02 Nov, 2017

1 commit

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

    Greg Kroah-Hartman
     

28 May, 2016

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11 Apr, 2016

1 commit


14 Dec, 2015

1 commit

  • Change the list operation to only return whether or not an attribute
    should be listed. Copying the attribute names into the buffer is moved
    to the callers.

    Since the result only depends on the dentry and not on the attribute
    name, we do not pass the attribute name to list operations.

    Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher
    Signed-off-by: Al Viro

    Andreas Gruenbacher
     

07 Dec, 2015

1 commit

  • Add an additional "name" field to struct xattr_handler. When the name
    is set, the handler matches attributes with exactly that name. When the
    prefix is set instead, the handler matches attributes with the given
    prefix and with a non-empty suffix.

    This patch should avoid bugs like the one fixed in commit c361016a in
    the future.

    Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher
    Reviewed-by: James Morris
    Signed-off-by: Al Viro

    Andreas Gruenbacher
     

14 Nov, 2015

1 commit

  • The xattr_handler operations are currently all passed a file system
    specific flags value which the operations can use to disambiguate between
    different handlers; some file systems use that to distinguish the xattr
    namespace, for example. In some oprations, it would be useful to also have
    access to the handler prefix. To allow that, pass a pointer to the handler
    to operations instead of the flags value alone.

    Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher
    Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig
    Signed-off-by: Al Viro

    Andreas Gruenbacher
     

16 Apr, 2015

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03 Mar, 2014

1 commit

  • Mark function as static in ext2/xattr_security.c because it is not
    used outside this file.

    This also elimiantes the following warning in ext2/xattr_security.c:
    fs/ext2/xattr_security.c:45:5: warning: no previous prototype for ‘ext2_initxattrs’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]

    Signed-off-by: Rashika Kheria
    Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett
    Signed-off-by: Jan Kara

    Rashika Kheria
     

01 Apr, 2012

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09 Jan, 2012

1 commit

  • Delete any instances of include module.h that were not strictly
    required. In the case of ext2, the declaration of MODULE_LICENSE
    etc. were in inode.c but the module_init/exit were in super.c, so
    relocate the MODULE_LICENCE/AUTHOR block to super.c which makes it
    consistent with ext3 and ext4 at the same time.

    Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker
    Signed-off-by: Jan Kara

    Paul Gortmaker
     

19 Jul, 2011

1 commit

  • This patch changes the security_inode_init_security API by adding a
    filesystem specific callback to write security extended attributes.
    This change is in preparation for supporting the initialization of
    multiple LSM xattrs and the EVM xattr. Initially the callback function
    walks an array of xattrs, writing each xattr separately, but could be
    optimized to write multiple xattrs at once.

    For existing security_inode_init_security() calls, which have not yet
    been converted to use the new callback function, such as those in
    reiserfs and ocfs2, this patch defines security_old_inode_init_security().

    Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar

    Mimi Zohar
     

02 Feb, 2011

1 commit

  • SELinux would like to implement a new labeling behavior of newly created
    inodes. We currently label new inodes based on the parent and the creating
    process. This new behavior would also take into account the name of the
    new object when deciding the new label. This is not the (supposed) full path,
    just the last component of the path.

    This is very useful because creating /etc/shadow is different than creating
    /etc/passwd but the kernel hooks are unable to differentiate these
    operations. We currently require that userspace realize it is doing some
    difficult operation like that and than userspace jumps through SELinux hoops
    to get things set up correctly. This patch does not implement new
    behavior, that is obviously contained in a seperate SELinux patch, but it
    does pass the needed name down to the correct LSM hook. If no such name
    exists it is fine to pass NULL.

    Signed-off-by: Eric Paris

    Eric Paris
     

22 May, 2010

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30 Mar, 2010

1 commit

  • …it slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

    percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
    included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
    in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
    universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

    percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
    this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
    headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
    needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
    used as the basis of conversion.

    http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

    The script does the followings.

    * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
    only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
    gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

    * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
    blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
    to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
    core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
    alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
    doesn't seem to be any matching order.

    * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
    because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
    an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
    file.

    The conversion was done in the following steps.

    1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
    over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
    and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
    files.

    2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
    some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
    embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
    inclusions to around 150 files.

    3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
    from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

    4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
    e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
    APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

    5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
    editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
    files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
    inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
    wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
    slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
    necessary.

    6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

    7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
    were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
    distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
    more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
    build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

    * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
    * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
    * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
    * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
    * s390 SMP allmodconfig
    * alpha SMP allmodconfig
    * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

    8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
    a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

    Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
    6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
    If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
    headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
    the specific arch.

    Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
    Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>

    Tejun Heo
     

17 Dec, 2009

1 commit

  • Add a flags argument to struct xattr_handler and pass it to all xattr
    handler methods. This allows using the same methods for multiple
    handlers, e.g. for the ACL methods which perform exactly the same action
    for the access and default ACLs, just using a different underlying
    attribute. With a little more groundwork it'll also allow sharing the
    methods for the regular user/trusted/secure handlers in extN, ocfs2 and
    jffs2 like it's already done for xfs in this patch.

    Also change the inode argument to the handlers to a dentry to allow
    using the handlers mechnism for filesystems that require it later,
    e.g. cifs.

    [with GFS2 bits updated by Steven Whitehouse ]

    Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
    Reviewed-by: James Morris
    Acked-by: Joel Becker
    Signed-off-by: Al Viro

    Christoph Hellwig
     

26 Jul, 2008

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09 May, 2007

1 commit


10 Sep, 2005

1 commit

  • This patch modifies ext2 to call the inode_init_security LSM hook to obtain
    the security attribute for a newly created inode and to set the resulting
    attribute on the new inode. This parallels the existing processing for
    setting ACLs on newly created inodes.

    Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Stephen Smalley
     

17 Apr, 2005

1 commit

  • 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!

    Linus Torvalds