kernel/linux.git/Documentation/process, branch v5.10.257

Documentation: process: Also mention Sasha Levin as stable tree maintainer

2026-01-19T12:11:24+00:00

commit ba2457109d5b47a90fe565b39524f7225fc23e60 upstream. Sasha has also maintaining stable branch in conjunction with Greg since cb5d21946d2a2f ("MAINTAINERS: Add Sasha as a stable branch maintainer"). Mention him in 2.Process.rst. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Message-ID: <20251022034336.22839-1-bagasdotme@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

overflow: Implement size_t saturating arithmetic helpers

2023-11-20T10:06:44+00:00

[ Upstream commit e1be43d9b5d0d1310dbd90185a8e5c7145dde40f ] In order to perform more open-coded replacements of common allocation size arithmetic, the kernel needs saturating (SIZE_MAX) helpers for multiplication, addition, and subtraction. For example, it is common in allocators, especially on realloc, to add to an existing size: p = krealloc(map->patch, sizeof(struct reg_sequence) * (map->patch_regs + num_regs), GFP_KERNEL); There is no existing saturating replacement for this calculation, and just leaving the addition open coded inside array_size() could potentially overflow as well. For example, an overflow in an expression for a size_t argument might wrap to zero: array_size(anything, something_at_size_max + 1) == 0 Introduce size_mul(), size_add(), and size_sub() helpers that implicitly promote arguments to size_t and saturated calculations for use in allocations. With these helpers it is also possible to redefine array_size(), array3_size(), flex_array_size(), and struct_size() in terms of the new helpers. As with the check_*_overflow() helpers, the new helpers use __must_check, though what is really desired is a way to make sure that assignment is only to a size_t lvalue. Without this, it's still possible to introduce overflow/underflow via type conversion (i.e. from size_t to int). Enforcing this will currently need to be left to static analysis or future use of -Wconversion. Additionally update the overflow unit tests to force runtime evaluation for the pathological cases. Cc: Rasmus Villemoes Cc: Gustavo A. R. Silva Cc: Nathan Chancellor Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Nick Desaulniers Cc: Leon Romanovsky Cc: Keith Busch Cc: Len Baker Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Stable-dep-of: d692873cbe86 ("gve: Use size_add() in call to struct_size()") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

docs: update mediator contact information in CoC doc

2022-11-25T16:45:53+00:00

commit 5fddf8962b429b8303c4a654291ecb6e61a7d747 upstream. Update mediator contact information in CoC interpretation document. Cc: Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221011171417.34286-1-skhan@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

docs: update mediator information in CoC docs

2022-10-15T05:55:50+00:00

commit 8bfdfa0d6b929ede7b6189e0e546ceb6a124d05d upstream. Update mediator information in the CoC interpretation document. Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220901212319.56644-1-skhan@linuxfoundation.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

docs: submitting-patches: Fix crossref to 'The canonical patch format'

2022-06-06T06:42:44+00:00

commit 6d5aa418b3bd42cdccc36e94ee199af423ef7c84 upstream. The reference to `explicit_in_reply_to` is pointless as when the reference was added in the form of "#15" [1], Section 15) was "The canonical patch format". The reference of "#15" had not been properly updated in a couple of reorganizations during the plain-text SubmittingPatches era. Fix it by using `the_canonical_patch_format`. [1]: 2ae19acaa50a ("Documentation: Add "how to write a good patch summary" to SubmittingPatches") Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa Fixes: 5903019b2a5e ("Documentation/SubmittingPatches: convert it to ReST markup") Fixes: 9b2c76777acc ("Documentation/SubmittingPatches: enrich the Sphinx output") Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.9+ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/64e105a5-50be-23f2-6cae-903a2ea98e18@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Documentation: update stable tree link

2022-04-08T12:39:50+00:00

commit 555d44932c67e617d89bc13c81c7efac5b51fcfa upstream. The link to stable tree is redirected to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git. Update accordingly. Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Sasha Levin Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220314113329.485372-6-bagasdotme@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Documentation: add link to stable release candidate tree

2022-04-08T12:39:50+00:00

commit 587d39b260c4d090166314d64be70b1f6a26b0b5 upstream. There is also stable release candidate tree. Mention it, however with a warning that the tree is for testing purposes. Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Sasha Levin Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220314113329.485372-5-bagasdotme@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

docs: networking: drop special stable handling

2021-03-17T16:06:13+00:00

commit dbbe7c962c3a8163bf724dbc3c9fdfc9b16d3117 upstream. Leave it to Greg. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: switch to the kernel.org patchwork instance

2020-11-12T01:12:00+00:00

Move to the kernel.org patchwork instance, it has significantly lower latency for accessing from Europe and the US. Other quirks include the reply bot. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201110035120.642746-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Merge tag 'docs-5.10-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2020-10-24T00:13:53+00:00

Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet: "A handful of late-arriving documentation fixes" * tag 'docs-5.10-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: docs: Add two missing entries in vm sysctl index docs/vm: trivial fixes to several spelling mistakes docs: submitting-patches: describe preserving review/test tags Documentation: Chinese translation of Documentation/arm64/hugetlbpage.rst Documentation: x86: fix a missing word in x86_64/mm.rst. docs: driver-api: remove a duplicated index entry docs: lkdtm: Modernize and improve details docs: deprecated.rst: Expand str*cpy() replacement notes docs/cpu-load: format the example code.