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The 'efivars' sysfs interface was removed in commit 0f5b2c69a4cb ("efi:
vars: Remove deprecated 'efivars' sysfs interface"), but the ABI
documentation was not updated properly.
Strip down the documentation file for /sys/firmware/efi/vars to a very
basic description of what the interface was about, add a section about
the rough removal timeline, and inform the reader about the intended
replacement.
Signed-off-by: Tim Schumacher <timschumi@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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
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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
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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
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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
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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Signed-off-by: Sean M. Collins <sean@coreitpro.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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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>
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It is obsoleted since Dec 2005.
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
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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>
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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>
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Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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Signed-off-by: Jens M. Noedler <noedler@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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