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<title>sysctl: add register_sysctl() dummy helper</title>
<updated>2017-11-10T01:58:40Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
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<published>2017-11-09T21:38:18Z</published>
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register_sysctl() has been around for five years with commit
fea478d4101a ("sysctl: Add register_sysctl for normal sysctl users") but
now that arm64 started using it, I ran into a compile error:

  arch/arm64/kernel/armv8_deprecated.c: In function 'register_insn_emulation_sysctl':
  arch/arm64/kernel/armv8_deprecated.c:257:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'register_sysctl'

This adds a inline function like we already have for
register_sysctl_paths() and register_sysctl_table().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171106133700.558647-1-arnd@arndb.de
Fixes: 38b9aeb32fa7 ("arm64: Port deprecated instruction emulation to new sysctl interface")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alex Benne &lt;alex.bennee@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.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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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2017-11-09T17:31:34Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-09T17:31:34Z</published>
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Pull networking fixes from David Miller:

 1) Fix use-after-free in IPSEC input parsing, desintation address
    pointer was loaded before pskb_may_pull() which can change the SKB
    data pointers. From Florian Westphal.

 2) Stack out-of-bounds read in xfrm_state_find(), from Steffen
    Klassert.

 3) IPVS state of SKB is not properly reset when moving between
    namespaces, from Ye Yin.

 4) Fix crash in asix driver suspend and resume, from Andrey Konovalov.

 5) Don't deliver ipv6 l2tp tunnel packets to ipv4 l2tp tunnels, and
    vice versa, from Guillaume Nault.

 6) Fix DSACK undo on non-dup ACKs, from Priyaranjan Jha.

 7) Fix regression in bond_xmit_hash()'s behavior after the TCP port
    selection changes back in 4.2, from Hangbin Liu.

 8) Two divide by zero bugs in USB networking drivers when parsing
    descriptors, from Bjorn Mork.

 9) Fix bonding slaves being stuck in BOND_LINK_FAIL state, from Jay
    Vosburgh.

10) Missing skb_reset_mac_header() in qmi_wwan, from Kristian Evensen.

11) Fix the destruction of tc action object races properly, from Cong
    Wang.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (31 commits)
  cls_u32: use tcf_exts_get_net() before call_rcu()
  cls_tcindex: use tcf_exts_get_net() before call_rcu()
  cls_rsvp: use tcf_exts_get_net() before call_rcu()
  cls_route: use tcf_exts_get_net() before call_rcu()
  cls_matchall: use tcf_exts_get_net() before call_rcu()
  cls_fw: use tcf_exts_get_net() before call_rcu()
  cls_flower: use tcf_exts_get_net() before call_rcu()
  cls_flow: use tcf_exts_get_net() before call_rcu()
  cls_cgroup: use tcf_exts_get_net() before call_rcu()
  cls_bpf: use tcf_exts_get_net() before call_rcu()
  cls_basic: use tcf_exts_get_net() before call_rcu()
  net_sched: introduce tcf_exts_get_net() and tcf_exts_put_net()
  Revert "net_sched: hold netns refcnt for each action"
  net: usb: asix: fill null-ptr-deref in asix_suspend
  Revert "net: usb: asix: fill null-ptr-deref in asix_suspend"
  qmi_wwan: Add missing skb_reset_mac_header-call
  bonding: fix slave stuck in BOND_LINK_FAIL state
  qrtr: Move to postcore_initcall
  net: qmi_wwan: fix divide by 0 on bad descriptors
  net: cdc_ether: fix divide by 0 on bad descriptors
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2017-11-05T19:02:15Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-05T19:02:15Z</published>
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Pull core fixes from Ingo Molnar:

 - workaround for gcc asm handling

 - futex race fixes

 - objtool build warning fix

 - two watchdog fixes: a crash fix (revert) and a bug fix for
   /proc/sys/kernel/watchdog_thresh handling.

* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  objtool: Prevent GCC from merging annotate_unreachable(), take 2
  objtool: Resync objtool's instruction decoder source code copy with the kernel's latest version
  watchdog/hardlockup/perf: Use atomics to track in-use cpu counter
  watchdog/harclockup/perf: Revert a33d44843d45 ("watchdog/hardlockup/perf: Simplify deferred event destroy")
  futex: Fix more put_pi_state() vs. exit_pi_state_list() races
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<entry>
<title>objtool: Prevent GCC from merging annotate_unreachable(), take 2</title>
<updated>2017-11-04T14:03:39Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-03T22:19:41Z</published>
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This fixes the following warning with GCC 4.6:

  mm/migrate.o: warning: objtool: migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page()+0x71: unreachable instruction

The problem is that the compiler merged identical annotate_unreachable()
inline asm blocks, resulting in a missing 'unreachable' annotation.

This problem happened before, and was partially fixed with:

  3d1e236022cc ("objtool: Prevent GCC from merging annotate_unreachable()")

That commit tried to ensure that each instance of the
annotate_unreachable() inline asm statement has a unique label.  It used
the __LINE__ macro to generate the label number.  However, even the line
number isn't necessarily unique when used in an inline function with
multiple callers (in this case, __alloc_pages_node()'s use of
VM_BUG_ON).

Reported-by: kbuild test robot &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: kbuild-all@01.org
Cc: tipbuild@zytor.com
Fixes: 3d1e236022cc ("objtool: Prevent GCC from merging annotate_unreachable()")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171103221941.cajpwszir7ujxyc4@treble
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfilter/ipvs: clear ipvs_property flag when SKB net namespace changed</title>
<updated>2017-11-04T13:37:42Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ye Yin</name>
<email>hustcat@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-26T08:57:05Z</published>
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When run ipvs in two different network namespace at the same host, and one
ipvs transport network traffic to the other network namespace ipvs.
'ipvs_property' flag will make the second ipvs take no effect. So we should
clear 'ipvs_property' when SKB network namespace changed.

Fixes: 621e84d6f373 ("dev: introduce skb_scrub_packet()")
Signed-off-by: Ye Yin &lt;hustcat@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wei Zhou &lt;chouryzhou@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov &lt;ja@ssi.bg&gt;
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@verge.net.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2017-11-03T16:09:21Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-03T16:09:21Z</published>
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Pull networking fixes from David Miller:
 "Hopefully this is the last batch of networking fixes for 4.14

  Fingers crossed...

   1) Fix stmmac to use the proper sized OF property read, from Bhadram
      Varka.

   2) Fix use after free in net scheduler tc action code, from Cong
      Wang.

   3) Fix SKB control block mangling in tcp_make_synack().

   4) Use proper locking in fib_dump_info(), from Florian Westphal.

   5) Fix IPG encodings in systemport driver, from Florian Fainelli.

   6) Fix division by zero in NV TCP congestion control module, from
      Konstantin Khlebnikov.

   7) Fix use after free in nf_reject_ipv4, from Tejaswi Tanikella"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net:
  net: systemport: Correct IPG length settings
  tcp: do not mangle skb-&gt;cb[] in tcp_make_synack()
  fib: fib_dump_info can no longer use __in_dev_get_rtnl
  stmmac: use of_property_read_u32 instead of read_u8
  net_sched: hold netns refcnt for each action
  net_sched: acquire RTNL in tc_action_net_exit()
  net: vrf: correct FRA_L3MDEV encode type
  tcp_nv: fix division by zero in tcpnv_acked()
  netfilter: nf_reject_ipv4: Fix use-after-free in send_reset
  netfilter: nft_set_hash: disable fast_ops for 2-len keys
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<entry>
<title>mm, swap: fix race between swap count continuation operations</title>
<updated>2017-11-03T14:39:19Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Huang Ying</name>
<email>ying.huang@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-02T22:59:50Z</published>
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One page may store a set of entries of the sis-&gt;swap_map
(swap_info_struct-&gt;swap_map) in multiple swap clusters.

If some of the entries has sis-&gt;swap_map[offset] &gt; SWAP_MAP_MAX,
multiple pages will be used to store the set of entries of the
sis-&gt;swap_map.  And the pages are linked with page-&gt;lru.  This is called
swap count continuation.  To access the pages which store the set of
entries of the sis-&gt;swap_map simultaneously, previously, sis-&gt;lock is
used.  But to improve the scalability of __swap_duplicate(), swap
cluster lock may be used in swap_count_continued() now.  This may race
with add_swap_count_continuation() which operates on a nearby swap
cluster, in which the sis-&gt;swap_map entries are stored in the same page.

The race can cause wrong swap count in practice, thus cause unfreeable
swap entries or software lockup, etc.

To fix the race, a new spin lock called cont_lock is added to struct
swap_info_struct to protect the swap count continuation page list.  This
is a lock at the swap device level, so the scalability isn't very well.
But it is still much better than the original sis-&gt;lock, because it is
only acquired/released when swap count continuation is used.  Which is
considered rare in practice.  If it turns out that the scalability
becomes an issue for some workloads, we can split the lock into some
more fine grained locks.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171017081320.28133-1-ying.huang@intel.com
Fixes: 235b62176712 ("mm/swap: add cluster lock")
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tim Chen &lt;tim.c.chen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Aaron Lu &lt;aaron.lu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[4.11+]
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>stmmac: use of_property_read_u32 instead of read_u8</title>
<updated>2017-11-03T05:15:06Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Bhadram Varka</name>
<email>vbhadram@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-02T07:22:13Z</published>
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Numbers in DT are stored in “cells” which are 32-bits
in size. of_property_read_u8 does not work properly
because of endianness problem.

This causes it to always return 0 with little-endian
architectures.

Fix it by using of_property_read_u32() OF API.

Signed-off-by: Bhadram Varka &lt;vbhadram@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'spdx_identifiers-4.14-rc8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T17:04:46Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-02T17:04:46Z</published>
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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 &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;"

* 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
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<entry>
<title>License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T10:10:55Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T14:07:57Z</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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