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It was noticed that duplicate entries in the firmware table could cause an infinite loop in the firmware loading code if that entry failed to load. Duplicate entries are a bug anyway and so should never happen. Ensure they don't by tweaking the table validation code to reject duplicates. For full m/m/p files, that can be done by simply tweaking the patch level check to reject matching values. For reduced version entries, the filename itself must be compared. v2: Improve comment (review by Daniele) Signed-off-by: John Harrison <John.C.Harrison@Intel.com> Reviewed-by: Daniele Ceraolo Spurio <daniele.ceraolospurio@intel.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230502234007.1762014-6-John.C.Harrison@Intel.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.