From 75467f60a3d14f08f86f2b353298d2826382ff23 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2026 15:55:03 -0700 Subject: Merge tag 'ipe-pr-20260925' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wufan/ipe Pull IPE fixes from Fan Wu: "Two fixes for use-after-free issues found by recent LLM-assisted code analysis. - move successful policy load auditing under the new policy directory's inode lock, preventing a concurrent policy deletion from freeing the policy while it is still being audited - protect the dm-verity root hash with RCU, preventing policy evaluation from racing with root hash replacement during preresume" * tag 'ipe-pr-20260925' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wufan/ipe: ipe: protect the dm-verity root hash with RCU ipe: fix use-after-free when auditing a newly loaded policy --- Documentation/driver-api/wmi.rst | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/driver-api/wmi.rst (limited to 'Documentation/driver-api/wmi.rst') diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/wmi.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/wmi.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b847bcdcb --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/wmi.rst @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later + +============== +WMI Driver API +============== + +The WMI driver core supports a more modern bus-based interface for interacting +with WMI devices, and an older GUID-based interface. The latter interface is +considered to be deprecated, so new WMI drivers should generally avoid it since +it has some issues with multiple WMI devices sharing the same GUID. +The modern bus-based interface instead maps each WMI device to a +:c:type:`struct wmi_device `, so it supports WMI devices sharing the +same GUID. Drivers can then register a :c:type:`struct wmi_driver ` +which will be bound to compatible WMI devices by the driver core. + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/wmi.h + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/platform/wmi/string.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/platform/wmi/core.c + :export: -- cgit v1.3.1