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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2023-09-05 20:01:47 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2023-09-05 20:01:47 +0200
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parentkconfig: fix possible buffer overflow (diff)
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Merge tag 'kbuild-v6.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada: - Enable -Wenum-conversion warning option - Refactor the rpm-pkg target - Fix scripts/setlocalversion to consider annotated tags for rt-kernel - Add a jump key feature for the search menu of 'make nconfig' - Support Qt6 for 'make xconfig' - Enable -Wformat-overflow, -Wformat-truncation, -Wstringop-overflow, and -Wrestrict warnings for W=1 builds - Replace <asm/export.h> with <linux/export.h> for alpha, ia64, and sparc - Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=parallel=N for the debian source package - Refactor scripts/Makefile.modinst and fix some modules_sign issues - Add a new Kconfig env variable to warn symbols that are not defined anywhere - Show help messages of config fragments in 'make help' * tag 'kbuild-v6.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (62 commits) kconfig: fix possible buffer overflow kbuild: Show marked Kconfig fragments in "help" kconfig: add warn-unknown-symbols sanity check kbuild: dummy-tools: make MPROFILE_KERNEL checks work on BE Documentation/llvm: refresh docs modpost: Skip .llvm.call-graph-profile section check kbuild: support modules_sign for external modules as well kbuild: support 'make modules_sign' with CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_ALL=n kbuild: move more module installation code to scripts/Makefile.modinst kbuild: reduce the number of mkdir calls during modules_install kbuild: remove $(MODLIB)/source symlink kbuild: move depmod rule to scripts/Makefile.modinst kbuild: add modules_sign to no-{compiler,sync-config}-targets kbuild: do not run depmod for 'make modules_sign' kbuild: deb-pkg: support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=parallel=N in debian/rules alpha: remove <asm/export.h> alpha: replace #include <asm/export.h> with #include <linux/export.h> ia64: remove <asm/export.h> ia64: replace #include <asm/export.h> with #include <linux/export.h> sparc: remove <asm/export.h> ...
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@@ -56,6 +56,15 @@ KCONFIG_OVERWRITECONFIG
If you set KCONFIG_OVERWRITECONFIG in the environment, Kconfig will not
break symlinks when .config is a symlink to somewhere else.
+KCONFIG_WARN_UNKNOWN_SYMBOLS
+----------------------------
+This environment variable makes Kconfig warn about all unrecognized
+symbols in the config input.
+
+KCONFIG_WERROR
+--------------
+If set, Kconfig treats warnings as errors.
+
`CONFIG_`
---------
If you set `CONFIG_` in the environment, Kconfig will prefix all symbols
@@ -212,6 +221,10 @@ Searching in menuconfig:
first (and in alphabetical order), then come all other symbols,
sorted in alphabetical order.
+ In this menu, pressing the key in the (#) prefix will jump
+ directly to that location. You will be returned to the current
+ search results after exiting this new menu.
+
----------------------------------------------------------------------
User interface options for 'menuconfig'
@@ -264,6 +277,10 @@ Searching in nconfig:
F8 (SymSearch) searches the configuration symbols for the
given string or regular expression (regex).
+ In the SymSearch, pressing the key in the (#) prefix will
+ jump directly to that location. You will be returned to the
+ current search results after exiting this new menu.
+
NCONFIG_MODE
------------
This mode shows all sub-menus in one large tree.