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<title>Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2018-01-31T17:25:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-31T17:25:20+00:00</published>
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Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "All kinds of misc stuff, without any unifying topic, from various
  people.

  Neil's d_anon patch, several bugfixes, introduction of kvmalloc
  analogue of kmemdup_user(), extending bitfield.h to deal with
  fixed-endians, assorted cleanups all over the place..."

* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (28 commits)
  alpha: osf_sys.c: use timespec64 where appropriate
  alpha: osf_sys.c: fix put_tv32 regression
  jffs2: Fix use-after-free bug in jffs2_iget()'s error handling path
  dcache: delete unused d_hash_mask
  dcache: subtract d_hash_shift from 32 in advance
  fs/buffer.c: fold init_buffer() into init_page_buffers()
  fs: fold __inode_permission() into inode_permission()
  fs: add RWF_APPEND
  sctp: use vmemdup_user() rather than badly open-coding memdup_user()
  snd_ctl_elem_init_enum_names(): switch to vmemdup_user()
  replace_user_tlv(): switch to vmemdup_user()
  new primitive: vmemdup_user()
  memdup_user(): switch to GFP_USER
  eventfd: fold eventfd_ctx_get() into eventfd_ctx_fileget()
  eventfd: fold eventfd_ctx_read() into eventfd_read()
  eventfd: convert to use anon_inode_getfd()
  nfs4file: get rid of pointless include of btrfs.h
  uvc_v4l2: clean copyin/copyout up
  vme_user: don't use __copy_..._user()
  usx2y: don't bother with memdup_user() for 16-byte structure
  ...
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Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "All kinds of misc stuff, without any unifying topic, from various
  people.

  Neil's d_anon patch, several bugfixes, introduction of kvmalloc
  analogue of kmemdup_user(), extending bitfield.h to deal with
  fixed-endians, assorted cleanups all over the place..."

* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (28 commits)
  alpha: osf_sys.c: use timespec64 where appropriate
  alpha: osf_sys.c: fix put_tv32 regression
  jffs2: Fix use-after-free bug in jffs2_iget()'s error handling path
  dcache: delete unused d_hash_mask
  dcache: subtract d_hash_shift from 32 in advance
  fs/buffer.c: fold init_buffer() into init_page_buffers()
  fs: fold __inode_permission() into inode_permission()
  fs: add RWF_APPEND
  sctp: use vmemdup_user() rather than badly open-coding memdup_user()
  snd_ctl_elem_init_enum_names(): switch to vmemdup_user()
  replace_user_tlv(): switch to vmemdup_user()
  new primitive: vmemdup_user()
  memdup_user(): switch to GFP_USER
  eventfd: fold eventfd_ctx_get() into eventfd_ctx_fileget()
  eventfd: fold eventfd_ctx_read() into eventfd_read()
  eventfd: convert to use anon_inode_getfd()
  nfs4file: get rid of pointless include of btrfs.h
  uvc_v4l2: clean copyin/copyout up
  vme_user: don't use __copy_..._user()
  usx2y: don't bother with memdup_user() for 16-byte structure
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-4.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup</title>
<updated>2018-01-30T23:09:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-30T23:09:47+00:00</published>
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Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
 "Nothing too interesting. Documentation updates and trivial changes;
  however, this pull request does containt he previusly discussed
  dropping of __must_check from strscpy()"

* 'for-4.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  Documentation: Fix 'file_mapped' -&gt; 'mapped_file'
  string: drop __must_check from strscpy() and restore strscpy() usages in cgroup
  cgroup, docs: document the root cgroup behavior of cpu and io controllers
  cgroup-v2.txt: fix typos
  cgroup: Update documentation reference
  Documentation/cgroup-v1: fix outdated programming details
  cgroup, docs: document cgroup v2 device controller
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Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
 "Nothing too interesting. Documentation updates and trivial changes;
  however, this pull request does containt he previusly discussed
  dropping of __must_check from strscpy()"

