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 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.
Takashi Iwai
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We used to wrap with no_free_ptr() for the return value from memdup_user() with errors where the auto cleanup is applied. This was a workaround because the initial implementation of kfree auto-cleanup checked only NULL pointers. Since recently, though, the kfree auto-cleanup checks with IS_ERR_OR_NULL() (by the commit cd7eb8f8 ("mm/slab: make __free(kfree) accept error pointers")), hence those workarounds became superfluous. Let's drop them now. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240902075246.3743-1-tiwai@suse.de Signed-off-by:Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>