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Linus Torvalds a5ba183bde hardening updates for v6.18-rc1
- Clean up usage of TRAILING_OVERLAP() (Gustavo A. R. Silva)
 
 - lkdtm: fortify: Fix potential NULL dereference on kmalloc failure
   (Junjie Cao)
 
 - Add str_assert_deassert() helper (Lad Prabhakar)
 
 - gcc-plugins: Remove TODO_verify_il for GCC >= 16
 
 - kconfig: Fix BrokenPipeError warnings in selftests
 
 - kconfig: Add transitional symbol attribute for migration support
 
 - kcfi: Rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI
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Merge tag 'hardening-v6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux

Pull hardening updates from Kees Cook:
 "One notable addition is the creation of the 'transitional' keyword for
  kconfig so CONFIG renaming can go more smoothly.

  This has been a long-standing deficiency, and with the renaming of
  CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI (since GCC will soon have KCFI
  support), this came up again.

  The breadth of the diffstat is mainly this renaming.

   - Clean up usage of TRAILING_OVERLAP() (Gustavo A. R. Silva)

   - lkdtm: fortify: Fix potential NULL dereference on kmalloc failure
     (Junjie Cao)

   - Add str_assert_deassert() helper (Lad Prabhakar)

   - gcc-plugins: Remove TODO_verify_il for GCC >= 16

   - kconfig: Fix BrokenPipeError warnings in selftests

   - kconfig: Add transitional symbol attribute for migration support

   - kcfi: Rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI"

* tag 'hardening-v6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  lib/string_choices: Add str_assert_deassert() helper
  kcfi: Rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI
  kconfig: Add transitional symbol attribute for migration support
  kconfig: Fix BrokenPipeError warnings in selftests
  gcc-plugins: Remove TODO_verify_il for GCC >= 16
  stddef: Introduce __TRAILING_OVERLAP()
  stddef: Remove token-pasting in TRAILING_OVERLAP()
  lkdtm: fortify: Fix potential NULL dereference on kmalloc failure
2025-09-29 17:48:27 -07:00
Documentation hardening updates for v6.18-rc1 2025-09-29 17:48:27 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Replace the obsolete address of the FSF in the GFDL-1.2 2025-07-24 11:15:39 +02:00
arch hardening updates for v6.18-rc1 2025-09-29 17:48:27 -07:00
block namespace-6.18-rc1 2025-09-29 11:20:29 -07:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto Crypto library updates for 6.18 2025-09-29 15:48:56 -07:00
drivers hardening updates for v6.18-rc1 2025-09-29 17:48:27 -07:00
fs execve updates for v6.18-rc1 2025-09-29 17:19:35 -07:00
include hardening updates for v6.18-rc1 2025-09-29 17:48:27 -07:00
init hardening updates for v6.18-rc1 2025-09-29 17:48:27 -07:00
io_uring io_uring-6.17-20250919 2025-09-19 12:10:49 -07:00
ipc namespace-6.18-rc1 2025-09-29 11:20:29 -07:00
kernel hardening updates for v6.18-rc1 2025-09-29 17:48:27 -07:00
lib hardening updates for v6.18-rc1 2025-09-29 17:48:27 -07:00
mm vfs-6.18-rc1.writeback 2025-09-29 11:34:40 -07:00
net vfs-6.18-rc1.async 2025-09-29 11:55:15 -07:00
rust vfs-6.18-rc1.rust 2025-09-29 10:23:02 -07:00
samples 15 hotfixes. 11 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.16 issues 2025-09-17 21:34:26 -07:00
scripts hardening updates for v6.18-rc1 2025-09-29 17:48:27 -07:00
security kernel-6.18-rc1.clone3 2025-09-29 10:36:50 -07:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek: Fix mute led for HP Laptop 15-dw4xx 2025-09-18 21:10:05 +02:00
tools hardening updates for v6.18-rc1 2025-09-29 17:48:27 -07:00
usr usr/include: openrisc: don't HDRTEST bpf_perf_event.h 2025-05-12 15:03:17 +09:00
virt Merge tag 'kvm-x86-no_assignment-6.17' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEAD 2025-07-29 08:36:42 -04:00
.clang-format Linux 6.15-rc5 2025-05-06 16:39:25 +10:00
.clippy.toml rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's warning about `clippy::disallowed_macros` configuration 2025-05-07 00:11:47 +02:00
.cocciconfig
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: remove Alyssa Rosenzweig 2025-09-18 21:17:31 +02:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore gitignore: allow .pylintrc to be tracked 2025-07-02 17:10:04 -06:00
.mailmap 7 hotfixes. 4 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.16 issues or 2025-09-28 09:32:00 -07:00
.pylintrc docs: add a .pylintrc file with sys path for docs scripts 2025-04-09 12:10:33 -06:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add `.rustfmt.toml` 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: retire Boris from TLS maintainers 2025-08-26 17:36:01 -07:00
Kbuild drm: ensure drm headers are self-contained and pass kernel-doc 2025-02-12 10:44:43 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS hfs updates for v6.18 2025-09-29 15:03:07 -07:00
Makefile hardening updates for v6.18-rc1 2025-09-29 17:48:27 -07:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

README

Linux kernel
============

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 reStructuredText 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.