kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/Documentation/process, branch stable

MAINTAINERS: update ndesaulniers

2026-07-06T22:49:29+00:00

I'm coming back. I will return. I will possess your body, and I'll make LKML burn. Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers Acked-by: Nathan Chancellor Acked-by: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'docs-7.2-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux

2026-06-25T16:09:38+00:00

Pull more documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "A handful of late-arriving docs fixes, along with one document update that fell through the cracks before" * tag 'docs-7.2-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux: docs: tools: Fix typo 'ackward' to 'awkward' in unittest.rst kdoc: xforms: ignore special static/inline macros kdoc: xforms_lists: handle DECLARE_PER_CPU() in kernel-doc MAINTAINERS: Fix regex for kdoc docs: kgdb: Fix path of driver options Documentation: tracing: fix typo in events documentation Docs/driver-api/uio-howto: document mmap_prepare callback docs/mm: clarify that we are not looking for LLM generated content kernel-doc: xforms: support __SYSFS_FUNCTION_ALTERNATIVE()

docs: kgdb: Fix path of driver options

2026-06-23T20:35:50+00:00

The correct path of driver options should be /sys/module//parameters/

string: Remove strncpy() from the kernel

2026-06-18T23:39:31+00:00

strncpy() has been a persistent source of bugs due to its ambiguous intended usage and frequently counter-intuitive semantics: it may not NUL-terminate the destination, and it unconditionally zero-pads to the full length, which isn't always needed. All former callers have been migrated[1] to: - strscpy() for NUL-terminated destinations - strscpy_pad() for NUL-terminated destinations needing zero-padding - strtomem_pad() for non-NUL-terminated fixed-width fields - memcpy_and_pad() for bounded copies with explicit padding - memcpy() for known-length copies Remove the generic implementation, its declaration, the FORTIFY_SOURCE wrapper, and associated tests. Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90 [1] Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

Merge tag 'docs-7.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux

2026-06-16T03:05:59+00:00

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "Things have calmed down a bit on the docs front, with no earthshaking changes this time around: - Ongoing work on the Japanese and Portuguese translations - Better integration of the MAINTAINERS file into the rendered documents, including a search interface - A seemingly infinite supply of fixes for typos, minor grammatical issues, and related problems that LLMs find with abandon" * tag 'docs-7.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux: (93 commits) docs: pt_BR: Translate 3.Early-stage.rst into Portuguese docs: pt_BR: update "Purpose of Defconfigs" section in maintainer-soc.rst Documentation: bug-hunting.rst: fix grammar docs/ja_JP: translate submitting-patches.rst (interleaved-replies) docs: Fix minor grammatical error docs/{it_it,sp_SP,zh_CN,zh_TW}: update references to removed CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB Documentation: process: fix brackets Documentation: arch: fix brackets docs/dyndbg: explain flags parse 1st docs/dyndbg: update examples \012 to \n docs: kernel-parameters: Fix stale sticore file paths docs: real-time: Fix duplicated sched(7) text docs: kgdb: Fix stale source file paths docs: sonypi: Fix stale header file path docs: kernel-parameters: Remove sa1100ir IrDA parameter iommu: Documentation: rearrange, update kernel-parameters docs: md: fix grammar in speed_limit description docs: changes.rst: restore pahole 1.26 minimum (regressed by sort) Documentation: Fix syntax of kmalloc_objs example in coding style doc docs: pt_BR: update maintainer-handbooks ...

Merge tag 'kbuild-7.2-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux

2026-06-14T23:31:15+00:00

Pull Kbuild / Kconfig updates from Nathan Chancellor: "Kbuild: - Remove broken module linking exclusion for BTF - Add documentation around how offset header files work - Include unstripped vDSO libraries in pacman packages - Bump minimum version of LLVM for building the kernel to 17.0.1 and clean up unnecessary workarounds - Use a context manager in run-clang-tools - Add dist macro value if present to release tag for RPM packages - Detect and report truncated buf_printf() output in modpost - Add __llvm_covfun and __llvm_covmap to section whitelist in modpost - Support Clang's distributed ThinLTO mode - Remove architecture specific configurations for AutoFDO and Propeller to ease individual architecture maintenance Kconfig: - Add kconfig-sym-check target to look for dangling Kconfig symbol references and invalid tristate literal values - Harden against potential NULL pointer dereference - Fix typo in Kconfig test comment" * tag 'kbuild-7.2-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux: (31 commits) kconfig: tests: fix typo in comment kconfig: Remove the architecture specific config for Propeller kconfig: Remove the architecture specific config for AutoFDO modpost: Add __llvm_covfun and __llvm_covmap to section_white_list kconfig: add kconfig-sym-check static checker kbuild: Remove unnecessary 'T' modifier in cmd_ar_builtin_fixup kbuild: distributed build support for Clang ThinLTO kbuild: move vmlinux.a build rule to scripts/Makefile.vmlinux_a scripts: modpost: detect and report truncated buf_printf() output kbuild: rpm-pkg: append %{?dist} macro to Release tag run-clang-tools: run multiprocessing.Pool as context manager compiler-clang.h: Drop explicit version number from "all" diagnostic macro compiler-clang.h: Remove __cleanup -Wunused-variable workaround kbuild: Remove check for broken scoping with clang < 17 in CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT x86/entry/vdso32: Remove conditional omission of '.cfi_offset eflags' x86/module: Revert "Deal with GOT based stack cookie load on Clang < 17" x86/build: Drop unnecessary '-ffreestanding' addition to KBUILD_CFLAGS scripts/Makefile.warn: Drop -Wformat handling for clang < 16 riscv: Drop tautological condition from TOOLCHAIN_NEEDS_OLD_ISA_SPEC riscv: Remove tautological condition from selection of ARCH_SUPPORTS_CFI ...

Documentation: process: fix brackets

2026-06-12T19:19:44+00:00

Fix missing ')' and needless ')' Signed-off-by: Manuel Ebner Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Message-ID: <20260611064311.117023-2-manuelebner@mailbox.org>

docs: kgdb: Fix stale source file paths

2026-06-01T19:04:21+00:00

Update two file paths that became stale when kgdb/kdb sources were reorganized: - kernel/debugger/debug_core.c -> kernel/debug/debug_core.c - drivers/char/kdb_keyboard.c -> kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_keyboard.c Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-6 Signed-off-by: Costa Shulyupin Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Message-ID: <20260531140207.4114764-1-costa.shul@redhat.com>

docs: changes.rst: restore pahole 1.26 minimum (regressed by sort)

2026-06-01T18:50:30+00:00

Commit 9edd04c4189e ("docs: Raise minimum pahole version to 1.26 for KF_IMPLICIT_ARGS kfuncs") raised the minimum required pahole version from 1.22 to 1.26 in the requirements table and added a paragraph explaining the failure mode for distributions still shipping pahole v1.25 (e.g. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS). The next day, commit ece7e57afd51 ("docs: changes.rst and ver_linux: sort the lists") came through a different tree (docs vs sched_ext) and re-flowed the table alphabetically, but its base did not include 9edd04c4189e. When the two commits met in mainline, the textual rewrite of the table won and the version bump was lost. The added "Since Linux 7.0..." paragraph also disappeared. The result is that changes.rst on master (v7.1-rc5) lists pahole 1.22 again, even though sched_ext kfuncs annotated with KF_IMPLICIT_ARGS genuinely require v1.26 to produce a correct vmlinux BTF. Users on distributions with pahole v1.25 hit "func_proto incompatible with vmlinux" when loading any sched_ext BPF program (scx_simple, scx_qmap, ...) and have no documentation pointing them at the version gap. Restore both changes from 9edd04c4189e. Fixes: ece7e57afd51 ("docs: changes.rst and ver_linux: sort the lists") Signed-off-by: Zhan Xusheng Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Message-ID: <20260526022033.1301884-1-zhanxusheng@xiaomi.com>

Documentation: Fix syntax of kmalloc_objs example in coding style doc

2026-06-01T18:48:20+00:00

The first parameter should match the variable that the allocated memory is assigned to. Fix the example accordingly, the one for kmalloc_obj got it right already. Fixes: 7c6d969d5349 ("Documentation: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family") Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Message-ID: <20260529081006.2019687-2-ukleinek@kernel.org>