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  1. Sep 10, 2019
  2. Nov 02, 2017
    • Greg Kroah-Hartman's avatar
      License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license · b2441318
      Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
      
      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: default avatarKate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarPhilippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      b2441318
  3. Aug 20, 2015
  4. Feb 14, 2014
  5. Apr 10, 2012
    • Frank Rowand's avatar
      modpost: Fix modpost license checking of vmlinux.o · 258f7426
      Frank Rowand authored
      
      Commit f02e8a65 ("module: Sort exported symbols") sorts symbols
      placing each of them in its own elf section.  This sorting and merging
      into the canonical sections are done by the linker.
      
      Unfortunately modpost to generate Module.symvers file parses vmlinux.o
      (which is not linked yet) and all modules object files (which aren't
      linked yet).  These aren't sanitized by the linker yet.  That breaks
      modpost that can't detect license properly for modules.
      
      This patch makes modpost aware of the new exported symbols structure.
      
      [ This above is a slightly corrected version of the explanation of the
        problem, copied from commit 62a26356 ("modpost: Fix modpost's
        license checking V3").  That commit fixed the problem for module
        object files, but not for vmlinux.o.  This patch fixes modpost for
        vmlinux.o. ]
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarFrank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAlessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      258f7426
  6. May 19, 2011
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  9. Mar 23, 2008
  10. Feb 14, 2008
    • Mathieu Desnoyers's avatar
      Linux Kernel Markers: create modpost file · b2e3e658
      Mathieu Desnoyers authored
      
      This adds some new magic in the MODPOST phase for CONFIG_MARKERS.  Analogous
      to the Module.symvers file, the build will now write a Module.markers file
      when CONFIG_MARKERS=y is set.  This file lists the name, defining module, and
      format string of each marker, separated by \t characters.  This simple text
      file can be used by offline build procedures for instrumentation code,
      analogous to how System.map and Module.symvers can be useful to have for
      kernels other than the one you are running right now.
      
      The strings are made easy to extract by having the __trace_mark macro define
      the name and format together in a single array called __mstrtab_* in the
      __markers_strings section.  This is straightforward and reliable as long as
      the marker structs are always defined by this macro.  It is an unreasonable
      amount of hairy work to extract the string pointers from the __markers section
      structs, which entails handling a relocation type for every machine under the
      sun.
      
      Mathieu :
      - Ran through checkpatch.pl
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
      Cc: David Smith <dsmith@redhat.com>
      Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      b2e3e658
  11. Jan 28, 2008
    • Sam Ravnborg's avatar
      kbuild: try harder to find symbol names in modpost · 9ad21c3f
      Sam Ravnborg authored
      
      The relocation record sometimes contained an address
      which was not an exactly match for a symbol.
      
      Implment some simple logic such that if there
      is a symbol within 20 bytes of the address contained
      in the relocation record then print the name of this
      symbol.
      
      With this change modpost could find symbol names
      for the remaining .init.text symbols in my
      allyesconfig build for x86_64.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
      9ad21c3f
  12. Oct 12, 2007
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  15. May 19, 2007
    • Atsushi Nemoto's avatar
      kbuild: make better section mismatch reports on i386, arm and mips · f892b7d4
      Atsushi Nemoto authored
      
      On i386, ARM and MIPS, warn_sec_mismatch() sometimes fails to show
      usefull symbol name.  This is because empty 'refsym' due to 0 r_addend
      value.  This patch is to adjust r_addend value, consulting with
      apply_relocate() routine in kernel code.
      
      Without this patch:
        MODPOST vmlinux
      WARNING: init/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'rest_init' (at offset 0xf4) and 'try_name'
      WARNING: mm/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'kmem_cache_create' (at offset 0x18a39) and 'cache_reap'
      WARNING: mm/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'kmem_cache_create' (at offset 0x18a6b) and 'cache_reap'
      
      With this patch:
        MODPOST vmlinux
      WARNING: mm/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:set_up_list3s from .text between 'kmem_cache_create' (at offset 0x18a39) and 'cache_reap'
      WARNING: mm/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:set_up_list3s from .text between 'kmem_cache_create' (at offset 0x18a6b) and 'cache_reap'
      
      Now modpost can detect "kernel_init" name (and whitelist it) and show
      "set_up_list3s" name.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAtsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
      f892b7d4
  16. May 02, 2007
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  23. Feb 19, 2006
    • Sam Ravnborg's avatar
      kbuild: check for section mismatch during modpost stage · b39927cf
      Sam Ravnborg authored
      
      Section mismatch is identified as references to .init*
      sections from non .init sections. And likewise references
      to .exit.* sections outside .exit sections.
      
      .init.* sections are discarded after a module is initialized
      and references to .init.* sections are oops candidates.
      .exit.* sections are discarded when a module is built-in and
      thus references to .exit are also oops candidates.
      
      The checks were possible to do using 'make buildcheck' which
      called the two perl scripts: reference_discarded.pl and
      reference_init.pl. This patch just moves the same functionality
      inside modpost and the scripts are then obsoleted.
      They will though be kept for a while so users can do double
      checks - but note that some .o files are skipped by the perl scripts
      so result is not 1:1.
      All credit for the concept goes to Keith Owens who implemented
      the original perl scrips - this patch just moves it to modpost.
      
      Compared to the perl script the implmentation in modpost will be run
      for each kernel build - thus catching the error much sooner, but
      the downside is that the individual .o file are not always identified.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
      b39927cf
    • Sam Ravnborg's avatar
      kbuild: use warn()/fatal() consistent in modpost · cb80514d
      Sam Ravnborg authored
      
      modpost.c provides warn() and fatal() - so use them all over the place.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
      cb80514d
  24. Apr 16, 2005
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux-2.6.12-rc2 · 1da177e4
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
      even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
      archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
      3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
      git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
      infrastructure for it.
      
      Let it rip!
      1da177e4
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