kernel/linux.git/drivers/char/Kconfig, branch v5.15.7

char: move RANDOM_TRUST_CPU & RANDOM_TRUST_BOOTLOADER into the Character devices menu

2021-08-16T17:02:19+00:00

Include RANDOM_TRUST_CPU and RANDOM_TRUST_BOOTLOADER inside the "Character devices" menu so that they are listed (presented) with other Character devices. Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Hsin-Yi Wang Cc: Theodore Ts'o Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210816000531.17934-1-rdunlap@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'tty-5.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty

2021-07-05T21:08:24+00:00

Pull tty / serial updates from Greg KH: "Here is the big set of tty and serial driver patches for 5.14-rc1. A bit more than normal, but nothing major, lots of cleanups. Highlights are: - lots of tty api cleanups and mxser driver cleanups from Jiri - build warning fixes - various serial driver updates - coding style cleanups - various tty driver minor fixes and updates - removal of broken and disable r3964 line discipline (finally!) All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'tty-5.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (227 commits) serial: mvebu-uart: remove unused member nb from struct mvebu_uart arm64: dts: marvell: armada-37xx: Fix reg for standard variant of UART dt-bindings: mvebu-uart: fix documentation serial: mvebu-uart: correctly calculate minimal possible baudrate serial: mvebu-uart: do not allow changing baudrate when uartclk is not available serial: mvebu-uart: fix calculation of clock divisor tty: make linux/tty_flip.h self-contained serial: Prefer unsigned int to bare use of unsigned serial: 8250: 8250_omap: Fix possible interrupt storm on K3 SoCs serial: qcom_geni_serial: use DT aliases according to DT bindings Revert "tty: serial: Add UART driver for Cortina-Access platform" tty: serial: Add UART driver for Cortina-Access platform MAINTAINERS: add me back as mxser maintainer mxser: Documentation, fix typos mxser: Documentation, make the docs up-to-date mxser: Documentation, remove traces of callout device mxser: introduce mxser_16550A_or_MUST helper mxser: rename flags to old_speed in mxser_set_serial_info mxser: use port variable in mxser_set_serial_info mxser: access info->MCR under info->slock ...

remove the raw driver

2021-06-04T13:35:03+00:00

The raw driver used to provide direct unbuffered access to block devices before O_DIRECT was invented. It has been obsolete for more than a decade. Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Pine.LNX.4.64.0703180754060.6605@CPE00045a9c397f-CM001225dbafb6/ Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210531072526.97052-1-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tty: remove broken r3964 line discipline

2021-05-13T14:57:15+00:00

Noone stepped up in the past two years since it was marked as BROKEN by commit c7084edc3f6d (tty: mark Siemens R3964 line discipline as BROKEN). Remove the line discipline for good. Three remarks: * we remove also the uapi header (as noone is able to use that interface anyway) * we do *not* remove the N_R3964 constant definition from tty.h, so it remains reserved. * in_interrupt() check is now removed from vt's con_put_char. Noone else calls tty_operations::put_char from interrupt context. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210505091928.22010-2-jslaby@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good

2021-05-07T07:26:34+00:00

Patch series "drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good". Exploring /dev/kmem and /dev/mem in the context of memory hot(un)plug and memory ballooning, I started questioning the existence of /dev/kmem. Comparing it with the /proc/kcore implementation, it does not seem to be able to deal with things like a) Pages unmapped from the direct mapping (e.g., to be used by secretmem) -> kern_addr_valid(). virt_addr_valid() is not sufficient. b) Special cases like gart aperture memory that is not to be touched -> mem_pfn_is_ram() Unless I am missing something, it's at least broken in some cases and might fault/crash the machine. Looks like its existence has been questioned before in 2005 and 2010 [1], after ~11 additional years, it might make sense to revive the discussion. CONFIG_DEVKMEM is only enabled in a single defconfig (on purpose or by mistake?). All distributions disable it: in Ubuntu it has been disabled for more than 10 years, in Debian since 2.6.31, in Fedora at least starting with FC3, in RHEL starting with RHEL4, in SUSE starting from 15sp2, and OpenSUSE has it disabled as well. 1) /dev/kmem was popular for rootkits [2] before it got disabled basically everywhere. Ubuntu documents [3] "There is no modern user of /dev/kmem any more beyond attackers using it to load kernel rootkits.". RHEL documents in a BZ [5] "it served no practical purpose other than to serve as a potential security problem or to enable binary module drivers to access structures/functions they shouldn't be touching" 2) /proc/kcore is a decent interface to have a controlled way to read kernel memory for debugging puposes. (will need some extensions to deal with memory offlining/unplug, memory ballooning, and poisoned pages, though) 3) It might be useful for corner case debugging [1]. KDB/KGDB might be a better fit, especially, to write random memory; harder to shoot yourself into the foot. 4) "Kernel Memory Editor" [4] hasn't seen any updates since 2000 and seems to be incompatible with 64bit [1]. For educational purposes, /proc/kcore might be used to monitor value updates -- or older kernels can be used. 5) It's broken on arm64, and therefore, completely disabled there. Looks like it's essentially unused and has been replaced by better suited interfaces for individual tasks (/proc/kcore, KDB/KGDB). Let's just remove it. [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/147901/ [2] https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10505 [3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features#A.2Fdev.2Fkmem_disabled [4] https://sourceforge.net/projects/kme/ [5] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=154796 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210324102351.6932-1-david@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210324102351.6932-2-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Kees Cook Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: "Alexander A. Klimov" Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Alexandre Belloni Cc: Andrew Lunn Cc: Andrey Zhizhikin Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Brian Cain Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: Chris Zankel Cc: Corentin Labbe Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Gerald Schaefer Cc: Greentime Hu Cc: Gregory Clement Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Helge Deller Cc: Hillf Danton Cc: huang ying Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" Cc: James Troup Cc: Jiaxun Yang Cc: Jonas Bonn Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Kairui Song Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski Cc: Kuninori Morimoto Cc: Liviu Dudau Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi Cc: Luc Van Oostenryck Cc: Luis Chamberlain Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Matt Turner Cc: Max Filippov Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Mikulas Patocka Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Niklas Schnelle Cc: Oleksiy Avramchenko Cc: openrisc@lists.librecores.org Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: "Pavel Machek (CIP)" Cc: Pavel Machek Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" Cc: Pierre Morel Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Rich Felker Cc: Robert Richter Cc: Rob Herring Cc: Russell King Cc: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Cc: Sebastian Hesselbarth Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org Cc: Stafford Horne Cc: Stefan Kristiansson Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Sudeep Holla Cc: Theodore Dubois Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Viresh Kumar Cc: William Cohen Cc: Xiaoming Ni Cc: Yoshinori Sato Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

char: virtio: Select VIRTIO from VIRTIO_CONSOLE.

2020-09-07T12:32:40+00:00

Make it possible to have virtio console built-in when other virtio drivers are modular. Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek Reviewed-by: Amit Shah Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200831165850.26163-1-msuchanek@suse.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

char: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones

2020-07-23T07:44:15+00:00

Rationale: Reduces attack surface on kernel devs opening the links for MITM as HTTPS traffic is much harder to manipulate. Deterministic algorithm: For each file: If not .svg: For each line: If doesn't contain `\bxmlns\b`: For each link, `\bhttp://[^# \t\r\n]*(?:\w|/)`: If neither `\bgnu\.org/license`, nor `\bmozilla\.org/MPL\b`: If both the HTTP and HTTPS versions return 200 OK and serve the same content: Replace HTTP with HTTPS. Signed-off-by: Alexander A. Klimov Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200713104453.33414-1-grandmaster@al2klimov.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

treewide: replace '---help---' in Kconfig files with 'help'

2020-06-13T16:57:21+00:00

Since commit 84af7a6194e4 ("checkpatch: kconfig: prefer 'help' over '---help---'"), the number of '---help---' has been gradually decreasing, but there are still more than 2400 instances. This commit finishes the conversion. While I touched the lines, I also fixed the indentation. There are a variety of indentation styles found. a) 4 spaces + '---help---' b) 7 spaces + '---help---' c) 8 spaces + '---help---' d) 1 space + 1 tab + '---help---' e) 1 tab + '---help---' (correct indentation) f) 1 tab + 1 space + '---help---' g) 1 tab + 2 spaces + '---help---' In order to convert all of them to 1 tab + 'help', I ran the following commend: $ find . -name 'Kconfig*' | xargs sed -i 's/^[[:space:]]*---help---/\thelp/' Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

powerpc: Remove Xilinx PPC405/PPC440 support

2020-05-28T13:24:34+00:00

The latest Xilinx design tools called ISE and EDK has been released in October 2013. New tool doesn't support any PPC405/PPC440 new designs. These platforms are no longer supported and tested. PowerPC 405/440 port is orphan from 2013 by commit cdeb89943bfc ("MAINTAINERS: Fix incorrect status tag") and commit 19624236cce1 ("MAINTAINERS: Update Grant's email address and maintainership") that's why it is time to remove the support fot these platforms. Signed-off-by: Michal Simek Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8c593895e2cb57d232d85ce4d8c3a1aa7f0869cc.1590079968.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu

Merge tag 'random_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random

2020-04-05T17:59:18+00:00

Pull /dev/random updates from Ted Ts'o: - Improve getrandom and /dev/random's support for those arm64 architecture variants that have RNG instructions. - Use batched output from CRNG instead of CPU's RNG instructions for better performance. - Miscellaneous bug fixes. * tag 'random_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random: random: avoid warnings for !CONFIG_NUMA builds random: fix data races at timer_rand_state random: always use batched entropy for get_random_u{32,64} random: Make RANDOM_TRUST_CPU depend on ARCH_RANDOM arm64: add credited/trusted RNG support random: add arch_get_random_*long_early() random: split primary/secondary crng init paths