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Linus Torvalds 28b0bceefe gcc-10: disable 'restrict' warning for now 
commit adc7192096 upstream.

gcc-10 now warns about passing aliasing pointers to functions that take
restricted pointers.

That's actually a great warning, and if we ever start using 'restrict'
in the kernel, it might be quite useful.  But right now we don't, and it
turns out that the only thing this warns about is an idiom where we have
declared a few functions to be "printf-like" (which seems to make gcc
pick up the restricted pointer thing), and then we print to the same
buffer that we also use as an input.

And people do that as an odd concatenation pattern, with code like this:

    #define sysfs_show_gen_prop(buffer, fmt, ...) \
        snprintf(buffer, PAGE_SIZE, "%s"fmt, buffer, __VA_ARGS__)

where we have 'buffer' as both the destination of the final result, and
as the initial argument.

Yes, it's a bit questionable.  And outside of the kernel, people do have
standard declarations like

    int snprintf( char *restrict buffer, size_t bufsz,
                  const char *restrict format, ... );

where that output buffer is marked as a restrict pointer that cannot
alias with any other arguments.

But in the context of the kernel, that 'use snprintf() to concatenate to
the end result' does work, and the pattern shows up in multiple places.
And we have not marked our own version of snprintf() as taking restrict
pointers, so the warning is incorrect for now, and gcc picks it up on
its own.

If we do start using 'restrict' in the kernel (and it might be a good
idea if people find places where it matters), we'll need to figure out
how to avoid this issue for snprintf and friends.  But in the meantime,
this warning is not useful.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-05-20 08:18:46 +02:00
arch arm64: fix the flush_icache_range arguments in machine_kexec 2020-05-20 08:18:43 +02:00
block block, bfq: fix use-after-free in bfq_idle_slice_timer_body 2020-04-17 10:48:42 +02:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto crypto: api - Fix race condition in crypto_spawn_alg 2020-02-11 04:34:05 -08:00
Documentation arm64: errata: Hide CTR_EL0.DIC on systems affected by Neoverse-N1 #1542419 2020-04-29 16:31:08 +02:00
drivers hwmon: (da9052) Synchronize access with mfd 2020-05-20 08:18:44 +02:00
firmware Fix built-in early-load Intel microcode alignment 2020-01-23 08:21:29 +01:00
fs NFSv4: Fix fscache cookie aux_data to ensure change_attr is included 2020-05-20 08:18:43 +02:00
include gcc-10 warnings: fix low-hanging fruit 2020-05-20 08:18:45 +02:00
init Stop the ad-hoc games with -Wno-maybe-initialized 2020-05-20 08:18:45 +02:00
ipc ipc/util.c: sysvipc_find_ipc() incorrectly updates position index 2020-05-20 08:18:40 +02:00
kernel Stop the ad-hoc games with -Wno-maybe-initialized 2020-05-20 08:18:45 +02:00
lib lib: devres: add a helper function for ioremap_uc 2020-05-10 10:30:11 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Remove CC-BY-SA-4.0 license text 2018-10-18 11:28:50 +02:00
mm shmem: fix possible deadlocks on shmlock_user_lock 2020-05-20 08:18:32 +02:00
net netfilter: nft_set_rbtree: Introduce and use nft_rbtree_interval_start() 2020-05-20 08:18:44 +02:00
samples vmalloc: fix remap_vmalloc_range() bounds checks 2020-04-29 16:31:27 +02:00
scripts scripts/decodecode: fix trapping instruction formatting 2020-05-14 07:57:23 +02:00
security selinux: properly handle multiple messages in selinux_netlink_send() 2020-05-06 08:13:32 +02:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek - Fix S3 pop noise on Dell Wyse 2020-05-20 08:18:41 +02:00
tools objtool: Fix stack offset tracking for indirect CFAs 2020-05-14 07:57:23 +02:00
usr initramfs: restore default compression behavior 2020-04-13 10:44:59 +02:00
virt KVM: arm64: Fix 32bit PC wrap-around 2020-05-14 07:57:20 +02:00
.clang-format clang-format: Set IndentWrappedFunctionNames false 2018-08-01 18:38:51 +02:00
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.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap libnvdimm-for-4.19_misc 2018-08-25 18:13:10 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS 9p: remove Ron Minnich from MAINTAINERS 2018-08-17 16:20:26 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Update drm/i915 bug filing URL 2020-02-28 16:38:49 +01:00
Makefile gcc-10: disable 'restrict' warning for now 2020-05-20 08:18:46 +02:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -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 Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

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.