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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/process/conf.py | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/process/deprecated.rst | 14 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/process/conf.py b/Documentation/process/conf.py deleted file mode 100644 index 1b01a80ad9ce..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/process/conf.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,10 +0,0 @@ -# -*- coding: utf-8; mode: python -*- - -project = 'Linux Kernel Development Documentation' - -tags.add("subproject") - -latex_documents = [ - ('index', 'process.tex', 'Linux Kernel Development Documentation', - 'The kernel development community', 'manual'), -] diff --git a/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst b/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst index 49e0f64a3427..053b24a6dd38 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst @@ -119,3 +119,17 @@ array may exceed the remaining memory in the stack segment. This could lead to a crash, possible overwriting sensitive contents at the end of the stack (when built without `CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK=y`), or overwriting memory adjacent to the stack (when built without `CONFIG_VMAP_STACK=y`) + +Implicit switch case fall-through +--------------------------------- +The C language allows switch cases to "fall through" when +a "break" statement is missing at the end of a case. This, +however, introduces ambiguity in the code, as it's not always +clear if the missing break is intentional or a bug. As there +have been a long list of flaws `due to missing "break" statements +<https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/484.html>`_, we no longer allow +"implicit fall-through". In order to identify an intentional fall-through +case, we have adopted the marking used by static analyzers: a comment +saying `/* Fall through */`. Once the C++17 `__attribute__((fallthrough))` +is more widely handled by C compilers, static analyzers, and IDEs, we can +switch to using that instead. |