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2023-07-08docs: update ocfs2-devel mailing list addressAnthony Iliopoulos
The ocfs2-devel mailing list has been migrated to the kernel.org infrastructure, update all related documentation pointers to reflect the change. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230628013437.47030-3-ailiop@suse.com Signed-off-by: Anthony Iliopoulos <ailiop@suse.com> Acked-by: Joseph Qi <jiangqi903@gmail.com> Acked-by: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org> Cc: Changwei Ge <gechangwei@live.cn> Cc: Gang He <ghe@suse.com> Cc: Jun Piao <piaojun@huawei.com> Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark@fasheh.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-03-20selinux: remove the runtime disable functionalityPaul Moore
After working with the larger SELinux-based distros for several years, we're finally at a place where we can disable the SELinux runtime disable functionality. The existing kernel deprecation notice explains the functionality and why we want to remove it: The selinuxfs "disable" node allows SELinux to be disabled at runtime prior to a policy being loaded into the kernel. If disabled via this mechanism, SELinux will remain disabled until the system is rebooted. The preferred method of disabling SELinux is via the "selinux=0" boot parameter, but the selinuxfs "disable" node was created to make it easier for systems with primitive bootloaders that did not allow for easy modification of the kernel command line. Unfortunately, allowing for SELinux to be disabled at runtime makes it difficult to secure the kernel's LSM hooks using the "__ro_after_init" feature. It is that last sentence, mentioning the '__ro_after_init' hardening, which is the real motivation for this change, and if you look at the diffstat you'll see that the impact of this patch reaches across all the different LSMs, helping prevent tampering at the LSM hook level. From a SELinux perspective, it is important to note that if you continue to disable SELinux via "/etc/selinux/config" it may appear that SELinux is disabled, but it is simply in an uninitialized state. If you load a policy with `load_policy -i`, you will see SELinux come alive just as if you had loaded the policy during early-boot. It is also worth noting that the "/sys/fs/selinux/disable" file is always writable now, regardless of the Kconfig settings, but writing to the file has no effect on the system, other than to display an error on the console if a non-zero/true value is written. Finally, in the several years where we have been working on deprecating this functionality, there has only been one instance of someone mentioning any user visible breakage. In this particular case it was an individual's kernel test system, and the workaround documented in the deprecation notice ("selinux=0" on the kernel command line) resolved the issue without problem. Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
2023-03-20selinux: remove the 'checkreqprot' functionalityPaul Moore
We originally promised that the SELinux 'checkreqprot' functionality would be removed no sooner than June 2021, and now that it is March 2023 it seems like it is a good time to do the final removal. The deprecation notice in the kernel provides plenty of detail on why 'checkreqprot' is not desirable, with the key point repeated below: This was a compatibility mechanism for legacy userspace and for the READ_IMPLIES_EXEC personality flag. However, if set to 1, it weakens security by allowing mappings to be made executable without authorization by policy. The default value of checkreqprot at boot was changed starting in Linux v4.4 to 0 (i.e. check the actual protection), and Android and Linux distributions have been explicitly writing a "0" to /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot during initialization for some time. Along with the official deprecation notice, we have been discussing this on-list and directly with several of the larger SELinux-based distros and everyone is happy to see this feature finally removed. In an attempt to catch all of the smaller, and DIY, Linux systems we have been writing a deprecation notice URL into the kernel log, along with a growing ssleep() penalty, when admins enabled checkreqprot at runtime or via the kernel command line. We have yet to have anyone come to us and raise an objection to the deprecation or planned removal. It is worth noting that while this patch removes the checkreqprot functionality, it leaves the user visible interfaces (kernel command line and selinuxfs file) intact, just inert. This should help prevent breakages with existing userspace tools that correctly, but unnecessarily, disable checkreqprot at boot or runtime. Admins that attempt to enable checkreqprot will be met with a removal message in the kernel log. Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
2022-02-23x86/mce: Remove the tolerance level controlBorislav Petkov
This is pretty much unused and not really useful. What is more, all relevant MCA hardware has recoverable machine checks support so there's no real need to tweak MCA tolerance levels in order to *maybe* extend machine lifetime. So rip it out. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YcDq8PxvKtTENl/e@zn.tnic
2021-06-28Merge tag 'docs-5.14' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "This was a reasonably active cycle for documentation; this includes: - Some kernel-doc cleanups. That script is still regex onslaught from hell, but it has gotten a little better. - Improvements to the checkpatch docs, which are also used by the tool itself. - A major update to the pathname lookup documentation. - Elimination of :doc: markup, since our automarkup magic can create references from filenames without all the extra noise. - The flurry of Chinese translation activity continues. Plus, of course, the usual collection of updates, typo fixes, and warning fixes" * tag 'docs-5.14' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (115 commits) docs: path-lookup: use bare function() rather than literals docs: path-lookup: update symlink description docs: path-lookup: update get_link() ->follow_link description docs: path-lookup: update WALK_GET, WALK_PUT desc docs: path-lookup: no get_link() docs: path-lookup: update i_op->put_link and cookie description docs: path-lookup: i_op->follow_link replaced with i_op->get_link docs: path-lookup: Add macro name to symlink limit description docs: path-lookup: remove filename_mountpoint docs: path-lookup: update do_last() part docs: path-lookup: update path_mountpoint() part docs: path-lookup: update path_to_nameidata() part docs: path-lookup: update follow_managed() part docs: Makefile: Use CONFIG_SHELL not SHELL docs: Take a little noise out of the build process docs: x86: avoid using ReST :doc:`foo` markup docs: virt: kvm: s390-pv-boot.rst: avoid using ReST :doc:`foo` markup docs: userspace-api: landlock.rst: avoid using ReST :doc:`foo` markup docs: trace: ftrace.rst: avoid using ReST :doc:`foo` markup docs: trace: coresight: coresight.rst: avoid using ReST :doc:`foo` markup ...
2021-05-13docs: typo fixes in Documentation/ABI/Carlos Bilbao
Fix the following typos in the Documentation/ABI/ directory: - In file obsolete/sysfs-cpuidle, change "obselete" for "obsolete". - In file removed/sysfs-kernel-uids, change "propotional" for "proportional". - In directory stable/, fix the following words: "associtated" for "associated", "hexidecimal" for "hexadecimal", "vlue" for "value", "csed" for "caused" and "wrtie" for "write". This updates a total of five files. - In directory testing/, fix the following words: "subystem" for "subsystem", "isochrnous" for "isochronous", "Desctiptors" for "Descriptors", "picutre" for "picture", "capture" for "capture", "occured" for "ocurred", "connnected" for "connected","agressively" for "aggressively","manufacturee" for "manufacturer" and "transaction" for "transaction", "malformatted" for "incorrectly formated" ,"internel" for "internal", "writtento" for "written to", "specificed" for "specified", "beyound" for "beyond", "Symetric" for "Symmetric". This updates a total of eleven files. Signed-off-by: Carlos Bilbao <bilbao@vt.edu> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5710038.lOV4Wx5bFT@iron-maiden Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-05-12MAINTAINERS: Move nvdimm mailing listDan Williams
After seeing some users have subscription management trouble, more spam than other Linux development lists, and considering some of the benefits of kernel.org hosted lists, nvdimm and persistent memory development is moving to nvdimm@lists.linux.dev. The old list will remain up until v5.14-rc1 and shutdown thereafter. Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Cc: Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161898872871.3406469.4054282559340528393.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2020-10-30docs: ABI: cleanup several ABI documentsMauro Carvalho Chehab
There are some ABI documents that, while they don't generate any warnings, they have issues when parsed by get_abi.pl script on its output result. Address them, in order to provide a clean output. Reviewed-by: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com> # for fpga-manager Reviewed-By: Kajol Jain<kjain@linux.ibm.com> # for sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-hv_gpci and sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-hv_24x7 Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> #for IIO Acked-by: Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@gmail.com> # for Habanalabs Acked-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com> # for sysfs-bus-papr-pmem Acked-by: Cezary Rojewski <cezary.rojewski@intel.com> # for catpt Acked-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Acked-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com> # for rbd Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5bc78e5b68ed1e9e39135173857cb2e753be868f.1604042072.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-04-05Merge tag 'powerpc-5.7-1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman: "Slightly late as I had to rebase mid-week to insert a bug fix: - A large series from Nick for 64-bit to further rework our exception vectors, and rewrite portions of the syscall entry/exit and interrupt return in C. The result is much easier to follow code that is also faster in general. - Cleanup of our ptrace code to split various parts out that had become badly intertwined with #ifdefs over the years. - Changes to our NUMA setup under the PowerVM hypervisor which should hopefully avoid non-sensical topologies which can lead to warnings from the workqueue code and other problems. - MAINTAINERS updates to remove some of our old orphan entries and update the status of others. - Quite a few other small changes and fixes all over the map. Thanks to: Abdul Haleem, afzal mohammed, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Balamuruhan S, Cédric Le Goater, Chen Zhou, Christophe JAILLET, Christophe Leroy, Christoph Hellwig, Clement Courbet, Daniel Axtens, David Gibson, Douglas Miller, Fabiano Rosas, Fangrui Song, Ganesh Goudar, Gautham R. Shenoy, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Greg Kurz, Gustavo Luiz Duarte, Hari Bathini, Ilie Halip, Jan Kara, Joe Lawrence, Joe Perches, Kajol Jain, Larry Finger, Laurentiu Tudor, Leonardo Bras, Libor Pechacek, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Masahiro Yamada, Masami Hiramatsu, Mauricio Faria de Oliveira, Michael Neuling, Michal Suchanek, Mike Rapoport, Nageswara R Sastry, Nathan Chancellor, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Nick Desaulniers, Oliver O'Halloran, Po-Hsu Lin, Pratik Rajesh Sampat, Rasmus Villemoes, Ravi Bangoria, Roman