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Linus Torvalds
6e98b09da9 Merge tag 'net-next-6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
 "Core:

   - Introduce a config option to tweak MAX_SKB_FRAGS. Increasing the
     default value allows for better BIG TCP performances

   - Reduce compound page head access for zero-copy data transfers

   - RPS/RFS improvements, avoiding unneeded NET_RX_SOFTIRQ when
     possible

   - Threaded NAPI improvements, adding defer skb free support and
     unneeded softirq avoidance

   - Address dst_entry reference count scalability issues, via false
     sharing avoidance and optimize refcount tracking

   - Add lockless accesses annotation to sk_err[_soft]

   - Optimize again the skb struct layout

   - Extends the skb drop reasons to make it usable by multiple
     subsystems

   - Better const qualifier awareness for socket casts

  BPF:

   - Add skb and XDP typed dynptrs which allow BPF programs for more
     ergonomic and less brittle iteration through data and
     variable-sized accesses

   - Add a new BPF netfilter program type and minimal support to hook
     BPF programs to netfilter hooks such as prerouting or forward

   - Add more precise memory usage reporting for all BPF map types

   - Adds support for using {FOU,GUE} encap with an ipip device
     operating in collect_md mode and add a set of BPF kfuncs for
     controlling encap params

   - Allow BPF programs to detect at load time whether a particular
     kfunc exists or not, and also add support for this in light
     skeleton

   - Bigger batch of BPF verifier improvements to prepare for upcoming
     BPF open-coded iterators allowing for less restrictive looping
     capabilities

   - Rework RCU enforcement in the verifier, add kptr_rcu and enforce
     BPF programs to NULL-check before passing such pointers into kfunc

   - Add support for kptrs in percpu hashmaps, percpu LRU hashmaps and
     in local storage maps

   - Enable RCU semantics for task BPF kptrs and allow referenced kptr
     tasks to be stored in BPF maps

   - Add support for refcounted local kptrs to the verifier for allowing
     shared ownership, useful for adding a node to both the BPF list and
     rbtree

   - Add BPF verifier support for ST instructions in
     convert_ctx_access() which will help new -mcpu=v4 clang flag to
     start emitting them

   - Add ARM32 USDT support to libbpf

   - Improve bpftool's visual program dump which produces the control
     flow graph in a DOT format by adding C source inline annotations

  Protocols:

   - IPv4: Allow adding to IPv4 address a 'protocol' tag. Such value
     indicates the provenance of the IP address

   - IPv6: optimize route lookup, dropping unneeded R/W lock acquisition

   - Add the handshake upcall mechanism, allowing the user-space to
     implement generic TLS handshake on kernel's behalf

   - Bridge: support per-{Port, VLAN} neighbor suppression, increasing
     resilience to nodes failures

   - SCTP: add support for Fair Capacity and Weighted Fair Queueing
     schedulers

   - MPTCP: delay first subflow allocation up to its first usage. This
     will allow for later better LSM interaction

   - xfrm: Remove inner/outer modes from input/output path. These are
     not needed anymore

   - WiFi:
      - reduced neighbor report (RNR) handling for AP mode
      - HW timestamping support
      - support for randomized auth/deauth TA for PASN privacy
      - per-link debugfs for multi-link
      - TC offload support for mac80211 drivers
      - mac80211 mesh fast-xmit and fast-rx support
      - enable Wi-Fi 7 (EHT) mesh support

  Netfilter:

   - Add nf_tables 'brouting' support, to force a packet to be routed
     instead of being bridged

   - Update bridge netfilter and ovs conntrack helpers to handle IPv6
     Jumbo packets properly, i.e. fetch the packet length from
     hop-by-hop extension header. This is needed for BIT TCP support

   - The iptables 32bit compat interface isn't compiled in by default
     anymore

   - Move ip(6)tables builtin icmp matches to the udptcp one. This has
     the advantage that icmp/icmpv6 match doesn't load the
     iptables/ip6tables modules anymore when iptables-nft is used

   - Extended netlink error report for netdevice in flowtables and
     netdev/chains. Allow for incrementally add/delete devices to netdev
     basechain. Allow to create netdev chain without device

  Driver API:

   - Remove redundant Device Control Error Reporting Enable, as PCI core
     has already error reporting enabled at enumeration time

   - Move Multicast DB netlink handlers to core, allowing devices other
     then bridge to use them

   - Allow the page_pool to directly recycle the pages from safely
     localized NAPI

   - Implement lockless TX queue stop/wake combo macros, allowing for
     further code de-duplication and sanitization

   - Add YNL support for user headers and struct attrs

   - Add partial YNL specification for devlink

   - Add partial YNL specification for ethtool

   - Add tc-mqprio and tc-taprio support for preemptible traffic classes

   - Add tx push buf len param to ethtool, specifies the maximum number
     of bytes of a transmitted packet a driver can push directly to the
     underlying device

   - Add basic LED support for switch/phy

   - Add NAPI documentation, stop relaying on external links

   - Convert dsa_master_ioctl() to netdev notifier. This is a
     preparatory work to make the hardware timestamping layer selectable
     by user space

   - Add transceiver support and improve the error messages for CAN-FD
     controllers

  New hardware / drivers:

   - Ethernet:
      - AMD/Pensando core device support
      - MediaTek MT7981 SoC
      - MediaTek MT7988 SoC
      - Broadcom BCM53134 embedded switch
      - Texas Instruments CPSW9G ethernet switch
      - Qualcomm EMAC3 DWMAC ethernet
      - StarFive JH7110 SoC
      - NXP CBTX ethernet PHY

   - WiFi:
      - Apple M1 Pro/Max devices
      - RealTek rtl8710bu/rtl8188gu
      - RealTek rtl8822bs, rtl8822cs and rtl8821cs SDIO chipset

   - Bluetooth:
      - Realtek RTL8821CS, RTL8851B, RTL8852BS
      - Mediatek MT7663, MT7922
      - NXP w8997
      - Actions Semi ATS2851
      - QTI WCN6855
      - Marvell 88W8997

   - Can:
      - STMicroelectronics bxcan stm32f429

  Drivers:

   - Ethernet NICs:
      - Intel (1G, icg):
         - add tracking and reporting of QBV config errors
         - add support for configuring max SDU for each Tx queue
      - Intel (100G, ice):
         - refactor mailbox overflow detection to support Scalable IOV
         - GNSS interface optimization
      - Intel (i40e):
         - support XDP multi-buffer
      - nVidia/Mellanox:
         - add the support for linux bridge multicast offload
         - enable TC offload for egress and engress MACVLAN over bond
         - add support for VxLAN GBP encap/decap flows offload
         - extend packet offload to fully support libreswan
         - support tunnel mode in mlx5 IPsec packet offload
         - extend XDP multi-buffer support
         - support MACsec VLAN offload
         - add support for dynamic msix vectors allocation
         - drop RX page_cache and fully use page_pool
         - implement thermal zone to report NIC temperature
      - Netronome/Corigine:
         - add support for multi-zone conntrack offload
      - Solarflare/Xilinx:
         - support offloading TC VLAN push/pop actions to the MAE
         - support TC decap rules
         - support unicast PTP

   - Other NICs:
      - Broadcom (bnxt): enforce software based freq adjustments only on
        shared PHC NIC
      - RealTek (r8169): refactor to addess ASPM issues during NAPI poll
      - Micrel (lan8841): add support for PTP_PF_PEROUT
      - Cadence (macb): enable PTP unicast
      - Engleder (tsnep): add XDP socket zero-copy support
      - virtio-net: implement exact header length guest feature
      - veth: add page_pool support for page recycling
      - vxlan: add MDB data path support
      - gve: add XDP support for GQI-QPL format
      - geneve: accept every ethertype
      - macvlan: allow some packets to bypass broadcast queue
      - mana: add support for jumbo frame

   - Ethernet high-speed switches:
      - Microchip (sparx5): Add support for TC flower templates

   - Ethernet embedded switches:
      - Broadcom (b54):
         - configure 6318 and 63268 RGMII ports
      - Marvell (mv88e6xxx):
         - faster C45 bus scan
      - Microchip:
         - lan966x:
            - add support for IS1 VCAP
            - better TX/RX from/to CPU performances
         - ksz9477: add ETS Qdisc support
         - ksz8: enhance static MAC table operations and error handling
         - sama7g5: add PTP capability
      - NXP (ocelot):
         - add support for external ports
         - add support for preemptible traffic classes
      - Texas Instruments:
         - add CPSWxG SGMII support for J7200 and J721E

   - Intel WiFi (iwlwifi):
      - preparation for Wi-Fi 7 EHT and multi-link support
      - EHT (Wi-Fi 7) sniffer support
      - hardware timestamping support for some devices/firwmares
      - TX beacon protection on newer hardware

   - Qualcomm 802.11ax WiFi (ath11k):
      - MU-MIMO parameters support
      - ack signal support for management packets

   - RealTek WiFi (rtw88):
      - SDIO bus support
      - better support for some SDIO devices (e.g. MAC address from
        efuse)

   - RealTek WiFi (rtw89):
      - HW scan support for 8852b
      - better support for 6 GHz scanning
      - support for various newer firmware APIs
      - framework firmware backwards compatibility

   - MediaTek WiFi (mt76):
      - P2P support
      - mesh A-MSDU support
      - EHT (Wi-Fi 7) support
      - coredump support"

* tag 'net-next-6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2078 commits)
  net: phy: hide the PHYLIB_LEDS knob
  net: phy: marvell-88x2222: remove unnecessary (void*) conversions
  tcp/udp: Fix memleaks of sk and zerocopy skbs with TX timestamp.
  net: amd: Fix link leak when verifying config failed
  net: phy: marvell: Fix inconsistent indenting in led_blink_set
  lan966x: Don't use xdp_frame when action is XDP_TX
  tsnep: Add XDP socket zero-copy TX support
  tsnep: Add XDP socket zero-copy RX support
  tsnep: Move skb receive action to separate function
  tsnep: Add functions for queue enable/disable
  tsnep: Rework TX/RX queue initialization
  tsnep: Replace modulo operation with mask
  net: phy: dp83867: Add led_brightness_set support
  net: phy: Fix reading LED reg property
  drivers: nfc: nfcsim: remove return value check of `dev_dir`
  net: phy: dp83867: Remove unnecessary (void*) conversions
  net: ethtool: coalesce: try to make user settings stick twice
  net: mana: Check if netdev/napi_alloc_frag returns single page
  net: mana: Rename mana_refill_rxoob and remove some empty lines
  net: veth: add page_pool stats
  ...
2023-04-26 16:07:23 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c23f28975a Merge tag 'docs-6.4' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "Commit volume in documentation is relatively low this time, but there
  is still a fair amount going on, including:

   - Reorganize the architecture-specific documentation under
     Documentation/arch

     This makes the structure match the source directory and helps to
     clean up the mess that is the top-level Documentation directory a
     bit. This work creates the new directory and moves x86 and most of
     the less-active architectures there.

     The current plan is to move the rest of the architectures in 6.5,
     with the patches going through the appropriate subsystem trees.

   - Some more Spanish translations and maintenance of the Italian
     translation

   - A new "Kernel contribution maturity model" document from Ted

   - A new tutorial on quickly building a trimmed kernel from Thorsten

  Plus the usual set of updates and fixes"

* tag 'docs-6.4' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (47 commits)
  media: Adjust column width for pdfdocs
  media: Fix building pdfdocs
  docs: clk: add documentation to log which clocks have been disabled
  docs: trace: Fix typo in ftrace.rst
  Documentation/process: always CC responsible lists
  docs: kmemleak: adjust to config renaming
  ELF: document some de-facto PT_* ABI quirks
  Documentation: arm: remove stih415/stih416 related entries
  docs: turn off "smart quotes" in the HTML build
  Documentation: firmware: Clarify firmware path usage
  docs/mm: Physical Memory: Fix grammar
  Documentation: Add document for false sharing
  dma-api-howto: typo fix
  docs: move m68k architecture documentation under Documentation/arch/
  docs: move parisc documentation under Documentation/arch/
  docs: move ia64 architecture docs under Documentation/arch/
  docs: Move arc architecture docs under Documentation/arch/
  docs: move nios2 documentation under Documentation/arch/
  docs: move openrisc documentation under Documentation/arch/
  docs: move superh documentation under Documentation/arch/
  ...
2023-04-24 12:35:49 -07:00
Krzysztof Kozlowski
c0d747a5b2 Documentation/process: always CC responsible lists
The "Select the recipients for your patch" part about CC-ing mailing
lists is a bit vague and might be understood that only some lists should
be Cc-ed.  That's not what most of the maintainers expect.  For given
code, associated mailing list must always be CC-ed, because the list is
used for reviewing and testing patches.  Example are the Devicetree
bindings patches, which are tested iff Devicetree mailing list is CC-ed.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230413165501.47442-1-krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2023-04-20 17:53:38 -06:00
Jakub Kicinski
d9c960675a Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net
Conflicts:

drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve.h
  3ce9345580 ("gve: Secure enough bytes in the first TX desc for all TCP pkts")
  75eaae158b ("gve: Add XDP DROP and TX support for GQI-QPL format")
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230406104927.45d176f5@canb.auug.org.au/
https://lore.kernel.org/all/c5872985-1a95-0bc8-9dcc-b6f23b439e9d@tessares.net/

Adjacent changes:

net/can/isotp.c
  051737439e ("can: isotp: fix race between isotp_sendsmg() and isotp_release()")
  96d1c81e6a ("can: isotp: add module parameter for maximum pdu size")

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2023-04-06 12:01:20 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
a10ca0950a Merge tag 'driver-core-6.3-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core
Pull driver core fixes from Greg KH:
 "Here are three small changes for 6.3-rc5 semi-related to driver core
  stuff:

   - documentation update where we move the security_bugs file to a more
     relevant location.

   - mdt/spi-nor debugfs memory leak fix that's been floating around for
     a long time and acked by the maintainer

   - cacheinfo bugfix for a regression in 6.3-rc1

  All have been in linux-next with no reported problems"

* tag 'driver-core-6.3-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core:
  cacheinfo: Fix LLC is not exported through sysfs
  Documentation/security-bugs: move from admin-guide/ to process/
  mtd: spi-nor: fix memory leak when using debugfs_lookup()
2023-04-02 10:10:16 -07:00
Jakub Kicinski
e70f94c6c7 docs: netdev: clarify the need to sending reverts as patches
We don't state explicitly that reverts need to be submitted
as a patch. It occasionally comes up.

Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230327172646.2622943-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2023-03-28 23:51:05 -07:00
Jakub Kicinski
e110ba6592 docs: netdev: add note about Changes Requested and revising commit messages
One of the most commonly asked questions is "I answered all questions
and don't need to make any code changes, why was the patch not applied".
Document our time honored tradition of asking people to repost with
improved commit messages, to record the answers to reviewer questions.

Take this opportunity to also recommend a change log format.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230322231202.265835-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2023-03-23 21:50:22 -07:00
Jakub Wilk
775a445d9a coding-style: fix title of Greg K-H's talk
The talk title was inadvertently mangled in 8c27ceff36 ("docs: fix
locations of several documents that got moved").

Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230322215311.6579-1-jwilk@jwilk.net
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2023-03-23 12:04:08 -06:00
Bagas Sanjaya
0c4ff6f6c6 Documentation: maintainer-tip: Rectify link to "Describe your changes" section of submitting-patches.rst
The general changelog rules for the tip tree refers to "Describe your
changes" section of submitting patches guide. However, the internal link
reference targets to non-existent "submittingpatches" label, which
brings reader to the top of the linked doc.

Correct the target. No changes to submitting-patches.rst since the
required label is already there.

Fixes: 31c9d7c829 ("Documentation/process: Add tip tree handbook")
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230320124327.174881-1-bagasdotme@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2023-03-23 11:25:30 -06:00
Carlos Bilbao
9121782e02 docs: Add relevant kernel publications to list of books
For the list of kernel published books, include publication covering kernel
debugging from August, 2022 (ISBN 978-1801075039) and one from March, 2021
on the topic of char device drivers and kernel synchronization (ISBN
978-1801079518). Also add foundational book from Robert Love (ISBN
978-1449339531) and remove extra spaces.

Co-developed-by: Kaiwan N Billimoria <kaiwan.billimoria@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kaiwan N Billimoria <kaiwan.billimoria@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Bilbao <carlos.bilbao@amd.com>

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230222183445.3127324-1-carlos.bilbao@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2023-03-14 12:56:11 -06:00
Theodore Ts'o
10a29eb658 Documentation/process: Add Linux Kernel Contribution Maturity Model
As a follow-up to a discussion at the 2021 Maintainer's Summit on the
topic of maintainer recruitment and retention, the TAB took on the
task of creating a document which to help companies and other
organizations to grow in their ability to engage with the Linux Kernel
development community, using the Maturity Model[2] framework.

The goal is to encourage, in a management-friendly way, companies to
allow their engineers to contribute with the upstream Linux Kernel
development community, so we can grow the "talent pipeline" for
contributors to become respected leaders, and eventually kernel
maintainers.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/870581/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maturity_model

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Co-developed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Co-developed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230308190403.2157046-1-tytso@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2023-03-14 12:22:59 -06:00
Xujun Leng
42da2c00b9 docs: process: typo fix
In the second paragraph of section "Respond to review comments", there is
a spelling mistake: "aganst" should be "against".

Signed-off-by: Xujun Leng <lengxujun2007@126.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230312071423.3042-1-lengxujun2007@126.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2023-03-14 11:31:08 -06:00
Vegard Nossum
44ac5abac8 Documentation/security-bugs: move from admin-guide/ to process/
Jiri Kosina, Jonathan Corbet, and Willy Tarreau all expressed a desire
to move this document under process/.

Create a new section for security issues in the index and group it with
embargoed-hardware-issues.

I'm doing this at the start of the series to make all the subsequent
changes show up in 'git blame'.

Existing references were updated using:

  git grep -l security-bugs ':!Documentation/translations/' | xargs sed -i 's|admin-guide/security-bugs|process/security-bugs|g'
  git grep -l security-bugs Documentation/translations/ | xargs sed -i 's|Documentation/admin-guide/security-bugs|Documentation/process/security-bugs|g'
  git grep -l security-bugs Documentation/translations/ | xargs sed -i '/Original:/s|\.\./admin-guide/security-bugs|\.\./process/security-bugs|g'

Notably, the page is not moved in the translations (due to my lack of
knowledge of these languages), but the translations have been updated
to point to the new location of the original document where these
references exist.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/nycvar.YFH.7.76.2206062326230.10851@cbobk.fhfr.pm/
Suggested-by: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Cc: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Cc: Hu Haowen <src.res@email.cn>
Cc: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Cc: Tsugikazu Shibata <tshibata@ab.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Jeimi Lee <jamee.lee@samsung.com>
Cc: Carlos Bilbao <carlos.bilbao@amd.com>
Cc: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Carlos Bilbao <carlos.bilbao@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Reviewed-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Reviewed-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230305220010.20895-2-vegard.nossum@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-03-12 15:56:43 +01:00
Miguel Ojeda
0b02076f99 docs: programming-language: add Rust programming language section
Following the C text in the file, add a mention about the Rust
programming language, the currently supported compiler and
the edition used (similar to the "dialect" mention for C).

Similarly, add a mention about the unstable features used (similar
to the "extensions" mentions for C).

In addition, add some links to complement the information.

Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230306191712.230658-2-ojeda@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2023-03-07 10:24:40 -07:00
Miguel Ojeda
38484a1d0c docs: programming-language: remove mention of the Intel compiler
The Intel compiler support has been removed in commit 95207db816
("Remove Intel compiler support").

Thus remove its mention in the Documentation too.

Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Palazzo <vincenzopalazzodev@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230306191712.230658-1-ojeda@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2023-03-07 10:24:40 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
b1f1382a11 Merge tag 'docs-6.3-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull Documentation stragglers from Jonathan Corbet:
 "A handful of documentation patches that were ready before the merge
  window, but which I didn't get merged for the first round:

   - A recommendation from Thorsten (also akpm) on use of Link tags to
     point out problem reports

   - Some front-page formatting tweaks

   - Another Spanish translation

   - One typo(ish) fix"

* tag 'docs-6.3-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
  docs: recommend using Link: whenever using Reported-by:
  Documentation: front page: use recommended heading adornments
  docs/sp_SP: Add process programming-language translation
  docs: locking: refer to the actual existing config names
2023-02-28 16:01:08 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
d4563201f3 Documentation: simplify and clarify DCO contribution example language
Long long ago, in a more innocent time, Greg wrote the clarification for
how the DCO should work and that you couldn't make anonymous
contributions, because the sign-off needed to be something we could
check back with.

It was 2006, and nobody reacted to the wording, the whole Facebook 'real
name' controversy was a decade in the future, and nobody even thought
about it.  And despite the language, we've always accepted nicknames and
that language was never meant to be any kind of exclusionary wording.

In fact, even when it became a discussion in other adjacent projects,
apparently nobody even thought to just clarify the language in the
kernel docs, and instead we had projects like the CNCF that had long
discussions about it, and wrote their own clarifications [1] of it.

Just simplify the wording to the point where it shouldn't be causing
unnecessary angst and pain, or scare away people who go by preferred
naming.

Link: https://github.com/cncf/foundation/blob/659fd32c86dc/dco-guidelines.md [1]
Fixes: af45f32d25 ("We can not allow anonymous contributions to the kernel")
Acked-by: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Michael Dolan <mdolan@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2023-02-26 11:25:04 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
a93e884edf Merge tag 'driver-core-6.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core
Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the large set of driver core changes for 6.3-rc1.

  There's a lot of changes this development cycle, most of the work
  falls into two different categories:

   - fw_devlink fixes and updates. This has gone through numerous review
     cycles and lots of review and testing by lots of different devices.
     Hopefully all should be good now, and Saravana will be keeping a
     watch for any potential regression on odd embedded systems.

   - driver core changes to work to make struct bus_type able to be
     moved into read-only memory (i.e. const) The recent work with Rust
     has pointed out a number of areas in the driver core where we are
     passing around and working with structures that really do not have
     to be dynamic at all, and they should be able to be read-only
     making things safer overall. This is the contuation of that work
     (started last release with kobject changes) in moving struct
     bus_type to be constant. We didn't quite make it for this release,
     but the remaining patches will be finished up for the release after
     this one, but the groundwork has been laid for this effort.

  Other than that we have in here:

   - debugfs memory leak fixes in some subsystems

   - error path cleanups and fixes for some never-able-to-be-hit
     codepaths.

   - cacheinfo rework and fixes

   - Other tiny fixes, full details are in the shortlog

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

[ Geert Uytterhoeven points out that that last sentence isn't true, and
  that there's a pending report that has a fix that is queued up - Linus ]

* tag 'driver-core-6.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (124 commits)
  debugfs: drop inline constant formatting for ERR_PTR(-ERROR)
  OPP: fix error checking in opp_migrate_dentry()
  debugfs: update comment of debugfs_rename()
  i3c: fix device.h kernel-doc warnings
  dma-mapping: no need to pass a bus_type into get_arch_dma_ops()
  driver core: class: move EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() lines to the correct place
  Revert "driver core: add error handling for devtmpfs_create_node()"
  Revert "devtmpfs: add debug info to handle()"
  Revert "devtmpfs: remove return value of devtmpfs_delete_node()"
  driver core: cpu: don't hand-override the uevent bus_type callback.
  devtmpfs: remove return value of devtmpfs_delete_node()
  devtmpfs: add debug info to handle()
  driver core: add error handling for devtmpfs_create_node()
  driver core: bus: update my copyright notice
  driver core: bus: add bus_get_dev_root() function
  driver core: bus: constify bus_unregister()
  driver core: bus: constify some internal functions
  driver core: bus: constify bus_get_kset()
  driver core: bus: constify bus_register/unregister_notifier()
  driver core: remove private pointer from struct bus_type
  ...
2023-02-24 12:58:55 -08:00
Thorsten Leemhuis
901578a459 docs: recommend using Link: whenever using Reported-by:
Encourage developers to place Link: tag pointing to the report when they
are using Reported-by: tags. Those links are often extremely useful for
any code archaeologist that wants to know more about the backstory of a
change than the commit message provides. That includes maintainers
higher up in the patch-flow hierarchy, which is why Linus asks
developers to add such links [1, 2, 3]. To quote [1]:

> Again, the commit has a link to the patch *submission*, which is
> almost entirely useless. There's no link to the actual problem the
> patch fixes.
>
> [...]
>
> Put another way: I can see that
>
> Reported-by: Zhangfei Gao <zhangfei.gao@foxmail.com>
>
> in the commit, but I don't have a clue what the actual report was, and
> there really isn't enough information in the commit itself, except for
> a fairly handwavy "Device drivers might, for instance, still need to
> flush operations.."
>
> I don't want to know what device drivers _might_ do. I would want to
> have an actual pointer to what they do and where.

Another reason why these links are wanted: the ongoing regression
tracking efforts can only scale with them, as they allow the regression
tracking bot 'regzbot' to automatically connect tracked reports with
patches that are posted or committed to fix tracked regressions.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wjMmSZzMJ3Xnskdg4+GGz=5p5p+GSYyFBTh0f-DgvdBWg@mail.gmail.com/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wgs38ZrfPvy=nOwVkVzjpM3VFU1zobP37Fwd_h9iAD5JQ@mail.gmail.com/ [2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wjxzafG-=J8oT30s7upn4RhBs6TX-uVFZ5rME+L5_DoJA@mail.gmail.com/ [3]
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9a07ec640d809723492f8ade4f54705914e80419.1676369564.git.linux@leemhuis.info
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2023-02-23 12:47:46 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
70756b49be Merge tag 'docs-6.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "It has been a moderately calm cycle for documentation; the significant
  changes include:

   - Some significant additions to the memory-management documentation

   - Some improvements to navigation in the HTML-rendered docs

   - More Spanish and Chinese translations

  ... and the usual set of typo fixes and such"

* tag 'docs-6.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (68 commits)
  Documentation/watchdog/hpwdt: Fix Format
  Documentation/watchdog/hpwdt: Fix Reference
  Documentation: core-api: padata: correct spelling
  docs/mm: Physical Memory: correct spelling in reference to CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION
  docs: Use HTML comments for the kernel-toc SPDX line
  docs: Add more information to the HTML sidebar
  Documentation: KVM: Update AMD memory encryption link
  printk: Document that CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY required for boot_delay=
  Documentation: userspace-api: correct spelling
  Documentation: sparc: correct spelling
  Documentation: driver-api: correct spelling
  Documentation: admin-guide: correct spelling
  docs: add workload-tracing document to admin-guide
  docs/admin-guide/mm: remove useless markup
  docs/mm: remove useless markup
  docs/mm: Physical Memory: remove useless markup
  docs/sp_SP: Add process magic-number translation
  docs: ftrace: always use canonical ftrace path
  Doc/damon: fix the data path error
  dma-buf: Add "dma-buf" to title of documentation
  ...
2023-02-22 12:00:20 -08:00
Luis Chamberlain
8e3938a5d2 docs: embargoed-hardware-issues: add embargoed HW contact for Samsung
After discussions internally at the company, Javier has been volunteered
and is willing to be the embargoed hardware contact for Samsung.

Cc: Javier González <javier.gonz@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof.c@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Javier González <javier.gonz@samsung.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230123215255.381312-1-mcgrof@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-01-27 10:04:06 +01:00
Kees Cook
8763a30bc1 docs: deprecated.rst: Add note about DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY() usage
There wasn't any mention of when/where DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY() should be
used, so add the rationale and an example to the deprecation docs.

Suggested-by: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230106200600.never.735-kees@kernel.org
[jc: minor wording tweaks]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2023-01-13 09:26:19 -07:00
Conor Dooley
1d2ed9234c Documentation: process: Document suitability of Proton Mail for kernel development
Proton Mail automatically picks up PGP keys for those with kernel.org
accounts (and other domains!) which provide WKD for their users & uses
them to encrypt emails, including patches.

Document the behaviour & Proton Mail's unsuitability for kernel
development.

Reviewed-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221231152320.1340874-1-conor@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2023-01-13 09:26:19 -07:00
Federico Vaga
533797974d doc: fix typo in botching up ioctls
The type contained a typo `uintprt` -> `uintptr`

Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221230172328.58612-1-federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2023-01-13 09:26:19 -07:00
Konstantin Ryabitsev
041d432913 docs: maintainer-pgp-guide: update for latest gnupg defaults
It is finally becoming increasingly rare to find a distribution that
still ships with gnupg-1.x, so remove the last vestiges of "gpg" vs
"gpg2" from documentation.

Similarly, starting with GnuPG 2.2 and above, the default --gen-key
operation creates ed25519/cv25519 keypairs, so update all example
command outputs to use that combination instead of rsa2048.

Lastly, add a few wording tweaks and remove links that lead to stale
information (e.g. hardware tokens overview from 2017).

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221220-docs-pgp-guide-v1-1-9b0c0bf974fb@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2023-01-02 16:37:18 -07:00
Jakub Kicinski
ff249be5cc docs: netdev: convert to a non-FAQ document
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>
2022-12-28 10:06:06 +00:00
Jakub Kicinski
f4ef681115 docs: netdev: reshuffle sections in prep for de-FAQization
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>
2022-12-28 10:06:06 +00:00
Linus Torvalds
6feb57c2fd 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
  ...
2022-12-19 12:33:32 -06:00
Masahiro Yamada
e441273947 Documentation: raise minimum supported version of binutils to 2.25
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>
2022-12-13 22:21:14 +09:00
Linus Torvalds
a7cacfb068 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
  ...
2022-12-12 17:18:50 -08:00
Carlos Bilbao
516384b7ec docs: Add book to process/kernel-docs.rst
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>
2022-11-28 08:54:45 -07:00
Carlos Bilbao
e11377d5d3 docs: Retire old resources from kernel-docs.rst
Remove outdated or obsolete resources from process/kernel-docs.rst, with
the exception of foundational material. Update information regarding
LWN.net. See Link below for further context.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/093907af-2e4e-d232-1eb0-7331ff2b9320@amd.com/
Signed-off-by: Carlos Bilbao <carlos.bilbao@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221124170242.1892751-3-carlos.bilbao@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-11-28 08:54:45 -07:00
Carlos Bilbao
981471b3b4 docs: Update maintainer of kernel-docs.rst
Set new maintainer of the Index of Further Kernel Documentation (document
process/kernel_docs.rst). See Link for further context. Also remove line
that keeps record of last update of the text -this information is already
available elsewhere.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221118170942.2588412-1-carlos.bilbao@amd.com/
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Bilbao <carlos.bilbao@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221124170242.1892751-2-carlos.bilbao@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-11-28 08:54:45 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1f63d1a106 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.
  ...
2022-11-18 10:29:25 -08:00
Shuah Khan
5fddf8962b docs: update mediator contact information in CoC doc
Update mediator contact information in CoC interpretation document.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221011171417.34286-1-skhan@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-11-10 18:45:11 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
8f71a2b3f4 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
2022-11-01 15:11:42 -07:00
Akira Yokosawa
2f3f53d623 docs/process/howto: Replace C89 with C11
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>
2022-10-24 11:27:51 -06:00
Nick Desaulniers
ea522496af Documentation: process: replace outdated LTS table w/ link
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>
2022-10-24 11:27:01 -06:00
Jakub Kicinski
c5884ef477 docs: netdev: offer performance feedback to contributors
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>
2022-10-24 11:03:44 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
f2b220ef93 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
2022-10-13 10:58:32 -07:00
Akira Yokosawa
7cc395312a docs/howto: Replace abundoned URL of gmane.org
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>
2022-10-10 13:09:10 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
8afc66e8d4 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
  ...
2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e8bc52cb8d 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
  ...
2022-10-07 17:04:10 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
6181073dd6 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
  ...
2022-10-07 16:36:24 -07:00
Masahiro Yamada
0715fdb03e docs: bump minimal GNU Make version to 3.82
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>
2022-10-06 09:16:21 +09:00
Linus Torvalds
d0989d01c6 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 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