The currently minimum-supported binutils version 2.21 has the problem of
promoting symbols which are defined outside of a section into absolute.
According to Arvind:
binutils-2.21 and -2.22. An x86-64 defconfig will fail with
Invalid absolute R_X86_64_32S relocation: _etext
and after fixing that one, with
Invalid absolute R_X86_64_32S relocation: __end_of_kernel_reserve
Those two versions of binutils have a bug when it comes to handling
symbols defined outside of a section and binutils 2.23 has the proper
fix, see: https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/binutils/2012-06/msg00155.html
Therefore, up to the fixed version directly, skipping the broken ones.
Currently shipping distros already have the fixed binutils version so
there should be no breakage resulting from this.
For more details about the whole thing, see the thread in Link.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200110202349.1881840-1-nivedita@alum.mit.edu
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Acked-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the big set of char/misc/other driver patches for 5.7-rc1.
Lots of things in here, and it's later than expected due to some
reverts to resolve some reported issues. All is now clean with no
reported problems in linux-next.
Included in here is:
- interconnect updates
- mei driver updates
- uio updates
- nvmem driver updates
- soundwire updates
- binderfs updates
- coresight updates
- habanalabs updates
- mhi new bus type and core
- extcon driver updates
- some Kconfig cleanups
- other small misc driver cleanups and updates
As mentioned, all have been in linux-next for a while, and with the
last two reverts, all is calm and good"
* tag 'char-misc-5.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (174 commits)
Revert "driver core: platform: Initialize dma_parms for platform devices"
Revert "amba: Initialize dma_parms for amba devices"
amba: Initialize dma_parms for amba devices
driver core: platform: Initialize dma_parms for platform devices
bus: mhi: core: Drop the references to mhi_dev in mhi_destroy_device()
bus: mhi: core: Initialize bhie field in mhi_cntrl for RDDM capture
bus: mhi: core: Add support for reading MHI info from device
misc: rtsx: set correct pcr_ops for rts522A
speakup: misc: Use dynamic minor numbers for speakup devices
mei: me: add cedar fork device ids
coresight: do not use the BIT() macro in the UAPI header
Documentation: provide IBM contacts for embargoed hardware
nvmem: core: remove nvmem_sysfs_get_groups()
nvmem: core: use is_bin_visible for permissions
nvmem: core: use device_register and device_unregister
nvmem: core: add root_only member to nvmem device struct
extcon: axp288: Add wakeup support
extcon: Mark extcon_get_edev_name() function as exported symbol
extcon: palmas: Hide error messages if gpio returns -EPROBE_DEFER
dt-bindings: extcon: usbc-cros-ec: convert extcon-usbc-cros-ec.txt to yaml format
...
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"This has been a busy cycle for documentation work.
Highlights include:
- Lots of RST conversion work by Mauro, Daniel ALmeida, and others.
Maybe someday we'll get to the end of this stuff...maybe...
- Some organizational work to bring some order to the core-api
manual.
- Various new docs and additions to the existing documentation.
- Typo fixes, warning fixes, ..."
* tag 'docs-5.7' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (123 commits)
Documentation: x86: exception-tables: document CONFIG_BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT
MAINTAINERS: adjust to filesystem doc ReST conversion
docs: deprecated.rst: Add BUG()-family
doc: zh_CN: add translation for virtiofs
doc: zh_CN: index files in filesystems subdirectory
docs: locking: Drop :c:func: throughout
docs: locking: Add 'need' to hardirq section
docs: conf.py: avoid thousands of duplicate label warning on Sphinx
docs: prevent warnings due to autosectionlabel
docs: fix reference to core-api/namespaces.rst
docs: fix pointers to io-mapping.rst and io_ordering.rst files
Documentation: Better document the softlockup_panic sysctl
docs: hw-vuln: tsx_async_abort.rst: get rid of an unused ref
docs: perf: imx-ddr.rst: get rid of a warning
docs: filesystems: fuse.rst: supress a Sphinx warning
docs: translations: it: avoid duplicate refs at programming-language.rst
docs: driver.rst: supress two ReSt warnings
docs: trace: events.rst: convert some new stuff to ReST format
Documentation: Add io_ordering.rst to driver-api manual
Documentation: Add io-mapping.rst to driver-api manual
...
Documentation/process/deprecated.rst has a lot of uses of :c:func:, which
is, well, deprecated. Emacs query-replace-regexp to the rescue.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Before commit 9e03ea7f68 ("Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: convert it
to ReST markup"), it read:
Description: Linux Journal Kernel Korner article. Here is its
abstract: "..."
In Sphinx' HTML formatting, however, the "Here is its" doesn't make
sense anymore, because the "Abstract:" is clearly separated.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200228204147.8622-1-j.neuschaefer@gmx.net
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The guide to the kernel dev process documentation, for example, contains
references to older kernels and their timelines. In addition, one of the
"long term support kernels" listed have since reached EOL, and a new one
has been named. This patch brings information/tables up to date.
Additionally, some very trivial grammatical errors, unclear sentences,
and potentially unsavory diction have been edited.
Signed-off-by: Tony Fischetti <tony.fischetti@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This patch replace stale/dead urls with active urls for Mutt.
Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Pull Documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet:
"A handful of small documentation fixes that wandered in"
* tag 'docs-5.6-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
Allow git builds of Sphinx
Documentation: changes.rst: update several outdated project URLs
Documentation: build warnings related to missing blank lines after explicit markups has been fixed
mailmap: add entry for Tiezhu Yang
Documentation/ko_KR/howto: Update a broken link
Documentation/ko_KR/howto: Update broken web addresses
docs/locking: Fix outdated section names
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"It has been a relatively quiet cycle for documentation, but there's
still a couple of things of note:
- Conversion of the NFS documentation to RST
- A new document on how to help with documentation (and a maintainer
profile entry too)
Plus the usual collection of typo fixes, etc"
* tag 'docs-5.6' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (40 commits)
docs: filesystems: add overlayfs to index.rst
docs: usb: remove some broken references
scripts/find-unused-docs: Fix massive false positives
docs: nvdimm: use ReST notation for subsection
zram: correct documentation about sysfs node of huge page writeback
Documentation: zram: various fixes in zram.rst
Add a maintainer entry profile for documentation
Add a document on how to contribute to the documentation
docs: Keep up with the location of NoUri
Documentation: Call out example SYM_FUNC_* usage as x86-specific
Documentation: nfs: fault_injection: convert to ReST
Documentation: nfs: pnfs-scsi-server: convert to ReST
Documentation: nfs: convert pnfs-block-server to ReST
Documentation: nfs: idmapper: convert to ReST
Documentation: convert nfsd-admin-interfaces to ReST
Documentation: nfs-rdma: convert to ReST
Documentation: nfsroot.rst: COSMETIC: refill a paragraph
Documentation: nfsroot.txt: convert to ReST
Documentation: convert nfs.txt to ReST
Documentation: filesystems: convert vfat.txt to RST
...
Formalize, in kernel documentation, the patch acceptance policy for
arch/riscv. In summary, it states that as maintainers, we plan to
only accept patches for new modules or extensions that have been
frozen or ratified by the RISC-V Foundation.
We've been following these guidelines for the past few months. In the
meantime, we've received quite a bit of feedback that it would be
helpful to have these guidelines formally documented.
Based on a suggestion from Matthew Wilcox, we also add a link to this
file to Documentation/process/index.rst, to make this document easier
to find. The format of this document has also been changed to align
to the format outlined in the maintainer entry profiles, in accordance
with comments from Jon Corbet and Dan Williams.
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Krste Asanovic <krste@berkeley.edu>
Cc: Andrew Waterman <waterman@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Fill in "..." stubs with proper links to the mailing lists's encryption
keys and service description URLs. Similarly, fix wording to specify
that multiple members of Linux Foundation's IT team have access to
internal kernel.org infrastructure, and that all of them have similar
confidentiality obligations as the IT team director.
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191209192611.GA1688548@chatter.i7.local
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Replace all the occurrences of FIELD_SIZEOF() with sizeof_field() except
at places where these are defined. Later patches will remove the unused
definition of FIELD_SIZEOF().
This patch is generated using following script:
EXCLUDE_FILES="include/linux/stddef.h|include/linux/kernel.h"
git grep -l -e "\bFIELD_SIZEOF\b" | while read file;
do
if [[ "$file" =~ $EXCLUDE_FILES ]]; then
continue
fi
sed -i -e 's/\bFIELD_SIZEOF\b/sizeof_field/g' $file;
done
Signed-off-by: Pankaj Bharadiya <pankaj.laxminarayan.bharadiya@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190924105839.110713-3-pankaj.laxminarayan.bharadiya@intel.com
Co-developed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> # for net
Pull tty/serial updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the "big" tty and serial driver patches for 5.5-rc1.
It's a bit later in the merge window than normal as I wanted to make
sure some last-minute patches applied to it were all sane. They seem
to be :)
There's a lot of little stuff in here, for the tty core, and for lots
of serial drivers:
- reverts of uartlite serial driver patches that were wrong
- msm-serial driver fixes
- serial core updates and fixes
- tty core fixes
- serial driver dma mapping api changes
- lots of other tiny fixes and updates for serial drivers
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues"
* tag 'tty-5.5-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (58 commits)
Revert "serial/8250: Add support for NI-Serial PXI/PXIe+485 devices"
vcs: prevent write access to vcsu devices
tty: vt: keyboard: reject invalid keycodes
tty: don't crash in tty_init_dev when missing tty_port
serial: stm32: fix clearing interrupt error flags
tty: Fix Kconfig indentation, continued
serial: serial_core: Perform NULL checks for break_ctl ops
tty: remove unused argument from tty_open_by_driver()
tty: Fix Kconfig indentation
{tty: serial, nand: onenand}: samsung: rename to fix build warning
serial: ifx6x60: add missed pm_runtime_disable
serial: pl011: Fix DMA ->flush_buffer()
Revert "serial-uartlite: Move the uart register"
Revert "serial-uartlite: Add get serial id if not provided"
Revert "serial-uartlite: Do not use static struct uart_driver out of probe()"
Revert "serial-uartlite: Add runtime support"
Revert "serial-uartlite: Change logic how console_port is setup"
Revert "serial-uartlite: Use allocated structure instead of static ones"
tty: serial: msm_serial: Use dma_request_chan() directly for channel request
tty: serial: tegra: Use dma_request_chan() directly for channel request
...
