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<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>
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<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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<title>prctl: Allow local CAP_SYS_ADMIN changing exe_file</title>
<updated>2017-07-20T12:46:07Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill Tkhai</name>
<email>ktkhai@virtuozzo.com</email>
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<published>2017-05-12T14:33:36Z</published>
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During checkpointing and restore of userspace tasks
we bumped into the situation, that it's not possible
to restore the tasks, which user namespace does not
have uid 0 or gid 0 mapped.

People create user namespace mappings like they want,
and there is no a limitation on obligatory uid and gid
"must be mapped". So, if there is no uid 0 or gid 0
in the mapping, it's impossible to restore mm-&gt;exe_file
of the processes belonging to this user namespace.

Also, there is no a workaround. It's impossible
to create a temporary uid/gid mapping, because
only one write to /proc/[pid]/uid_map and gid_map
is allowed during a namespace lifetime.
If there is an entry, then no more mapings can't be
written. If there isn't an entry, we can't write
there too, otherwise user task won't be able
to do that in the future.

The patch changes the check, and looks for CAP_SYS_ADMIN
instead of zero uid and gid. This allows to restore
a task independently of its user namespace mappings.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai &lt;ktkhai@virtuozzo.com&gt;
CC: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
CC: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
CC: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
CC: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
CC: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
CC: Andrei Vagin &lt;avagin@openvz.org&gt;
CC: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@openvz.org&gt;
CC: Stanislav Kinsburskiy &lt;skinsbursky@virtuozzo.com&gt;
CC: Pavel Tikhomirov &lt;ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<title>fix a braino in compat_sys_getrlimit()</title>
<updated>2017-07-12T16:15:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2017-07-12T03:59:45Z</published>
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Reported-and-tested-by: Meelis Roos &lt;mroos@linux.ee&gt;
Fixes: commit d9e968cb9f84 "getrlimit()/setrlimit(): move compat to native"
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>mm: make PR_SET_THP_DISABLE immediately active</title>
<updated>2017-07-10T23:32:31Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Hocko</name>
<email>mhocko@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-10T22:48:02Z</published>
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PR_SET_THP_DISABLE has a rather subtle semantic.  It doesn't affect any
existing mapping because it only updated mm-&gt;def_flags which is a
template for new mappings.

The mappings created after prctl(PR_SET_THP_DISABLE) have VM_NOHUGEPAGE
flag set.  This can be quite surprising for all those applications which
do not do prctl(); fork() &amp; exec() and want to control their own THP
behavior.

Another usecase when the immediate semantic of the prctl might be useful
is a combination of pre- and post-copy migration of containers with
CRIU.  In this case CRIU populates a part of a memory region with data
that was saved during the pre-copy stage.  Afterwards, the region is
registered with userfaultfd and CRIU expects to get page faults for the
parts of the region that were not yet populated.  However, khugepaged
collapses the pages and the expected page faults do not occur.

In more general case, the prctl(PR_SET_THP_DISABLE) could be used as a
temporary mechanism for enabling/disabling THP process wide.

Implementation wise, a new MMF_DISABLE_THP flag is added.  This flag is
tested when decision whether to use huge pages is taken either during
page fault of at the time of THP collapse.

It should be noted, that the new implementation makes PR_SET_THP_DISABLE
master override to any per-VMA setting, which was not the case
previously.

Fixes: a0715cc22601 ("mm, thp: add VM_INIT_DEF_MASK and PRCTL_THP_DISABLE")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1496415802-30944-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@virtuozzo.com&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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<title>Merge branch 'misc.compat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2017-07-07T03:57:13Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-07T03:57:13Z</published>
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Pull misc compat stuff updates from Al Viro:
 "This part is basically untangling various compat stuff. Compat
  syscalls moved to their native counterparts, getting rid of quite a
  bit of double-copying and/or set_fs() uses. A lot of field-by-field
  copyin/copyout killed off.

   - kernel/compat.c is much closer to containing just the
     copyin/copyout of compat structs. Not all compat syscalls are gone
     from it yet, but it's getting there.

   - ipc/compat_mq.c killed off completely.

   - block/compat_ioctl.c cleaned up; floppy compat ioctls moved to
     drivers/block/floppy.c where they belong. Yes, there are several
     drivers that implement some of the same ioctls. Some are m68k and
     one is 32bit-only pmac. drivers/block/floppy.c is the only one in
     that bunch that can be built on biarch"

* 'misc.compat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  mqueue: move compat syscalls to native ones
  usbdevfs: get rid of field-by-field copyin
  compat_hdio_ioctl: get rid of set_fs()
  take floppy compat ioctls to sodding floppy.c
  ipmi: get rid of field-by-field __get_user()
  ipmi: get COMPAT_IPMICTL_RECEIVE_MSG in sync with the native one
  rt_sigtimedwait(): move compat to native
  select: switch compat_{get,put}_fd_set() to compat_{get,put}_bitmap()
  put_compat_rusage(): switch to copy_to_user()
  sigpending(): move compat to native
  getrlimit()/setrlimit(): move compat to native
  times(2): move compat to native
  compat_{get,put}_bitmap(): use unsafe_{get,put}_user()
  fb_get_fscreeninfo(): don't bother with do_fb_ioctl()
  do_sigaltstack(): lift copying to/from userland into callers
  take compat_sys_old_getrlimit() to native syscall
  trim __ARCH_WANT_SYS_OLD_GETRLIMIT
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<entry>
<title>getrlimit()/setrlimit(): move compat to native</title>
<updated>2017-06-10T03:51:33Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-31T08:33:51Z</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>times(2): move compat to native</title>
<updated>2017-06-10T03:51:28Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-31T08:22:44Z</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>take compat_sys_old_getrlimit() to native syscall</title>
<updated>2017-05-27T19:38:06Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-27T02:04:29Z</published>
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... and sanitize the ifdefs in there

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>wait4(2)/waitid(2): separate copying rusage to userland</title>
<updated>2017-05-21T17:11:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-15T00:25:02Z</published>
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New helpers: kernel_waitid() and kernel_wait4().  sys_waitid(),
sys_wait4() and their compat variants switched to those.  Copying
struct rusage to userland is left to syscall itself.  For
compat_sys_wait4() that eliminates the use of set_fs() completely.
For compat_sys_waitid() it's still needed (for siginfo handling);
that will change shortly.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2017-05-05T18:08:43Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-05T18:08:43Z</published>
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Pull namespace updates from Eric Biederman:
 "This is a set of small fixes that were mostly stumbled over during
  more significant development. This proc fix and the fix to
  posix-timers are the most significant of the lot.

  There is a lot of good development going on but unfortunately it
  didn't quite make the merge window"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  proc: Fix unbalanced hard link numbers
  signal: Make kill_proc_info static
  rlimit: Properly call security_task_setrlimit
  signal: Remove unused definition of sig_user_definied
  ia64: Remove unused IA64_TASK_SIGHAND_OFFSET and IA64_SIGHAND_SIGLOCK_OFFSET
  ipc: Remove unused declaration of recompute_msgmni
  posix-timers: Correct sanity check in posix_cpu_nsleep
  sysctl: Remove dead register_sysctl_root
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