02 Nov, 2017
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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 & 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
05 Jan, 2017
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The asm-prototypes.h file is used to provide dummy function declarations
for genksyms, when processing asm files with EXPORT_SYMBOL. Make sure
that any architecture defines get out of our way. x86 currently has an
issue with memcpy on 64bit with CONFIG_KMEMCHECK=y and with
memset/__memset on 32bit:$ cat init/test.c
#include
$ make -s init/test.o
In file included from ./arch/x86/include/asm/string.h:4:0,
from ./include/linux/string.h:18,
from ./include/linux/bitmap.h:8,
from ./include/linux/cpumask.h:11,
from ./arch/x86/include/asm/cpumask.h:4,
from ./arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h:10,
from ./arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:20,
from ./arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h:4,
from ./arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h:52,
from ./include/linux/thread_info.h:25,
from ./arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:6,
from ./include/linux/preempt.h:59,
from ./include/linux/spinlock.h:50,
from ./include/linux/seqlock.h:35,
from ./include/linux/time.h:5,
from ./include/uapi/linux/timex.h:56,
from ./include/linux/timex.h:56,
from ./include/linux/sched.h:19,
from ./include/linux/uaccess.h:4,
from ./arch/x86/include/asm/asm-prototypes.h:2,
from init/test.c:1:
./arch/x86/include/asm/string_64.h:52:47: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘(’ token
#define memcpy(dst, src, len) __inline_memcpy((dst), (src), (len))
./include/asm-generic/asm-prototypes.h:6:14: note: in expansion of macro ‘memcpy’
extern void *memcpy(void *, const void *, __kernel_size_t);^
...During real build, this manifests itself by genksyms segfaulting.
Fixes: 334bb7738764 ("x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm")
Reported-and-tested-by: Borislav Petkov
Cc: Adam Borowski
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek
14 Dec, 2016
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Commit 4efca4ed ("kbuild: modversions for EXPORT_SYMBOL() for asm") adds
modversion support for symbols exported from asm files. Architectures
must include C-style declarations for those symbols in asm/asm-prototypes.h
in order for them to be versioned.Add these declarations for x86, and an architecture-independent file that
can be used for common symbols.With f27c2f6 reverting 8ab2ae6 ("default exported asm symbols to zero") we
produce a scary warning on x86, this commit fixes that.Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski
Tested-by: Kalle Valo
Acked-by: Nicholas Piggin
Tested-by: Peter Wu
Tested-by: Oliver Hartkopp
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek
