The netdev-FAQ document has grown over the years to the point
where finding information in it is somewhat challenging.
The length of the questions prevents readers from locating
content that's relevant at a glance.
Convert to a more standard documentation format with sections
and sub-sections rather than questions and answers.
The content edits are limited to what's necessary to change
the format, and very minor clarifications.
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subsequent changes will reformat the doc away from FAQ.
To make that more readable perform the pure section moves now.
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
- Support zstd-compressed debug info
- Allow W=1 builds to detect objects shared among multiple modules
- Add srcrpm-pkg target to generate a source RPM package
- Make the -s option detection work for future GNU Make versions
- Add -Werror to KBUILD_CPPFLAGS when CONFIG_WERROR=y
- Allow W=1 builds to detect -Wundef warnings in any preprocessed files
- Raise the minimum supported version of binutils to 2.25
- Use $(intcmp ...) to compare integers if GNU Make >= 4.4 is used
- Use $(file ...) to read a file if GNU Make >= 4.2 is used
- Print error if GNU Make older than 3.82 is used
- Allow modpost to detect section mismatches with Clang LTO
- Include vmlinuz.efi into kernel tarballs for arm64 CONFIG_EFI_ZBOOT=y
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Merge tag 'kbuild-v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:
- Support zstd-compressed debug info
- Allow W=1 builds to detect objects shared among multiple modules
- Add srcrpm-pkg target to generate a source RPM package
- Make the -s option detection work for future GNU Make versions
- Add -Werror to KBUILD_CPPFLAGS when CONFIG_WERROR=y
- Allow W=1 builds to detect -Wundef warnings in any preprocessed files
- Raise the minimum supported version of binutils to 2.25
- Use $(intcmp ...) to compare integers if GNU Make >= 4.4 is used
- Use $(file ...) to read a file if GNU Make >= 4.2 is used
- Print error if GNU Make older than 3.82 is used
- Allow modpost to detect section mismatches with Clang LTO
- Include vmlinuz.efi into kernel tarballs for arm64 CONFIG_EFI_ZBOOT=y
* tag 'kbuild-v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (29 commits)
buildtar: fix tarballs with EFI_ZBOOT enabled
modpost: Include '.text.*' in TEXT_SECTIONS
padata: Mark padata_work_init() as __ref
kbuild: ensure Make >= 3.82 is used
kbuild: refactor the prerequisites of the modpost rule
kbuild: change module.order to list *.o instead of *.ko
kbuild: use .NOTINTERMEDIATE for future GNU Make versions
kconfig: refactor Makefile to reduce process forks
kbuild: add read-file macro
kbuild: do not sort after reading modules.order
kbuild: add test-{ge,gt,le,lt} macros
Documentation: raise minimum supported version of binutils to 2.25
kbuild: add -Wundef to KBUILD_CPPFLAGS for W=1 builds
kbuild: move -Werror from KBUILD_CFLAGS to KBUILD_CPPFLAGS
kbuild: Port silent mode detection to future gnu make.
init/version.c: remove #include <generated/utsrelease.h>
firmware_loader: remove #include <generated/utsrelease.h>
modpost: Mark uuid_le type to be suitable only for MEI
kbuild: add ability to make source rpm buildable using koji
kbuild: warn objects shared among multiple modules
...
Binutils 2.23 was released in 2012. Almost 10 years old.
We already require GCC 5.1, released in 2015.
Bump the binutils version to 2.25, which was released some months
before GCC 5.1.
With this applied, some subsystems can start to clean up code.
Examples:
arch/arm/Kconfig.assembler
arch/mips/vdso/Kconfig
arch/powerpc/Makefile
arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
- The beginnings of a set of translations into Spanish, headed up by Carlos
Bilbao.
- More Chinese translations.
- A change to the Sphinx "alabaster" theme by default for HTML generation.
Unlike the previous default (Read the Docs), alabaster is shipped with
Sphinx by default, reducing the number of other dependencies that need to
be installed. It also (IMO) produces a cleaner and more readable result.
- The ability to render the documentation into the texinfo format
(something Sphinx could always do, we just never wired it up until now).
Plus the usual collection of typo fixes, build-warning fixes, and minor
updates.
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Merge tag 'docs-6.2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"This was a not-too-busy cycle for documentation; highlights include:
- The beginnings of a set of translations into Spanish, headed up by
Carlos Bilbao
- More Chinese translations
- A change to the Sphinx "alabaster" theme by default for HTML
generation.
Unlike the previous default (Read the Docs), alabaster is shipped
with Sphinx by default, reducing the number of other dependencies
that need to be installed. It also (IMO) produces a cleaner and
more readable result.
- The ability to render the documentation into the texinfo format
(something Sphinx could always do, we just never wired it up until
now)
Plus the usual collection of typo fixes, build-warning fixes, and
minor updates"
* tag 'docs-6.2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (67 commits)
Documentation/features: Use loongarch instead of loong
Documentation/features-refresh.sh: Only sed the beginning "arch" of ARCH_DIR
docs/zh_CN: Fix '.. only::' directive's expression
docs/sp_SP: Add memory-barriers.txt Spanish translation
docs/zh_CN/LoongArch: Update links of LoongArch ISA Vol1 and ELF psABI
docs/LoongArch: Update links of LoongArch ISA Vol1 and ELF psABI
Documentation/features: Update feature lists for 6.1
Documentation: Fixed a typo in bootconfig.rst
docs/sp_SP: Add process coding-style translation
docs/sp_SP: Add kernel-docs.rst Spanish translation
docs: Create translations/sp_SP/process/, move submitting-patches.rst
docs: Add book to process/kernel-docs.rst
docs: Retire old resources from kernel-docs.rst
docs: Update maintainer of kernel-docs.rst
Documentation: riscv: Document the sv57 VM layout
Documentation: USB: correct possessive "its" usage
math64: fix kernel-doc return value warnings
math64: add kernel-doc for DIV64_U64_ROUND_UP
math64: favor kernel-doc from header files
doc: add texinfodocs and infodocs targets
...
Include to process/kernel-docs.rst a book on Linux kernel development
published in 2021 (with ISBN 978-1789953435).
Signed-off-by: Carlos Bilbao <carlos.bilbao@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221124170242.1892751-4-carlos.bilbao@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Here are some small char/misc and other driver fixes for 6.1-rc6 to
resolve some reported problems. Included in here are:
- iio driver fixes
- binder driver fix
- nvmem driver fix
- vme_vmci information leak fix
- parport fix
- slimbus configuration fix
- coreboot firmware bugfix
- speakup build fix and crash fix
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'char-misc-6.1-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc
Pull char/misc driver fixes from Greg KH:
"Here are some small char/misc and other driver fixes for 6.1-rc6 to
resolve some reported problems. Included in here are:
- iio driver fixes
- binder driver fix
- nvmem driver fix
- vme_vmci information leak fix
- parport fix
- slimbus configuration fix
- coreboot firmware bugfix
- speakup build fix and crash fix
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues"
* tag 'char-misc-6.1-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (22 commits)
firmware: coreboot: Register bus in module init
nvmem: u-boot-env: fix crc32_data_offset on redundant u-boot-env
slimbus: qcom-ngd: Fix build error when CONFIG_SLIM_QCOM_NGD_CTRL=y && CONFIG_QCOM_RPROC_COMMON=m
docs: update mediator contact information in CoC doc
slimbus: stream: correct presence rate frequencies
nvmem: lan9662-otp: Fix compatible string
binder: validate alloc->mm in ->mmap() handler
parport_pc: Avoid FIFO port location truncation
siox: fix possible memory leak in siox_device_add()
misc/vmw_vmci: fix an infoleak in vmci_host_do_receive_datagram()
speakup: replace utils' u_char with unsigned char
speakup: fix a segfault caused by switching consoles
tools: iio: iio_generic_buffer: Fix read size
iio: imu: bno055: uninitialized variable bug in bno055_trigger_handler()
iio: adc: at91_adc: fix possible memory leak in at91_adc_allocate_trigger()
iio: adc: mp2629: fix potential array out of bound access
iio: adc: mp2629: fix wrong comparison of channel
iio: pressure: ms5611: changed hardcoded SPI speed to value limited
iio: pressure: ms5611: fixed value compensation bug
iio: accel: bma400: Ensure VDDIO is enable defore reading the chip ID.
...
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Merge tag 'docs-6.1-fixes' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet:
"Four small fixes for the docs tree"
* tag 'docs-6.1-fixes' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
docs/process/howto: Replace C89 with C11
Documentation: Fix spelling mistake in hacking.rst
Documentation: process: replace outdated LTS table w/ link
tracing/histogram: Update document for KEYS_MAX size
Commit e8c07082a8 ("Kbuild: move to -std=gnu11") updated
process/programming-language.rst, but failed to update
process/howto.rst.
Update howto.rst and resolve the inconsistency.
Fixes: e8c07082a8 ("Kbuild: move to -std=gnu11")
Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Cc: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Cc: Hu Haowen <src.res@email.cn>
Cc: Tsugikazu Shibata <shibata@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221015092201.32099-1-akiyks@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The existing table was a bit outdated.
3.16 was EOL in 2020.
4.4 was EOL in 2022.
5.10 is new in 2020.
5.15 is new in 2021.
We'll see if 6.1 becomes LTS in 2022.
Rather than keep this table updated, it does duplicate information from
multiple kernel.org pages. Make one less duplication site that needs to
be updated and simply refer to the kernel.org page on releases.
Suggested-by: Tyler Hicks <code@tyhicks.com>
Suggested-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20221014171040.849726-1-ndesaulniers%40google.com
Reviewed-by: Tyler Hicks (Microsoft) <code@tyhicks.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221014171040.849726-1-ndesaulniers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Some of us gotten used to producing large quantities of peer feedback
at work, every 3 or 6 months. Extending the same courtesy to community
members seems like a logical step. It may be hard for some folks to
get validation of how important their work is internally, especially
at smaller companies which don't employ many kernel experts.
The concept of "peer feedback" may be a hyperscaler / silicon valley
thing so YMMV. Hopefully we can build more context as we go.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
catching the Chinese translation up with the front-page rework.
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Merge tag 'docs-6.1-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet:
"A handful of relatively simple documentation fixes, plus a set of
patches catching the Chinese translation up with the front-page
rework"
* tag 'docs-6.1-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
Documentation: rtla: Correct command line example
docs/zh_CN: add a man-pages link to zh_CN/index.rst
docs/zh_CN: Rewrite the Chinese translation front page
docs/zh_CN: add zh_CN/arch.rst
docs/zh_CN: promote the title of zh_CN/process/index.rst
docs/zh_CN: Update the translation of page_owner to 6.0-rc7
docs/zh_CN: Update the translation of ksm to 6.0-rc7
docs/howto: Replace abundoned URL of gmane.org
Documentation: ubifs: Fix compression idiom
Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst: delete frequently changing experimental data
docs/zh_CN: Fix build warning
docs: ftrace: Correct access mode
Somehow, there remains a link to gmane.org, which stopped working
in 2016, in howto.rst. Replace it with the one at lore.kernel.org.
Do the same changes under 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>
Cc: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Cc: Hu Haowen <src.res@email.cn>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220930021936.26238-1-akiyks@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
- Remove potentially incomplete targets when Kbuid is interrupted by
SIGINT etc. in case GNU Make may miss to do that when stderr is piped
to another program.
- Rewrite the single target build so it works more correctly.
- Fix rpm-pkg builds with V=1.
- List top-level subdirectories in ./Kbuild.
- Ignore auto-generated __kstrtab_* and __kstrtabns_* symbols in kallsyms.
- Avoid two different modules in lib/zstd/ having shared code, which
potentially causes building the common code as build-in and modular
back-and-forth.
- Unify two modpost invocations to optimize the build process.
- Remove head-y syntax in favor of linker scripts for placing particular
sections in the head of vmlinux.
- Bump the minimal GNU Make version to 3.82.
- Clean up misc Makefiles and scripts.
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Merge tag 'kbuild-v6.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:
- Remove potentially incomplete targets when Kbuid is interrupted by
SIGINT etc in case GNU Make may miss to do that when stderr is piped
to another program.
- Rewrite the single target build so it works more correctly.
- Fix rpm-pkg builds with V=1.
- List top-level subdirectories in ./Kbuild.
- Ignore auto-generated __kstrtab_* and __kstrtabns_* symbols in
kallsyms.
- Avoid two different modules in lib/zstd/ having shared code, which
potentially causes building the common code as build-in and modular
back-and-forth.
- Unify two modpost invocations to optimize the build process.
- Remove head-y syntax in favor of linker scripts for placing
particular sections in the head of vmlinux.
- Bump the minimal GNU Make version to 3.82.
- Clean up misc Makefiles and scripts.
* tag 'kbuild-v6.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (41 commits)
docs: bump minimal GNU Make version to 3.82
ia64: simplify esi object addition in Makefile
Revert "kbuild: Check if linker supports the -X option"
kbuild: rebuild .vmlinux.export.o when its prerequisite is updated
kbuild: move modules.builtin(.modinfo) rules to Makefile.vmlinux_o
zstd: Fixing mixed module-builtin objects
kallsyms: ignore __kstrtab_* and __kstrtabns_* symbols
kallsyms: take the input file instead of reading stdin
kallsyms: drop duplicated ignore patterns from kallsyms.c
kbuild: reuse mksysmap output for kallsyms
mksysmap: update comment about __crc_*
kbuild: remove head-y syntax
kbuild: use obj-y instead extra-y for objects placed at the head
kbuild: hide error checker logs for V=1 builds
kbuild: re-run modpost when it is updated
kbuild: unify two modpost invocations
kbuild: move vmlinux.o rule to the top Makefile
kbuild: move .vmlinux.objs rule to Makefile.modpost
kbuild: list sub-directories in ./Kbuild
Makefile.compiler: replace cc-ifversion with compiler-specific macros
...
Here is the big set of driver core and debug printk changes for 6.1-rc1.
Included in here is:
- dynamic debug updates for the core and the drm subsystem. The
drm changes have all been acked by the relevant maintainers.
- kernfs fixes for syzbot reported problems
- kernfs refactors and updates for cgroup requirements
- magic number cleanups and removals from the kernel tree (they
were not being used and they really did not actually do
anything.)
- other tiny cleanups
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'driver-core-6.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core
Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the big set of driver core and debug printk changes for
6.1-rc1. Included in here is:
- dynamic debug updates for the core and the drm subsystem. The drm
changes have all been acked by the relevant maintainers
- kernfs fixes for syzbot reported problems
- kernfs refactors and updates for cgroup requirements
- magic number cleanups and removals from the kernel tree (they were
not being used and they really did not actually do anything)
- other tiny cleanups
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues"
* tag 'driver-core-6.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (74 commits)
docs: filesystems: sysfs: Make text and code for ->show() consistent
Documentation: NBD_REQUEST_MAGIC isn't a magic number
a.out: restore CMAGIC
device property: Add const qualifier to device_get_match_data() parameter
drm_print: add _ddebug descriptor to drm_*dbg prototypes
drm_print: prefer bare printk KERN_DEBUG on generic fn
drm_print: optimize drm_debug_enabled for jump-label
drm-print: add drm_dbg_driver to improve namespace symmetry
drm-print.h: include dyndbg header
drm_print: wrap drm_*_dbg in dyndbg descriptor factory macro
drm_print: interpose drm_*dbg with forwarding macros
drm: POC drm on dyndbg - use in core, 2 helpers, 3 drivers.
drm_print: condense enum drm_debug_category
debugfs: use DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE to define debugfs_regset32_fops
driver core: use IS_ERR_OR_NULL() helper in device_create_groups_vargs()
Documentation: ENI155_MAGIC isn't a magic number
Documentation: NBD_REPLY_MAGIC isn't a magic number
nbd: remove define-only NBD_MAGIC, previously magic number
Documentation: FW_HEADER_MAGIC isn't a magic number
Documentation: EEPROM_MAGIC_VALUE isn't a magic number
...
Here is the big set of TTY and Serial driver updates for 6.1-rc1.
Lots of cleanups in here, no real new functionality this time around,
with the diffstat being that we removed more lines than we added!
Included in here are:
- termios unification cleanups from Al Viro, it's nice to
finally get this work done
- tty serial transmit cleanups in various drivers in preparation
for more cleanup and unification in future releases (that work
was not ready for this release.)
- n_gsm fixes and updates
- ktermios cleanups and code reductions
- dt bindings json conversions and updates for new devices
- some serial driver updates for new devices
- lots of other tiny cleanups and janitorial stuff. Full
details in the shortlog.
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'tty-6.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty
Pull tty/serial driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the big set of TTY and Serial driver updates for 6.1-rc1.
Lots of cleanups in here, no real new functionality this time around,
with the diffstat being that we removed more lines than we added!
Included in here are:
- termios unification cleanups from Al Viro, it's nice to finally get
this work done
- tty serial transmit cleanups in various drivers in preparation for
more cleanup and unification in future releases (that work was not
ready for this release)
- n_gsm fixes and updates
- ktermios cleanups and code reductions
- dt bindings json conversions and updates for new devices
- some serial driver updates for new devices
- lots of other tiny cleanups and janitorial stuff. Full details in
the shortlog.
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues"
* tag 'tty-6.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (102 commits)
serial: cpm_uart: Don't request IRQ too early for console port
tty: serial: do unlock on a common path in altera_jtaguart_console_putc()
tty: serial: unify TX space reads under altera_jtaguart_tx_space()
tty: serial: use FIELD_GET() in lqasc_tx_ready()
tty: serial: extend lqasc_tx_ready() to lqasc_console_putchar()
tty: serial: allow pxa.c to be COMPILE_TESTed
serial: stm32: Fix unused-variable warning
tty: serial: atmel: Add COMMON_CLK dependency to SERIAL_ATMEL
serial: 8250: Fix restoring termios speed after suspend
serial: Deassert Transmit Enable on probe in driver-specific way
serial: 8250_dma: Convert to use uart_xmit_advance()
serial: 8250_omap: Convert to use uart_xmit_advance()
MAINTAINERS: Solve warning regarding inexistent atmel-usart binding
serial: stm32: Deassert Transmit Enable on ->rs485_config()
serial: ar933x: Deassert Transmit Enable on ->rs485_config()
tty: serial: atmel: Use FIELD_PREP/FIELD_GET
tty: serial: atmel: Make the driver aware of the existence of GCLK
tty: serial: atmel: Only divide Clock Divisor if the IP is USART
tty: serial: atmel: Separate mode clearing between UART and USART
dt-bindings: serial: atmel,at91-usart: Add gclk as a possible USART clock
...
GNU Make 3.81 fails in CONFIG_RUST=y builds.
rust/Makefile:105: *** multiple target patterns. Stop.
make[1]: *** [prepare] Error 2
make: *** [__sub-make] Error 2
The error message is unclear, but the reason is because the 'private'
keyword is only supported since GNU Make 3.82.
GNU Make 3.81 is still able to build the kernel when CONFIG_RUST is
disabled, but it might be a good timing to raise the minimal GNU Make
version. Perhaps, I am the last person who was testing GNU Make 3.81.
GNU Make 3.81 was released in 2006, GNU Make 3.82 in 2010.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
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
...
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.
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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
...
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>
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>
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>
...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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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' "$f"; done ; done
Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/f6d375201dfd99416ea03b49b3dd40af56c1537e.1663280877.git.nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The last user was removed in 5.1 in
commit 08300f4402 ("a.out: remove core dumping support")
but this is part of the UAPI headers, so this may want to either wait
until a.out is removed entirely, or be removed from the magic number doc
and silently remain in the header
A cursory glance on DCS didn't show any user code actually using this
value
Found with
grep MAGIC Documentation/process/magic-number.rst | while read -r mag _;
do git grep -wF "$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>
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>
Jakub Kicinski