Bolshakov, Sam Bobroff, Sandipan Das, Santosh S, Sedat Dilek, Segher Boessenkool, Shilpasri G Bhat, Sourabh Jain, Srikar Dronamraju, Stephen Rothwell, Tyrel Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain, YueHaibing" * tag 'powerpc-5.7-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (158 commits) powerpc: Make setjmp/longjmp signature standard powerpc/cputable: Remove unnecessary copy of cpu_spec->oprofile_type powerpc: Suppress .eh_frame generation powerpc: Drop -fno-dwarf2-cfi-asm powerpc/32: drop unused ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD powerpc/powernv: Add documentation for the opal sensor_groups sysfs interfaces selftests/powerpc: Fix try-run when source tree is not writable powerpc/vmlinux.lds: Explicitly retain .gnu.hash powerpc/ptrace: move ptrace_triggered() into hw_breakpoint.c powerpc/ptrace: create ppc_gethwdinfo() powerpc/ptrace: create ptrace_get_debugreg() powerpc/ptrace: split out ADV_DEBUG_REGS related functions. powerpc/ptrace: move register viewing functions out of ptrace.c powerpc/ptrace: split out TRANSACTIONAL_MEM related functions. powerpc/ptrace: split out SPE related functions. powerpc/ptrace: split out ALTIVEC related functions. powerpc/ptrace: split out VSX related functions. powerpc/ptrace: drop PARAMETER_SAVE_AREA_OFFSET powerpc/ptrace: drop unnecessary #ifdefs CONFIG_PPC64 powerpc/ptrace: remove unused header includes ...
2020-02-19powerpc/powernv: Move core and fadump_release_opalcore under new kobjectSourabh Jain
The /sys/firmware/opal/core and /sys/kernel/fadump_release_opalcore sysfs files are used to export and release the OPAL memory on PowerNV platform. let's organize them into a new kobject under /sys/firmware/opal/mpipl/ directory. A symlink is added to maintain the backward compatibility for /sys/firmware/opal/core sysfs file. Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191211160910.21656-5-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com
2020-02-13Documentation/ABI: move sysfs-kernel-uids to removed directoryWang Long
commit 7c9414385ebf ("sched: Remove USER_SCHED") deleted the USER_SCHED feature. so move the ABI doc to removed directory. Signed-off-by: Wang Long <w@laoqinren.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1581082930-30441-1-git-send-email-w@laoqinren.net Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-07-15docs: driver-api: add a series of orphaned documentsMauro Carvalho Chehab
There are lots of documents under Documentation/*.txt and a few other orphan documents elsehwere that belong to the driver-API book. Move them to their right place. Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> # vfio-related parts Acked-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> # switchtec Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
2018-06-03acpi, nfit: Remove ecc_unit_sizeDan Williams
The "Clear Error Unit" may be smaller than the ECC unit size on some devices. For example, poison may be tracked at 64-byte alignment even though the ECC unit is larger. Unless / until the ACPI specification provides a non-ambiguous way to communicate this property do not expose this to userspace. Software that had been using this property must already be prepared for the case where the property is not provided on older kernels, so it is safe to remove this attribute. Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2016-02-24rfkill: Remove obsolete "claim" sysfs interfaceJoão Paulo Rechi Vita
This was scheduled to be removed in 2012 by: commit 69c86373c6ea1149aa559e6088362d58d8ec8835 Author: florian@mickler.org <florian@mickler.org> Date: Wed Feb 24 12:05:16 2010 +0100 Document the rfkill sysfs ABI This moves sysfs ABI info from Documentation/rfkill.txt to the ABI subfolder and reformats it. This also schedules the deprecated sysfs parts to be removed in 2012 (claim file) and 2014 (state file). Signed-off-by: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: João Paulo Rechi Vita <jprvita@endlessm.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-09-28net_dma: simple removalDan Williams
Per commit "77873803363c net_dma: mark broken" net_dma is no longer used and there is no plan to fix it. This is the mechanical removal of bits in CONFIG_NET_DMA ifdef guards. Reverting the remainder of the net_dma induced changes is deferred to subsequent patches. Marked for stable due to Roman's report of a memory leak in dma_pin_iovec_pages(): https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/3/177 Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Cc: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> Cc: David Whipple <whipple@securedatainnovations.ch> Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Reported-by: Roman Gushchin <klamm@yandex-team.ru> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2012-05-08netfilter: remove ip_queue supportPablo Neira Ayuso
