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<title>linux-toradex.git/fs/udf/udfdecl.h, branch v5.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>udf: Propagate errors from udf_truncate_extents()</title>
<updated>2019-03-18T15:30:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-11T14:27:02+00:00</published>
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Make udf_truncate_extents() properly propagate errors to its callers and
let udf_setsize() handle the error properly as well. This lets userspace
know in case there's some error when truncating blocks.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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Make udf_truncate_extents() properly propagate errors to its callers and
let udf_setsize() handle the error properly as well. This lets userspace
know in case there's some error when truncating blocks.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>udf: convert inode stamps to timespec64</title>
<updated>2018-06-27T11:58:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-20T08:15:13+00:00</published>
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The VFS structures are finally converted to always use 64-bit timestamps,
and this file system can represent a long range of on-disk timestamps
already, so now let's fit in the missing bits for udf.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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The VFS structures are finally converted to always use 64-bit timestamps,
and this file system can represent a long range of on-disk timestamps
already, so now let's fit in the missing bits for udf.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>udf: Drop unused arguments of udf_delete_aext()</title>
<updated>2018-06-20T09:05:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-13T16:04:24+00:00</published>
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udf_delete_aext() uses its last two arguments only as local variables.
Drop them.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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udf_delete_aext() uses its last two arguments only as local variables.
Drop them.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>udf: Provide function for calculating dir entry length</title>
<updated>2018-06-20T09:05:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-13T15:30:14+00:00</published>
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Provide function for calculating directory entry length and use to
reduce code duplication.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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Provide function for calculating directory entry length and use to
reduce code duplication.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-timespec64' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/playground</title>
<updated>2018-06-14T22:31:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-14T22:31:07+00:00</published>
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Pull inode timestamps conversion to timespec64 from Arnd Bergmann:
 "This is a late set of changes from Deepa Dinamani doing an automated
  treewide conversion of the inode and iattr structures from 'timespec'
  to 'timespec64', to push the conversion from the VFS layer into the
  individual file systems.

  As Deepa writes:

   'The series aims to switch vfs timestamps to use struct timespec64.
    Currently vfs uses struct timespec, which is not y2038 safe.

    The series involves the following:
    1. Add vfs helper functions for supporting struct timepec64
       timestamps.
    2. Cast prints of vfs timestamps to avoid warnings after the switch.
    3. Simplify code using vfs timestamps so that the actual replacement
       becomes easy.
    4. Convert vfs timestamps to use struct timespec64 using a script.
       This is a flag day patch.

    Next steps:
    1. Convert APIs that can handle timespec64, instead of converting
       timestamps at the boundaries.
    2. Update internal data structures to avoid timestamp conversions'

  Thomas Gleixner adds:

   'I think there is no point to drag that out for the next merge
    window. The whole thing needs to be done in one go for the core
    changes which means that you're going to play that catchup game
    forever. Let's get over with it towards the end of the merge window'"

* tag 'vfs-timespec64' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/playground:
  pstore: Remove bogus format string definition
  vfs: change inode times to use struct timespec64
  pstore: Convert internal records to timespec64
  udf: Simplify calls to udf_disk_stamp_to_time
  fs: nfs: get rid of memcpys for inode times
  ceph: make inode time prints to be long long
  lustre: Use long long type to print inode time
  fs: add timespec64_truncate()
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Pull inode timestamps conversion to timespec64 from Arnd Bergmann:
 "This is a late set of changes from Deepa Dinamani doing an automated
  treewide conversion of the inode and iattr structures from 'timespec'
  to 'timespec64', to push the conversion from the VFS layer into the
  individual file systems.

  As Deepa writes:

   'The series aims to switch vfs timestamps to use struct timespec64.
    Currently vfs uses struct timespec, which is not y2038 safe.

    The series involves the following:
    1. Add vfs helper functions for supporting struct timepec64
       timestamps.
    2. Cast prints of vfs timestamps to avoid warnings after the switch.
    3. Simplify code using vfs timestamps so that the actual replacement
       becomes easy.
    4. Convert vfs timestamps to use struct timespec64 using a script.
       This is a flag day patch.

    Next steps:
    1. Convert APIs that can handle timespec64, instead of converting
       timestamps at the boundaries.
    2. Update internal data structures to avoid timestamp conversions'

  Thomas Gleixner adds:

   'I think there is no point to drag that out for the next merge
    window. The whole thing needs to be done in one go for the core
    changes which means that you're going to play that catchup game
    forever. Let's get over with it towards the end of the merge window'"

* tag 'vfs-timespec64' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/playground:
  pstore: Remove bogus format string definition
  vfs: change inode times to use struct timespec64
  pstore: Convert internal records to timespec64
  udf: Simplify calls to udf_disk_stamp_to_time
  fs: nfs: get rid of memcpys for inode times
  ceph: make inode time prints to be long long
  lustre: Use long long type to print inode time
  fs: add timespec64_truncate()
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>udf: Simplify calls to udf_disk_stamp_to_time</title>
<updated>2018-05-25T22:31:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Deepa Dinamani</name>
<email>deepa.kernel@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-10T15:26:17+00:00</published>
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Subsequent patches in the series convert inode timestamps
to use struct timespec64 instead of struct timespec as
part of solving the y2038 problem.

commit fd3cfad374d4 ("udf: Convert udf_disk_stamp_to_time() to use mktime64()")
eliminated the NULL return condition from udf_disk_stamp_to_time().
udf_time_to_disk_time() is always called with a valid dest pointer and
the return value is ignored.
Further, caller can as well check the dest pointer being passed in rather
than return argument.
Make both the functions return void.

This will make the inode timestamp conversion simpler.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani &lt;deepa.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: jack@suse.com

----
Changes from v1:
* fixed the pointer error pointed by Jan
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Subsequent patches in the series convert inode timestamps
to use struct timespec64 instead of struct timespec as
part of solving the y2038 problem.

commit fd3cfad374d4 ("udf: Convert udf_disk_stamp_to_time() to use mktime64()")
eliminated the NULL return condition from udf_disk_stamp_to_time().
udf_time_to_disk_time() is always called with a valid dest pointer and
the return value is ignored.
Further, caller can as well check the dest pointer being passed in rather
than return argument.
Make both the functions return void.

This will make the inode timestamp conversion simpler.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani &lt;deepa.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: jack@suse.com

----
Changes from v1:
* fixed the pointer error pointed by Jan
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>udf: Convert ident strings to proper charset</title>
<updated>2018-04-19T14:00:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-16T13:44:19+00:00</published>
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iocharset= mount option specifies the character set used on *console*
(not on disk). So even dstrings from VRS need to be converted from CS0
to the specified charset and not always UTF-8. This is barely user
visible as those strings are shown only in UDF debug messages.

CC: Andrew Gabbasov &lt;andrew_gabbasov@mentor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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iocharset= mount option specifies the character set used on *console*
(not on disk). So even dstrings from VRS need to be converted from CS0
to the specified charset and not always UTF-8. This is barely user
visible as those strings are shown only in UDF debug messages.

CC: Andrew Gabbasov &lt;andrew_gabbasov@mentor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>udf: Clean up handling of invalid uid/gid</title>
<updated>2018-02-27T09:25:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-22T09:28:52+00:00</published>
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Current code relies on the fact that invalid uid/gid as defined by UDF
2.60 3.3.3.1 and 3.3.3.2 coincides with invalid uid/gid as used by the
user namespaces implementation. Since this is only lucky coincidence,
clean this up to avoid future surprises in case user namespaces
implementation changes. Also this is more robust in presence of valid
(from UDF point of view) uids / gids which do not map into current user
namespace.

Reviewed-by: Pali Rohár &lt;pali.rohar@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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Current code relies on the fact that invalid uid/gid as defined by UDF
2.60 3.3.3.1 and 3.3.3.2 coincides with invalid uid/gid as used by the
user namespaces implementation. Since this is only lucky coincidence,
clean this up to avoid future surprises in case user namespaces
implementation changes. Also this is more robust in presence of valid
(from UDF point of view) uids / gids which do not map into current user
namespace.

Reviewed-by: Pali Rohár &lt;pali.rohar@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs</title>
<updated>2017-11-14T22:13:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-14T22:13:11+00:00</published>
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Pull quota, ext2, isofs and udf fixes from Jan Kara:

 - two small quota error handling fixes

 - two isofs fixes for architectures with signed char

 - several udf block number overflow and signedness fixes

 - ext2 rework of mount option handling to avoid GFP_KERNEL allocation
   with spinlock held

 - ... it also contains a patch to implement auditing of responses to
   fanotify permission events. That should have been in the fanotify
   pull request but I mistakenly merged that patch into a wrong branch
   and noticed only now at which point I don't think it's worth rebasing
   and redoing.

* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs:
  quota: be aware of error from dquot_initialize
  quota: fix potential infinite loop
  isofs: use unsigned char types consistently
  isofs: fix timestamps beyond 2027
  udf: Fix some sign-conversion warnings
  udf: Fix signed/unsigned format specifiers
  udf: Fix 64-bit sign extension issues affecting blocks &gt; 0x7FFFFFFF
  udf: Remove some outdate references from documentation
  udf: Avoid overflow when session starts at large offset
  ext2: Fix possible sleep in atomic during mount option parsing
  ext2: Parse mount options into a dedicated structure
  audit: Record fanotify access control decisions
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Pull quota, ext2, isofs and udf fixes from Jan Kara:

 - two small quota error handling fixes

 - two isofs fixes for architectures with signed char

 - several udf block number overflow and signedness fixes

 - ext2 rework of mount option handling to avoid GFP_KERNEL allocation
   with spinlock held

 - ... it also contains a patch to implement auditing of responses to
   fanotify permission events. That should have been in the fanotify
   pull request but I mistakenly merged that patch into a wrong branch
   and noticed only now at which point I don't think it's worth rebasing
   and redoing.

* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs:
  quota: be aware of error from dquot_initialize
  quota: fix potential infinite loop
  isofs: use unsigned char types consistently
  isofs: fix timestamps beyond 2027
  udf: Fix some sign-conversion warnings
  udf: Fix signed/unsigned format specifiers
  udf: Fix 64-bit sign extension issues affecting blocks &gt; 0x7FFFFFFF
  udf: Remove some outdate references from documentation
  udf: Avoid overflow when session starts at large offset
  ext2: Fix possible sleep in atomic during mount option parsing
  ext2: Parse mount options into a dedicated structure
  audit: Record fanotify access control decisions
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T14:07:57+00:00</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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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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