https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-knodel-terminology-02https://lwn.net/Articles/823224/
This gets rid of most but not occasions of these loaded terms:
1. scsi_id and friends are something that is supposed to be removed from
our tree (see #7594)
2. The test suite defines an API used by the ubuntu CI. We can remove
this too later, but this needs to be done in sync with the ubuntu CI.
3. In some cases the terms are part of APIs we call or where we expose
concepts the kernel names the way it names them. (In particular all
remaining uses of the word "slave" in our codebase are like this,
it's used by the POSIX PTY layer, by the network subsystem, the mount
API and the block device subsystem). Getting rid of the term in these
contexts would mean doing some major fixes of the kernel ABI first.
Regarding the replacements: when whitelist/blacklist is used as noun we
replace with with allow list/deny list, and when used as verb with
allow-list/deny-list.
The code in cgroup.c has support for all hierarchies, but the test,
as written, will only work on unified. Since the test is really about
bpf code, and not the legacy devices controller, let's just skip
the test.
It turns out that the kernel verifier would reject a program we would build
if there was a whitelist, but no entries in the whitelist matched.
The program would approximately like this:
0: (61) r2 = *(u32 *)(r1 +0)
1: (54) w2 &= 65535
2: (61) r3 = *(u32 *)(r1 +0)
3: (74) w3 >>= 16
4: (61) r4 = *(u32 *)(r1 +4)
5: (61) r5 = *(u32 *)(r1 +8)
48: (b7) r0 = 0
49: (05) goto pc+1
50: (b7) r0 = 1
51: (95) exit
and insn 50 is unreachable, which is illegal. We would then either keep a
previous version of the program or allow everything. Make sure we build a
valid program that simply rejects everything.