This patch removes ip_queue support which was marked as obsolete years ago. The nfnetlink_queue modules provides more advanced user-space packet queueing mechanism. This patch also removes capability code included in SELinux that refers to ip_queue. Otherwise, we break compilation. Several warning has been sent regarding this to the mailing list in the past month without anyone rising the hand to stop this with some strong argument. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2012-02-15driver-core: documentation: fix up Greg's email addressGreg Kroah-Hartman
My old email address was used in a lot of documentation files, so fix this up to point to the correct one now. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2011-09-27doc: raw1394: Trivial typo fixSean M. Collins
Signed-off-by: Sean M. Collins <sean@coreitpro.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-08-05Documentation/ABI/: update version number references from 2.6.x to 3.xJesper Juhl
Update the version number references from 2.6.x to 3.x Also correct spelling of "May" (was spelled "Mai"). Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-05-23ocfs2: remove the /sys/o2cb symlinkAmerigo Wang
It is obsoleted since Dec 2005. Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
2010-10-11ieee1394: remove the old IEEE 1394 driver stackStefan Richter
The drivers - ohci1394 (controller driver) - ieee1394 (core) - dv1394, raw1394, video1394 (userspace ABI) - eth1394, sbp2 (protocol drivers) are replaced by - firewire-ohci (controller driver) - firewire-core (core and userspace ABI) - firewire-net, firewire-sbp2 (protocol drivers) which are more featureful, better performing, and more secure than the older drivers; all with a smaller and more modern code base. The driver firedtv in drivers/media/dvb/firewire/ contains backends to both ieee1394 and firewire-core. Its ieee1394 backend code can be removed in an independent commit; firedtv as-is builds and works fine without ieee1394. The driver pcilynx (an incomplete controller driver) is deleted without replacement since PCILynx cards are extremely rare. Owners of these cards use them with the stand-alone bus sniffer driver nosy instead. The drivers nosy and init_ohci1394_dma which do not interact with either of the two IEEE 1394 stacks are not affected by the ieee1394 subsystem removal. There are still some issues with the newer firewire subsystem compared to the older one: - The rare and quirky controllers ALi M52xx, Apple UniNorth v1, NVIDIA NForce2 are even less well supported by firewire-ohci than by ohci1394. I am looking into the M52xx issue. - The experimental firewire-net is reportedly less stable than its experimental cousin eth1394. - Audio playback of a certain group of audio devices (ones based on DICE chipset with EAP; supported by prerelease FFADO code) does not work yet. This issue is still under investigation. - There were some ieee1394 based out-of-the-mainline drivers. Of them, only lisight, an audio driver for iSight webcams, seems still useful. Work is underway to reimplement it on top of firewire-core. All these remainig issues are minor; they should not stand in the way of overall better user experience of IEEE 1394 on Linux, together with a reduction in support efforts and maintenance burden. The coexistence of two IEEE 1394 kernel driver stacks in the mainline since 2.6.22 shall end now, as announced earlier this year. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2007-07-10ieee1394: remove old isochronous ABIStefan Richter
Based on patch "the scheduled removal of RAW1394_REQ_ISO_{SEND,LISTEN}" from Adrian Bunk, November 20 2006. This patch also removes the underlying facilities in ohci1394 and disables them in pcilynx. That is, hpsb_host_driver.devctl() and hpsb_host_driver.transmit_packet() are no longer used for iso reception and transmission. Since video1394 and dv1394 only work with ohci1394 and raw1394's rawiso interface has never been implemented in pcilynx, pcilynx is now no longer useful for isochronous applications. raw1394 will still handle the request types but will complete the requests with errors that indicate API version conflicts. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2007-05-09Fix occurrences of "the the "Michael Opdenacker
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-09-25Documentation/ABI: devfs is not obsolete, but removed!jens m. noedler
Signed-off-by: Jens M. Noedler <noedler@web.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>