/paravirt: add extra clobbers with ZERO_CALL_USED_REGS enabled
  x86/paravirt: clean up typos and grammaros
  fortify: Convert to struct vs member helpers
  fortify: Explicitly check bounds are compile-time constants
  x86/entry: Work around Clang __bdos() bug
  ARM: decompressor: Include .data.rel.ro.local
  fortify: Adjust KUnit test for modular build
  sh: machvec: Use char[] for section boundaries
  kunit/memcpy: Avoid pathological compile-time string size
  lib: Improve the is_signed_type() kunit test
  LoadPin: Require file with verity root digests to have a header
  dm: verity-loadpin: Only trust verity targets with enforcement
  LoadPin: Fix Kconfig doc about format of file with verity digests
  um: Enable FORTIFY_SOURCE
  lkdtm: Update tests for memcpy() run-time warnings
  fortify: Add run-time WARN for cross-field memcpy()
  fortify: Use SIZE_MAX instead of (size_t)-1
  ...
2022-10-03 17:24:22 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
8aebac8293 Rust introduction for v6.1-rc1
The initial support of Rust-for-Linux comes in roughly 4 areas:
 
 - Kernel internals (kallsyms expansion for Rust symbols, %pA format)
 
 - Kbuild infrastructure (Rust build rules and support scripts)
 
 - Rust crates and bindings for initial minimum viable build
 
 - Rust kernel documentation and samples
 
 Rust support has been in linux-next for a year and a half now, and the
 short log doesn't do justice to the number of people who have contributed
 both to the Linux kernel side but also to the upstream Rust side to
 support the kernel's needs. Thanks to these 173 people, and many more,
 who have been involved in all kinds of ways:
 
 Miguel Ojeda, Wedson Almeida Filho, Alex Gaynor, Boqun Feng, Gary Guo,
 Björn Roy Baron, Andreas Hindborg, Adam Bratschi-Kaye, Benno Lossin,
 Maciej Falkowski, Finn Behrens, Sven Van Asbroeck, Asahi Lina, FUJITA
 Tomonori, John Baublitz, Wei Liu, Geoffrey Thomas, Philip Herron,
 Arthur Cohen, David Faust, Antoni Boucher, Philip Li, Yujie Liu,
 Jonathan Corbet, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Paul E. McKenney, Josh Triplett,
 Kent Overstreet, David Gow, Alice Ryhl, Robin Randhawa, Kees Cook,
 Nick Desaulniers, Matthew Wilcox, Linus Walleij, Joe Perches, Michael
 Ellerman, Petr Mladek, Masahiro Yamada, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo,
 Andrii Nakryiko, Konstantin Shelekhin, Rasmus Villemoes, Konstantin
 Ryabitsev, Stephen Rothwell, Andy Shevchenko, Sergey Senozhatsky, John
 Paul Adrian Glaubitz, David Laight, Nathan Chancellor, Jonathan
 Cameron, Daniel Latypov, Shuah Khan, Brendan Higgins, Julia Lawall,
 Laurent Pinchart, Geert Uytterhoeven, Akira Yokosawa, Pavel Machek,
 David S. Miller, John Hawley, James Bottomley, Arnd Bergmann,
 Christian Brauner, Dan Robertson, Nicholas Piggin, Zhouyi Zhou, Elena
 Zannoni, Jose E. Marchesi, Leon Romanovsky, Will Deacon, Richard
 Weinberger, Randy Dunlap, Paolo Bonzini, Roland Dreier, Mark Brown,
 Sasha Levin, Ted Ts'o, Steven Rostedt, Jarkko Sakkinen, Michal
 Kubecek, Marco Elver, Al Viro, Keith Busch, Johannes Berg, Jan Kara,
 David Sterba, Connor Kuehl, Andy Lutomirski, Andrew Lunn, Alexandre
 Belloni, Peter Zijlstra, Russell King, Eric W. Biederman, Willy
 Tarreau, Christoph Hellwig, Emilio Cobos Álvarez, Christian Poveda,
 Mark Rousskov, John Ericson, TennyZhuang, Xuanwo, Daniel Paoliello,
 Manish Goregaokar, comex, Josh Stone, Stephan Sokolow, Philipp Krones,
 Guillaume Gomez, Joshua Nelson, Mats Larsen, Marc Poulhiès, Samantha
 Miller, Esteban Blanc, Martin Schmidt, Martin Rodriguez Reboredo,
 Daniel Xu, Viresh Kumar, Bartosz Golaszewski, Vegard Nossum, Milan
 Landaverde, Dariusz Sosnowski, Yuki Okushi, Matthew Bakhtiari, Wu
 XiangCheng, Tiago Lam, Boris-Chengbiao Zhou, Sumera Priyadarsini,
 Viktor Garske, Niklas Mohrin, Nándor István Krácser, Morgan Bartlett,
 Miguel Cano, Léo Lanteri Thauvin, Julian Merkle, Andreas Reindl,
 Jiapeng Chong, Fox Chen, Douglas Su, Antonio Terceiro, SeongJae Park,
 Sergio González Collado, Ngo Iok Ui (Wu Yu Wei), Joshua Abraham,
 Milan, Daniel Kolsoi, ahomescu, Manas, Luis Gerhorst, Li Hongyu,
 Philipp Gesang, Russell Currey, Jalil David Salamé Messina, Jon Olson,
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 Mauro Baladés, Hsiang-Cheng Yang, Abhik Jain, Hongyu Li, Sean Nash,
 Yuheng Su, Peng Hao, Anhad Singh, Roel Kluin, Sara Saa, Geert
 Stappers, Garrett LeSage, IFo Hancroft, and Linus Torvalds.
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Merge tag 'rust-v6.1-rc1' of https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux

Pull Rust introductory support from Kees Cook:
 "The tree has a recent base, but has fundamentally been in linux-next
  for a year and a half[1]. It's been updated based on feedback from the
  Kernel Maintainer's Summit, and to gain recent Reviewed-by: tags.

  Miguel is the primary maintainer, with me helping where needed/wanted.
  Our plan is for the tree to switch to the standard non-rebasing
  practice once this initial infrastructure series lands.

  The contents are the absolute minimum to get Rust code building in the
  kernel, with many more interfaces[2] (and drivers - NVMe[3], 9p[4], M1
  GPU[5]) on the way.

  The initial support of Rust-for-Linux comes in roughly 4 areas:

   - Kernel internals (kallsyms expansion for Rust symbols, %pA format)

   - Kbuild infrastructure (Rust build rules and support scripts)

   - Rust crates and bindings for initial minimum viable build

   - Rust kernel documentation and samples

  Rust support has been in linux-next for a year and a half now, and the
  short log doesn't do justice to the number of people who have
  contributed both to the Linux kernel side but also to the upstream
  Rust side to support the kernel's needs. Thanks to these 173 people,
  and many more, who have been involved in all kinds of ways:

  Miguel Ojeda, Wedson Almeida Filho, Alex Gaynor, Boqun Feng, Gary Guo,
  Björn Roy Baron, Andreas Hindborg, Adam Bratschi-Kaye, Benno Lossin,
  Maciej Falkowski, Finn Behrens, Sven Van Asbroeck, Asahi Lina, FUJITA
  Tomonori, John Baublitz, Wei Liu, Geoffrey Thomas, Philip Herron,
  Arthur Cohen, David Faust, Antoni Boucher, Philip Li, Yujie Liu,
  Jonathan Corbet, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Paul E. McKenney, Josh Triplett,
  Kent Overstreet, David Gow, Alice Ryhl, Robin Randhawa, Kees Cook,
  Nick Desaulniers, Matthew Wilcox, Linus Walleij, Joe Perches, Michael
  Ellerman, Petr Mladek, Masahiro Yamada, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo,
  Andrii Nakryiko, Konstantin Shelekhin, Rasmus Villemoes, Konstantin
  Ryabitsev, Stephen Rothwell, Andy Shevchenko, Sergey Senozhatsky, John
  Paul Adrian Glaubitz, David Laight, Nathan Chancellor, Jonathan
  Cameron, Daniel Latypov, Shuah Khan, Brendan Higgins, Julia Lawall,
  Laurent Pinchart, Geert Uytterhoeven, Akira Yokosawa, Pavel Machek,
  David S. Miller, John Hawley, James Bottomley, Arnd Bergmann,
  Christian Brauner, Dan Robertson, Nicholas Piggin, Zhouyi Zhou, Elena
  Zannoni, Jose E. Marchesi, Leon Romanovsky, Will Deacon, Richard
  Weinberger, Randy Dunlap, Paolo Bonzini, Roland Dreier, Mark Brown,
  Sasha Levin, Ted Ts'o, Steven Rostedt, Jarkko Sakkinen, Michal
  Kubecek, Marco Elver, Al Viro, Keith Busch, Johannes Berg, Jan Kara,
  David Sterba, Connor Kuehl, Andy Lutomirski, Andrew Lunn, Alexandre
  Belloni, Peter Zijlstra, Russell King, Eric W. Biederman, Willy
  Tarreau, Christoph Hellwig, Emilio Cobos Álvarez, Christian Poveda,
  Mark Rousskov, John Ericson, TennyZhuang, Xuanwo, Daniel Paoliello,
  Manish Goregaokar, comex, Josh Stone, Stephan Sokolow, Philipp Krones,
  Guillaume Gomez, Joshua Nelson, Mats Larsen, Marc Poulhiès, Samantha
  Miller, Esteban Blanc, Martin Schmidt, Martin Rodriguez Reboredo,
  Daniel Xu, Viresh Kumar, Bartosz Golaszewski, Vegard Nossum, Milan
  Landaverde, Dariusz Sosnowski, Yuki Okushi, Matthew Bakhtiari, Wu
  XiangCheng, Tiago Lam, Boris-Chengbiao Zhou, Sumera Priyadarsini,
  Viktor Garske, Niklas Mohrin, Nándor István Krácser, Morgan Bartlett,
  Miguel Cano, Léo Lanteri Thauvin, Julian Merkle, Andreas Reindl,
  Jiapeng Chong, Fox Chen, Douglas Su, Antonio Terceiro, SeongJae Park,
  Sergio González Collado, Ngo Iok Ui (Wu Yu Wei), Joshua Abraham,
  Milan, Daniel Kolsoi, ahomescu, Manas, Luis Gerhorst, Li Hongyu,
  Philipp Gesang, Russell Currey, Jalil David Salamé Messina, Jon Olson,
  Raghvender, Angelos, Kaviraj Kanagaraj, Paul Römer, Sladyn Nunes,
  Mauro Baladés, Hsiang-Cheng Yang, Abhik Jain, Hongyu Li, Sean Nash,
  Yuheng Su, Peng Hao, Anhad Singh, Roel Kluin, Sara Saa, Geert
  Stappers, Garrett LeSage, IFo Hancroft, and Linus Torvalds"

Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/849849/ [1]
Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/commits/rust [2]
Link: d88c3744d6 [3]
Link: 9367032607 [4]
Link: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/linux/commits/gpu/rust-wip [5]

* tag 'rust-v6.1-rc1' of https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux: (27 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: Rust
  samples: add first Rust examples
  x86: enable initial Rust support
  docs: add Rust documentation
  Kbuild: add Rust support
  rust: add `.rustfmt.toml`
  scripts: add `is_rust_module.sh`
  scripts: add `rust_is_available.sh`
  scripts: add `generate_rust_target.rs`
  scripts: add `generate_rust_analyzer.py`
  scripts: decode_stacktrace: demangle Rust symbols
  scripts: checkpatch: enable language-independent checks for Rust
  scripts: checkpatch: diagnose uses of `%pA` in the C side as errors
  vsprintf: add new `%pA` format specifier
  rust: export generated symbols
  rust: add `kernel` crate
  rust: add `bindings` crate
  rust: add `macros` crate
  rust: add `compiler_builtins` crate
  rust: adapt `alloc` crate to the kernel
  ...
2022-10-03 16:39:37 -07:00
David Hildenbrand
1cfd9d7e43 coding-style.rst: document BUG() and WARN() rules ("do not crash the kernel")
Linus notes [1] that the introduction of new code that uses VM_BUG_ON()
is just as bad as BUG_ON(), because it will crash the kernel on
distributions that enable CONFIG_DEBUG_VM (like Fedora):

    VM_BUG_ON() has the exact same semantics as BUG_ON. It is literally
    no different, the only difference is "we can make the code smaller
    because these are less important". [2]

This resulted in a more generic discussion about usage of BUG() and
friends. While there might be corner cases that still deserve a BUG_ON(),
most BUG_ON() cases should simply use WARN_ON_ONCE() and implement a
recovery path if reasonable:

    The only possible case where BUG_ON can validly be used is "I have
    some fundamental data corruption and cannot possibly return an
    error". [2]

As a very good approximation is the general rule:

    "absolutely no new BUG_ON() calls _ever_" [2]

... not even if something really shouldn't ever happen and is merely for
documenting that an invariant always has to hold. However, there are sill
exceptions where BUG_ON() may be used:

    If you have a "this is major internal corruption, there's no way we can
    continue", then BUG_ON() is appropriate. [3]

There is only one good BUG_ON():

    Now, that said, there is one very valid sub-form of BUG_ON():
    BUILD_BUG_ON() is absolutely 100% fine. [2]

While WARN will also crash the machine with panic_on_warn set, that's
exactly to be expected:

    So we have two very different cases: the "virtual machine with good
    logging where a dead machine is fine" - use 'panic_on_warn'. And
    the actual real hardware with real drivers, running real loads by
    users. [4]

The basic idea is that warnings will similarly get reported by users
and be found during testing. However, in contrast to a BUG(), there is a
way to actually influence the expected behavior (e.g., panic_on_warn)
and to eventually keep the machine alive to extract some debug info.

Ingo notes that not all WARN_ON_ONCE cases need recovery. If we don't ever
expect this code to trigger in any case, recovery code is not really
helpful.

    I'd prefer to keep all these warnings 'simple' - i.e. no attempted
    recovery & control flow, unless we ever expect these to trigger.
    [5]

There have been different rules floating around that were never properly
documented. Let's try to clarify.

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wiEAH+ojSpAgx_Ep=NKPWHU8AdO3V56BXcCsU97oYJ1EA@mail.gmail.com
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wg40EAZofO16Eviaj7mfqDhZ2gVEbvfsMf6gYzspRjYvw@mail.gmail.com
[3] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wit-DmhMfQErY29JSPjFgebx_Ld+pnerc4J2Ag990WwAA@mail.gmail.com
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wgF7K2gSSpy=m_=K3Nov4zaceUX9puQf1TjkTJLA2XC_g@mail.gmail.com
[5] https://lore.kernel.org/r/YwIW+mVeZoTOxn%2F4@gmail.com

Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220923113426.52871-2-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-29 13:20:53 -06:00
Kristen Carlson Accardi
26e5444809 Documentation/CoC: Reflect current CoC interpretation and practices
The Code of Conduct interpretation does not reflect the current
practices of the CoC committee or the TAB. Update the documentation
to remove references to initial committees and boot strap periods
since it is past that time, and note that the this document
does serve as the documentation for the CoC committee processes.

Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220926211149.2278214-1-kristen@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-29 13:15:14 -06:00
Thorsten Leemhuis
2f993509a9 docs: process/5.Posting.rst: clarify use of Reported-by: tag
Bring the description on when to use the Reported-by: tag found in
Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst more in line with the description in
Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst: before this change the two
were contradicting each other, as the latter is way more permissive and
only states '[...] if the bug was reported in private, then ask for
permission first before using the Reported-by tag.'

Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2fc7162dfb76e04da5ea903c9c170d913e735dad.1664372256.git.linux@leemhuis.info
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-29 13:11:07 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet
9d0f5cd167 docs: promote the title of process/index.rst
...otherwise Sphinx won't cooperate when trying to list it explicitly in
the top-level index.rst file

Reviewed-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com>
Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220927160559.97154-2-corbet@lwn.net
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-29 12:55:05 -06:00
Miguel Ojeda
d07479b211 docs: add Rust documentation
Most of the documentation for Rust is written within the source code
itself, as it is idiomatic for Rust projects. This applies to both
the shared infrastructure at `rust/` as well as any other Rust module
(e.g. drivers) written across the kernel.

