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<title>linux-toradex.git/net/ipv4/ip_forward.c, branch v5.19-rc1</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>net: ip: add skb drop reasons to ip forwarding</title>
<updated>2022-04-13T12:09:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Menglong Dong</name>
<email>imagedong@tencent.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-13T08:15:55+00:00</published>
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Replace kfree_skb() which is used in ip6_forward() and ip_forward()
with kfree_skb_reason().

The new drop reason 'SKB_DROP_REASON_PKT_TOO_BIG' is introduced for
the case that the length of the packet exceeds MTU and can't
fragment.

Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong &lt;imagedong@tencent.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiang Biao &lt;benbjiang@tencent.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hao Peng &lt;flyingpeng@tencent.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Replace kfree_skb() which is used in ip6_forward() and ip_forward()
with kfree_skb_reason().

The new drop reason 'SKB_DROP_REASON_PKT_TOO_BIG' is introduced for
the case that the length of the packet exceeds MTU and can't
fragment.

Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong &lt;imagedong@tencent.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiang Biao &lt;benbjiang@tencent.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hao Peng &lt;flyingpeng@tencent.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: Add skb_clear_tstamp() to keep the mono delivery_time</title>
<updated>2022-03-03T14:38:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin KaFai Lau</name>
<email>kafai@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-02T19:55:31+00:00</published>
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Right now, skb-&gt;tstamp is reset to 0 whenever the skb is forwarded.

If skb-&gt;tstamp has the mono delivery_time, clearing it can hurt
the performance when it finally transmits out to fq@phy-dev.

The earlier patch added a skb-&gt;mono_delivery_time bit to
flag the skb-&gt;tstamp carrying the mono delivery_time.

This patch adds skb_clear_tstamp() helper which keeps
the mono delivery_time and clears everything else.

The delivery_time clearing will be postponed until the stack knows the
skb will be delivered locally.  It will be done in a latter patch.

Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;kafai@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Right now, skb-&gt;tstamp is reset to 0 whenever the skb is forwarded.

If skb-&gt;tstamp has the mono delivery_time, clearing it can hurt
the performance when it finally transmits out to fq@phy-dev.

The earlier patch added a skb-&gt;mono_delivery_time bit to
flag the skb-&gt;tstamp carrying the mono delivery_time.

This patch adds skb_clear_tstamp() helper which keeps
the mono delivery_time and clears everything else.

The delivery_time clearing will be postponed until the stack knows the
skb will be delivered locally.  It will be done in a latter patch.

Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;kafai@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipv4: Revert removal of rt_uses_gateway</title>
<updated>2019-09-21T01:23:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Ahern</name>
<email>dsahern@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-17T17:39:49+00:00</published>
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Julian noted that rt_uses_gateway has a more subtle use than 'is gateway
set':
    https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/alpine.LFD.2.21.1909151104060.2546@ja.home.ssi.bg/

Revert that part of the commit referenced in the Fixes tag.

Currently, there are no u8 holes in 'struct rtable'. There is a 4-byte hole
in the second cacheline which contains the gateway declaration. So move
rt_gw_family down to the gateway declarations since they are always used
together, and then re-use that u8 for rt_uses_gateway. End result is that
rtable size is unchanged.

Fixes: 1550c171935d ("ipv4: Prepare rtable for IPv6 gateway")
Reported-by: Julian Anastasov &lt;ja@ssi.bg&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Julian Anastasov &lt;ja@ssi.bg&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;jakub.kicinski@netronome.com&gt;
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Julian noted that rt_uses_gateway has a more subtle use than 'is gateway
set':
    https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/alpine.LFD.2.21.1909151104060.2546@ja.home.ssi.bg/

Revert that part of the commit referenced in the Fixes tag.

Currently, there are no u8 holes in 'struct rtable'. There is a 4-byte hole
in the second cacheline which contains the gateway declaration. So move
rt_gw_family down to the gateway declarations since they are always used
together, and then re-use that u8 for rt_uses_gateway. End result is that
rtable size is unchanged.

Fixes: 1550c171935d ("ipv4: Prepare rtable for IPv6 gateway")
Reported-by: Julian Anastasov &lt;ja@ssi.bg&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Julian Anastasov &lt;ja@ssi.bg&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;jakub.kicinski@netronome.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ipv4: Prepare rtable for IPv6 gateway</title>
<updated>2019-04-08T22:22:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Ahern</name>
<email>dsahern@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-05T23:30:27+00:00</published>
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To allow the gateway to be either an IPv4 or IPv6 address, remove
rt_uses_gateway from rtable and replace with rt_gw_family. If
rt_gw_family is set it implies rt_uses_gateway. Rename rt_gateway
to rt_gw4 to represent the IPv4 version.

Signed-off-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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To allow the gateway to be either an IPv4 or IPv6 address, remove
rt_uses_gateway from rtable and replace with rt_gw_family. If
rt_gw_family is set it implies rt_uses_gateway. Rename rt_gateway
to rt_gw4 to represent the IPv4 version.

Signed-off-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2018-12-20T19:53:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-20T18:53:28+00:00</published>
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Lots of conflicts, by happily all cases of overlapping
changes, parallel adds, things of that nature.

Thanks to Stephen Rothwell, Saeed Mahameed, and others
for their guidance in these resolutions.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Lots of conflicts, by happily all cases of overlapping
changes, parallel adds, things of that nature.

Thanks to Stephen Rothwell, Saeed Mahameed, and others
for their guidance in these resolutions.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: clear skb-&gt;tstamp in forwarding paths</title>
<updated>2018-12-15T21:24:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-14T14:46:49+00:00</published>
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Sergey reported that forwarding was no longer working
if fq packet scheduler was used.

This is caused by the recent switch to EDT model, since incoming
packets might have been timestamped by __net_timestamp()

__net_timestamp() uses ktime_get_real(), while fq expects packets
using CLOCK_MONOTONIC base.

The fix is to clear skb-&gt;tstamp in forwarding paths.

Fixes: 80b14dee2bea ("net: Add a new socket option for a future transmit time.")
Fixes: fb420d5d91c1 ("tcp/fq: move back to CLOCK_MONOTONIC")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Sergey Matyukevich &lt;geomatsi@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sergey Matyukevich &lt;geomatsi@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Sergey reported that forwarding was no longer working
if fq packet scheduler was used.

This is caused by the recent switch to EDT model, since incoming
packets might have been timestamped by __net_timestamp()

__net_timestamp() uses ktime_get_real(), while fq expects packets
using CLOCK_MONOTONIC base.

The fix is to clear skb-&gt;tstamp in forwarding paths.

Fixes: 80b14dee2bea ("net: Add a new socket option for a future transmit time.")
Fixes: fb420d5d91c1 ("tcp/fq: move back to CLOCK_MONOTONIC")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Sergey Matyukevich &lt;geomatsi@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sergey Matyukevich &lt;geomatsi@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Do not route unicast IP packets twice</title>
<updated>2018-12-04T16:36:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ido Schimmel</name>
<email>idosch@mellanox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-04T08:15:11+00:00</published>
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Packets marked with 'offload_l3_fwd_mark' were already forwarded by a
capable device and should not be forwarded again by the kernel.
Therefore, have the kernel consume them.

The check is performed in ip{,6}_forward_finish() in order to allow the
kernel to process such packets in ip{,6}_forward() and generate required
exceptions. For example, ICMP redirects.

Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Packets marked with 'offload_l3_fwd_mark' were already forwarded by a
capable device and should not be forwarded again by the kernel.
Therefore, have the kernel consume them.

The check is performed in ip{,6}_forward_finish() in order to allow the
kernel to process such packets in ip{,6}_forward() and generate required
exceptions. For example, ICMP redirects.

Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: ipv4: Control SKB reprioritization after forwarding</title>
<updated>2018-08-01T16:52:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Machata</name>
<email>petrm@mellanox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-31T22:36:03+00:00</published>
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After IPv4 packets are forwarded, the priority of the corresponding SKB
is updated according to the TOS field of IPv4 header. This overrides any
prioritization done earlier by e.g. an skbedit action or ingress-qos-map
defined at a vlan device.

Such overriding may not always be desirable. Even if the packet ends up
being routed, which implies this is an L3 network node, an administrator
may wish to preserve whatever prioritization was done earlier on in the
pipeline.

Therefore introduce a sysctl that controls this behavior. Keep the
default value at 1 to maintain backward-compatible behavior.

Signed-off-by: Petr Machata &lt;petrm@mellanox.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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After IPv4 packets are forwarded, the priority of the corresponding SKB
is updated according to the TOS field of IPv4 header. This overrides any
prioritization done earlier by e.g. an skbedit action or ingress-qos-map
defined at a vlan device.

Such overriding may not always be desirable. Even if the packet ends up
being routed, which implies this is an L3 network node, an administrator
may wish to preserve whatever prioritization was done earlier on in the
pipeline.

Therefore introduce a sysctl that controls this behavior. Keep the
default value at 1 to maintain backward-compatible behavior.

Signed-off-by: Petr Machata &lt;petrm@mellanox.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: rename skb_gso_validate_mtu -&gt; skb_gso_validate_network_len</title>
<updated>2018-03-04T22:49:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Axtens</name>
<email>dja@axtens.net</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-01T06:13:37+00:00</published>
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If you take a GSO skb, and split it into packets, will the network
length (L3 headers + L4 headers + payload) of those packets be small
enough to fit within a given MTU?

skb_gso_validate_mtu gives you the answer to that question. However,
we recently added to add a way to validate the MAC length of a split GSO
skb (L2+L3+L4+payload), and the names get confusing, so rename
skb_gso_validate_mtu to skb_gso_validate_network_len

Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner &lt;marcelo.leitner@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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If you take a GSO skb, and split it into packets, will the network
length (L3 headers + L4 headers + payload) of those packets be small
enough to fit within a given MTU?

skb_gso_validate_mtu gives you the answer to that question. However,
we recently added to add a way to validate the MAC length of a split GSO
skb (L2+L3+L4+payload), and the names get confusing, so rename
skb_gso_validate_mtu to skb_gso_validate_network_len

Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner &lt;marcelo.leitner@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<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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