The patch titled Subject: lib-kconfigdebug-fix-some-messed-up-configurations-checkpatch-fixes has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is lib-kconfigdebug-fix-some-messed-up-configurations-checkpatch-fixes.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/lib-kconfigdebug-fix-some-messed-up-configurations-checkpatch-fixes.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/lib-kconfigdebug-fix-some-messed-up-configurations-checkpatch-fixes.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: lib-kconfigdebug-fix-some-messed-up-configurations-checkpatch-fixes WARNING: prefer 'help' over '---help---' for new help texts #27: FILE: lib/Kconfig.debug:1491: +config STRICT_DEVMEM WARNING: prefer 'help' over '---help---' for new help texts #47: FILE: lib/Kconfig.debug:1511: +config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM total: 0 errors, 2 warnings, 123 lines checked NOTE: For some of the reported defects, checkpatch may be able to mechanically convert to the typical style using --fix or --fix-inplace. ./patches/lib-kconfigdebug-fix-some-messed-up-configurations.patch has style problems, please review. NOTE: If any of the errors are false positives, please report them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS. Please run checkpatch prior to sending patches Cc: Changbin Du <changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/Kconfig.debug | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug~lib-kconfigdebug-fix-some-messed-up-configurations-checkpatch-fixes +++ a/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -1493,7 +1493,7 @@ config STRICT_DEVMEM depends on MMU && DEVMEM depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED default y if PPC || X86 || ARM64 - ---help--- + help If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can @@ -1511,7 +1511,7 @@ config STRICT_DEVMEM config IO_STRICT_DEVMEM bool "Filter I/O access to /dev/mem" depends on STRICT_DEVMEM - ---help--- + help If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that range. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-add-apply_to_existing_pages-helper-fix.patch mm-add-apply_to_existing_pages-helper-fix-fix.patch kasan-use-apply_to_existing_pages-for-releasing-vmalloc-shadow-fix.patch lib-kconfigdebug-fix-some-messed-up-configurations-checkpatch-fixes.patch mm.patch mm-oom-avoid-printk-iteration-under-rcu-fix.patch drivers-block-null_blk_mainc-fix-layout.patch drivers-block-null_blk_mainc-fix-uninitialized-var-warnings.patch drivers-tty-serial-sh-scic-suppress-warning.patch kernel-forkc-export-kernel_thread-to-modules.patch