However, these documents contain general information that does not
fit particularly well in the source code, like the Quick Start guide.

It also contains a few other small changes elsewhere in the
documentation folder.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Co-developed-by: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>
Co-developed-by: Finn Behrens <me@kloenk.de>
Signed-off-by: Finn Behrens <me@kloenk.de>
Co-developed-by: Adam Bratschi-Kaye <ark.email@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Adam Bratschi-Kaye <ark.email@gmail.com>
Co-developed-by: Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@google.com>
Co-developed-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Co-developed-by: Sven Van Asbroeck <thesven73@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sven Van Asbroeck <thesven73@gmail.com>
Co-developed-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn>
Signed-off-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn>
Co-developed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Signed-off-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Co-developed-by: Boris-Chengbiao Zhou <bobo1239@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Boris-Chengbiao Zhou <bobo1239@web.de>
Co-developed-by: Yuki Okushi <jtitor@2k36.org>
Signed-off-by: Yuki Okushi <jtitor@2k36.org>
Co-developed-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Co-developed-by: Daniel Xu <dxu@dxuuu.xyz>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Xu <dxu@dxuuu.xyz>
Co-developed-by: Julian Merkle <me@jvmerkle.de>
Signed-off-by: Julian Merkle <me@jvmerkle.de>
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
2022-09-28 09:02:45 +02:00
Salvatore Bonaccorso
67fe6792a7 Documentation: stable: Document alternative for referring upstream commit hash
Additionally to the "commit <sha1> upstream." variant, "[ Upstream
commit <sha1> ]" is used as well as alternative to refer to the upstream
commit hash.

Signed-off-by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220901184328.4075701-1-carnil@debian.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-27 13:21:44 -06:00
Shuah Khan
8bfdfa0d6b docs: update mediator information in CoC docs
Update mediator information in the CoC interpretation document.

Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220901212319.56644-1-skhan@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-27 13:21:44 -06:00
Rong Tao
adb95582a0 Documentation: process/submitting-patches: misspelling "mesages"
Fix spelling mistakes, "mesages" should be spelled "messages".

Signed-off-by: Rong Tao <rtoax@foxmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/tencent_924BF0B25425E2D5673409D1CF604F682505@qq.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-27 13:21:43 -06:00
наб
1da40c2667 Documentation: NBD_REQUEST_MAGIC isn't a magic number
It's part of the line protocol, same as in commit 8280581889
("Documentation: NBD_REPLY_MAGIC isn't a magic number")

Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220927003727.slf4ofb7dgum6apt@tarta.nabijaczleweli.xyz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-09-27 09:20:28 +02:00
наб
21760e5c38 Documentation: ENI155_MAGIC isn't a magic number
It's part of the EEPROM format

Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5f1dfa09150be7f23fb275d170c9019b5197a79f.1663280877.git.nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-09-24 14:17:19 +02:00
наб
8280581889 Documentation: NBD_REPLY_MAGIC isn't a magic number
It's part of the line protocol

Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a8afed8fb4d7df2c8fb95c3fa758240b2e46cdc8.1663280877.git.nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-09-24 14:17:19 +02:00
наб
bd5926220f nbd: remove define-only NBD_MAGIC, previously magic number
commit f4507164e7 ("nbd: rename the nbd_device variable from lo to
nbd") renamed LO_MAGIC to NBD_MAGIC; commit 5ea8d10802 ("nbd:
separate out the config information") removed the last users of that

Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/10a80681c5966fed1a1afc696e3db114f481514c.1663280877.git.nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-09-24 14:17:19 +02:00
наб
4b0ab3d522 Documentation: FW_HEADER_MAGIC isn't a magic number
It's a file format identifier

Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1b21808fb399931eb44f0dc26fda20a632ecc196.1663280877.git.nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-09-24 14:17:19 +02:00
наб
03acba1217 Documentation: EEPROM_MAGIC_VALUE isn't a magic number
It's an EEPROM checksum, not a magic number per magic-number.rst

Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8881090c8bf1850e1d3597cb352a8dd1757c94f1.1663280877.git.nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-09-24 14:17:19 +02:00
наб
4da0cdb1a6 Documentation: COW_MAGIC isn't a magic number
At least not in the magic-number.rst sense: it's part of a file format

Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/f24a428d82713821ca571bf477a099252d06ae14.1663280877.git.nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-09-24 14:17:19 +02:00
наб
6a0abf8ff9 Documentation: SAVEKMSG_MAGIC[12] aren't magic numbers
At least not in the magic-number.rst sense: they're used as part of
delineating messages dumping dmesg into Chip RAM on the Amiga with
debug=ram

Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c0fe3aadb700621eeee736f0ce6d73aa9d2cf856.1663280877.git.nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-09-24 14:17:19 +02:00
наб
976c957c19 Documentation: RIEBL_MAGIC isn't a magic number
At least not in the sense described in magic-number.rst:
it determines whether the Atari VME Lance Ethernet card has a hardware
MAC address or not, and is set thereby to indicate this

Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/773e5a8fe80201bed0dff5cdb1ce6f4272b0cc92.1663280877.git.nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-09-24 14:17:19 +02:00
наб
ba5e03f15a Documentation: FULL_DUPLEX_MAGIC isn't a magic number
It's used to control a mysterious register on the DEC DE21040,
see comment in drivers/net/ethernet/dec/tulip/de2104x.c

Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ff28a15f9154589788277807523aa71c45c24d28.1663280877.git.nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-09-24 14:17:19 +02:00
наб
60464c2d3f Documentation: CG_MAGIC isn't a magic number
At least not in the sense described here: it delineates UFS cylinder
groups, is never assigned, and the only macro that incorporates it
(ufs_cg_chkmagic; the second one is unused) is used to detect CGs and
protect from filesystem corruption

Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a508477cfeb18eca4a24c29836f809fe34f20467.1663280877.git.nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-09-24 14:17:19 +02:00
наб
82b5b4e6cc Documentation: sndmagic.h doesn't exist
It was added in 2.5.5 and removed in a 2.6.9 "ALSA CVS update", pre-git,
which states:
   Removal and replacement of magic memory allocators and casts
   (core part)

Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/09e56999b0b323fb0add61f7dbd8c9f0a576561a.1663280877.git.nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-09-24 14:17:18 +02:00
наб
03b15a984d Documentation: HFS is not a user of magic numbers
In fs/hfs, the only magic is for delineating on-disk block types,
of which HFS_DRVR_DESC_MAGIC HFS_MFS_SUPER_MAGIC are define-only,
but they're out of scope for magic-number.rst

Magic numbers as described there were all removed, along their defines,
in the 2.6.4 "HFS rewrite", pre-git

Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e67cec702a7ab34a8c5f7966d930d793a097a90f.1663280877.git.nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-09-24 14:17:18 +02:00
наб
21c660fd7c MIPS: remove define-only GDA_MAGIC, previously magic number
The last user was removed in the 2.6.4 "MIPS mega-patch", pre-git

Found with
grep MAGIC Documentation/process/magic-number.rst | while read -r mag _;
do git grep -wF "$mag"  | grep -ve '^Documentation.*magic-number.rst:' \
-qe ':#define '"$mag" || git grep -wF "$mag" | while IFS=: read -r f _;
do sed -i '/\b'"$mag"'\b/d' "$f"; done ; done

Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c2e7510beebdd698e20d0704712e623fad00fc1c.1663280877.git.nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-09-24 14:17:18 +02:00
наб
ddbded78f7 Bluetooth: RFCOMM: remove define-only RFCOMM_TTY_MAGIC ex-magic-number
Appeared in its present state in pre-git (2.5.41), never used

Found with
grep MAGIC Documentation/process/magic-number.rst | while read -r mag _;
do git grep -wF "$mag"  | grep -ve '^Documentation.*magic-number.rst:' \
-qe ':#define '"$mag" || git grep -wF "$mag" | while IFS=: read -r f _;
do sed -i '/\b'"$mag"'\b/d' "$f"; done ; done

Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/f6d375201dfd99416ea03b49b3dd40af56c1537e.1663280877.git.nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-09-24 14:17:18 +02:00
наб
53c2bd6790 a.out: remove define-only CMAGIC, previously magic number
The last user was removed in 5.1 in
commit 08300f4402 ("a.out: remove core dumping support")
but this is part of the UAPI headers, so this may want to either wait
until a.out is removed entirely, or be removed from the magic number doc
and silently remain in the header

A cursory glance on DCS didn't show any user code actually using this
value

Found with
grep MAGIC Documentation/process/magic-number.rst | while read -r mag _;
do git grep -wF "$mag"  | grep -ve '^Documentation.*magic-number.rst:' \
-qe ':#define '"$mag" || git grep -wF "$mag" | while IFS=: read -r f _;
do sed -i '/\b'"$mag"'\b/d' "$f"; done ; done

Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9cbea062df7125ef43e2e0b2a67ede6ad1c5f27e.1663280877.git.nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-09-24 14:17:18 +02:00
наб
766c5a3ecb Documentation: remove nonexistent magic numbers
The entire file blames back to the start of git
(minus whitespace from the RST translation and a typo fix):
  * there are changelog comments for March 1994 through to Linux 2.5.74
  * struct tty_ldisc is two pointers nowadays, so naturally no magic
  * GDA_MAGIC is defined but unused, and it's been this way
    since start-of-git
  * M3_CARD_MAGIC isn't defined, because
    commit d56b9b9c46 ("[PATCH] The scheduled removal of some OSS
    drivers") removed the entire driver in 2006
  * CS_CARD_MAGIC likewise since
    commit b5d425c97f ("more scheduled OSS driver removal") in 2007
  * KMALLOC_MAGIC and VMALLOC_MAGIC were removed in
    commit e38e0cfa48 ("[ALSA] Remove kmalloc wrappers"),
    six months after start of git
  * SLAB_C_MAGIC has never even appeared in git
    (removed in 2.4.0-test3pre6)

magic-number.rst is a low-value historial relic at best and
misleading cruft at worst, so start with cleaning out ones that only
appear therein

Automated:
grep MAGIC Documentation/process/magic-number.rst | while read -r mag _;
do git grep -wF "$mag" | grep -vq '^Documentation.*magic-number.rst:' ||
sed -i "/^$mag/d" \
Documentation/{,translations/{zh_CN,zh_TW,it_IT}/}process/magic-number.rst
done

Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8389a7b85b5c660c6891b1740b5dacc53491a41b.1663280877.git.nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-09-24 14:17:18 +02:00
наб
0e6357c3b6 tty: synclink_gt: remove MGSL_MAGIC
According to Greg, in the context of magic numbers as defined in
magic-number.rst, "the tty layer should not need this and I'll gladly
take patches"

Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Ref: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/YyMlovoskUcHLEb7@kroah.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3d82b3c864970cdec6717c56dd906b54e78694d7.1663288066.git.nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-09-22 16:12:34 +02:00
наб
14f9ed6153 tty: n_hdlc: remove HDLC_MAGIC
According to Greg, in the context of magic numbers as defined in
magic-number.rst, "the tty layer should not need this and I'll gladly
take patches"

Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Ref: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/YyMlovoskUcHLEb7@kroah.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c31d228302da3f426cebf6fcff855181a5590a66.1663288066.git.nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-09-22 16:12:34 +02:00
наб
5052df99d3 tty: remove TTY_DRIVER_MAGIC
According to Greg, in the context of magic numbers as defined in
magic-number.rst, "the tty layer should not need this and I'll gladly
take patches"

Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Ref: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/YyMlovoskUcHLEb7@kroah.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/723478a270a3858f27843cbec621df4d5d44efcc.1663288066.git.nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-09-22 16:12:34 +02:00
наб
7a4e0d2c7f tty: remove TTY_MAGIC
According to Greg, in the context of magic numbers as defined in
magic-number.rst, "the tty layer should not need this and I'll gladly
take patches"

Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Ref: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/YyMlovoskUcHLEb7@kroah.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/476d024cd6b04160a5de381ea2b9856b60088cbd.1663288066.git.nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-09-22 16:12:34 +02:00
Shuah Khan
2122c0d0f5 docs: update mediator information in CoC docs
Update mediator information in the CoC interpretation document.

Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220901212319.56644-1-skhan@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-09-09 10:49:49 +02:00
Salvatore Bonaccorso
bdbb0bbcf8 Documentation: stable: Document alternative for referring upstream commit hash
Additionally to the "commit <sha1> upstream." variant, "[ Upstream
commit <sha1> ]" is used as well as alternative to refer to the upstream
commit hash.

Signed-off-by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220901184328.4075701-1-carnil@debian.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-09-09 10:49:45 +02:00
Kees Cook
dfbafa70bd string: Introduce strtomem() and strtomem_pad()
One of the "legitimate" uses of strncpy() is copying a NUL-terminated
string into a fixed-size non-NUL-terminated character array. To avoid
the weaknesses and ambiguity of intent when using strncpy(), provide
replacement functions that explicitly distinguish between trailing
padding and not, and require the destination buffer size be discoverable
by the compiler.

For example:

struct obj {
	int foo;
	char small[4] __nonstring;
	char big[8] __nonstring;
	int bar;
};

struct obj p;

/* This will truncate to 4 chars with no trailing NUL */
strncpy(p.small, "hello", sizeof(p.small));
/* p.small contains 'h', 'e', 'l', 'l' */

/* This will NUL pad to 8 chars. */
strncpy(p.big, "hello", sizeof(p.big));
/* p.big contains 'h', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', '\0', '\0', '\0' */

When the "__nonstring" attributes are missing, the intent of the
programmer becomes ambiguous for whether the lack of a trailing NUL
in the p.small copy is a bug. Additionally, it's not clear whether
the trailing padding in the p.big copy is _needed_. Both cases
become unambiguous with:

strtomem(p.small, "hello");
strtomem_pad(p.big, "hello", 0);

See also https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90

Expand the memcpy KUnit tests to include these functions.

Cc: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
2022-09-07 16:37:26 -07:00
Konstantin Ryabitsev
e72b3b9810 maintainer-pgp-guide: minor wording tweaks
Tweak some wording to remove redundant information.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220727-docs-pgp-guide-v2-5-e3e6954affb6@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-08-18 11:13:37 -06:00
Konstantin Ryabitsev
6043134dce maintainer-pgp-guide: add a section on PGP-signed patches
With more developers beginning to use b4 and patatt, add a section to
the guide that talks about setting up and using patatt for PGP-signing
patch submissions.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220727-docs-pgp-guide-v2-4-e3e6954affb6@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-08-18 11:13:37 -06:00
Konstantin Ryabitsev
0a1a279bda maintainer-pgp-guide: update ECC support information
Update ECC sections with the latest details, now that Yubikeys are able
to support ED25519 curves. Tweak a few links to smartcard devices to
reflect the latest URL changes.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220727-docs-pgp-guide-v2-3-e3e6954affb6@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-08-18 11:13:37 -06:00
Konstantin Ryabitsev
7d61aa2cbd maintainer-pgp-guide: remove keyserver instructions
Keyservers are largely a thing of the past with the replacement systems
like keys.openpgp.net specifically designed to offer no support for the
web of trust. Remove all sections that talk about keyservers and add a
small section with the link to kernel.org documentation that talks about
using the kernel.org public key repository.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220727-docs-pgp-guide-v2-2-e3e6954affb6@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-08-18 11:13:37 -06:00
Konstantin Ryabitsev
97024e159f maintainer-pgp-guide: use key terminology consistent with upstream
GnuPG does not use the word "master key" when referring to the subkey
marked with the "certification" capability. Our use of this term was not
only inconsistent, but also misleading, because in real life "master
keys" are able to open multiple locks made for different keys, while PGP
Certify key has no such capability.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220727-docs-pgp-guide-v2-1-e3e6954affb6@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-08-18 11:13:37 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
668c3c237f sound updates for 6.0-rc1
As diffstat shows, we've had lots of developments in a wide range
 at this time; the majority of changes are about ASoC, including
 subsystem-wide cleanups, continued SOF / Intel updates and a
 bunch of new drivers (as usual), while there have been some
 significant (but almost invisible) improvements in ALSA core
 side, too.  Below are some highlights:
 
 Core:
 - Faster lookups of control elements with Xarray; normal user
   won't notice, but on the devices with tons of control elements,
   it can be visibly faster
 - Support for input validation for controls; this will harden
   for badly written drivers in general with a slight overhead
 - Deferred async signal handling for working around the potential
   deadlocks
 - Cleanup / refactoring raw MIDI locking code
 
 ASoC:
 - Restructing of the set_fmt() callbacks for making things clearer
   in situations like CODEC to CODEC links
 - Clean up and modernizing the DAI naming scheme setups
 - Merge of more of the Intel AVS driver stack, including some
   board integrations
 - New version 4 mechanism for communication with SOF DSPs
 - Suppoort for dynamically selecting the PLL to use at runtime on
   i.MX platforms
 - Improvements for CODEC to CODEC support in the generic cards
 - Support for AMD Jadeite and various machines, AMD RPL, Intel
   MetorLake DSPs, Mediatek MT8186 DSPs and MT6366, nVidia Tegra
   MDDRC, OPE and PEQ, NXP TFA9890, Qualcomm SDM845, WCD9335 and
   WAS883x, and Texas Instruments TAS2780
 
 HD- and USB-audio:
 - Continued improvement for CS35L41 (sub)codec support
 - More quirks for various devices (HP, Lenovo, Dell, Clevo)
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Merge tag 'sound-6.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound

Pull sound updates from Takashi Iwai:
 "As the diffstat shows, we've had lots of developments in a wide range
  at this time; the majority of changes are about ASoC, including
  subsystem-wide cleanups, continued SOF / Intel updates and a bunch of
  new drivers (as usual), while there have been some significant (but
  almost invisible) improvements in ALSA core side, too.

  Below are some highlights:

  Core:

   - Faster lookups of control elements with Xarray; normal user won't
     notice, but on the devices with tons of control elements, it can be
     visibly faster

   - Support for input validation for controls; this will harden for
     badly written drivers in general with a slight overhead

   - Deferred async signal handling for working around the potential
     deadlocks

   - Cleanup / refactoring raw MIDI locking code

  ASoC:

   - Restructing of the set_fmt() callbacks for making things clearer in
     situations like CODEC to CODEC links

   - Clean up and modernizing the DAI naming scheme setups

   - Merge of more of the Intel AVS driver stack, including some board
     integrations

   - New version 4 mechanism for communication with SOF DSPs

   - Suppoort for dynamically selecting the PLL to use at runtime on
     i.MX platforms

   - Improvements for CODEC to CODEC support in the generic cards

   - Support for AMD Jadeite and various machines, AMD RPL, Intel
     MetorLake DSPs, Mediatek MT8186 DSPs and MT6366, nVidia Tegra
     MDDRC, OPE and PEQ, NXP TFA9890, Qualcomm SDM845, WCD9335 and
     WAS883x, and Texas Instruments TAS2780

  HD- and USB-audio:

   - Continued improvement for CS35L41 (sub)codec support

   - More quirks for various devices (HP, Lenovo, Dell, Clevo)"

* tag 'sound-6.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound: (778 commits)
  ALSA: hda/realtek: Add quirk for HP Spectre x360 15-eb0xxx
  ALSA: line6: Replace sprintf() with sysfs_emit()
  ALSA: hda: Replace sprintf() with sysfs_emit()
  ALSA: pcm: Replace sprintf() with sysfs_emit()
  ALSA: core: Replace scnprintf() with sysfs_emit()
  ALSA: control-led: Replace sprintf() with sysfs_emit()
  ALSA: aoa: Replace sprintf() with sysfs_emit()
  ALSA: ac97: Replace sprintf() with sysfs_emit()
  ALSA: hda/realtek: Add quirk for Clevo NV45PZ
  ALSA: hda/realtek: Add quirk for Lenovo Yoga9 14IAP7
  ALSA: control: Use deferred fasync helper
  ALSA: pcm: Use deferred fasync helper
  ALSA: timer: Use deferred fasync helper
  ALSA: core: Add async signal helpers
  ASoC: q6asm: use kcalloc() instead of kzalloc()
  ACPI: scan: Add CLSA0101 Laptop Support
  ALSA: hda: cs35l41: Support CLSA0101
  ALSA: hda: cs35l41: Use the CS35L41 HDA internal define
  ASoC: dt-bindings: use spi-peripheral-props.yaml
  ASoC: codecs: va-macro: use fsgen as clock
  ...
2022-08-06 10:19:51 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
cfeafd9466 Driver core / kernfs changes for 6.0-rc1
Here is the set of driver core and kernfs changes for 6.0-rc1.
 
 "biggest" thing in here is some scalability improvements for kernfs for
 large systems.  Other than that, included in here are:
 	- arch topology and cache info changes that have been reviewed
 	  and discussed a lot.
 	- potential error path cleanup fixes
 	- deferred driver probe cleanups
 	- firmware loader cleanups and tweaks
 	- documentation updates
 	- other small things
 
 All of these have been in the linux-next tree for a while with no
 reported problems.
 
 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'driver-core-6.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

Pull driver core / kernfs updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the set of driver core and kernfs changes for 6.0-rc1.

  The "biggest" thing in here is some scalability improvements for
  kernfs for large systems. Other than that, included in here are:

   - arch topology and cache info changes that have been reviewed and
     discussed a lot.

   - potential error path cleanup fixes

   - deferred driver probe cleanups

   - firmware loader cleanups and tweaks

   - documentation updates

   - other small things

  All of these have been in the linux-next tree for a while with no
  reported problems"

* tag 'driver-core-6.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (63 commits)
  docs: embargoed-hardware-issues: fix invalid AMD contact email
  firmware_loader: Replace kmap() with kmap_local_page()
  sysfs docs: ABI: Fix typo in comment
  kobject: fix Kconfig.debug "its" grammar
  kernfs: Fix typo 'the the' in comment
  docs: driver-api: firmware: add driver firmware guidelines. (v3)
  arch_topology: Fix cache attributes detection in the CPU hotplug path
  ACPI: PPTT: Leave the table mapped for the runtime usage
  cacheinfo: Use atomic allocation for percpu cache attributes
  drivers/base: fix userspace break from using bin_attributes for cpumap and cpulist
  MAINTAINERS: Change mentions of mpm to olivia
  docs: ABI: sysfs-devices-soc: Update Lee Jones' email address
  docs: ABI: sysfs-class-pwm: Update Lee Jones' email address
  Documentation/process: Add embargoed HW contact for LLVM
  Revert "kernfs: Change kernfs_notify_list to llist."
  ACPI: Remove the unused find_acpi_cpu_cache_topology()
  arch_topology: Warn that topology for nested clusters is not supported
  arch_topology: Add support for parsing sockets in /cpu-map
  arch_topology: Set cluster identifier in each core/thread from /cpu-map
  arch_topology: Limit span of cpu_clustergroup_mask()
  ...
2022-08-04 11:31:20 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
aad26f55f4 This was a moderately busy cycle for documentation, but nothing all that
earth-shaking:
 
 - More Chinese translations, and an update to the Italian translations.
   The Japanese, Korean, and traditional Chinese translations are
   more-or-less unmaintained at this point, instead.
 
 - Some build-system performance improvements.
 
 - The removal of the archaic submitting-drivers.rst document, with the
   movement of what useful material that remained into other docs.
 
 - Improvements to sphinx-pre-install to, hopefully, give more useful
   suggestions.
 
 - A number of build-warning fixes
 
 Plus the usual collection of typo fixes, updates, and more.
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Merge tag 'docs-6.0' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "This was a moderately busy cycle for documentation, but nothing
  all that earth-shaking:

   - More Chinese translations, and an update to the Italian
     translations.

     The Japanese, Korean, and traditional Chinese translations
     are more-or-less unmaintained at this point, instead.

   - Some build-system performance improvements.

   - The removal of the archaic submitting-drivers.rst document,
     with the movement of what useful material that remained into
     other docs.

   - Improvements to sphinx-pre-install to, hopefully, give more
     useful suggestions.

   - A number of build-warning fixes

  Plus the usual collection of typo fixes, updates, and more"

* tag 'docs-6.0' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (92 commits)
  docs: efi-stub: Fix paths for x86 / arm stubs
  Docs/zh_CN: Update the translation of sched-stats to 5.19-rc8
  Docs/zh_CN: Update the translation of pci to 5.19-rc8
  Docs/zh_CN: Update the translation of pci-iov-howto to 5.19-rc8
  Docs/zh_CN: Update the translation of usage to 5.19-rc8
  Docs/zh_CN: Update the translation of testing-overview to 5.19-rc8
  Docs/zh_CN: Update the translation of sparse to 5.19-rc8
  Docs/zh_CN: Update the translation of kasan to 5.19-rc8
  Docs/zh_CN: Update the translation of iio_configfs to 5.19-rc8
  doc:it_IT: align Italian documentation
  docs: Remove spurious tag from admin-guide/mm/overcommit-accounting.rst
  Documentation: process: Update email client instructions for Thunderbird
  docs: ABI: correct QEMU fw_cfg spec path
  doc/zh_CN: remove submitting-driver reference from docs
  docs: zh_TW: align to submitting-drivers removal
  docs: zh_CN: align to submitting-drivers removal
  docs: ko_KR: howto: remove reference to removed submitting-drivers
  docs: ja_JP: howto: remove reference to removed submitting-drivers
  docs: it_IT: align to submitting-drivers removal
  docs: process: remove outdated submitting-drivers.rst
  ...
2022-08-02 19:24:24 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
273aaa2436 docs: embargoed-hardware-issues: fix invalid AMD contact email
The current AMD contact info email address is incorrect, so fix it up to
use the correct one.

Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Cc: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Cc: Hu Haowen <src.res@email.cn>
Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Acked-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220729134517.2284700-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-07-29 16:10:04 +02:00
Sotir Danailov
cbf4adfd4d Documentation: process: Update email client instructions for Thunderbird
The instructions don't match with the current Thunderbird interface.
Clarification on using external extensions.
New information on how to avoid writing HTML emails.
Tell user to restart Thunderbird after modifications.

Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Sotir Danailov <sndanailov@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220715211307.9358-1-sndanailov@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-07-20 15:17:09 -06:00
Takashi Iwai
29a249d72d ASoC: Updates for v5.20
This is a big release thus far and there will probably be more changes
 to come, it's a combination of a larger than usual crop of new drivers
 and some subsysetm wide cleanups from Charles rather than anything
 structural.  The SOF and Intel DSP code both also continue to be very
 actively developed.
 
  - Restructing of the set_fmt() callbacks to be specified in terms of
    the device rather than with semantics depending on if the device is
    supposed to be a CODEC or SoC, making things clearer in situations
    like CODEC to CODEC links.
  - Clean up of the way we flag which DAI naming scheme we use to reflect
    the progress that's been made modernising things.
  - Merge of more of the Intel AVS driver stack, including some board
    integrations.
  - New version 4 mechanism for communication with SOF DSPs.
  - Suppoort for dynamically selecting the PLL to use at runtime on i.MX
    platforms.
  - Improvements for CODEC to CODEC support in the generic cards.
  - Support for AMD Jadeite and various machines, Intel MetorLake DSPs,
    Mediatek MT8186 DSPs and MT6366, nVidia Tegra MDDRC, OPE and PEQ, NXP
    TFA9890, Qualcomm SDM845, WCD9335 and WAS883x, and Texas Instruments
    TAS2780.
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Merge tag 'asoc-v5.20' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-next

ASoC: Updates for v5.20

This is a big release thus far and there will probably be more changes
to come, it's a combination of a larger than usual crop of new drivers
and some subsysetm wide cleanups from Charles rather than anything
structural.  The SOF and Intel DSP code both also continue to be very
actively developed.

 - Restructing of the set_fmt() callbacks to be specified in terms of
   the device rather than with semantics depending on if the device is
   supposed to be a CODEC or SoC, making things clearer in situations
   like CODEC to CODEC links.
 - Clean up of the way we flag which DAI naming scheme we use to reflect
   the progress that's been made modernising things.
 - Merge of more of the Intel AVS driver stack, including some board
   integrations.
 - New version 4 mechanism for communication with SOF DSPs.
 - Suppoort for dynamically selecting the PLL to use at runtime on i.MX
   platforms.
 - Improvements for CODEC to CODEC support in the generic cards.
 - Support for AMD Jadeite and various machines, Intel MetorLake DSPs,
   Mediatek MT8186 DSPs and MT6366, nVidia Tegra MDDRC, OPE and PEQ, NXP
   TFA9890, Qualcomm SDM845, WCD9335 and WAS883x, and Texas Instruments
   TAS2780.
2022-07-15 16:11:58 +02:00
Lukas Bulwahn
9db370de27 docs: process: remove outdated submitting-drivers.rst
Commit 31b24bee33 ("docs: add a warning to submitting-drivers.rst")
in October 2016 already warns "This (...) should maybe just be deleted,
but I'm not quite ready to do that yet".

Maybe, six years ago, we were not ready but let us remove old content
for the better now and structure and maintain less content in the kernel
documentation with a better result.

Drop this already outdated document and adjust all textual references.

Here is an argument why deleting the content will not remove any useful
information to the existing kernel documentation, individually broken down
for each section.

Section "Allocating Device Numbers" refers to https://www.lanana.org/, and
then refers to Documentation/admin-guide/devices.rst.

However, the devices.rst clearly states:

  "The version of this document at lanana.org is no longer maintained."

Everything needed for submitting drivers is already stated in devices.rst
and the reference to https://www.lanana.org/ is outdated, and should be
just deleted.

Section "Who To Submit Drivers To" is all about Linux 2.0 - 2.6, before
the new release version scheme; the mentioned developers are still around,
but actually not the first developers to contact anymore.

Section "What Criteria Determine Acceptance" has a few bullet points:

Licensing and Copyright is well-covered in process/kernel-license.rst.

Interfaces, Code, Portability, Clarity state some obvious things about
ensuring kernel code quality.

Control suggests to add a MAINTAINERS entry, which is already mentioned in
6.Followthrough.rst: "... added yourself to the MAINTAINERS file..."

PM support states a bit about implementing and testing power management of
a driver, it remains an open question where to place that in the process
documents. Driver developers interested in power management will find the
corresponding part on power management in the kernel documentation anyway.

In section "What Criteria Do Not Determine Acceptance", the points Vendor
and Author states something basic consequence of the kernel being an
open-source community software development. Probably no need to mention it
nowadays.

Section "Resources" lists resources that are also mentioned elsewhere more
central.

  - Linux kernel tree and mailing list is mentioned in many places.
  - https://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ is mentioned in
    Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst.

  - https://lwn.net/ is mentioned in:
    - Documentation/process/8.Conclusion.rst
    - Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst

  - https://kernelnewbies.org/ is mentioned in:
      - Documentation/process/8.Conclusion.rst
      - Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst

  - http://www.linux-usb.org/ is mentioned in
    Documentation/driver-api/usb/usb.rst

  - https://landley.net/kdocs/ols/2002/ols2002-pages-545-555.pdf
    is mentioned in Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst

  - https://kernelnewbies.org/KernelJanitors is mentioned in
    Documentation/process/howto.rst

  - https://git-scm.com/ is mentioned in
    - Documentation/process/2.Process.rst
    - Documentation/process/7.AdvancedTopics.rst
    - Documentation/process/howto.rst

Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220704122537.3407-7-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-07-14 15:03:57 -06:00
Lukas Bulwahn
6c568f6a42 docs: kernel-docs: add a reference mentioned in submitting-drivers.rst
One section in submitting-drivers.rst was just a collection of references
to other external documentation. All except the one added in this commit
is already mentioned in kernel-docs or other places in the kernel
documentation.

Add Arjan van de Ven's article on How to NOT write kernel driver to this
index of further kernel documentation.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220704122537.3407-5-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-07-14 15:03:56 -06:00
Lukas Bulwahn
f46b4b168c docs: kernel-docs: reflect that it is community-maintained
Remove and rephrase statements that only make sense if a single author
exclusively would maintain this document, but we would really want to
consider this being a page maintained by the kernel community, as it is
placed in the kernel repository,  and let us hope that more contributors
suggest some more documents.

Further, do some minor word-smithing.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220704122537.3407-4-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-07-14 15:03:56 -06:00
Lukas Bulwahn
615041d42a docs: kernel-docs: shorten the lengthy doc title
The original title comes from copying the content from a web page that
covered various mixed computer-science material. Within the kernel
documentation and its current structure, the title can be shortened.

Other titles considered, but not selected were:
  - Index of More Kernel Documentation
  - Further Kernel Documentation
  - References to Further Kernel Documentation

Shorten the title.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220704122537.3407-3-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-07-14 15:03:56 -06:00
Lukas Bulwahn
a4c174ca8d docs: kernel-docs: order reference from newest to oldest
The documents on each section of this document are ordered by its
published date, from the newest to the oldest.

In the kernel-docs.rst, the references on each section of this document
are intended to be ordered by its published date, from the newest to the
oldest. The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide was published in 2021;
so, it is placed at the top as the most recent publication after the
rolling-version "Linux Kernel Mailing List Glossary" reference.

Fixes: 630c8fa02f ("Documentation: Update details of The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide")

Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220704122537.3407-2-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-07-14 15:03:56 -06:00
Nick Desaulniers
6c3c267e5f Documentation/process: Add embargoed HW contact for LLVM
Should the need for toolchain mitigations ever be necessary, add a group
for toolchain ambassadors.

Add Nick Desaulniers as LLVM's ambassador for the embargoed hardware
issues process.

Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220711181101.1559558-1-ndesaulniers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-07-12 12:12:54 +02:00
Jakub Kicinski
5d407ca738 docs: netdev: add a cheat sheet for the rules
Summarize the rules we see broken most often and which may
be less familiar to kernel devs who are used to working outside
of netdev.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2022-07-04 10:06:50 +01:00
Jakub Kicinski
a248756411 docs: netdev: document reverse xmas tree
Similarly to the 15 patch rule the reverse xmas tree is not
documented.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2022-07-04 10:06:50 +01:00
Jakub Kicinski
02514a067f docs: netdev: document that patch series length limit
We had been asking people to avoid massive patch series but it does
not appear in the FAQ.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2022-07-04 10:06:50 +01:00
Marek Vasut
d15534a6f4
ASoC: doc: Update dead links
The alsa-project documentation is now part of the kernel docs,
the original links are long dead, update links.

Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220628165807.152191-1-marex@denx.de
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
2022-06-30 10:56:27 +01:00
Masahiro Yamada
da4288b95b scripts/check-local-export: avoid 'wait $!' for process substitution
Bash 4.4, released in 2016, supports 'wait $!' to check the exit status
of a process substitution, but it seems too new.

Some people using older bash versions (on CentOS 7, Ubuntu 16.04, etc.)
reported an error like this:

  ./scripts/check-local-export: line 54: wait: pid 17328 is not a child of this shell

I used the process substitution to avoid a pipeline, which executes each
command in a subshell. If the while-loop is executed in the subshell
context, variable changes within are lost after the subshell terminates.

Fortunately, Bash 4.2, released in 2011, supports the 'lastpipe' option,
which makes the last element of a pipeline run in the current shell process.

Switch to the pipeline with 'lastpipe' solution, and also set 'pipefail'
to catch errors from ${NM}.

Add the bash requirement to Documentation/process/changes.rst.

Fixes: 31cb50b559 ("kbuild: check static EXPORT_SYMBOL* by script instead of modpost")
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Reported-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Reported-by: Wang Yugui <wangyugui@e16-tech.com>
Tested-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Tested-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> # LLVM-14 (x86-64)
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
2022-06-10 03:47:13 +09:00
Linus Torvalds
88a618920e It was a moderately busy cycle for documentation; highlights include:
- After a long period of inactivity, the Japanese translations are seeing
    some much-needed maintenance and updating.
 
  - Reworked IOMMU documentation
 
  - Some new documentation for static-analysis tools
 
  - A new overall structure for the memory-management documentation.  This
    is an LSFMM outcome that, it is hoped, will help encourage developers to
    fill in the many gaps.  Optimism is eternal...but hopefully it will
    work.
 
  - More Chinese translations.
 
 Plus the usual typo fixes, updates, etc.
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Merge tag 'docs-5.19' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "It was a moderately busy cycle for documentation; highlights include:

   - After a long period of inactivity, the Japanese translations are
     seeing some much-needed maintenance and updating.

   - Reworked IOMMU documentation

   - Some new documentation for static-analysis tools

   - A new overall structure for the memory-management documentation.
     This is an LSFMM outcome that, it is hoped, will help encourage
     developers to fill in the many gaps. Optimism is eternal...but
     hopefully it will work.

   - More Chinese translations.

  Plus the usual typo fixes, updates, etc"

* tag 'docs-5.19' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (70 commits)
  docs: pdfdocs: Add space for chapter counts >= 100 in TOC
  docs/zh_CN: Add dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst Chinese translation
  input: Docs: correct ntrig.rst typo
  input: Docs: correct atarikbd.rst typos
  MAINTAINERS: Become the docs/zh_CN maintainer
  docs/zh_CN: fix devicetree usage-model translation
  mm,doc: Add new documentation structure
  Documentation: drop more IDE boot options and ide-cd.rst
  Documentation/process: use scripts/get_maintainer.pl on patches
  MAINTAINERS: Add entry for DOCUMENTATION/JAPANESE
  docs/trans/ja_JP/howto: Don't mention specific kernel versions
  docs/ja_JP/SubmittingPatches: Request summaries for commit references
  docs/ja_JP/SubmittingPatches: Add Suggested-by as a standard signature
  docs/ja_JP/SubmittingPatches: Randy has moved
  docs/ja_JP/SubmittingPatches: Suggest the use of scripts/get_maintainer.pl
  docs/ja_JP/SubmittingPatches: Update GregKH links
  Documentation/sysctl: document max_rcu_stall_to_panic
  Documentation: add missing angle bracket in cgroup-v2 doc
  Documentation: dev-tools: use literal block instead of code-block
  docs/zh_CN: add vm numa translation
  ...
2022-05-25 11:17:41 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1de564b8c1 - Add a "make x86_debug.config" target which enables a bunch of useful
config debug options when trying to debug an issue
 
 - A gcc12 build warnings fix
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Merge tag 'x86_build_for_v5.19_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull x86 build updates from Borislav Petkov:

 - Add a "make x86_debug.config" target which enables a bunch of useful
   config debug options when trying to debug an issue

 - A gcc-12 build warnings fix

* tag 'x86_build_for_v5.19_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/boot: Wrap literal addresses in absolute_pointer()
  x86/configs: Add x86 debugging Kconfig fragment plus docs
2022-05-23 18:15:44 -07:00
Catalin Marinas
575f00edea Documentation/process: Update ARM contact for embargoed hardware issues
With Grant taking a prominent role in Linaro, I will take over as the
process ambassador for ARM w.r.t. embargoed hardware issues.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@arm.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-05-10 19:10:16 +02:00
Krzysztof Kozlowski
f1a693994b Documentation/process: use scripts/get_maintainer.pl on patches
Explain that, when collecting list of people to Cc the patch,
scripts/get_maintainer.pl should be used on patches, not on the
directories.  The behavior is quite different, because with "-f" on
a directory, the maintainers of individual files will not be shown.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220427185645.677039-1-krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-05-09 16:12:16 -06:00
Darren Hart
29ad05fd67 Documentation/process: Add embargoed HW contact for Ampere Computing
Add Darren Hart as Ampere Computing's ambassador for the embargoed
hardware issues process.

Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <darren@os.amperecomputing.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2e36a8e925bc958928b4afa189b2f876c392831b.1650995848.git.darren@os.amperecomputing.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-05-06 10:00:25 +02:00
Darren Hart
8bf6e0e3c7 Documentation/process: Make groups alphabetical and use tabs consistently
The list appears to be grouped by type (silicon, software, cloud) and
mostly alphabetical within each group, with a few exceptions.

Before adding to it, cleanup the list to be alphabetical within the
groups, and use tabs consistently throughout the list.

Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <darren@os.amperecomputing.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ec574b5d55584a3adda9bd31b7695193636ff136.1650995848.git.darren@os.amperecomputing.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-05-06 10:00:23 +02:00
Akira Yokosawa
6d5aa418b3 docs: submitting-patches: Fix crossref to 'The canonical patch format'
The reference to `explicit_in_reply_to` is pointless as when the
reference was added in the form of "#15" [1], Section 15) was "The
canonical patch format".
The reference of "#15" had not been properly updated in a couple of
reorganizations during the plain-text SubmittingPatches era.

Fix it by using `the_canonical_patch_format`.

[1]: 2ae19acaa5 ("Documentation: Add "how to write a good patch summary" to SubmittingPatches")

Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Fixes: 5903019b2a ("Documentation/SubmittingPatches: convert it to ReST markup")
Fixes: 9b2c76777a ("Documentation/SubmittingPatches: enrich the Sphinx output")
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.9+
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/64e105a5-50be-23f2-6cae-903a2ea98e18@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-04-28 12:28:11 -06:00
Bruno Moreira-Guedes
5a5866c28b Docs: Replace version by 'current' in changes.rst
The file 'Documentation/process/changes.rst' states the listed
requirements are for the 4.x kernel version. However, there are
requirements updated for the 5.x version, as there might be in other
future versions. This patch updates it to 'latest' so the document won't
be outdated in the future.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Moreira-Guedes <codeagain@codeagain.dev>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-04-22 09:47:25 -06:00
Bruno Moreira-Guedes
69ef0920bd Docs: Add cpio requirement to changes.rst
The install target requires cpio to run the `kernel/gen_kheaders.sh`
script, but it's missing in the requirements list at
'Documentation/process/changes.rst'. This patch adds it to the list.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Moreira-Guedes <codeagain@codeagain.dev>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-04-22 09:47:25 -06:00
Dave Hansen
9b5a7f4a2a x86/configs: Add x86 debugging Kconfig fragment plus docs
The kernel has a wide variety of debugging options to help catch
and squash bugs.  However, new debugging is added all the time and
the existing options can be hard to find.

Add a Kconfig fragment with the debugging options which tip
maintainers expect to be used to test contributions.

This should make it easier for contributors to test their code and
find issues before submission.

  [ bp: Add to "make help" output, fix DEBUG_INFO selection as pointed
        out by Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>. ]

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220331175728.299103A0@davehans-spike.ostc.intel.com
2022-04-06 19:56:29 +02:00
Catalin Marinas
ca3d0b5dfc Documentation/process: Update ARM contact for embargoed hardware issues
With Grant taking a prominent role in Linaro, I will take over as the
process ambassador for ARM w.r.t. embargoed hardware issues.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@arm.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-04-05 10:18:26 -06:00
Krzysztof Kozlowski
0c603a5c70 Documentation/process: mention patch changelog in review process
Extend the "Respond to review comments" section of "Submitting patches"
with reference to patch changelogs.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-04-05 09:15:29 -06:00
Jakub Kicinski
8df0136376 docs: netdev: move the netdev-FAQ to the process pages
The documentation for the tip tree is really in quite a similar
spirit to the netdev-FAQ. Move the netdev-FAQ to the process docs
as well.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
2022-03-31 10:49:39 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
266d17a8c0 Driver core changes for 5.18-rc1
Here is the set of driver core changes for 5.18-rc1.
 
 Not much here, primarily it was a bunch of cleanups and small updates:
 	- kobj_type cleanups for default_groups
 	- documentation updates
 	- firmware loader minor changes
 	- component common helper added and take advantage of it in many
 	  drivers (the largest part of this pull request).
 
 There will be a merge conflict in drivers/power/supply/ab8500_chargalg.c
 with your tree, the merge conflict should be easy (take all the
 changes).
 
 All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
 problems.
 
 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'driver-core-5.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the set of driver core changes for 5.18-rc1.

  Not much here, primarily it was a bunch of cleanups and small updates:

   - kobj_type cleanups for default_groups

   - documentation updates

   - firmware loader minor changes

   - component common helper added and take advantage of it in many
     drivers (the largest part of this pull request).

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
  problems"

* tag 'driver-core-5.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (54 commits)
  Documentation: update stable review cycle documentation
  drivers/base/dd.c : Remove the initial value of the global variable
  Documentation: update stable tree link
  Documentation: add link to stable release candidate tree
  devres: fix typos in comments
  Documentation: add note block surrounding security patch note
  samples/kobject: Use sysfs_emit instead of sprintf
  base: soc: Make soc_device_match() simpler and easier to read
  driver core: dd: fix return value of __setup handler
  driver core: Refactor sysfs and drv/bus remove hooks
  driver core: Refactor multiple copies of device cleanup
  scripts: get_abi.pl: Fix typo in help message
  kernfs: fix typos in comments
  kernfs: remove unneeded #if 0 guard
  ALSA: hda/realtek: Make use of the helper component_compare_dev_name
  video: omapfb: dss: Make use of the helper component_compare_dev
  power: supply: ab8500: Make use of the helper component_compare_dev
  ASoC: codecs: wcd938x: Make use of the helper component_compare/release_of
  iommu/mediatek: Make use of the helper component_compare/release_of
  drm: of: Make use of the helper component_release_of
  ...
2022-03-28 12:41:28 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
50560ce6a0 Kbuild -std=gnu11 updates for v5.18
Linus pointed out the benefits of C99 some years ago, especially variable
 declarations in loops [1]. At that time, we were not ready for the
 migration due to old compilers.
 
 Recently, Jakob Koschel reported a bug in list_for_each_entry(), which
 leaks the invalid pointer out of the loop [2]. In the discussion, we
 agreed that the time had come. Now that GCC 5.1 is the minimum compiler
 version, there is nothing to prevent us from going to -std=gnu99, or even
 straight to -std=gnu11.
 
 Discussions for a better list iterator implementation are ongoing, but
 this patch set must land first.
 
 [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wgr12JkKmRd21qh-se-_Gs69kbPgR9x4C+Es-yJV2GLkA@mail.gmail.com/
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Merge tag 'kbuild-gnu11-v5.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

Pull Kbuild update for C11 language base from Masahiro Yamada:
 "Kbuild -std=gnu11 updates for v5.18

  Linus pointed out the benefits of C99 some years ago, especially
  variable declarations in loops [1]. At that time, we were not ready
  for the migration due to old compilers.

  Recently, Jakob Koschel reported a bug in list_for_each_entry(), which
  leaks the invalid pointer out of the loop [2]. In the discussion, we
  agreed that the time had come. Now that GCC 5.1 is the minimum
  compiler version, there is nothing to prevent us from going to
  -std=gnu99, or even straight to -std=gnu11.

  Discussions for a better list iterator implementation are ongoing, but
  this patch set must land first"

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wgr12JkKmRd21qh-se-_Gs69kbPgR9x4C+Es-yJV2GLkA@mail.gmail.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/86C4CE7D-6D93-456B-AA82-F8ADEACA40B7@gmail.com/

* tag 'kbuild-gnu11-v5.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
  Kbuild: use -std=gnu11 for KBUILD_USERCFLAGS
  Kbuild: move to -std=gnu11
  Kbuild: use -Wdeclaration-after-statement
  Kbuild: add -Wno-shift-negative-value where -Wextra is used
2022-03-25 11:48:01 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
d0858cbdef overflow updates for v5.18-rc1
- Convert overflow selftest to KUnit
 - Convert stackinit selftest to KUnit
 - Implement size_t saturating arithmetic helpers
 - Allow struct_size() to be used in initializers
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Merge tag 'overflow-v5.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux

Pull overflow updates from Kees Cook:
 "These changes come in roughly two halves: support of Gustavo A. R.
  Silva's struct_size() work via additional helpers for catching
  overflow allocation size calculations, and conversions of selftests to
  KUnit (which includes some tweaks for UML + Clang):

   - Convert overflow selftest to KUnit

   - Convert stackinit selftest to KUnit

   - Implement size_t saturating arithmetic helpers

   - Allow struct_size() to be used in initializers"

* tag 'overflow-v5.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  lib: stackinit: Convert to KUnit
  um: Allow builds with Clang
  lib: overflow: Convert to Kunit
  overflow: Provide constant expression struct_size
  overflow: Implement size_t saturating arithmetic helpers
  test_overflow: Regularize test reporting output
2022-03-21 19:46:41 -07:00
Bagas Sanjaya
88d99e8701 Documentation: update stable review cycle documentation
In recent times, the review cycle for stable releases have been changed.
In particular, there is release candidate phase between ACKing patches
and new stable release. Also, in case of failed submissions (fail to
apply to stable tree), manual backport (Option 3) have to be submitted
instead.

Update the release cycle documentation on stable-kernel-rules.rst to
reflect the above.

Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220314113329.485372-4-bagasdotme@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-03-18 14:32:49 +01:00
Bagas Sanjaya
555d44932c Documentation: update stable tree link
The link to stable tree is redirected to
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git. Update
accordingly.

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220314113329.485372-6-bagasdotme@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-03-18 14:30:51 +01:00
Bagas Sanjaya
587d39b260 Documentation: add link to stable release candidate tree
There is also stable release candidate tree. Mention it, however with a
warning that the tree is for testing purposes.

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220314113329.485372-5-bagasdotme@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-03-18 14:30:35 +01:00
Bagas Sanjaya
615f3eea0d Documentation: add note block surrounding security patch note
Security patches have different handling than rest of patches for
review.

Enclose note paragraph about such patches in `.. note::` block.

Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220314113329.485372-2-bagasdotme@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-03-18 14:29:21 +01:00
Arnd Bergmann
e8c07082a8 Kbuild: move to -std=gnu11
During a patch discussion, Linus brought up the option of changing
the C standard version from gnu89 to gnu99, which allows using variable
declaration inside of a for() loop. While the C99, C11 and later standards
introduce many other features, most of these are already available in
gnu89 as GNU extensions as well.

An earlier attempt to do this when gcc-5 started defaulting to
-std=gnu11 failed because at the time that caused warnings about
designated initializers with older compilers. Now that gcc-5.1 is
the minimum compiler version used for building kernels, that is no
longer a concern. Similarly, the behavior of 'inline' functions changes
between gnu89 using gnu_inline behavior and gnu11 using standard c99+
behavior, but this was taken care of by defining 'inline' to include
__attribute__((gnu_inline)) in order to allow building with clang a
while ago.

Nathan Chancellor reported a new -Wdeclaration-after-statement
warning that appears in a system header on arm, this still needs a
workaround.

The differences between gnu99, gnu11, gnu1x and gnu17 are fairly
minimal and mainly impact warnings at the -Wpedantic level that the
kernel never enables. Between these, gnu11 is the newest version
that is supported by all supported compiler versions, though it is
only the default on gcc-5, while all other supported versions of
gcc or clang default to gnu1x/gnu17.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wiyCH7xeHcmiFJ-YgXUy2Jaj7pnkdKpcovt8fYbVFW3TA@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1603
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Acked-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
2022-03-13 17:31:37 +09:00
Bagas Sanjaya
fa04150b8e Documentation: describe how to apply incremental stable patches
The applying patches document
(Documentation/process/applying-patches.rst) mentions incremental stable
patches, but there is no example of how to apply them. Describe the
process.

While at it, remove note about incremental patches and move the external
link of 5.x.y incremental patches to "Where can I download patches?"
section.

Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220307063340.256671-1-bagasdotme@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-03-09 16:29:44 -07:00
Kees Cook
f09f6f9b69 Documentation/process: Add Researcher Guidelines
As a follow-up to the UMN incident[1], the TAB took the responsibility
to document Researcher Guidelines so there would be a common place to
point for describing our expectations as a developer community.

Document best practices researchers should follow to participate
successfully with the Linux developer community.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202105051005.49BFABCE@keescook/

Co-developed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Co-developed-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Co-developed-by: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@upsilon.cc>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@upsilon.cc>
Co-developed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Steve Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>
Reviewed-by: Wenwen Wang <wenwen@cs.uga.edu>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220304181418.1692016-1-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-03-09 16:19:23 -07:00
Thorsten Leemhuis
d2b40ba2cc docs: *-regressions.rst: explain how quickly issues should be handled
Add a section with a few rules of thumb about how
quickly developers should address regressions to
Documentation/process/handling-regressions.rst; additionally,
add a short paragraph about this to the companion document
Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-regressions.rst as well.

The rules of thumb were written after studying the quotes from Linus
found in handling-regressions.rst and especially influenced by
statements like "Users are literally the _only_ thing that matters" and
"without users, your program is not a program, it's a pointless piece of
code that you might as well throw away". The author interpreted those in
perspective to how the various Linux kernel series are maintained
currently and what those practices might mean for users running into a
regression on a small or big kernel update.

That for example lead to the paragraph starting with "Aim to get fixes
for regressions mainlined within one week after identifying the culprit,
if the regression was introduced in a stable/longterm release or the
devel cycle for the latest mainline release". Some might see this as
pretty high bar, but on the other hand something like that is needed to
not leave users out in the cold for too long -- which can quickly happen
when updating to the latest stable series, as the previous one is
normally stamped "End of Life" about three or four weeks after a new
mainline release. This makes a lot of users switch during this
timeframe. Any of them thus risk running into regressions not promptly
fixed; even worse, once the previous stable series is EOLed for real,
users that face a regression might be left with only three options:

 (1) continue running an outdated and thus potentially insecure kernel
     version from an abandoned stable series

 (2) run the kernel with the regression

 (3) downgrade to an earlier longterm series still supported

This is better avoided, as (1) puts users and their data in danger, (2)
will only be possible if it's a minor regression that doesn't interfere
with booting or serious usage, and (3) might be regression itself or
impossible on the particular machine, as the users might require drivers
or features only introduced after the latest longterm series branched
of.

In the end this lead to the aforementioned "Aim to fix regression within
one week" part. It's also the reason for the "Try to resolve any
regressions introduced in the current development cycle before its
end.".

Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
CC: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a7b717b52c0d54cdec9b6daf56ed6669feddee2c.1644994117.git.linux@leemhuis.info
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-02-24 12:57:25 -07:00
Thorsten Leemhuis
1ecf393fc5 docs: add two documents about regression handling
Create two documents explaining various aspects around regression
handling and tracking; one is aimed at users, the other targets
developers.

The texts among others describes the first rule of Linux kernel
development and what it means in practice. They also explain what a
regression actually is and how to report one properly.

Both texts additionally provide a brief introduction to the bot the
kernel's regression tracker uses to facilitate the work, but mention the
use is optional.

To sum things up, provide a few quotes from Linus in the document for
developers to show how serious we take regressions.

Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/34e56d3588f22d7e0b4d635ef9c9c3b33ca4ac04.1644994117.git.linux@leemhuis.info
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-02-24 12:57:25 -07:00
Kees Cook
e1be43d9b5 overflow: Implement size_t saturating arithmetic helpers
In order to perform more open-coded replacements of common allocation
size arithmetic, the kernel needs saturating (SIZE_MAX) helpers for
multiplication, addition, and subtraction. For example, it is common in
allocators, especially on realloc, to add to an existing size:

    p = krealloc(map->patch,
                 sizeof(struct reg_sequence) * (map->patch_regs + num_regs),
                 GFP_KERNEL);

There is no existing saturating replacement for this calculation, and
just leaving the addition open coded inside array_size() could
potentially overflow as well. For example, an overflow in an expression
for a size_t argument might wrap to zero:

    array_size(anything, something_at_size_max + 1) == 0

Introduce size_mul(), size_add(), and size_sub() helpers that
implicitly promote arguments to size_t and saturated calculations for
use in allocations. With these helpers it is also possible to redefine
array_size(), array3_size(), flex_array_size(), and struct_size() in
terms of the new helpers.

As with the check_*_overflow() helpers, the new helpers use __must_check,
though what is really desired is a way to make sure that assignment is
only to a size_t lvalue. Without this, it's still possible to introduce
overflow/underflow via type conversion (i.e. from size_t to int).
Enforcing this will currently need to be left to static analysis or
future use of -Wconversion.

Additionally update the overflow unit tests to force runtime evaluation
for the pathological cases.

Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Cc: Len Baker <len.baker@gmx.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
2022-02-16 14:29:48 -08:00
Andy Shevchenko
869f496e1a docs: process: submitting-patches: Clarify the Reported-by usage
It's unclear from "Submitting Patches" documentation that Reported-by
is not supposed to be used against new features. (It's more clear
in the section 5.4 "Patch formatting and changelogs" of the "A guide
to the Kernel Development Process", where it suggests that change
should fix something existing in the kernel. Clarify the Reported-by
usage in the "Submitting Patches".

Reported-by: Florian Eckert <fe@dev.tdt.de>
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220127163258.48482-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-01-27 11:53:54 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
fd6f57bfda Kbuild updates for v5.17
- Add new kconfig target 'make mod2noconfig', which will be useful to
    speed up the build and test iteration.
 
  - Raise the minimum supported version of LLVM to 11.0.0
 
  - Refactor certs/Makefile
 
  - Change the format of include/config/auto.conf to stop double-quoting
    string type CONFIG options.
 
  - Fix ARCH=sh builds in dash
 
  - Separate compression macros for general purposes (cmd_bzip2 etc.) and
    the ones for decompressors (cmd_bzip2_with_size etc.)
 
  - Misc Makefile cleanups
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Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Add new kconfig target 'make mod2noconfig', which will be useful to
   speed up the build and test iteration.

 - Raise the minimum supported version of LLVM to 11.0.0

 - Refactor certs/Makefile

 - Change the format of include/config/auto.conf to stop double-quoting
   string type CONFIG options.

 - Fix ARCH=sh builds in dash

 - Separate compression macros for general purposes (cmd_bzip2 etc.) and
   the ones for decompressors (cmd_bzip2_with_size etc.)

 - Misc Makefile cleanups

* tag 'kbuild-v5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (34 commits)
  kbuild: add cmd_file_size
  arch: decompressor: remove useless vmlinux.bin.all-y
  kbuild: rename cmd_{bzip2,lzma,lzo,lz4,xzkern,zstd22}
  kbuild: drop $(size_append) from cmd_zstd
  sh: rename suffix-y to suffix_y
  doc: kbuild: fix default in `imply` table
  microblaze: use built-in function to get CPU_{MAJOR,MINOR,REV}
  certs: move scripts/extract-cert to certs/
  kbuild: do not quote string values in include/config/auto.conf
  kbuild: do not include include/config/auto.conf from shell scripts
  certs: simplify $(srctree)/ handling and remove config_filename macro
  kbuild: stop using config_filename in scripts/Makefile.modsign
  certs: remove misleading comments about GCC PR
  certs: refactor file cleaning
  certs: remove unneeded -I$(srctree) option for system_certificates.o
  certs: unify duplicated cmd_extract_certs and improve the log
  certs: use $< and $@ to simplify the key generation rule
  kbuild: remove headers_check stub
  kbuild: move headers_check.pl to usr/include/
  certs: use if_changed to re-generate the key when the key type is changed
  ...
2022-01-19 11:15:19 +02:00
Thorsten Leemhuis
bf33a9d42d docs: 5.Posting.rst: describe Fixes: and Link: tags
Explain Fixes: and Link: tags in Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst,
which are missing in this file for unknown reasons and only described in
Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst.

Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
CC: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c4a5f5e25fa84b26fd383bba6eafde4ab57c9de7.1641314856.git.linux@leemhuis.info
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-01-07 09:33:13 -07:00
Miguel Ojeda
6c5ccd24ff Remove mentions of the Trivial Patch Monkey
Apparently, it was decided that trivial@kernel.org
is no longer used.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/fe86efbd-4e03-76c8-55cf-dabd33e85823@infradead.org/
Co-developed-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211214191415.GA19070@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-12-16 15:43:53 -07:00
Nathan Chancellor
df05c0e949 Documentation: Raise the minimum supported version of LLVM to 11.0.0
LLVM versions prior to 11.0.0 have a harder time with dead code
elimination, which can cause issues with commonly used expressions such
as BUILD_BUG_ON and the bitmask functions/macros in bitfield.h (see the
first two issues links below).

Whenever there is an issue within LLVM that has been resolved in a later
release, the only course of action is to gate the problematic
configuration or source code on the toolchain verson or raise the
minimum supported version of LLVM for building the kernel, as LLVM has a
limited support lifetime compared to GCC. GCC major releases will
typically see a few point releases across a two year period on average
whereas LLVM major releases are only supported until the next major
release and will only see one or two point releases within that
timeframe. For example, GCC 8.1 was released in May 2018 and GCC 8.5 was
released in May 2021, whereas LLVM 12.0.0 was released in April 2021 and
its only point release, 12.0.1, was released in July 2021, giving a
minimal window for fixes to be backported.

To resolve these build errors around improper dead code elimination,
raise the minimum supported version of LLVM for building the kernel to
11.0.0. Doing so is a more proper solution than mucking around with core
kernel macros that have always worked with GCC or disabling drivers for
using these macros in a proper manner. This type of issue may continue
to crop up and require patching, which creates more debt for bumping the
minimum supported version in the future.

This should have a minimal impact to distributions. Using a script to
pull several different Docker images and check the output of
'clang --version':

archlinux:latest: clang version 13.0.0

debian:oldoldstable-slim: clang version 3.8.1-24 (tags/RELEASE_381/final)
debian:oldstable-slim: clang version 7.0.1-8+deb10u2 (tags/RELEASE_701/final)
debian:stable-slim: Debian clang version 11.0.1-2
debian:testing-slim: Debian clang version 11.1.0-4
debian:unstable-slim: Debian clang version 11.1.0-4

fedora:34: clang version 12.0.1 (Fedora 12.0.1-1.fc34)
fedora:latest: clang version 13.0.0 (Fedora 13.0.0-3.fc35)
fedora:rawhide: clang version 13.0.0 (Fedora 13.0.0-5.fc36)

opensuse/leap:15.2: clang version 9.0.1
opensuse/leap:latest: clang version 11.0.1
opensuse/tumbleweed:latest: clang version 13.0.0

ubuntu:bionic: clang version 6.0.0-1ubuntu2 (tags/RELEASE_600/final)
ubuntu:latest: clang version 10.0.0-4ubuntu1
ubuntu:hirsute: Ubuntu clang version 12.0.0-3ubuntu1~21.04.2
ubuntu:rolling: Ubuntu clang version 13.0.0-2
ubuntu:devel: Ubuntu clang version 13.0.0-9

In every case, the distribution's version of clang is either older than
the current minimum supported version of LLVM 10.0.1 or equal to or
greater than the proposed 11.0.0 so nothing should change.

Another benefit of this change is LLVM=1 works better with arm64 and
x86_64 since commit f12b034afe ("scripts/Makefile.clang: default to
LLVM_IAS=1") enabled the integrated assembler by default, which only
works well with clang 11+ (clang-10 required it to be disabled to
successfully build a kernel).

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1293
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1506
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1511
Link: fa496ce3c6
Link: https://groups.google.com/g/clang-built-linux/c/mPQb9_ZWW0s/m/W7o6S-QTBAAJ
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/misc-scripts
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
2021-12-02 17:24:32 +09:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
333b11e541 Documentation: Add minimum pahole version
A report was made in https://github.com/acmel/dwarves/issues/26 about
pahole not being listed in the process/changes.rst file as being needed
for building the kernel, address that.

Link: https://github.com/acmel/dwarves/issues/26
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YZPQ6+u2wTHRfR+W@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YZfzQ0DvHD5o26Bt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-11-29 14:48:00 -07:00
Erik Ekman
aa9b5e0df2 Documentation/process: fix self reference
Instead link to the device tree document with the same name.

Signed-off-by: Erik Ekman <erik@kryo.se>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211119200758.642474-1-erik@kryo.se
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-11-29 14:41:35 -07:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
b96ff02ab2 Documentation/process: fix a cross reference
The cross-reference for the handbooks section works. However, it is
meant to describe the path inside the Kernel's doc where the section
is, but there's an space instead of a dash, plus it lacks the .rst at
the end, which makes:

	./scripts/documentation-file-ref-check

to complain.

