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.
Linus Torvalds
authored
Pull random number generator fixes from Jason Donenfeld: - A fix for a 5.19 regression for a case in which early device tree initializes the RNG, which flips a static branch. On most plaforms, jump labels aren't initialized until much later, so this caused splats. On a few mailing list threads, we cooked up easy fixes for arm64, arm32, and risc-v. But then things looked slightly more involved for xtensa, powerpc, arc, and mips. And at that point, when we're patching 7 architectures in a place before the console is even available, it seems like the cost/risk just wasn't worth it. So random.c works around it now by checking the already exported `static_key_initialized` boolean, as though somebody already ran into this issue in the past. I'm not super jazzed about that; it'd be prettier to not have to complicate downstream code. But I suppose it's practical. - A few small code nits and adding a missing __init annotation. - A change to the default config values to use the cpu and bootloader's seeds for initializing the RNG earlier. This brings them into line with what all the distros do (Fedora/RHEL, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Arch, NixOS, Alpine, SUSE, and Void... at least), and moreover will now give us test coverage in various test beds that might have caught the above device tree bug earlier. - A change to WireGuard CI's configuration to increase test coverage around the RNG. - A documentation comment fix to unrelated maintainerless CRC code that I was asked to take, I guess because it has to do with polynomials (which the RNG thankfully no longer uses). * tag 'random-5.19-rc2-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/crng/random: wireguard: selftests: use maximum cpu features and allow rng seeding random: remove rng_has_arch_random() random: credit cpu and bootloader seeds by default random: do not use jump labels before they are initialized random: account for arch randomness in bits random: mark bootloader randomness code as __init random: avoid checking crng_ready() twice in random_init() crc-itu-t: fix typo in CRC ITU-T polynomial comment
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