* 'for-4.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  Documentation: Fix 'file_mapped' -&gt; 'mapped_file'
  string: drop __must_check from strscpy() and restore strscpy() usages in cgroup
  cgroup, docs: document the root cgroup behavior of cpu and io controllers
  cgroup-v2.txt: fix typos
  cgroup: Update documentation reference
  Documentation/cgroup-v1: fix outdated programming details
  cgroup, docs: document cgroup v2 device controller
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<entry>
<title>string: drop __must_check from strscpy() and restore strscpy() usages in cgroup</title>
<updated>2018-01-19T16:51:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-09T15:21:15+00:00</published>
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e7fd37ba1217 ("cgroup: avoid copying strings longer than the buffers")
converted possibly unsafe strncpy() usages in cgroup to strscpy().
However, although the callsites are completely fine with truncated
copied, because strscpy() is marked __must_check, it led to the
following warnings.

  kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c: In function ‘cgroup_file_name’:
  kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:1400:10: warning: ignoring return value of ‘strscpy’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result]
     strscpy(buf, cft-&gt;name, CGROUP_FILE_NAME_MAX);
	       ^

To avoid the warnings, 50034ed49645 ("cgroup: use strlcpy() instead of
strscpy() to avoid spurious warning") switched them to strlcpy().

strlcpy() is worse than strlcpy() because it unconditionally runs
strlen() on the source string, and the only reason we switched to
strlcpy() here was because it was lacking __must_check, which doesn't
reflect any material differences between the two function.  It's just
that someone added __must_check to strscpy() and not to strlcpy().

These basic string copy operations are used in variety of ways, and
one of not-so-uncommon use cases is safely handling truncated copies,
where the caller naturally doesn't care about the return value.  The
__must_check doesn't match the actual use cases and forces users to
opt for inferior variants which lack __must_check by happenstance or
spread ugly (void) casts.

Remove __must_check from strscpy() and restore strscpy() usages in
cgroup.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ma Shimiao &lt;mashimiao.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@ezchip.com&gt;
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e7fd37ba1217 ("cgroup: avoid copying strings longer than the buffers")
converted possibly unsafe strncpy() usages in cgroup to strscpy().
However, although the callsites are completely fine with truncated
copied, because strscpy() is marked __must_check, it led to the
following warnings.

  kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c: In function ‘cgroup_file_name’:
  kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:1400:10: warning: ignoring return value of ‘strscpy’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result]
     strscpy(buf, cft-&gt;name, CGROUP_FILE_NAME_MAX);
	       ^

To avoid the warnings, 50034ed49645 ("cgroup: use strlcpy() instead of
strscpy() to avoid spurious warning") switched them to strlcpy().

strlcpy() is worse than strlcpy() because it unconditionally runs
strlen() on the source string, and the only reason we switched to
strlcpy() here was because it was lacking __must_check, which doesn't
reflect any material differences between the two function.  It's just
that someone added __must_check to strscpy() and not to strlcpy().

These basic string copy operations are used in variety of ways, and
one of not-so-uncommon use cases is safely handling truncated copies,
where the caller naturally doesn't care about the return value.  The
__must_check doesn't match the actual use cases and forces users to
opt for inferior variants which lack __must_check by happenstance or
spread ugly (void) casts.

