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2018-04-24Linux 4.14.36v4.14.36Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-04-19Linux 4.14.35v4.14.35Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-04-12Linux 4.14.34v4.14.34Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-04-08Linux 4.14.33v4.14.33Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-03-31Linux 4.14.32v4.14.32Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-03-28Linux 4.14.31v4.14.31Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-03-28kbuild: disable clang's default use of -fmerge-all-constantsDaniel Borkmann
commit 87e0d4f0f37fb0c8c4aeeac46fff5e957738df79 upstream. Prasad reported that he has seen crashes in BPF subsystem with netd on Android with arm64 in the form of (note, the taint is unrelated): [ 4134.721483] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 800000001 [ 4134.820925] Mem abort info: [ 4134.901283] Exception class = DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits [ 4135.016736] SET = 0, FnV = 0 [ 4135.119820] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0 [ 4135.201431] Data abort info: [ 4135.301388] ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000021 [ 4135.359599] CM = 0, WnR = 0 [ 4135.470873] user pgtable: 4k pages, 39-bit VAs, pgd = ffffffe39b946000 [ 4135.499757] [0000000800000001] *pgd=0000000000000000, *pud=0000000000000000 [ 4135.660725] Internal error: Oops: 96000021 [#1] PREEMPT SMP [ 4135.674610] Modules linked in: [ 4135.682883] CPU: 5 PID: 1260 Comm: netd Tainted: G S W 4.14.19+ #1 [ 4135.716188] task: ffffffe39f4aa380 task.stack: ffffff801d4e0000 [ 4135.731599] PC is at bpf_prog_add+0x20/0x68 [ 4135.741746] LR is at bpf_prog_inc+0x20/0x2c [ 4135.751788] pc : [<ffffff94ab7ad584>] lr : [<ffffff94ab7ad638>] pstate: 60400145 [ 4135.769062] sp : ffffff801d4e3ce0 [...] [ 4136.258315] Process netd (pid: 1260, stack limit = 0xffffff801d4e0000) [ 4136.273746] Call trace: [...] [ 4136.442494] 3ca0: ffffff94ab7ad584 0000000060400145 ffffffe3a01bf8f8 0000000000000006 [ 4136.460936] 3cc0: 0000008000000000 ffffff94ab844204 ffffff801d4e3cf0 ffffff94ab7ad584 [ 4136.479241] [<ffffff94ab7ad584>] bpf_prog_add+0x20/0x68 [ 4136.491767] [<ffffff94ab7ad638>] bpf_prog_inc+0x20/0x2c [ 4136.504536] [<ffffff94ab7b5d08>] bpf_obj_get_user+0x204/0x22c [ 4136.518746] [<ffffff94ab7ade68>] SyS_bpf+0x5a8/0x1a88 Android's netd was basically pinning the uid cookie BPF map in BPF fs (/sys/fs/bpf/traffic_cookie_uid_map) and later on retrieving it again resulting in above panic. Issue is that the map was wrongly identified as a prog! Above kernel was compiled with clang 4.0, and it turns out that clang decided to merge the bpf_prog_iops and bpf_map_iops into a single memory location, such that the two i_ops could then not be distinguished anymore. Reason for this miscompilation is that clang has the more aggressive -fmerge-all-constants enabled by default. In fact, clang source code has a comment about it in lib/AST/ExprConstant.cpp on why it is okay to do so: Pointers with different bases cannot represent the same object. (Note that clang defaults to -fmerge-all-constants, which can lead to inconsistent results for comparisons involving the address of a constant; this generally doesn't matter in practice.) The issue never appeared with gcc however, since gcc does not enable -fmerge-all-constants by default and even *explicitly* states in it's option description that using this flag results in non-conforming behavior, quote from man gcc: Languages like C or C++ require each variable, including multiple instances of the same variable in recursive calls, to have distinct locations, so using this option results in non-conforming behavior. There are also various clang bug reports open on that matter [1], where clang developers acknowledge the non-conforming behavior, and refer to disabling it with -fno-merge-all-constants. But even if this gets fixed in clang today, there are already users out there that triggered this. Thus, fix this issue by explicitly adding -fno-merge-all-constants to the kernel's Makefile to generically disable this optimization, since potentially other places in the kernel could subtly break as well. Note, there is also a flag called -fmerge-constants (not supported by clang), which is more conservative and only applies to strings and it's enabled in gcc's -O/-O2/-O3/-Os optimization levels. In gcc's code, the two flags -fmerge-{all-,}constants share the same variable internally, so when disabling it via -fno-merge-all-constants, then we really don't merge any const data (e.g. strings), and text size increases with gcc (14,927,214 -> 14,942,646 for vmlinux.o). $ gcc -fverbose-asm -O2 foo.c -S -o foo.S -> foo.S lists -fmerge-constants under options enabled $ gcc -fverbose-asm -O2 -fno-merge-all-constants foo.c -S -o foo.S -> foo.S doesn't list -fmerge-constants under options enabled $ gcc -fverbose-asm -O2 -fno-merge-all-constants -fmerge-constants foo.c -S -o foo.S -> foo.S lists -fmerge-constants under options enabled Thus, as a workaround we need to set both -fno-merge-all-constants *and* -fmerge-constants in the Makefile in order for text size to stay as is. [1] https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18538 Reported-by: Prasad Sodagudi <psodagud@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Chenbo Feng <fengc@google.com> Cc: Richard Smith <richard-llvm@metafoo.co.uk> Cc: Chandler Carruth <chandlerc@gmail.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Tested-by: Prasad Sodagudi <psodagud@codeaurora.org> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-03-24Linux 4.14.30v4.14.30Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-03-21Linux 4.14.29v4.14.29Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-03-19Linux 4.14.28v4.14.28Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-03-15Linux 4.14.27v4.14.27Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-03-15objtool, retpolines: Integrate objtool with retpoline support more closelyPeter Zijlstra
commit d5028ba8ee5a18c9d0bb926d883c28b370f89009 upstream. Disable retpoline validation in objtool if your compiler sucks, and otherwise select the validation stuff for CONFIG_RETPOLINE=y (most builds would already have it set due to ORC). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-03-15kbuild: move cc-option and cc-disable-warning after incl. arch MakefileMasahiro Yamada
commit cfe17c9bbe6a673fdafdab179c32b355ed447f66 upstream. Geert reported commit ae6b289a3789 ("kbuild: Set KBUILD_CFLAGS before incl. arch Makefile") broke cross-compilation using a cross-compiler that supports less compiler options than the host compiler. For example, cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-Wno-unused-but-set-variable" This problem happens on architectures that setup CROSS_COMPILE in their arch/*/Makefile. Move the cc-option and cc-disable-warning back to the original position, but keep the Clang target options untouched. Fixes: ae6b289a3789 ("kbuild: Set KBUILD_CFLAGS before incl. arch Makefile") Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-03-15kbuild: Set KBUILD_CFLAGS before incl. arch MakefileChris Fries
commit ae6b289a37890909fea0e4a1666e19377fa0ed2c upstream. Set the clang KBUILD_CFLAGS up before including arch/ Makefiles, so that ld-options (etc.) can work correctly. This fixes errors with clang such as ld-options trying to CC against your host architecture, but LD trying to link against your target architecture. Signed-off-by: Chris Fries <cfries@google.com> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Reviewed-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org> Tested-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-03-15kbuild: re-order the code to not parse unnecessary variablesMasahiro Yamada
commit 2c1f4f125159f10521944cea23e33a00fcf85ede upstream. The top Makefile is divided into some sections such as mixed targets, config targets, build targets, etc. When we build mixed targets, Kbuild just invokes submake to process them one by one. In this case, compiler-related variables like CC, KBUILD_CFLAGS, etc. are unneeded. Check what kind of targets we are building first, and parse variables for building only when necessary. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-03-15kbuild: move "_all" target out of $(KBUILD_SRC) conditionalMasahiro Yamada
commit ba634eceb535d95e87ef09caae7814b3687c6036 upstream. The first "_all" occurrence around line 120 is only visible when KBUILD_SRC is unset. If O=... is specified, the working directory is relocated, then the only second occurrence around line 193 is visible, that is not set to PHONY. Move the first one to an always visible place. This clarifies "_all" is our default target and it is always set to PHONY. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-03-11Linux 4.14.26v4.14.26Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-03-08Linux 4.14.25v4.14.25Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-03-03Linux 4.14.24v4.14.24Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-02-28Linux 4.14.23v4.14.23Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-02-25Linux 4.14.22v4.14.22Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-02-22Linux 4.14.21v4.14.21Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-02-16Linux 4.14.20v4.14.20Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-02-16kasan: don't emit builtin calls when sanitization is offAndrey Konovalov
