user/sven/linux.git/drivers/char/misc.c, branch v4.18.2

proc: introduce proc_create_seq{,_data}

2018-05-16T05:23:35Z

Variants of proc_create{,_data} that directly take a struct seq_operations argument and drastically reduces the boilerplate code in the callers. All trivial callers converted over. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

2017-11-02T10:10:55Z

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 Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

drivers: char: misc: Replace printk with pr_err.

2017-04-08T15:53:06Z

Replace printk with pr_err to fix the checkpatch issue. Signed-off-by: Varsha Rao Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

drivers: char: misc: Add blank line after declaration.

2017-04-08T15:53:06Z

Add a blank line after declaration, to fix the checkpatch issue. Signed-off-by: Varsha Rao Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

drivers: char: misc: Add space after ','.

2017-04-08T15:53:06Z

Add space which is required after ',' to follow linux coding style. This patch fixes the checkpatch issue. Signed-off-by: Varsha Rao Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

drivers: char: misc: Replace "foo * bar" with "foo *bar".

2017-04-08T15:53:06Z

Remove space after * in pointer type, to follow linux coding style. This patch fixes the following checkpatch issue: ERROR: "foo * bar" should be "foo *bar" Signed-off-by: Varsha Rao Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

char: make misc_deregister a void function

2015-08-05T17:35:49Z

With well over 200+ users of this api, there are a mere 12 users that actually checked the return value of this function. And all of them really didn't do anything with that information as the system or module was shutting down no matter what. So stop pretending like it matters, and just return void from misc_deregister(). If something goes wrong in the call, you will get a WARNING splat in the syslog so you know how to fix up your driver. Other than that, there's nothing that can go wrong. Cc: Alasdair Kergon Cc: Neil Brown Cc: Oleg Drokin Cc: Andreas Dilger Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck Cc: Christine Caulfield Cc: David Teigland Cc: Mark Fasheh Acked-by: Joel Becker Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo Acked-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

char: misc: fix error path

2015-07-27T17:30:47Z

Lets call remove_proc_entry() in the error path only if we have successfully created "misc" in procfs. Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

char: misc: remove redundant ifdef

2015-07-27T17:30:47Z

The check for CONFIG_PROC_FS is not required as the check is being done in proc_fs.h and incase CONFIG_PROC_FS is not defined then proc_create() is defined as NULL. Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

char: misc: restore MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR on device_create() failure

2015-05-31T21:38:21Z

On attempt to register a dynamic minor misc device its minor number is updated to a virtual minor number prior to device_create() call, however on error path misc->minor == MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR is not restored. Following the rule of thumb that a function returning an error must not change the state of the caller, assign MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR back. The problem is met in a sutuation, when subsys_initcall(misc_init) is not yet called and misc_class is not created, but misc_register() modifies statically defined ".minor = MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR", therefore implicitly changing the client's logic on next attempt (e.g. retrying from deferred list) to register a misc device, whose minor number is converted from dynamic to some unknown static one. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman