kernel/Documentation/security/credentials.rst, branch linux-5.1.y

Documentation: Use "while" instead of "whilst"

2018-11-20T16:30:43Z

Whilst making an unrelated change to some Documentation, Linus sayeth: | Afaik, even in Britain, "whilst" is unusual and considered more | formal, and "while" is the common word. | | [...] | | Can we just admit that we work with computers, and we don't need to | use þe eald Englisc spelling of words that most of the world never | uses? dictionary.com refers to the word as "Chiefly British", which is probably an undesirable attribute for technical documentation. Replace all occurrences under Documentation/ with "while". Cc: David Howells Cc: Liam Girdwood Cc: Chris Wilson Cc: Michael Halcrow Cc: Jonathan Corbet Reported-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Documentation: security/credentials.rst: explain need to sort group_list

2018-01-08T21:20:31Z

This patch updates the documentation with the observations that led to commit bdcf0a423ea1 ("kernel: make groups_sort calling a responsibility group_info allocators") and the new behaviour required. Specifically that groups_sort() should be called on a new group_list before set_groups() or set_current_groups() is called. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown [jc: use proper :c:func: references] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Documentation: fix security related doc refs

2017-10-12T17:14:40Z

Make security document refs valid. Signed-off-by: Tom Saeger Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

doc: ReSTify credentials.txt

2017-05-18T16:30:19Z

This updates the credentials API documentation to ReST markup and moves it under the security subsection of kernel API documentation. Cc: David Howells Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet