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Kees Cook
27def953b6 docs: deprecated.rst: Expand str*cpy() replacement notes
The notes on replacing the deprecated str*cpy() functions didn't call
enough attention to the change in return type. Add these details and
clean up the language a bit more.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201015231730.2138505-1-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-10-21 15:09:16 -06:00
Gustavo A. R. Silva
17dca05023 docs: deprecated.rst: Update zero-length/one-element arrays section
Update information in the zero-length and one-element arrays section
and illustrate how to make use of the new flex_array_size() helper,
together with struct_size() and a flexible-array member.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200901010949.GA21398@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-09 11:37:49 -06:00
Joe Perches
3942ea7a10 deprecated.rst: Remove now removed uninitialized_var
It's now gone from the kernel so remove it from the deprecated API text.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5e10c1645dd8f735215cf54a74db0f8dd3f6cbd5.camel@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-08-31 16:31:15 -06:00
Kees Cook
053f8fc7c1 docs: Fix function name trailing double-()s
I noticed a double-() in the deprecated.rst rendering today. Fix that
one and two others in the Documentation/ tree.

Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> # For RCU
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200817233207.4083538-1-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-08-24 17:19:07 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
2324d50d05 It's been a busy cycle for documentation - hopefully the busiest for a
while to come.  Changes include:
 
  - Some new Chinese translations
 
  - Progress on the battle against double words words and non-HTTPS URLs
 
  - Some block-mq documentation
 
  - More RST conversions from Mauro.  At this point, that task is
    essentially complete, so we shouldn't see this kind of churn again for a
    while.  Unless we decide to switch to asciidoc or something...:)
 
  - Lots of typo fixes, warning fixes, and more.
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Merge tag 'docs-5.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "It's been a busy cycle for documentation - hopefully the busiest for a
  while to come. Changes include:

   - Some new Chinese translations

   - Progress on the battle against double words words and non-HTTPS
     URLs

   - Some block-mq documentation

   - More RST conversions from Mauro. At this point, that task is
     essentially complete, so we shouldn't see this kind of churn again
     for a while. Unless we decide to switch to asciidoc or
     something...:)

   - Lots of typo fixes, warning fixes, and more"

* tag 'docs-5.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (195 commits)
  scripts/kernel-doc: optionally treat warnings as errors
  docs: ia64: correct typo
  mailmap: add entry for <alobakin@marvell.com>
  doc/zh_CN: add cpu-load Chinese version
  Documentation/admin-guide: tainted-kernels: fix spelling mistake
  MAINTAINERS: adjust kprobes.rst entry to new location
  devices.txt: document rfkill allocation
  PCI: correct flag name
  docs: filesystems: vfs: correct flag name
  docs: filesystems: vfs: correct sync_mode flag names
  docs: path-lookup: markup fixes for emphasis
  docs: path-lookup: more markup fixes
  docs: path-lookup: fix HTML entity mojibake
  CREDITS: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
  docs: process: Add an example for creating a fixes tag
  doc/zh_CN: add Chinese translation prefer section
  doc/zh_CN: add clearing-warn-once Chinese version
  doc/zh_CN: add admin-guide index
  doc:it_IT: process: coding-style.rst: Correct __maybe_unused compiler label
  futex: MAINTAINERS: Re-add selftests directory
  ...
2020-08-04 22:47:54 -07:00
Kees Cook
4b19bec97c docs: deprecated.rst: Add uninitialized_var()
Nothing should be using this macro, and the entire idea of tricking the
compiler into silencing such warnings is a mistake.

Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
2020-07-16 12:32:24 -07:00
Gustavo A. R. Silva
68e4cd17e2 docs: deprecated.rst: Add zero-length and one-element arrays
Add zero-length and one-element arrays to the list.

While I continue replacing zero-length and one-element arrays with
flexible-array members, I need a reference to point people to, so
they don't introduce more instances of such arrays. And while here,
add a note to the "open-coded arithmetic in allocator arguments"
section, on the use of struct_size() and the arrays-to-deprecate
mentioned here.

Co-developed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200608213711.GA22271@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-06-19 13:39:01 -06:00
Kees Cook
7af51678b6 docs: deprecated.rst: Add BUG()-family
Linus continues to remind[1] people to stop using the BUG()-family of
functions. We should have this better documented (even if checkpatch.pl
has been warning[2] since 2015), so add more details to deprecated.rst,
as a distinct place to point people to for guidance.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=whDHsbK3HTOpTF=ue_o04onRwTEaK_ZoJp_fjbqq4+=Jw@mail.gmail.com/
[2] https://git.kernel.org/linus/9d3e3c705eb395528fd8f17208c87581b134da48

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202003141524.59C619B51A@keescook
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-03-20 17:24:49 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet
7929b9836e docs: Remove :c:func: from process/deprecated.rst
Documentation/process/deprecated.rst has a lot of uses of :c:func:, which
is, well, deprecated.  Emacs query-replace-regexp to the rescue.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-03-10 11:27:22 -06:00
Kees Cook
76136e028d docs: deprecated.rst: Clean up fall-through details
Add example of fall-through, list-ify the case ending statements, and
adjust the markup for links and readability. While here, adjust
strscpy() details to mention strscpy_pad().

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202003041102.47A4E4B62@keescook
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-03-10 11:24:01 -06:00
Kees Cook
d8401f504b docs: deprecated.rst: Add %p to the list
Once in a while %p usage comes up, and I've needed to have a reference
to point people to. Add %p details to deprecated.rst.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202003042301.F844A8C0EC@keescook
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-03-10 11:19:16 -06:00
Joe Perches
b9918bdcac Documentation/process: Add fallthrough pseudo-keyword
Describe the fallthrough pseudo-keyword.

Convert the coding-style.rst example to the keyword style.
Add description and links to deprecated.rst.

Miguel Ojeda comments on the eventual [[fallthrough]] syntax:
 "Note that C17/C18 does not have [[fallthrough]].

  C++17 introduced it, as it is mentioned above. I would keep the
  __attribute__((fallthrough)) -> [[fallthrough]] change you did,
  though, since that is indeed the standard syntax (given the paragraph
  references C++17).

  I was told by Aaron Ballman (who is proposing them for C) that it is
  more or less likely that it becomes standardized in C2x. However, it
  is still not added to the draft (other attributes are already,
  though). See N2268 and N2269:

     http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2268.pdf (fallthrough)
     http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2269.pdf (attributes in general)"

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-10-11 09:26:05 -07:00
Gustavo A. R. Silva
a035d552a9 Makefile: Globally enable fall-through warning
Now that all the fall-through warnings have been addressed in the
kernel, enable the fall-through warning globally.

Also, update the deprecated.rst file to include implicit fall-through
as 'deprecated' so people can be pointed to a single location for
justification.

Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
2019-07-25 20:13:54 -05:00
Federico Vaga
9834857754 doc:it_IT: translations for documents in process/
Translated documents:
- stable-kernel-rules.rst
- deprecated.rst
- kernel-enforcement-statement.rst
- license-rules.rst

Added document to have valid links
- netdev-FAQ.rst

Modifications to main documentation
- add label in deprecated.rst

Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-03-18 12:03:45 -06:00
Kees Cook
84253c8be3 docs: Introduce deprecated APIs list
As discussed in the "API replacement/deprecation" thread[1], this makes
an effort to document what things shouldn't get (re)added to the kernel,
by introducing Documentation/process/deprecated.rst.

[1] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-discuss/2018-September/005282.html

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-10-18 12:22:43 -06:00