Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
Linus Torvalds
authored
Pull hardening updates from Kees Cook:
"As usual, it's scattered changes all over. Patches touching things
outside of our traditional areas in the tree have been Acked by
maintainers or were trivial changes:
- loadpin: remove unsupported MODULE_COMPRESS_NONE (Arulpandiyan
Vadivel)
- samples/check-exec: Fix script name (Mickaël Salaün)
- yama: remove needless locking in yama_task_prctl() (Oleg Nesterov)
- lib/string_choices: Sort by function name (R Sundar)
- hardening: Allow default HARDENED_USERCOPY to be set at compile
time (Mel Gorman)
- uaccess: Split out compile-time checks into ucopysize.h
- kbuild: clang: Support building UM with SUBARCH=i386
- x86: Enable i386 FORTIFY_SOURCE on Clang 16+
- ubsan/overflow: Rework integer overflow sanitizer option
- Add missing __nonstring annotations for callers of
memtostr*()/strtomem*()
- Add __must_be_noncstr() and have memtostr*()/strtomem*() check for
it
- Introduce __nonstring_array for silencing future GCC 15 warnings"
* tag 'hardening-v6.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: (26 commits)
compiler_types: Introduce __nonstring_array
hardening: Enable i386 FORTIFY_SOURCE on Clang 16+
x86/build: Remove -ffreestanding on i386 with GCC
ubsan/overflow: Enable ignorelist parsing and add type filter
ubsan/overflow: Enable pattern exclusions
ubsan/overflow: Rework integer overflow sanitizer option to turn on everything
samples/check-exec: Fix script name
yama: don't abuse rcu_read_lock/get_task_struct in yama_task_prctl()
kbuild: clang: Support building UM with SUBARCH=i386
loadpin: remove MODULE_COMPRESS_NONE as it is no longer supported
lib/string_choices: Rearrange functions in sorted order
string.h: Validate memtostr*()/strtomem*() arguments more carefully
compiler.h: Introduce __must_be_noncstr()
nilfs2: Mark on-disk strings as nonstring
uapi: stddef.h: Introduce __kernel_nonstring
x86/tdx: Mark message.bytes as nonstring
string: kunit: Mark nonstring test strings as __nonstring
scsi: qla2xxx: Mark device strings as nonstring
scsi: mpt3sas: Mark device strings as nonstring
scsi: mpi3mr: Mark device strings as nonstring
...