Re: [PATCH] English fixes in vmalloced kernel stacks documentation

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Thanks for working to improve our documentation!

That said...

Nir Lichtman <nir@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> From cdc9d82bad7111ab1f132d1264fa6ffa323c26b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Nir Lichtman <nir@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 23:57:11 +0300
> Subject: [PATCH] English fixes in vmalloced kernel stacks documentation

All patches need a proper changelog, and this is not it.  Please have a
look at Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst for information on
how to describe your change.

Please pay attention to the section on Signed-off-by while you are there
as well.

> ---
>  Documentation/mm/vmalloced-kernel-stacks.rst | 10 +++++-----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/mm/vmalloced-kernel-stacks.rst b/Documentation/mm/vmalloced-kernel-stacks.rst
> index fc8c67833..b4ca3176e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/mm/vmalloced-kernel-stacks.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/mm/vmalloced-kernel-stacks.rst
> @@ -20,9 +20,9 @@ Introduction
>  
>  Kernel stack overflows are often hard to debug and make the kernel
>  susceptible to exploits. Problems could show up at a later time making
> -it difficult to isolate and root-cause.
> +it difficult to pinpoint their root cause.

This is a change in meaning and is not necessarily an improvement.

The other changes are fine.

Thanks,

jon




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