commit 0e410e158e5baa1300bdf678cea4f4e0cf9d8b94 upstream. With KASAN enabled the kernel has two different memset() functions, one with KASAN checks (memset) and one without (__memset). KASAN uses some macro tricks to use the proper version where required. For example memset() calls in mm/slub.c are without KASAN checks, since they operate on poisoned slab object metadata. The issue is that clang emits memset() calls even when there is no memset() in the source code. They get linked with improper memset() implementation and the kernel fails to boot due to a huge amount of KASAN reports during early boot stages. The solution is to add -fno-builtin flag for files with KASAN_SANITIZE := n marker. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8ffecfffe04088c52c42b92739c2bd8a0bcb3f5e.1516384594.git.andreyknvl@google.com Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Acked-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-02-13Linux 4.14.19v4.14.19Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-02-07Linux 4.14.18v4.14.18Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-02-03Linux 4.14.17v4.14.17Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-01-31Linux 4.14.16v4.14.16Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-01-23Linux 4.14.15v4.14.15Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-01-17Linux 4.14.14v4.14.14Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-01-10Linux 4.14.13v4.14.13Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-01-05Linux 4.14.12v4.14.12Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-01-02Linux 4.14.11v4.14.11Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-01-02kbuild: add '-fno-stack-check' to kernel build optionsLinus Torvalds
commit 3ce120b16cc548472f80cf8644f90eda958cf1b6 upstream. It appears that hardened gentoo enables "-fstack-check" by default for gcc. That doesn't work _at_all_ for the kernel, because the kernel stack doesn't act like a user stack at all: it's much smaller, and it doesn't auto-expand on use. So the extra "probe one page below the stack" code generated by -fstack-check just breaks the kernel in horrible ways, causing infinite double faults etc. [ I have to say, that the particular code gcc generates looks very stupid even for user space where it works, but that's a separate issue. ] Reported-and-tested-by: Alexander Tsoy <alexander@tsoy.me> Reported-and-tested-by: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-12-29Linux 4.14.10v4.14.10Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-12-25Linux 4.14.9v4.14.9Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-12-25x86/unwind: Rename unwinder config options to 'CONFIG_UNWINDER_*'Josh Poimboeuf
commit 11af847446ed0d131cf24d16a7ef3d5ea7a49554 upstream. Rename the unwinder config options from: CONFIG_ORC_UNWINDER CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER_UNWINDER CONFIG_GUESS_UNWINDER to: CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC CONFIG_UNWINDER_FRAME_POINTER CONFIG_UNWINDER_GUESS ... in order to give them a more logical config namespace. Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/73972fc7e2762e91912c6b9584582703d6f1b8cc.1507924831.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-12-20Linux 4.14.8v4.14.8Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-12-17Linux 4.14.7v4.14.7Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-12-17kbuild: do not call cc-option before KBUILD_CFLAGS initializationMasahiro Yamada
[ Upstream commit 433dc2ebe7d17dd21cba7ad5c362d37323592236 ] Some $(call cc-option,...) are invoked very early, even before KBUILD_CFLAGS, etc. are initialized. The returned string from $(call cc-option,...) depends on KBUILD_CPPFLAGS, KBUILD_CFLAGS, and GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS. Since they are exported, they are not empty when the top Makefile is recursively invoked. The recursion occurs in several places. For example, the top Makefile invokes itself for silentoldconfig. "make tinyconfig", "make rpm-pkg" are the cases, too. In those cases, the second call of cc-option from the same line runs a different shell command due to non-pristine KBUILD_CFLAGS. To get the same result all the time, KBUILD_* and GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS must be initialized before any call of cc-option. This avoids garbage data in the .cache.mk file. Move all calls of cc-option below the config targets because target compiler flags are unnecessary for Kconfig. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-12-14Linux 4.14.6v4.14.6Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-12-10Linux 4.14.5v4.14.5Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-12-05Linux 4.14.4v4.14.4Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-11-30Linux 4.14.3v4.14.3Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-11-24Linux 4.14.2v4.14.2Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-11-21Linux 4.14.1v4.14.1Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-11-12Linux 4.14v4.14Linus Torvalds
2017-11-05Linux 4.14-rc8v4.14-rc8Linus Torvalds
2017-11-02Merge tag 'spdx_identifiers-4.14-rc8' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core Pull initial SPDX identifiers from Greg KH: "License cleanup: add SPDX license identifiers to some files Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>" * tag 'spdx_identifiers-4.14-rc8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with a license License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license
2017-11-02License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no licenseGreg Kroah-Hartman
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>