Remove __must_check from strscpy() and restore strscpy() usages in
cgroup.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ma Shimiao &lt;mashimiao.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@ezchip.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>new primitive: vmemdup_user()</title>
<updated>2018-01-07T18:06:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-07T18:06:15+00:00</published>
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similar to memdup_user(), but does *not* guarantee that result will
be physically contiguous; use only in cases where that's not a requirement
and free it with kvfree().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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similar to memdup_user(), but does *not* guarantee that result will
be physically contiguous; use only in cases where that's not a requirement
and free it with kvfree().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>string.h: workaround for increased stack usage</title>
<updated>2017-12-15T00:00:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-14T23:32:34+00:00</published>
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The hardened strlen() function causes rather large stack usage in at
least one file in the kernel, in particular when CONFIG_KASAN is
enabled:

  drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-dvb.c: In function 'em28xx_dvb_init':
  drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-dvb.c:2062:1: error: the frame size of 3256 bytes is larger than 204 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]

Analyzing this problem led to the discovery that gcc fails to merge the
stack slots for the i2c_board_info[] structures after we strlcpy() into
them, due to the 'noreturn' attribute on the source string length check.

I reported this as a gcc bug, but it is unlikely to get fixed for gcc-8,
since it is relatively easy to work around, and it gets triggered
rarely.  An earlier workaround I did added an empty inline assembly
statement before the call to fortify_panic(), which works surprisingly
well, but is really ugly and unintuitive.

This is a new approach to the same problem, this time addressing it by
not calling the 'extern __real_strnlen()' function for string constants
where __builtin_strlen() is a compile-time constant and therefore known
to be safe.

We do this by checking if the last character in the string is a
compile-time constant '\0'.  If it is, we can assume that strlen() of
the string is also constant.

As a side-effect, this should also improve the object code output for
any other call of strlen() on a string constant.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171205215143.3085755-1-arnd@arndb.de
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82365
Link: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9980413/
Link: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9974047/
Fixes: 6974f0c4555 ("include/linux/string.h: add the option of fortified string.h functions")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Micay &lt;danielmicay@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Wilck &lt;mwilck@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The hardened strlen() function causes rather large stack usage in at
least one file in the kernel, in particular when CONFIG_KASAN is
enabled:

  drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-dvb.c: In function 'em28xx_dvb_init':
  drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-dvb.c:2062:1: error: the frame size of 3256 bytes is larger than 204 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]

Analyzing this problem led to the discovery that gcc fails to merge the
stack slots for the i2c_board_info[] structures after we strlcpy() into
them, due to the 'noreturn' attribute on the source string length check.

I reported this as a gcc bug, but it is unlikely to get fixed for gcc-8,
since it is relatively easy to work around, and it gets triggered
rarely.  An earlier workaround I did added an empty inline assembly
statement before the call to fortify_panic(), which works surprisingly
well, but is really ugly and unintuitive.

This is a new approach to the same problem, this time addressing it by
not calling the 'extern __real_strnlen()' function for string constants
where __builtin_strlen() is a compile-time constant and therefore known
to be safe.

We do this by checking if the last character in the string is a
compile-time constant '\0'.  If it is, we can assume that strlen() of
the string is also constant.

As a side-effect, this should also improve the object code output for
any other call of strlen() on a string constant.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171205215143.3085755-1-arnd@arndb.de
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82365
Link: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9980413/
Link: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9974047/
Fixes: 6974f0c4555 ("include/linux/string.h: add the option of fortified string.h functions")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Micay &lt;danielmicay@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Wilck &lt;mwilck@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T14:07:57+00:00</published>
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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 &amp; 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 &gt;5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if &lt;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 &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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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 &amp; 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 &gt;5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if &lt;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 &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>string.h: un-fortify memcpy_and_pad</title>
<updated>2017-09-11T16:29:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Wilck</name>
<email>mwilck@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-06T12:36:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://git.baserock.org/cgit/delta/linux.git/commit/?id=1359798f9d4082eb04575efdd19512fbd9c28464'/>
<id>1359798f9d4082eb04575efdd19512fbd9c28464</id>
<content type='text'>
The way I'd implemented the new helper memcpy_and_pad  with
__FORTIFY_INLINE caused compiler warnings for certain kernel
configurations.

This helper is only used in a single place at this time, and thus
doesn't benefit much from fortification. So simplify the code
by dropping fortification support for now.