Fixes: 604370e106 ("Documentation/process: Add maintainer handbooks section")
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-11-17 06:12:14 -07:00
Akira Yokosawa
6d6a8d6a4e docs: Update Sphinx requirements
Commit f546ff0c0c ("Move our minimum Sphinx version to 1.7") raised
the minimum version to 1.7.

For pdfdocs, sphinx_pre_install says:

    note: If you want pdf, you need at least Sphinx 2.4.4.

, and current requirements.txt installs Sphinx 2.4.4.

Update Sphinx versions mentioned in docs and remove a note on earlier
Sphinx versions.

Update zh_CN and it_IT translations as well.

Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Cc: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Cc: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-11-15 02:47:22 -07:00
Thorsten Leemhuis
1f57bd42b7 docs: submitting-patches: make section about the Link: tag more explicit
Mention the 'Link' tag in the section about adding URLs to the commit
msg, to make it clearer they "_primarily_ [...] should be about
background", as Linus recently stated (see the link below). That makes
the explanation also easier to find with a text search. For the same
reason and to improve comprehensibility provide an example, too.

Slightly improve the text at the same time to make it more obvious
developers are meant to add links to issue reports in mailing list
archives, as those allow regression tracking efforts to automatically
check which bugs got resolved.

Move the section also downwards slightly, to reduce jumping back and
forth between aspects relevant for the top and the bottom part of the
commit msg.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wgBhyLhQLPem1vybKNt7BKP+=qF=veBgc7VirZaXn4FUw@mail.gmail.com/
CC: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/27105768dc19b395e7c8e7a80d056d1ff9c570d0.1635152553.git.linux@leemhuis.info
[jc: tweaked wording following Konstantin's recommendation]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-10-28 13:53:47 -06:00
Len Baker
3577cdb23b docs: deprecated.rst: Clarify open-coded arithmetic with literals
Although using literals for size calculation in allocator arguments may
be harmless due to compiler warnings in case of overflows, it is better
to refactor the code to avoid the use of open-coded arithmetic.

So, clarify the preferred way in these cases.

Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Baker <len.baker@gmx.com>
Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210925143455.21221-1-len.baker@gmx.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-10-26 09:43:54 -06:00
Trevor Woerner
c04639a7d2 coding-style.rst: trivial: fix location of driver model macros
The dev_printk()-like functions moved to include/linux/dev_print.h in
commit af628aae86 ("device.h: move dev_printk()-like functions to
dev_printk.h").

Signed-off-by: Trevor Woerner <twoerner@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210423184012.39300-1-twoerner@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-10-26 09:39:49 -06:00
Thorsten Leemhuis
a9d85efb25 docs: use the lore redirector everywhere
Change all links from using the lkml redirector to the lore redirector,
as the kernel.org admin recently indicated: we shouldn't be using
lkml.kernel.org anymore because the domain can create confusion, as it
indicates it is only valid for messages sent to the LKML; the convention
has been to use https://lore.kernel.org/r/msgid for this reason.

In this process also change three links from using http to https.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211006170025.qw3glxvocczfuhar@meerkat.local
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
CC: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
CC: Hu Haowen <src.res@email.cn>
CC: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
CC: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5bb55bac6ba10fafab19bf2b21572dd0e2f8cea2.1633593385.git.linux@leemhuis.info
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-10-12 13:58:19 -06:00
Tommaso Merciai
85eafc63d0 docs: update file link location
Fix web error: this site can't be reached

Signed-off-by: Tommaso Merciai <tomm.merciai@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211003220706.7784-1-tomm.merciai@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-10-12 13:49:27 -06:00
Kees Cook
d5b421fe02 docs: Explain the desired position of function attributes
While discussing how to format the addition of various function
attributes, some "unwritten rules" of ordering surfaced[1]. Capture as
close as possible to Linus's preferences for future reference.

(Though I note the dissent voiced by Joe Perches, Alexey Dobriyan, and
others that would prefer all attributes live on a separate leading line.)

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/mm-commits/CAHk-=wiOCLRny5aifWNhr621kYrJwhfURsa0vFPeUEm8mF0ufg@mail.gmail.com/

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211005152611.4120605-1-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-10-12 13:35:02 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet
b718f9d919 Linux 5.15-rc4
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Merge tag 'v5.15-rc4' into docs-next

This is needed to get a docs fix that entered via the DRM tree; testers
have requested it so that PDF builds in docs-next work again.
2021-10-04 16:44:16 -06:00
Thomas Gleixner
31c9d7c829 Documentation/process: Add tip tree handbook
Add a document to the subsystem/maintainer handbook section, which explains
what the tip tree is, how it operates and what rules and expectations it
has.

  [ bp:

   - Add a SPDX identifier, work in most comments from the thread.
   - 9bf19b78a2 ("Documentation/submitting-patches: Document the SoB
     chain") is also in the main Documentation but I'm leaving the
     paragraph here because it has the proper structure - text talks about
     SoBs and referencing somewhere else would interrupt the flow.
   - Move backtraces in changelogs to main submitting-patches.rst.
   - "Patch version information" is explained to a great detail in
     submitting-patches.rst too.
   - Hyperlink resend reminders section.
  ]

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181107171149.165693799@linutronix.de
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210913153942.15251-3-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-09-14 14:46:49 -06:00
Thomas Gleixner
604370e106 Documentation/process: Add maintainer handbooks section
General rules for patch submission, coding style and related details are
available, but most subsystems have their subsystem-specific extra rules
which differ or go beyond the common rules.

Mark suggested to add a subsystem/maintainer handbook section, where
subsystem maintainers can explain their specific quirks.

Add the section and link to it from the submitting-patches document.

  [ bp: Add a SPDX identifier. ]

Suggested-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181107171149.074948887@linutronix.de
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210913153942.15251-2-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-09-14 14:46:49 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
316346243b Merge branch 'gcc-min-version-5.1' (make gcc-5.1 the minimum version)
Merge patch series from Nick Desaulniers to update the minimum gcc
version to 5.1.

This is some of the left-overs from the merge window that I didn't want
to deal with yesterday, so it comes in after -rc1 but was sent before.

Gcc-4.9 support has been an annoyance for some time, and with -Werror I
had the choice of applying a fairly big patch from Kees Cook to remove a
fair number of initializer warnings (still leaving some), or this patch
series from Nick that just removes the source of the problem.

The initializer cleanups might still be worth it regardless, but
honestly, I preferred just tackling the problem with gcc-4.9 head-on.
We've been more aggressiuve about no longer having to care about
compilers that were released a long time ago, and I think it's been a
good thing.

I added a couple of patches on top to sort out a few left-overs now that
we no longer support gcc-4.x.

As noted by Arnd, as a result of this minimum compiler version upgrade
we can probably change our use of '--std=gnu89' to '--std=gnu11', and
finally start using local loop declarations etc.  But this series does
_not_ yet do that.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210909182525.372ee687@canb.auug.org.au/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAK7LNASs6dvU6D3jL2GG3jW58fXfaj6VNOe55NJnTB8UPuk2pA@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1438

* emailed patches from Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>:
  Drop some straggling mentions of gcc-4.9 as being stale
  compiler_attributes.h: drop __has_attribute() support for gcc4
  vmlinux.lds.h: remove old check for GCC 4.9
  compiler-gcc.h: drop checks for older GCC versions
  Makefile: drop GCC < 5 -fno-var-tracking-assignments workaround
  arm64: remove GCC version check for ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
  powerpc: remove GCC version check for UPD_CONSTR
  riscv: remove Kconfig check for GCC version for ARCH_RV64I
  Kconfig.debug: drop GCC 5+ version check for DWARF5
  mm/ksm: remove old GCC 4.9+ check
  compiler.h: drop fallback overflow checkers
  Documentation: raise minimum supported version of GCC to 5.1
2021-09-13 10:43:04 -07:00
Nick Desaulniers
76ae847497 Documentation: raise minimum supported version of GCC to 5.1
commit fad7cd3310 ("nbd: add the check to prevent overflow in
__nbd_ioctl()") raised an issue from the fallback helpers added in
commit f0907827a8 ("compiler.h: enable builtin overflow checkers and
add fallback code")

Specifically, the helpers for checking whether the results of a
multiplication overflowed (__unsigned_mul_overflow,
__signed_add_overflow) use the division operator when
!COMPILER_HAS_GENERIC_BUILTIN_OVERFLOW.  This is problematic for 64b
operands on 32b hosts.

Also, because the macro is type agnostic, it is very difficult to write
a similarly type generic macro that dispatches to one of:
 * div64_s64
 * div64_u64
 * div_s64
 * div_u64

Raising the minimum supported versions allows us to remove all of the
fallback helpers for !COMPILER_HAS_GENERIC_BUILTIN_OVERFLOW, instead
dispatching the compiler builtins.

arm64 has already raised the minimum supported GCC version to 5.1, do
this for all targets now.  See the link below for the previous
discussion.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210909182525.372ee687@canb.auug.org.au/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAK7LNASs6dvU6D3jL2GG3jW58fXfaj6VNOe55NJnTB8UPuk2pA@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1438
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-09-13 10:18:28 -07:00
SeongJae Park
59c6a716b1 Documentation/process/maintainer-pgp-guide: Replace broken link to PGP path finder
PGP pathfinder[1], which is suggested for finding a trust path to
unknown PGP keys by 'maintainer-pgp-guide.rst', is not working now.
This commit replaces it with other available tools.

[1] https://pgp.cs.uu.nl/

Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210812095030.4704-2-sj38.park@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-08-24 13:23:21 -06:00
Chun-Hung Tseng
630c8fa02f Documentation: Update details of The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide
Recently, the content and examples of the book "The Linux Kernel Module
Programming Guide" are being actively maintained and added on Github[1].
Currently, the book is being regularly built into webpage and pdf
file using Github static page[2].

[1]: https://github.com/sysprog21/lkmpg
[2]: https://sysprog21.github.io/lkmpg/

Signed-off-by: Chun-Hung Tseng <henrybear327@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210820222152.971174-1-henrybear327@gmail.com
[jc: fixed docs-build warnings]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-08-20 17:05:45 -06:00
SeongJae Park
d44f571ff5 Documentation/process/applying-patches: Activate linux-next man hyperlink
There is a url for linux-next in the 'applying-patches.rst', but it's
surrounded by backquotes.  So the url doesn't have a hyperlink in the
built document.  To let readers easily move to the page, this commit
puts the url outside of the backquotes so that a hyperlink to the url
can be automatically made.

Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210812095030.4704-1-sj38.park@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-08-20 11:10:12 -06:00
Hannu Hartikainen
77167b966b docs: submitting-patches: clarify the role of LKML
The documentation previously stated that LKML should be used as *last
resort*. However, scripts/get_maintainer.pl always suggests it and in a
discussion about changing that[0] it turned out that LKML should in fact
receive all patches.

Update documentation to make it clear that all patches should be sent to
LKML by default, in addition to any subsystem-specific lists.

[0]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/19a701a8d5837088aa7d8ba594c228c0e040e747.camel@perches.com/

Signed-off-by: Hannu Hartikainen <hannu@hrtk.in>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210707133634.286840-1-hannu@hrtk.in
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-07-25 14:45:43 -06:00
Kees Cook
6ab0493dfc deprecated.rst: Include details on "no_hash_pointers"
Linus decided a debug toggle for %p was tolerable, so update the
%p deprecation documentation.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210723200526.3424128-1-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-07-25 14:30:55 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
9912d0bb9d docs: process: submitting-patches.rst: avoid using ReST :doc:foo markup
The :doc:`foo` tag is auto-generated via automarkup.py.
So, use the filename at the sources, instead of :doc:`foo`.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d172ab629c3e32c8d27ed4b9d2a209933e2a7178.1623824363.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-06-17 13:24:38 -06:00
Randy Dunlap
9e255e2b9a Documentation: drop optional BOMs
A few of the Documentation .rst files begin with a Unicode
byte order mark (BOM). The BOM may signify endianess for
16-bit or 32-bit encodings or indicate that the text stream
is indeed Unicode. We don't need it for either of those uses.
It may also interfere with (confuse) some software.

Since we don't need it and its use is optional, just delete
the uses of it in Documentation/.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210506231907.14359-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-05-10 15:17:34 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
a3f53e8adf A few late-arriving documentation fixes, including some oprofile cleanup, a
kernel-doc fix, some regression-reporting updates, and the usual minor
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Merge tag 'docs-5.13-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet:
 "A few late-arriving documentation fixes, including some oprofile
  cleanup, a kernel-doc fix, some regression-reporting updates, and the
  usual minor fixes"

* tag 'docs-5.13-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
  Enlisted oprofile version line removed
  oprofiled version output line removed from the list
  Removed the oprofiled version option
  docs: reporting-issues.rst: CC subsystem and maintainers on regressions
  docs: correct URL to bios and kernel developer's guide
  docs/core-api: Consistent code style
  docs/zh_CN: Adjust order and content of zh_CN/index.rst
  Documentation: input: joydev file corrections
  docs: Fix typo in Documentation/x86/x86_64/5level-paging.rst
  kernel-doc: Add support for __deprecated
2021-05-06 08:33:54 -07:00
Bhaskar Chowdhury
8e9fa2f211 oprofiled version output line removed from the list
Oprofiled version output line removed from the list.

Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8d1928ff2fea29d67143d235839a5e845e4402c9.1619181632.git.unixbhaskar@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-05-03 17:23:06 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
2f9ef0559e It's been a relatively busy cycle in docsland, though more than usually
well contained to Documentation/ itself.  Highlights include:
 
  - The Chinese translators have been busy and show no signs of stopping
    anytime soon.  Italian has also caught up.
 
  - Aditya Srivastava has been working on improvements to the kernel-doc
    script.
 
  - Thorsten continues his work on reporting-issues.rst and related
    documentation around regression reporting.
 
  - Lots of documentation updates, typo fixes, etc. as usual
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Merge tag 'docs-5.13' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "It's been a relatively busy cycle in docsland, though more than
  usually well contained to Documentation/ itself. Highlights include:

   - The Chinese translators have been busy and show no signs of
     stopping anytime soon. Italian has also caught up.

   - Aditya Srivastava has been working on improvements to the
     kernel-doc script.

   - Thorsten continues his work on reporting-issues.rst and related
     documentation around regression reporting.

   - Lots of documentation updates, typo fixes, etc. as usual"

* tag 'docs-5.13' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (139 commits)
  docs/zh_CN: add openrisc translation to zh_CN index
  docs/zh_CN: add openrisc index.rst translation
  docs/zh_CN: add openrisc todo.rst translation
  docs/zh_CN: add openrisc openrisc_port.rst translation
  docs/zh_CN: add core api translation to zh_CN index
  docs/zh_CN: add core-api index.rst translation
  docs/zh_CN: add core-api irq index.rst translation
  docs/zh_CN: add core-api irq irqflags-tracing.rst translation
  docs/zh_CN: add core-api irq irq-domain.rst translation
  docs/zh_CN: add core-api irq irq-affinity.rst translation
  docs/zh_CN: add core-api irq concepts.rst translation
  docs: sphinx-pre-install: don't barf on beta Sphinx releases
  scripts: kernel-doc: improve parsing for kernel-doc comments syntax
  docs/zh_CN: two minor fixes in zh_CN/doc-guide/
  Documentation: dev-tools: Add Testing Overview
  docs/zh_CN: add translations in zh_CN/dev-tools/gcov
  docs: reporting-issues: make people CC the regressions list
  MAINTAINERS: add regressions mailing list
  doc:it_IT: align Italian documentation
  docs/zh_CN: sync reporting-issues.rst
  ...
2021-04-26 13:22:43 -07:00
Borislav Petkov
6349469a4f Documentation/submitting-patches: Document RESEND tag on patches
Explain when a submitter should tag a patch or a patch series with the
"RESEND" tag.

This has been partially carved out from a tip subsystem handbook
patchset by Thomas Gleixner:

  https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181107171010.421878737@linutronix.de

and incorporates follow-on comments.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-04-13 15:00:37 -06:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
280def1e1c Merge 5.12-rc3 into tty-next
Resolves a merge issue with:
	drivers/tty/hvc/hvcs.c
and we want the tty/serial fixes from 5.12-rc3 in here as well.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-03-15 08:43:49 +01:00
Jiri Slaby
981b22b877 tty: remove TTY_LDISC_MAGIC
First, it is never checked. Second, use of it as a debugging aid is
at least questionable. With the current tools, I don't think anyone used
this kind of thing for debugging purposes for years.

On the top of that, e.g. serdev does not set this field of tty_ldisc_ops
at all.

So get rid of this legacy.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210302062214.29627-8-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-03-10 09:34:06 +01:00
Jiri Slaby
3b00b6af7a tty: rocket, remove the driver
While the driver is still marked as maintained in MAINTAINERS, Comtrol
does not really care about this ancient driver. They are still
manufacturing serial devices, but those are controlled only by
out-of-tree drivers.

Comtrol didn't answer my pings, so this driver is apparently
unmaintained.  Aside from that, the driver was untouched for years, only
whole-tree changes happened during the past years. The driver needs much
more care, so drop it for now. If someone steps up to reintroduce it,
they need to clean it up first.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210302062214.29627-7-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-03-10 09:34:06 +01:00
Jiri Slaby
67b1544a55 tty: isicom, remove this orphan
The Isicom driver was orphaned by commit d86b3001a1 (MAINTAINERS:
orphan isicom) 10 years ago. Noone stepped up to take care of them and
to fix all the issues the driver has.

So it's time to drop the driver with all its traces.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210302062214.29627-6-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-03-10 09:34:06 +01:00
Jiri Slaby
f76edd8f7c tty: cyclades, remove this orphan
The Cyclades driver was orphaned by commit d459883e6c (MAINTAINERS:
remove two dead e-mail) 13 years ago. Noone stepped up to take care of
them and to fix all the issues the driver has.

On the top of that, there is no way to obtain the firmware for Z cards
from the vendor as cyclades.com ceased to exist.

So it's time to drop the driver with all its traces.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210302062214.29627-5-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-03-10 09:34:06 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
05a59d7979 Merge git://git.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net
Pull networking fixes from David Miller:

 1) Fix transmissions in dynamic SMPS mode in ath9k, from Felix Fietkau.

 2) TX skb error handling fix in mt76 driver, also from Felix.

 3) Fix BPF_FETCH atomic in x86 JIT, from Brendan Jackman.

 4) Avoid double free of percpu pointers when freeing a cloned bpf prog.
    From Cong Wang.

 5) Use correct printf format for dma_addr_t in ath11k, from Geert
    Uytterhoeven.

 6) Fix resolve_btfids build with older toolchains, from Kun-Chuan
    Hsieh.

 7) Don't report truncated frames to mac80211 in mt76 driver, from
    Lorenzop Bianconi.

 8) Fix watcdog timeout on suspend/resume of stmmac, from Joakim Zhang.

 9) mscc ocelot needs NET_DEVLINK selct in Kconfig, from Arnd Bergmann.

10) Fix sign comparison bug in TCP_ZEROCOPY_RECEIVE getsockopt(), from
    Arjun Roy.

11) Ignore routes with deleted nexthop object in mlxsw, from Ido
    Schimmel.

12) Need to undo tcp early demux lookup sometimes in nf_nat, from
    Florian Westphal.

13) Fix gro aggregation for udp encaps with zero csum, from Daniel
    Borkmann.

14) Make sure to always use imp*_ndo_send when necessaey, from Jason A.
    Donenfeld.

15) Fix TRSCER masks in sh_eth driver from Sergey Shtylyov.

16) prevent overly huge skb allocationsd in qrtr, from Pavel Skripkin.

17) Prevent rx ring copnsumer index loss of sync in enetc, from Vladimir
    Oltean.

18) Make sure textsearch copntrol block is large enough, from Wilem de
    Bruijn.

19) Revert MAC changes to r8152 leading to instability, from Hates Wang.

20) Advance iov in 9p even for empty reads, from Jissheng Zhang.

21) Double hook unregister in nftables, from PabloNeira Ayuso.

22) Fix memleak in ixgbe, fropm Dinghao Liu.

23) Avoid dups in pkt scheduler class dumps, from Maximilian Heyne.

24) Various mptcp fixes from Florian Westphal, Paolo Abeni, and Geliang
    Tang.

25) Fix DOI refcount bugs in cipso, from Paul Moore.

26) One too many irqsave in ibmvnic, from Junlin Yang.

27) Fix infinite loop with MPLS gso segmenting via virtio_net, from
    Balazs Nemeth.

* git://git.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net: (164 commits)
  s390/qeth: fix notification for pending buffers during teardown
  s390/qeth: schedule TX NAPI on QAOB completion
  s390/qeth: improve completion of pending TX buffers
  s390/qeth: fix memory leak after failed TX Buffer allocation
  net: avoid infinite loop in mpls_gso_segment when mpls_hlen == 0
  net: check if protocol extracted by virtio_net_hdr_set_proto is correct
  net: dsa: xrs700x: check if partner is same as port in hsr join
  net: lapbether: Remove netif_start_queue / netif_stop_queue
  atm: idt77252: fix null-ptr-dereference
  atm: uPD98402: fix incorrect allocation
  atm: fix a typo in the struct description
  net: qrtr: fix error return code of qrtr_sendmsg()
  mptcp: fix length of ADD_ADDR with port sub-option
  net: bonding: fix error return code of bond_neigh_init()
  net: enetc: allow hardware timestamping on TX queues with tc-etf enabled
  net: enetc: set MAC RX FIFO to recommended value
  net: davicom: Use platform_get_irq_optional()
  net: davicom: Fix regulator not turned off on driver removal
  net: davicom: Fix regulator not turned off on failed probe
  net: dsa: fix switchdev objects on bridge master mistakenly being applied on ports
  ...
2021-03-09 17:15:56 -08:00
Borislav Petkov
875f82cb37 Documentation/submitting-patches: Extend commit message layout description
Add more blurb about the level of detail that should be contained in a
patch's commit message. Extend and make more explicit what text should
be added under the --- line. Extend examples and split into more easily
palatable paragraphs.

This has been partially carved out from a tip subsystem handbook
patchset by Thomas Gleixner:

  https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181107171010.421878737@linutronix.de

and incorporates follow-on comments.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Robert Richter <rrichter@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210215141949.GB21734@zn.tnic
[jc: Tweaked "example subjects" wording]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-03-06 17:36:52 -07:00
Jakub Kicinski
dbbe7c962c docs: networking: drop special stable handling
Leave it to Greg.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2021-03-03 08:49:08 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
3fb6d0e00e A handful of late-arriving documentation fixes, nothing all that notable.
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Merge tag 'docs-5.12-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet:
 "A handful of late-arriving documentation fixes, nothing all that
  notable"

* tag 'docs-5.12-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
  docs: proc.rst: fix indentation warning
  Documentation: cgroup-v2: fix path to example BPF program
  docs: powerpc: Fix tables in syscall64-abi.rst
  Documentation: features: refresh feature list
  Documentation: features: remove c6x references
  docs: ABI: testing: ima_policy: Fixed missing bracket
  Fix unaesthetic indentation
  scripts: kernel-doc: fix array element capture in pointer-to-func parsing
  doc: use KCFLAGS instead of EXTRA_CFLAGS to pass flags from command line
  Documentation: proc.rst: add more about the 6 fields in loadavg
2021-02-26 14:21:18 -08:00
Masahiro Yamada
163ba35ff3 doc: use KCFLAGS instead of EXTRA_CFLAGS to pass flags from command line
You should use KCFLAGS to pass additional compiler flags from the
command line. Using EXTRA_CFLAGS is wrong.

EXTRA_CFLAGS is supposed to specify flags applied only to the current
Makefile (and now deprecated in favor of ccflags-y).

It is still used in arch/mips/kvm/Makefile (and possibly in external
modules too). Passing EXTRA_CFLAGS from the command line overwrites
it and breaks the build.

I also fixed drivers/gpu/drm/tilcdc/Makefile because commit 816175dd1f
("drivers/gpu/drm/tilcdc: Makefile, only -Werror when no -W* in
EXTRA_CFLAGS") was based on the same misunderstanding.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210221152524.197693-1-masahiroy@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-02-22 13:59:10 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
0e63a5c6ba It has been a relatively quiet cycle in docsland.
- As promised, the minimum Sphinx version to build the docs is now 1.7,
    and we have dropped support for Python 2 entirely.  That allowed the
    removal of a bunch of compatibility code.
 
  - A set of treewide warning fixups from Mauro that I applied after it
    became clear nobody else was going to deal with them.
 
  - The automarkup mechanism can now create cross-references from relative
    paths to RST files.
 
  - More translations, typo fixes, and warning fixes.
 
 No conflicts with any other tree as far as I know.
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Merge tag 'docs-5.12' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "It has been a relatively quiet cycle in docsland.

   - As promised, the minimum Sphinx version to build the docs is now
     1.7, and we have dropped support for Python 2 entirely. That
     allowed the removal of a bunch of compatibility code.

   - A set of treewide warning fixups from Mauro that I applied after it
     became clear nobody else was going to deal with them.

   - The automarkup mechanism can now create cross-references from
     relative paths to RST files.

   - More translations, typo fixes, and warning fixes"

* tag 'docs-5.12' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (75 commits)
  docs: kernel-hacking: be more civil
  docs: Remove the Microsoft rhetoric
  Documentation/admin-guide: kernel-parameters: Update nohlt section
  doc/admin-guide: fix spelling mistake: "perfomance" -> "performance"
  docs: Document cross-referencing using relative path
  docs: Enable usage of relative paths to docs on automarkup
  docs: thermal: fix spelling mistakes
  Documentation: admin-guide: Update kvm/xen config option
  docs: Make syscalls' helpers naming consistent
  coding-style.rst: Avoid comma statements
  Documentation: /proc/loadavg: add 3 more field descriptions
  Documentation/submitting-patches: Add blurb about backtraces in commit messages
  Docs: drop Python 2 support
  Move our minimum Sphinx version to 1.7
  Documentation: input: define ABS_PRESSURE/ABS_MT_PRESSURE resolution as grams
  scripts/kernel-doc: add internal hyperlink to DOC: sections
  Update Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst
  docs: Update DTB format references
  docs: zh_CN: add iio index.rst translation
  docs/zh_CN: add iio ep93xx_adc.rst translation
  ...
2021-02-22 10:57:46 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
bdb39c9509 SCSI misc on 20210219
This series consists of the usual driver updates (ufs, ibmvfc,
 qla2xxx, hisi_sas, pm80xx) plus the removal of the gdth driver (which
 is bound to cause conflicts with a trivial change somewhere).  The
 only big major rework of note is the one from Hannes trying to clean
 up our result handling code in the drivers to make it consistent.
 
 Signed-off-by: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@linux.ibm.com>
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Merge tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi

Pull SCSI updates from James Bottomley:
 "This series consists of the usual driver updates (ufs, ibmvfc,
  qla2xxx, hisi_sas, pm80xx) plus the removal of the gdth driver (which
  is bound to cause conflicts with a trivial change somewhere).

  The only big major rework of note is the one from Hannes trying to
  clean up our result handling code in the drivers to make it
  consistent"

* tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (194 commits)
  scsi: MAINTAINERS: Adjust to reflect gdth scsi driver removal
  scsi: ufs: Give clk scaling min gear a value
  scsi: lpfc: Fix 'physical' typos
  scsi: megaraid_mbox: Fix spelling of 'allocated'
  scsi: qla2xxx: Simplify the calculation of variables
  scsi: message: fusion: Fix 'physical' typos
  scsi: target: core: Change ASCQ for residual write
  scsi: target: core: Signal WRITE residuals
  scsi: target: core: Set residuals for 4Kn devices
  scsi: hisi_sas: Add trace FIFO debugfs support
  scsi: hisi_sas: Flush workqueue in hisi_sas_v3_remove()
  scsi: hisi_sas: Enable debugfs support by default
  scsi: hisi_sas: Don't check .nr_hw_queues in hisi_sas_task_prep()
  scsi: hisi_sas: Remove deferred probe check in hisi_sas_v2_probe()
  scsi: lpfc: Add auto select on IRQ_POLL
  scsi: ncr53c8xx: Fix typos
  scsi: lpfc: Fix ancient double free
  scsi: qla2xxx: Fix some memory corruption
  scsi: qla2xxx: Remove redundant NULL check
  scsi: megaraid: Fix ifnullfree.cocci warnings
  ...
2021-02-22 10:24:58 -08:00
Yorick de Wid
b7592e5b82 docs: Remove the Microsoft rhetoric
There is no need to need to name Microsoft. The point is clear without that context.

Signed-off-by: Yorick de Wid <ydewid@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210208150447.87104-1-ydewid@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-02-11 09:42:17 -07:00
André Almeida
dd58e64974 docs: Make syscalls' helpers naming consistent
The documentation explains the need to create internal syscalls' helpers,
and that they should be called `kern_xyzzy()`. However, the comment at
include/linux/syscalls.h says that they should be named as
`ksys_xyzzy()`, and so are all the helpers declared bellow it. Change the
documentation to reflect this.

Fixes: 819671ff84 ("syscalls: define and explain goal to not call syscalls in the kernel")
Signed-off-by: André Almeida <andrealmeid@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210130014547.123006-1-andrealmeid@collabora.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-02-04 14:47:24 -07:00
Joe Perches
26606ce072 coding-style.rst: Avoid comma statements
Commas are not how statements are terminated.
Always use semicolons and braces if necessary.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2a97b738bba335434461a5a918053a49c1fb6af4.1598331148.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-02-04 14:40:02 -07:00
Borislav Petkov
78f101a1b2 Documentation/submitting-patches: Add blurb about backtraces in commit messages
Document that backtraces in commit messages should be trimmed down to
the useful information only.

This has been carved out from a tip subsystem handbook patchset by
Thomas Gleixner:

  https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181107171010.421878737@linutronix.de

and incorporates follow-on comments.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-02-04 14:18:35 -07:00
Viresh Kumar
f8408264c7 drivers: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
The "oprofile" user-space tools don't use the kernel OPROFILE support
any more, and haven't in a long time. User-space has been converted to
the perf interfaces.

Remove kernel's old oprofile support.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> #RCU
Acked-by: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2021-01-29 10:06:24 +05:30
Hannes Reinecke
0653c358d2 scsi: Drop gdth driver
The gdth driver refers to a SCSI parallel, PCI-only HBA RAID adapter which
was manufactured by the now-defunct ICP Vortex company, later acquired by
Adaptec and superseded by the aacraid series of controllers.  The driver
itself would require a major overhaul before any modifications can be
attempted, but seeing that it's unlikely to have any users left it should
rather be removed completely.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210113090500.129644-2-hare@suse.de
Cautiously-Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
2021-01-22 21:14:07 -05:00
Milan Lakhani
1a63f9cce7 docs: Remove make headers_check from checklist
Remove the make headers_check step from submit-checklist.rst as this is
no longer functional.

Signed-off-by: Milan Lakhani <milan.lakhani@codethink.co.uk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1610458861-2832-1-git-send-email-milan.lakhani@codethink.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-01-18 13:25:52 -07:00
Lee Jones
f0ea149eee docs: submitting-patches: Emphasise the requirement to Cc: stable when using Fixes: tag
Clear-up any confusion surrounding the Fixes: tag with regards to the
need to Cc: the stable mailing list when submitting stable patch
candidates.

Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210113163315.1331064-1-lee.jones@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-01-18 13:09:01 -07:00
Thorsten Leemhuis
cf6d6fc279 docs: process/howto.rst: make sections on bug reporting match practice
The file Documentation/process/howto.rst points to bugzilla.kernel.org
as the primary place to report kernel bugs to. For most of the kernel
that's the wrong place, as the MAINTAINERS file shows. Adjust those
sections to make them match current practice.

This change also removes a contradiction with the recently added text
Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst, which is a reason for a
'this needs further discussion' warning note in there. The change is
thus a prerequisite to remove that warning, nevertheless it is left for
now to make sure people review the text's approach more carefully.

Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210116143542.69199-1-linux@leemhuis.info
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-01-18 12:29:38 -07:00
Joe Perches
05a5f51ca5 Documentation: Replace lkml.org links with lore
Replace the lkml.org links with lore to better use a single source
that's more likely to stay available long-term.

