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Linus Torvalds 00d9593335 These are three simple changes.
The first one is just a switch from using strcpy() to strlcpy(). Someone
 thought that it may cause an overflow bug, but since it only copies comms
 into a pre-allocated array of TASK_COMM_LEN, and no comm should ever
 be bigger than that, nor not end with a nul character, this change is more
 of a safety precaution than fixing anything that is actually broken.
 
 The other two changes are simply cleaning and optimizing some code.
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Merge tag 'trace-v4.12-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull more tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "These are three simple changes.

  The first one is just a switch from using strcpy() to strlcpy().
  Someone thought that it may cause an overflow bug, but since it only
  copies comms into a pre-allocated array of TASK_COMM_LEN, and no comm
  should ever be bigger than that, nor not end with a nul character,
  this change is more of a safety precaution than fixing anything that
  is actually broken.

  The other two changes are simply cleaning and optimizing some code"

* tag 'trace-v4.12-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  ftrace: Simplify ftrace_match_record() even more
  ftrace: Remove an unneeded condition
  tracing: Use strlcpy() instead of strcpy() in __trace_find_cmdline()
2017-05-08 20:36:38 -07:00
arch pci-v4.12-changes 2017-05-08 19:03:25 -07:00
block Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-05-06 11:25:08 -07:00
certs scripts/spelling.txt: add "intialise(d)" pattern and fix typo instances 2017-05-08 17:15:13 -07:00
crypto treewide: use kv[mz]alloc* rather than opencoded variants 2017-05-08 17:15:13 -07:00
Documentation pci-v4.12-changes 2017-05-08 19:03:25 -07:00
drivers Updates #2 for 4.12 kernel merge window 2017-05-08 20:07:29 -07:00
firmware firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
fs Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-05-08 18:17:56 -07:00
include Updates #2 for 4.12 kernel merge window 2017-05-08 20:07:29 -07:00
init TTY/Serial patches for 4.12-rc1 2017-05-08 18:49:23 -07:00
ipc mm: introduce kv[mz]alloc helpers 2017-05-08 17:15:12 -07:00
kernel These are three simple changes. 2017-05-08 20:36:38 -07:00
lib pci-v4.12-changes 2017-05-08 19:03:25 -07:00
mm Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-05-08 18:17:56 -07:00
net treewide: convert PF_MEMALLOC manipulations to new helpers 2017-05-08 17:15:15 -07:00
samples char/misc patches for 4.12-rc1 2017-05-04 19:15:35 -07:00
scripts treewide: spelling: correct diffrent[iate] and banlance typos 2017-05-08 17:15:13 -07:00
security apparmorfs: replace CURRENT_TIME with current_time() 2017-05-08 17:15:15 -07:00
sound alsa: use set_memory.h header 2017-05-08 17:15:14 -07:00
tools pci-v4.12-changes 2017-05-08 19:03:25 -07:00
usr initramfs: provide a way to ignore image provided by bootloader 2017-05-08 17:15:12 -07:00
virt Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-05-08 18:17:56 -07:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Merge branch 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-08-02 16:48:52 -04:00
.mailmap Staging/IIO patches for 4.12-rc1 2017-05-05 18:16:23 -07:00
COPYING
CREDITS avr32: remove support for AVR32 architecture 2017-05-01 09:27:15 +02:00
Kbuild scripts/gdb: provide linux constants 2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
Kconfig
MAINTAINERS pci-v4.12-changes 2017-05-08 19:03:25 -07:00
Makefile make help: add tools help target 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

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

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

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.