Fixes: 01f33c336e2d "string.h: add memcpy_and_pad()"
Signed-off-by: Martin Wilck &lt;mwilck@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
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<pre>
The way I'd implemented the new helper memcpy_and_pad  with
__FORTIFY_INLINE caused compiler warnings for certain kernel
configurations.

This helper is only used in a single place at this time, and thus
doesn't benefit much from fortification. So simplify the code
by dropping fortification support for now.

Fixes: 01f33c336e2d "string.h: add memcpy_and_pad()"
Signed-off-by: Martin Wilck &lt;mwilck@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-4.14/block-postmerge' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2017-09-09T19:49:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-09T19:49:01+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://git.baserock.org/cgit/delta/linux.git/commit/?id=126e76ffbf78d9e948b641aadb265d16c57f5a3d'/>
<id>126e76ffbf78d9e948b641aadb265d16c57f5a3d</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull followup block layer updates from Jens Axboe:
 "I ended up splitting the main pull request for this series into two,
  mainly because of clashes between NVMe fixes that went into 4.13 after
  the for-4.14 branches were split off. This pull request is mostly
  NVMe, but not exclusively. In detail, it contains:

   - Two pull request for NVMe changes from Christoph. Nothing new on
     the feature front, basically just fixes all over the map for the
     core bits, transport, rdma, etc.

   - Series from Bart, cleaning up various bits in the BFQ scheduler.

   - Series of bcache fixes, which has been lingering for a release or
     two. Coly sent this in, but patches from various people in this
     area.

   - Set of patches for BFQ from Paolo himself, updating both
     documentation and fixing some corner cases in performance.

   - Series from Omar, attempting to now get the 4k loop support
     correct. Our confidence level is higher this time.

   - Series from Shaohua for loop as well, improving O_DIRECT
     performance and fixing a use-after-free"

* 'for-4.14/block-postmerge' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (74 commits)
  bcache: initialize dirty stripes in flash_dev_run()
  loop: set physical block size to logical block size
  bcache: fix bch_hprint crash and improve output
  bcache: Update continue_at() documentation
  bcache: silence static checker warning
  bcache: fix for gc and write-back race
  bcache: increase the number of open buckets
  bcache: Correct return value for sysfs attach errors
  bcache: correct cache_dirty_target in __update_writeback_rate()
  bcache: gc does not work when triggering by manual command
  bcache: Don't reinvent the wheel but use existing llist API
  bcache: do not subtract sectors_to_gc for bypassed IO
  bcache: fix sequential large write IO bypass
  bcache: Fix leak of bdev reference
  block/loop: remove unused field
  block/loop: fix use after free
  bfq: Use icq_to_bic() consistently
  bfq: Suppress compiler warnings about comparisons
  bfq: Check kstrtoul() return value
  bfq: Declare local functions static
  ...
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull followup block layer updates from Jens Axboe:
 "I ended up splitting the main pull request for this series into two,
  mainly because of clashes between NVMe fixes that went into 4.13 after
  the for-4.14 branches were split off. This pull request is mostly
  NVMe, but not exclusively. In detail, it contains:

   - Two pull request for NVMe changes from Christoph. Nothing new on
     the feature front, basically just fixes all over the map for the
     core bits, transport, rdma, etc.

   - Series from Bart, cleaning up various bits in the BFQ scheduler.

   - Series of bcache fixes, which has been lingering for a release or
     two. Coly sent this in, but patches from various people in this
     area.

   - Set of patches for BFQ from Paolo himself, updating both
     documentation and fixing some corner cases in performance.

   - Series from Omar, attempting to now get the 4k loop support
     correct. Our confidence level is higher this time.

