user/sven/linux.git/kernel/printk, branch v4.14.15

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

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk

2017-09-08T04:00:52Z

Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek: - Do not allow use of freed init data and code even when boot consoles are forced to stay. Also check for the init memory more precisely. - Some code clean up by starting contributors. * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk: printk: Clean up do_syslog() error handling printk/console: Enhance the check for consoles using init memory printk/console: Always disable boot consoles that use init memory before it is freed printk: Modify operators of printed_len and text_len

Revert "pstore: Honor dmesg_restrict sysctl on dmesg dumps"

2017-08-17T23:29:19Z

This reverts commit 68c4a4f8abc60c9440ede9cd123d48b78325f7a3, with various conflict clean-ups. The capability check required too much privilege compared to simple DAC controls. A system builder was forced to have crash handler processes run with CAP_SYSLOG which would give it the ability to read (and wipe) the _current_ dmesg, which is much more access than being given access only to the historical log stored in pstorefs. With the prior commit to make the root directory 0750, the files are protected by default but a system builder can now opt to give access to a specific group (via chgrp on the pstorefs root directory) without being forced to also give away CAP_SYSLOG. Suggested-by: Nick Kralevich Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky

printk: Clean up do_syslog() error handling

2017-08-15T14:28:16Z

The error variable in do_syslog() is preemptively set to the error code before the error condition is checked, and then set to 0 if the error condition is not encountered. This is not necessary, as it is likely simpler to return immediately upon encountering the error condition. A redundant set of the error variable to 0 is also removed. This patch has been build-tested on x86_64, but not tested for functionality. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170730033636.GA935@vostro Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Nikitas Angelinas Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek

printk/console: Enhance the check for consoles using init memory

2017-07-27T13:04:22Z

printk_late_init() is responsible for disabling boot consoles that use init memory. It checks the address of struct console for this. But this is not enough. For example, there are several early consoles that have write() method in the init section and struct console in the normal section. They are not disabled and could cause fancy and hard to debug system states. It is even more complicated by the macros EARLYCON_DECLARE() and OF_EARLYCON_DECLARE() where various struct members are set at runtime by the provided setup() function. I have tried to reproduce this problem and forced the classic uart early console to stay using keep_bootcon parameter. In particular I used earlycon=uart,io,0x3f8 keep_bootcon console=ttyS0,115200. The system did not boot: [ 1.570496] PM: Image not found (code -22) [ 1.570496] PM: Image not found (code -22) [ 1.571886] PM: Hibernation image not present or could not be loaded. [ 1.571886] PM: Hibernation image not present or could not be loaded. [ 1.576407] Freeing unused kernel memory: 2528K [ 1.577244] kernel tried to execute NX-protected page - exploit attempt? (uid: 0) The double lines are caused by having both early uart console and ttyS0 console enabled at the same time. The early console stopped working when the init memory was freed. Fortunately, the invalid call was caught by the NX-protexted page check and did not cause any silent fancy problems. This patch adds a check for many other addresses stored in struct console. It omits setup() and match() that are used only when the console is registered. Therefore they have already been used at this point and there is no reason to use them again. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1500036673-7122-3-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Matt Redfearn Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Jiri Slaby Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Alan Cox Cc: "Fabio M. Di Nitto" Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek

printk/console: Always disable boot consoles that use init memory before it is freed

2017-07-27T13:04:21Z

Commit 4c30c6f566c0 ("kernel/printk: do not turn off bootconsole in printk_late_init() if keep_bootcon") added a check on keep_bootcon to ensure that boot consoles were kept around until the real console is registered. This can lead to problems if the boot console data and code are in the init section, since it can be freed before the boot console is unregistered. Commit 81cc26f2bd11 ("printk: only unregister boot consoles when necessary") fixed this a better way. It allowed to keep boot consoles that did not use init data. Unfortunately it did not remove the check of keep_bootcon. This can lead to crashes and weird panics when the bootconsole is accessed after free, especially if page poisoning is in use and the code / data have been overwritten with a poison value. To prevent this, always free the boot console if it is within the init section. In addition, print a warning about that the console is removed prematurely. Finally there is a new comment how to avoid the warning. It replaced an explanation that duplicated a more comprehensive function description few lines above. Fixes: 4c30c6f566c0 ("kernel/printk: do not turn off bootconsole in printk_late_init() if keep_bootcon") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1500036673-7122-2-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Jiri Slaby Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Alan Cox Cc: "Fabio M. Di Nitto" Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Matt Redfearn [pmladek@suse.com: print the warning, code and comments clean up] Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek

printk: Modify operators of printed_len and text_len

2017-07-27T13:04:21Z

With commit ("printk: report lost messages in printk safe/nmi contexts") and commit <8b1742c9c207> ("printk: remove zap_locks() function"), it seems we can remove initialization, "=0", of text_len and directly assign result of log_output to printed_len. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1499755255-6258-1-git-send-email-vichy.kuo@gmail.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: joe@perches.com Signed-off-by: Pierre Kuo Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk

2017-07-05T18:11:26Z

Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek: - Store printk() messages into the main log buffer directly even in NMI when the lock is available. It is the best effort to print even large chunk of text. It is handy, for example, when all ftrace messages are printed during the system panic in NMI. - Add missing annotations to calm down compiler warnings * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk: printk: add __printf attributes to internal functions printk: Use the main logbuf in NMI when logbuf_lock is available

Merge branch 'for-4.13' into for-linus

2017-07-03T13:33:39Z

Merge branch 'WIP.sched/core' into sched/core

2017-06-20T10:28:21Z

Conflicts: kernel/sched/Makefile Pick up the waitqueue related renames - it didn't get much feedback, so it appears to be uncontroversial. Famous last words? ;-) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar