linux/Documentation/userspace-api, branch v5.6

staging: remove isdn capi drivers

2019-12-11T08:11:29Z

As described in drivers/staging/isdn/TODO, the drivers are all assumed to be unmaintained and unused now, with gigaset being the last one to stop being maintained after Paul Bolle lost access to an ISDN network. The CAPI subsystem remains for now, as it is still required by bluetooth/cmtp. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191210210455.3475361-1-arnd@arndb.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'docs-5.5a' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2019-12-02T19:51:02Z

Pull Documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "Here are the main documentation changes for 5.5: - Various kerneldoc script enhancements. - More RST conversions; those are slowing down as we run out of things to convert, but we're a ways from done still. - Dan's "maintainer profile entry" work landed at last. Now we just need to get maintainers to fill in the profiles... - A reworking of the parallel build setup to work better with a variety of systems (and to not take over huge systems entirely in particular). - The MAINTAINERS file is now converted to RST during the build. Hopefully nobody ever tries to print this thing, or they will need to load a lot of paper. - A script and documentation making it easy for maintainers to add Link: tags at commit time. Also included is the removal of a bunch of spurious CR characters" * tag 'docs-5.5a' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (91 commits) docs: remove a bunch of stray CRs docs: fix up the maintainer profile document libnvdimm, MAINTAINERS: Maintainer Entry Profile Maintainer Handbook: Maintainer Entry Profile MAINTAINERS: Reclaim the P: tag for Maintainer Entry Profile docs, parallelism: Rearrange how jobserver reservations are made docs, parallelism: Do not leak blocking mode to other readers docs, parallelism: Fix failure path and add comment Documentation: Remove bootmem_debug from kernel-parameters.txt Documentation: security: core.rst: fix warnings Documentation/process/howto/kokr: Update for 4.x -> 5.x versioning Documentation/translation: Use Korean for Korean translation title docs/memory-barriers.txt: Remove remaining references to mmiowb() docs/memory-barriers.txt/kokr: Update I/O section to be clearer about CPU vs thread docs/memory-barriers.txt/kokr: Fix style, spacing and grammar in I/O section Documentation/kokr: Kill all references to mmiowb() docs/memory-barriers.txt/kokr: Rewrite "KERNEL I/O BARRIER EFFECTS" section docs: Add initial documentation for devfreq Documentation: Document how to get links with git am docs: Add request_irq() documentation ...

docs: Move the user-space ioctl() docs to userspace-api

2019-10-10T17:21:54Z

This is strictly user-space material at this point, so put it with the other user-space API documentation. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

docs: remove extra conf.py files

2019-07-17T09:57:52Z

Now that the latex_documents are handled automatically, we can remove those extra conf.py files. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab

docs: ocxl.rst: add it to the uAPI book

2019-07-15T14:03:02Z

The content of this file is user-faced. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Acked-by: Andrew Donnellan

Documentation: Add section about CPU vulnerabilities for Spectre

2019-06-26T17:42:41Z

Add documentation for Spectre vulnerability and the mitigation mechanisms: - Explain the problem and risks - Document the mitigation mechanisms - Document the command line controls - Document the sysfs files Co-developed-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Co-developed-by: Tim Chen Signed-off-by: Tim Chen Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Documentation: seccomp: unify list indentation

2019-03-18T18:00:28Z

Use tabs to indent SECCOMP_RET_USER_NOTIF definition, for consistency with other items in this list. Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk Acked-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Documentation: seccomp: fix reST markup

2019-03-18T18:00:17Z

Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk Acked-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

x86/speculation: Add PR_SPEC_DISABLE_NOEXEC

2019-01-29T21:11:49Z

With the default SPEC_STORE_BYPASS_SECCOMP/SPEC_STORE_BYPASS_PRCTL mode, the TIF_SSBD bit will be inherited when a new task is fork'ed or cloned. It will also remain when a new program is execve'ed. Only certain class of applications (like Java) that can run on behalf of multiple users on a single thread will require disabling speculative store bypass for security purposes. Those applications will call prctl(2) at startup time to disable SSB. They won't rely on the fact the SSB might have been disabled. Other applications that don't need SSBD will just move on without checking if SSBD has been turned on or not. The fact that the TIF_SSBD is inherited across execve(2) boundary will cause performance of applications that don't need SSBD but their predecessors have SSBD on to be unwittingly impacted especially if they write to memory a lot. To remedy this problem, a new PR_SPEC_DISABLE_NOEXEC argument for the PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL option of prctl(2) is added to allow applications to specify that the SSBD feature bit on the task structure should be cleared whenever a new program is being execve'ed. Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Waiman Long Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: Jiri Kosina Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Tim Chen Cc: KarimAllah Ahmed Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1547676096-3281-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com

Merge branch 'next-seccomp' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security

2019-01-02T17:48:13Z

Pull seccomp updates from James Morris: - Add SECCOMP_RET_USER_NOTIF - seccomp fixes for sparse warnings and s390 build (Tycho) * 'next-seccomp' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: seccomp, s390: fix build for syscall type change seccomp: fix poor type promotion samples: add an example of seccomp user trap seccomp: add a return code to trap to userspace seccomp: switch system call argument type to void * seccomp: hoist struct seccomp_data recalculation higher