   - Series from Shaohua for loop as well, improving O_DIRECT
     performance and fixing a use-after-free"

* 'for-4.14/block-postmerge' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (74 commits)
  bcache: initialize dirty stripes in flash_dev_run()
  loop: set physical block size to logical block size
  bcache: fix bch_hprint crash and improve output
  bcache: Update continue_at() documentation
  bcache: silence static checker warning
  bcache: fix for gc and write-back race
  bcache: increase the number of open buckets
  bcache: Correct return value for sysfs attach errors
  bcache: correct cache_dirty_target in __update_writeback_rate()
  bcache: gc does not work when triggering by manual command
  bcache: Don't reinvent the wheel but use existing llist API
  bcache: do not subtract sectors_to_gc for bypassed IO
  bcache: fix sequential large write IO bypass
  bcache: Fix leak of bdev reference
  block/loop: remove unused field
  block/loop: fix use after free
  bfq: Use icq_to_bic() consistently
  bfq: Suppress compiler warnings about comparisons
  bfq: Check kstrtoul() return value
  bfq: Declare local functions static
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>lib/string.c: add multibyte memset functions</title>
<updated>2017-09-09T01:26:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox</name>
<email>mawilcox@microsoft.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-08T23:13:48+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://git.baserock.org/cgit/delta/linux.git/commit/?id=3b3c4babd898715926d24ae10aa64778ace33aae'/>
<id>3b3c4babd898715926d24ae10aa64778ace33aae</id>
<content type='text'>
Patch series "Multibyte memset variations", v4.

A relatively common idiom we're missing is a function to fill an area of
memory with a pattern which is larger than a single byte.  I first
noticed this with a zram patch which wanted to fill a page with an
'unsigned long' value.  There turn out to be quite a few places in the
kernel which can benefit from using an optimised function rather than a
loop; sometimes text size, sometimes speed, and sometimes both.  The
optimised PowerPC version (not included here) improves performance by
about 30% on POWER8 on just the raw memset_l().

Most of the extra lines of code come from the three testcases I added.

This patch (of 8):

memset16(), memset32() and memset64() are like memset(), but allow the
caller to fill the destination with a value larger than a single byte.
memset_l() and memset_p() allow the caller to use unsigned long and
pointer values respectively.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170720184539.31609-2-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;mawilcox@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Patch series "Multibyte memset variations", v4.

A relatively common idiom we're missing is a function to fill an area of
memory with a pattern which is larger than a single byte.  I first
noticed this with a zram patch which wanted to fill a page with an
'unsigned long' value.  There turn out to be quite a few places in the
kernel which can benefit from using an optimised function rather than a
loop; sometimes text size, sometimes speed, and sometimes both.  The
optimised PowerPC version (not included here) improves performance by
about 30% on POWER8 on just the raw memset_l().

Most of the extra lines of code come from the three testcases I added.

This patch (of 8):

memset16(), memset32() and memset64() are like memset(), but allow the
caller to fill the destination with a value larger than a single byte.
memset_l() and memset_p() allow the caller to use unsigned long and
pointer values respectively.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170720184539.31609-2-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;mawilcox@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>string.h: add memcpy_and_pad()</title>
<updated>2017-08-28T20:00:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Wilck</name>
<email>mwilck@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-14T20:12:38+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://git.baserock.org/cgit/delta/linux.git/commit/?id=01f33c336e2d298ea5d4ce5d6e5bcd12865cc30f'/>
<id>01f33c336e2d298ea5d4ce5d6e5bcd12865cc30f</id>
<content type='text'>
This helper function is useful for the nvme subsystem, and maybe
others.

Note: the warnings reported by the kbuild test robot for this patch
are actually generated by the use of CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES
together with __FORTIFY_INLINE.

Signed-off-by: Martin Wilck &lt;mwilck@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg &lt;sagi@grimbeg.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
This helper function is useful for the nvme subsystem, and maybe
others.

Note: the warnings reported by the kbuild test robot for this patch
are actually generated by the use of CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES
together with __FORTIFY_INLINE.

Signed-off-by: Martin Wilck &lt;mwilck@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg &lt;sagi@grimbeg.me&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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