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  1. Mar 15, 2018
  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. Mar 02, 2017
  4. Feb 06, 2016
    • Eric Dumazet's avatar
      dump_stack: avoid potential deadlocks · d7ce3692
      Eric Dumazet authored
      
      Some servers experienced fatal deadlocks because of a combination of
      bugs, leading to multiple cpus calling dump_stack().
      
      The checksumming bug was fixed in commit 34ae6a1a ("ipv6: update
      skb->csum when CE mark is propagated").
      
      The second problem is a faulty locking in dump_stack()
      
      CPU1 runs in process context and calls dump_stack(), grabs dump_lock.
      
         CPU2 receives a TCP packet under softirq, grabs socket spinlock, and
         call dump_stack() from netdev_rx_csum_fault().
      
         dump_stack() spins on atomic_cmpxchg(&dump_lock, -1, 2), since
         dump_lock is owned by CPU1
      
      While dumping its stack, CPU1 is interrupted by a softirq, and happens
      to process a packet for the TCP socket locked by CPU2.
      
      CPU1 spins forever in spin_lock() : deadlock
      
      Stack trace on CPU1 looked like :
      
          NMI backtrace for cpu 1
          RIP: _raw_spin_lock+0x25/0x30
          ...
          Call Trace:
            <IRQ>
            tcp_v6_rcv+0x243/0x620
            ip6_input_finish+0x11f/0x330
            ip6_input+0x38/0x40
            ip6_rcv_finish+0x3c/0x90
            ipv6_rcv+0x2a9/0x500
            process_backlog+0x461/0xaa0
            net_rx_action+0x147/0x430
            __do_softirq+0x167/0x2d0
            call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
            do_softirq+0x3f/0x80
            irq_exit+0x6e/0xc0
            smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0x35/0x40
            call_function_single_interrupt+0x6a/0x70
            <EOI>
            printk+0x4d/0x4f
            printk_address+0x31/0x33
            print_trace_address+0x33/0x3c
            print_context_stack+0x7f/0x119
            dump_trace+0x26b/0x28e
            show_trace_log_lvl+0x4f/0x5c
            show_stack_log_lvl+0x104/0x113
            show_stack+0x42/0x44
            dump_stack+0x46/0x58
            netdev_rx_csum_fault+0x38/0x3c
            __skb_checksum_complete_head+0x6e/0x80
            __skb_checksum_complete+0x11/0x20
            tcp_rcv_established+0x2bd5/0x2fd0
            tcp_v6_do_rcv+0x13c/0x620
            sk_backlog_rcv+0x15/0x30
            release_sock+0xd2/0x150
            tcp_recvmsg+0x1c1/0xfc0
            inet_recvmsg+0x7d/0x90
            sock_recvmsg+0xaf/0xe0
            ___sys_recvmsg+0x111/0x3b0
            SyS_recvmsg+0x5c/0xb0
            system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
      
      Fixes: b58d9774 ("dump_stack: serialize the output from dump_stack()")
      Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
      Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
      Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d7ce3692
  5. May 05, 2014
  6. Aug 06, 2013
  7. Jul 03, 2013
  8. May 01, 2013
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      dump_stack: consolidate dump_stack() implementations and unify their behaviors · 196779b9
      Tejun Heo authored
      
      Both dump_stack() and show_stack() are currently implemented by each
      architecture.  show_stack(NULL, NULL) dumps the backtrace for the
      current task as does dump_stack().  On some archs, dump_stack() prints
      extra information - pid, utsname and so on - in addition to the
      backtrace while the two are identical on other archs.
      
      The usages in arch-independent code of the two functions indicate
      show_stack(NULL, NULL) should print out bare backtrace while
      dump_stack() is used for debugging purposes when something went wrong,
      so it does make sense to print additional information on the task which
      triggered dump_stack().
      
      There's no reason to require archs to implement two separate but mostly
      identical functions.  It leads to unnecessary subtle information.
      
      This patch expands the dummy fallback dump_stack() implementation in
      lib/dump_stack.c such that it prints out debug information (taken from
      x86) and invokes show_stack(NULL, NULL) and drops arch-specific
      dump_stack() implementations in all archs except blackfin.  Blackfin's
      dump_stack() does something wonky that I don't understand.
      
      Debug information can be printed separately by calling
      dump_stack_print_info() so that arch-specific dump_stack()
      implementation can still emit the same debug information.  This is used
      in blackfin.
      
      This patch brings the following behavior changes.
      
      * On some archs, an extra level in backtrace for show_stack() could be
        printed.  This is because the top frame was determined in
        dump_stack() on those archs while generic dump_stack() can't do that
        reliably.  It can be compensated by inlining dump_stack() but not
        sure whether that'd be necessary.
      
      * Most archs didn't use to print debug info on dump_stack().  They do
        now.
      
      An example WARN dump follows.
      
       WARNING: at kernel/workqueue.c:4841 init_workqueues+0x35/0x505()
       Hardware name: empty
       Modules linked in:
       CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.9.0-rc1-work+ #9
        0000000000000009 ffff88007c861e08 ffffffff81c614dc ffff88007c861e48
        ffffffff8108f50f ffffffff82228240 0000000000000040 ffffffff8234a03c
        0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff88007c861e58
       Call Trace:
        [<ffffffff81c614dc>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
        [<ffffffff8108f50f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
        [<ffffffff8108f56a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
        [<ffffffff8234a071>] init_workqueues+0x35/0x505
        ...
      
      v2: CPU number added to the generic debug info as requested by s390
          folks and dropped the s390 specific dump_stack().  This loses %ksp
          from the debug message which the maintainers think isn't important
          enough to keep the s390-specific dump_stack() implementation.
      
          dump_stack_print_info() is moved to kernel/printk.c from
          lib/dump_stack.c.  Because linkage is per objecct file,
          dump_stack_print_info() living in the same lib file as generic
          dump_stack() means that archs which implement custom dump_stack()
          - at this point, only blackfin - can't use dump_stack_print_info()
          as that will bring in the generic version of dump_stack() too.  v1
          The v1 patch broke build on blackfin due to this issue.  The build
          breakage was reported by Fengguang Wu.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Acked-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      Acked-by: default avatarVineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarJesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarVineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
      Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>	[s390 bits]
      Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
      Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
      Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
      Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
      Acked-by: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>		[hexagon bits]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      196779b9
  9. Mar 07, 2012
  10. 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!
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