Done by bash script:

cvt_lkml_to_lore ()
{
    tmpfile=$(mktemp ./.cvt_links.XXXXXXX)

    header=$(echo $1 | sed 's@/lkml/@/lkml/headers/@')

    wget -qO - $header > $tmpfile
    if [[ $? == 0 ]] ; then
	link=$(grep -i '^Message-Id:' $tmpfile | head -1 | \
		   sed -r -e 's/^\s*Message-Id:\s*<\s*//' -e  's/\s*>\s*$//' -e 's@^@https://lore.kernel.org/r/@')
	#    echo "testlink: $link"
	if [ -n "$link" ] ; then
	    wget -qO - $link > /dev/null
	    if [[ $? == 0 ]] ; then
		echo $link
	    fi
	fi
    fi

    rm -f $tmpfile
}

git grep -P -o "\bhttps?://(?:www.)?lkml.org/lkml[\/\w]+" $@ |
    while read line ; do
	echo $line
	file=$(echo $line | cut -f1 -d':')
	link=$(echo $line | cut -f2- -d':')
	newlink=$(cvt_lkml_to_lore $link)
	if [[ -n "$newlink" ]] ; then
	    sed -i -e "s#\b$link\b#$newlink#" $file
	fi
    done

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1265849/#1462688
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/77cdb7f32cfb087955bfc3600b86c40bed5d4104.camel@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-01-11 12:47:38 -07:00
Miguel Ojeda
0ef597c3ac docs: remove mention of ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
We removed ENABLE_MUST_CHECK in 1967939462 ("Compiler Attributes:
remove CONFIG_ENABLE_MUST_CHECK"), so let's remove docs' mentions.

At the same time, fix the outdated text related to
ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED that wasn't removed in 3337d5cfe5
("configs: get rid of obsolete CONFIG_ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED").

Finally, reflow the paragraph.

Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210105055815.GA5173@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-01-07 14:41:38 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
71c5f03154 A small set of late-arriving, small documentation fixes.
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Merge tag 'docs-5.11-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet:
 "A small set of late-arriving, small documentation fixes"

* tag 'docs-5.11-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
  docs: admin-guide: Fix default value of max_map_count in sysctl/vm.rst
  Documentation/submitting-patches: Document the SoB chain
  Documentation: process: Correct numbering
  docs: submitting-patches: Trivial - fix grammatical error
2020-12-24 14:20:33 -08:00
Borislav Petkov
9bf19b78a2 Documentation/submitting-patches: Document the SoB chain
Document what a chain of Signed-off-by's in a patch commit message
should mean, explicitly.

This has been carved out from a tip subsystem handbook patchset by
Thomas Gleixner:

  https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181107171010.421878737@linutronix.de

and incorporates follow-on comments.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201217183756.GE23634@zn.tnic
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-12-21 09:52:57 -07:00
Milan Lakhani
27ab873e0c Documentation: process: Correct numbering
Renumber the steps in submit-checklist.rst as some numbers were skipped.

Signed-off-by: Milan Lakhani <milan.lakhani@codethink.co.uk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1608064956-5512-1-git-send-email-milan.lakhani@codethink.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-12-21 09:47:00 -07:00
Lee Jones
7e90285716 docs: submitting-patches: Trivial - fix grammatical error
"it is a used" does not make sense.  Should be "it is used".

Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201216134654.271508-1-lee.jones@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-12-21 09:44:35 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
d635a69dd4 Networking updates for 5.11
Core:
 
  - support "prefer busy polling" NAPI operation mode, where we defer softirq
    for some time expecting applications to periodically busy poll
 
  - AF_XDP: improve efficiency by more batching and hindering
            the adjacency cache prefetcher
 
  - af_packet: make packet_fanout.arr size configurable up to 64K
 
  - tcp: optimize TCP zero copy receive in presence of partial or unaligned
         reads making zero copy a performance win for much smaller messages
 
  - XDP: add bulk APIs for returning / freeing frames
 
  - sched: support fragmenting IP packets as they come out of conntrack
 
  - net: allow virtual netdevs to forward UDP L4 and fraglist GSO skbs
 
 BPF:
 
  - BPF switch from crude rlimit-based to memcg-based memory accounting
 
  - BPF type format information for kernel modules and related tracing
    enhancements
 
  - BPF implement task local storage for BPF LSM
 
  - allow the FENTRY/FEXIT/RAW_TP tracing programs to use bpf_sk_storage
 
 Protocols:
 
  - mptcp: improve multiple xmit streams support, memory accounting and
           many smaller improvements
 
  - TLS: support CHACHA20-POLY1305 cipher
 
  - seg6: add support for SRv6 End.DT4/DT6 behavior
 
  - sctp: Implement RFC 6951: UDP Encapsulation of SCTP
 
  - ppp_generic: add ability to bridge channels directly
 
  - bridge: Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) support as is defined in
            IEEE 802.1Q section 12.14.
 
 Drivers:
 
  - mlx5: make use of the new auxiliary bus to organize the driver internals
 
  - mlx5: more accurate port TX timestamping support
 
  - mlxsw:
    - improve the efficiency of offloaded next hop updates by using
      the new nexthop object API
    - support blackhole nexthops
    - support IEEE 802.1ad (Q-in-Q) bridging
 
  - rtw88: major bluetooth co-existance improvements
 
  - iwlwifi: support new 6 GHz frequency band
 
  - ath11k: Fast Initial Link Setup (FILS)
 
  - mt7915: dual band concurrent (DBDC) support
 
  - net: ipa: add basic support for IPA v4.5
 
 Refactor:
 
  - a few pieces of in_interrupt() cleanup work from Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
 
  - phy: add support for shared interrupts; get rid of multiple driver
         APIs and have the drivers write a full IRQ handler, slight growth
 	of driver code should be compensated by the simpler API which
 	also allows shared IRQs
 
  - add common code for handling netdev per-cpu counters
 
  - move TX packet re-allocation from Ethernet switch tag drivers to
    a central place
 
  - improve efficiency and rename nla_strlcpy
 
  - number of W=1 warning cleanups as we now catch those in a patchwork
    build bot
 
 Old code removal:
 
  - wan: delete the DLCI / SDLA drivers
 
  - wimax: move to staging
 
  - wifi: remove old WDS wifi bridging support
 
 Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'net-next-5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Core:

   - support "prefer busy polling" NAPI operation mode, where we defer
     softirq for some time expecting applications to periodically busy
     poll

   - AF_XDP: improve efficiency by more batching and hindering the
     adjacency cache prefetcher

   - af_packet: make packet_fanout.arr size configurable up to 64K

   - tcp: optimize TCP zero copy receive in presence of partial or
     unaligned reads making zero copy a performance win for much smaller
     messages

   - XDP: add bulk APIs for returning / freeing frames

   - sched: support fragmenting IP packets as they come out of conntrack

   - net: allow virtual netdevs to forward UDP L4 and fraglist GSO skbs

  BPF:

   - BPF switch from crude rlimit-based to memcg-based memory accounting

   - BPF type format information for kernel modules and related tracing
     enhancements

   - BPF implement task local storage for BPF LSM

   - allow the FENTRY/FEXIT/RAW_TP tracing programs to use
     bpf_sk_storage

  Protocols:

   - mptcp: improve multiple xmit streams support, memory accounting and
     many smaller improvements

   - TLS: support CHACHA20-POLY1305 cipher

   - seg6: add support for SRv6 End.DT4/DT6 behavior

   - sctp: Implement RFC 6951: UDP Encapsulation of SCTP

   - ppp_generic: add ability to bridge channels directly

   - bridge: Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) support as is defined
     in IEEE 802.1Q section 12.14.

  Drivers:

   - mlx5: make use of the new auxiliary bus to organize the driver
     internals

   - mlx5: more accurate port TX timestamping support

   - mlxsw:
      - improve the efficiency of offloaded next hop updates by using
        the new nexthop object API
      - support blackhole nexthops
      - support IEEE 802.1ad (Q-in-Q) bridging

   - rtw88: major bluetooth co-existance improvements

   - iwlwifi: support new 6 GHz frequency band

   - ath11k: Fast Initial Link Setup (FILS)

   - mt7915: dual band concurrent (DBDC) support

   - net: ipa: add basic support for IPA v4.5

  Refactor:

   - a few pieces of in_interrupt() cleanup work from Sebastian Andrzej
     Siewior

   - phy: add support for shared interrupts; get rid of multiple driver
     APIs and have the drivers write a full IRQ handler, slight growth
     of driver code should be compensated by the simpler API which also
     allows shared IRQs

   - add common code for handling netdev per-cpu counters

   - move TX packet re-allocation from Ethernet switch tag drivers to a
     central place

   - improve efficiency and rename nla_strlcpy

   - number of W=1 warning cleanups as we now catch those in a patchwork
     build bot

  Old code removal:

   - wan: delete the DLCI / SDLA drivers

   - wimax: move to staging

   - wifi: remove old WDS wifi bridging support"

* tag 'net-next-5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1922 commits)
  net: hns3: fix expression that is currently always true
  net: fix proc_fs init handling in af_packet and tls
  nfc: pn533: convert comma to semicolon
  af_vsock: Assign the vsock transport considering the vsock address flags
  af_vsock: Set VMADDR_FLAG_TO_HOST flag on the receive path
  vsock_addr: Check for supported flag values
  vm_sockets: Add VMADDR_FLAG_TO_HOST vsock flag
  vm_sockets: Add flags field in the vsock address data structure
  net: Disable NETIF_F_HW_TLS_TX when HW_CSUM is disabled
  tcp: Add logic to check for SYN w/ data in tcp_simple_retransmit
  net: mscc: ocelot: install MAC addresses in .ndo_set_rx_mode from process context
  nfc: s3fwrn5: Release the nfc firmware
  net: vxget: clean up sparse warnings
  mlxsw: spectrum_router: Use eXtended mezzanine to offload IPv4 router
  mlxsw: spectrum: Set KVH XLT cache mode for Spectrum2/3
  mlxsw: spectrum_router_xm: Introduce basic XM cache flushing
  mlxsw: reg: Add Router LPM Cache Enable Register
  mlxsw: reg: Add Router LPM Cache ML Delete Register
  mlxsw: spectrum_router_xm: Implement L-value tracking for M-index
  mlxsw: reg: Add XM Router M Table Register
  ...
2020-12-15 13:22:29 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
ff6135959a A much quieter cycle for documentation (happily), with, one hopes, the bulk
of the churn behind us.  Significant stuff in this pull includes:
 
  - A set of new Chinese translations
  - Italian translation updates
  - A mechanism from Mauro to automatically format Documentation/features
    for the built docs
  - Automatic cross references without explicit :ref: markup
  - A new reset-controller document
  - An extensive new document on reporting problems from Thorsten
 
 That last patch also adds the CC-BY-4.0 license to LICENSES/dual; there was
 some discussion on this, but we seem to have consensus and an ack from Greg
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Merge tag 'docs-5.11' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "A much quieter cycle for documentation (happily), with, one hopes, the
  bulk of the churn behind us. Significant stuff in this pull includes:

   - A set of new Chinese translations

   - Italian translation updates

   - A mechanism from Mauro to automatically format
     Documentation/features for the built docs

   - Automatic cross references without explicit :ref: markup

   - A new reset-controller document

   - An extensive new document on reporting problems from Thorsten

  That last patch also adds the CC-BY-4.0 license to LICENSES/dual;
  there was some discussion on this, but we seem to have consensus and
  an ack from Greg for that addition"

* tag 'docs-5.11' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (50 commits)
  docs: fix broken cross reference in translations/zh_CN
  docs: Note that sphinx 1.7 will be required soon
  docs: update requirements to install six module
  docs: reporting-issues: move 'outdated, need help' note to proper place
  docs: Update documentation to reflect what TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC means
  docs: add a reset controller chapter to the driver API docs
  docs: make reporting-bugs.rst obsolete
  docs: Add a new text describing how to report bugs
  LICENSES: Add the CC-BY-4.0 license
  Documentation: fix multiple typos found in the admin-guide subdirectory
  Documentation: fix typos found in admin-guide subdirectory
  kernel-doc: Fix example in Nested structs/unions
  docs: clean up sysctl/kernel: titles, version
  docs: trace: fix event state structure name
  docs: nios2: add missing ReST file
  scripts: get_feat.pl: reduce table width for all features output
  scripts: get_feat.pl: change the group by order
  scripts: get_feat.pl: make complete table more coincise
  scripts: kernel-doc: fix parsing function-like typedefs
  Documentation: fix typos found in process, dev-tools, and doc-guide subdirectories
  ...
2020-12-14 16:55:54 -08:00
Thorsten Leemhuis
da514157c4 docs: make reporting-bugs.rst obsolete
Make various places which point to
Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst point to
Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst instead. That document is
brand new and as of now is not completely finished. But even at this
stage it's a lot more helpful and accurate than reporting-bugs.rst.
Hence also add a note to reporting-bugs.rst, telling people they're
better off reading reporting-issues.rst instead.

reporting-bugs.rst is scheduled for removal once reporting-issues.rst
is considered ready.

Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3df7c2d16de112b47bb6e6158138608e78562bf5.1607063223.git.linux@leemhuis.info
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-12-08 10:33:27 -07:00
Andrew Klychkov
e0a45cda66 Documentation: fix typos found in process, dev-tools, and doc-guide subdirectories
Fix four typos in kcov.rst, sphinx.rst, clang-format.rst, and embargoed-hardware-issues.rst

Signed-off-by: Andrew Klychkov <andrew.a.klychkov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201202075438.GA35516@spblnx124.lan
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-12-03 15:55:04 -07:00
Andrew Klychkov
c900acb7df Documentation: fix typos in process/kernel-docs.rst
Fix two typos in kernel-docs.rst

Signed-off-by: Andrew Klychkov <andrew.a.klychkov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201202074938.GA35075@spblnx124.lan
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-12-03 15:54:17 -07:00
Aditya Srivastava
7d71788735 Documentation: include sign off for reverts
Currently, we do not have any documentation on commit reverts regarding
the requirement of Signed-off-by tag for it. This may be misleading to
the users.

Evaluating MISSING_SIGN_OFF checkpatch warnings on v4.13..v5.8 showed
that 4 out of 11 cases missing a sign-off are revert commits.

Add documentation regarding the same to document the community
consensus and let readers know.

Signed-off-by: Aditya Srivastava <yashsri421@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201110174749.32068-1-yashsri421@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-11-13 15:01:19 -07:00
Jakub Kicinski
e1d9d7b913 Merge https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2020-11-12 16:54:48 -08:00
Jakub Kicinski
460cd17e9f net: switch to the kernel.org patchwork instance
Move to the kernel.org patchwork instance, it has significantly
lower latency for accessing from Europe and the US. Other quirks
include the reply bot.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201110035120.642746-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2020-11-11 17:12:00 -08:00
Xie He
f8ae7bbec7 net: x25_asy: Delete the x25_asy driver
This driver transports LAPB (X.25 link layer) frames over TTY links.

I can safely say that this driver has no actual user because it was
not working at all until:
commit 8fdcabeac3 ("drivers/net/wan/x25_asy: Fix to make it work")

The code in its current state still has problems:

1.
The uses of "struct x25_asy" in x25_asy_unesc (when receiving) and in
x25_asy_write_wakeup (when sending) are not protected by locks against
x25_asy_change_mtu's changing of the transmitting/receiving buffers.
Also, all "netif_running" checks in this driver are not protected by
locks against the ndo_stop function.

2.
The driver stops all TTY read/write when the netif is down.
I think this is not right because this may cause the last outgoing frame
before the netif goes down to be incompletely transmitted, and the first
incoming frame after the netif goes up to be incompletely received.

And there may also be other problems.

I was planning to fix these problems but after recent discussions about
deleting other old networking code, I think we may just delete this
driver, too.

Signed-off-by: Xie He <xie.he.0141@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Martin Schiller <ms@dev.tdt.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201105073434.429307-1-xie.he.0141@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2020-11-07 14:13:44 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
c80e42a496 A handful of late-arriving documentation fixes.
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Merge tag 'docs-5.10-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

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.
2020-10-23 17:13:53 -07:00