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<title>linux-toradex.git/samples/bpf/sockex3_user.c, branch v7.0-rc2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>samples/bpf: Fix sockex3 error: Missing BPF prog type</title>
<updated>2022-11-08T01:13:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rong Tao</name>
<email>rongtao@cestc.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-05T06:48:00+00:00</published>
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since commit 450b167fb9be("libbpf: clean up SEC() handling"),
sec_def_matches() does not recognize "socket/xxx" as "socket", therefore,
the BPF program type is not recognized.

Instead of sockex3_user.c parsing section names to get the BPF program fd.
We use the program array map to assign a static index to each BPF program
(get inspired by selftests/bpf progs/test_prog_array_init.c).
Therefore, use SEC("socket") as section name instead of SEC("socket/xxx"),
so that the BPF program is parsed to SOCKET_FILTER type. The "missing BPF
prog type" problem is solved.

How to reproduce this error:
$ cd samples/bpf
$ sudo ./sockex3
libbpf: prog 'bpf_func_PARSE_IP': missing BPF prog type, check ELF section name 'socket/3'
libbpf: prog 'bpf_func_PARSE_IP': failed to load: -22
libbpf: failed to load object './sockex3_kern.o'
ERROR: loading BPF object file failed

Signed-off-by: Rong Tao &lt;rongtao@cestc.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/tencent_EBA3C18864069E42175946973C2ACBAF5408@qq.com
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since commit 450b167fb9be("libbpf: clean up SEC() handling"),
sec_def_matches() does not recognize "socket/xxx" as "socket", therefore,
the BPF program type is not recognized.

Instead of sockex3_user.c parsing section names to get the BPF program fd.
We use the program array map to assign a static index to each BPF program
(get inspired by selftests/bpf progs/test_prog_array_init.c).
Therefore, use SEC("socket") as section name instead of SEC("socket/xxx"),
so that the BPF program is parsed to SOCKET_FILTER type. The "missing BPF
prog type" problem is solved.

How to reproduce this error:
$ cd samples/bpf
$ sudo ./sockex3
libbpf: prog 'bpf_func_PARSE_IP': missing BPF prog type, check ELF section name 'socket/3'
libbpf: prog 'bpf_func_PARSE_IP': failed to load: -22
libbpf: failed to load object './sockex3_kern.o'
ERROR: loading BPF object file failed

Signed-off-by: Rong Tao &lt;rongtao@cestc.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/tencent_EBA3C18864069E42175946973C2ACBAF5408@qq.com
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<entry>
<title>samples/bpf: Use libbpf 1.0 API mode instead of RLIMIT_MEMLOCK</title>
<updated>2022-04-11T03:17:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yafang Shao</name>
<email>laoar.shao@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-09T12:59:55+00:00</published>
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We have switched to memcg-based memory accouting and thus the rlimit is
not needed any more. LIBBPF_STRICT_AUTO_RLIMIT_MEMLOCK was introduced in
libbpf for backward compatibility, so we can use it instead now.

This patch also removes the useless header sys/resource.h from many files
in samples/bpf.

Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao &lt;laoar.shao@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220409125958.92629-2-laoar.shao@gmail.com
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We have switched to memcg-based memory accouting and thus the rlimit is
not needed any more. LIBBPF_STRICT_AUTO_RLIMIT_MEMLOCK was introduced in
libbpf for backward compatibility, so we can use it instead now.

This patch also removes the useless header sys/resource.h from many files
in samples/bpf.

Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao &lt;laoar.shao@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220409125958.92629-2-laoar.shao@gmail.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: samples: Do not touch RLIMIT_MEMLOCK</title>
<updated>2020-12-03T02:32:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Roman Gushchin</name>
<email>guro@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-01T21:59:00+00:00</published>
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Since bpf is not using rlimit memlock for the memory accounting
and control, do not change the limit in sample applications.

Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201201215900.3569844-35-guro@fb.com
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Since bpf is not using rlimit memlock for the memory accounting
and control, do not change the limit in sample applications.

Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201201215900.3569844-35-guro@fb.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>samples, bpf: Replace bpf_program__title() with bpf_program__section_name()</title>
<updated>2020-09-04T14:37:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel T. Lee</name>
<email>danieltimlee@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-04T06:34:33+00:00</published>
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From commit 521095842027 ("libbpf: Deprecate notion of BPF program
"title" in favor of "section name""), the term title has been replaced
with section name in libbpf.

Since the bpf_program__title() has been deprecated, this commit
switches this function to bpf_program__section_name(). Due to
this commit, the compilation warning issue has also been resolved.

Fixes: 521095842027 ("libbpf: Deprecate notion of BPF program "title" in favor of "section name"")
Signed-off-by: Daniel T. Lee &lt;danieltimlee@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200904063434.24963-1-danieltimlee@gmail.com
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From commit 521095842027 ("libbpf: Deprecate notion of BPF program
"title" in favor of "section name""), the term title has been replaced
with section name in libbpf.

Since the bpf_program__title() has been deprecated, this commit
switches this function to bpf_program__section_name(). Due to
this commit, the compilation warning issue has also been resolved.

Fixes: 521095842027 ("libbpf: Deprecate notion of BPF program "title" in favor of "section name"")
Signed-off-by: Daniel T. Lee &lt;danieltimlee@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200904063434.24963-1-danieltimlee@gmail.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>samples, bpf: Refactor tail call user progs with libbpf</title>
<updated>2020-05-19T15:12:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel T. Lee</name>
<email>danieltimlee@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-16T04:06:06+00:00</published>
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BPF tail call uses the BPF_MAP_TYPE_PROG_ARRAY type map for calling
into other BPF programs and this PROG_ARRAY should be filled prior to
use. Currently, samples with the PROG_ARRAY type MAP fill this program
array with bpf_load. For bpf_load to fill this map, kernel BPF program
must specify the section with specific format of &lt;prog_type&gt;/&lt;array_idx&gt;
(e.g. SEC("socket/0"))

But by using libbpf instead of bpf_load, user program can specify which
programs should be added to PROG_ARRAY. The advantage of this approach
is that you can selectively add only the programs you want, rather than
adding all of them to PROG_ARRAY, and it's much more intuitive than the
traditional approach.

This commit refactors user programs with the PROG_ARRAY type MAP with
libbpf instead of using bpf_load.

Signed-off-by: Daniel T. Lee &lt;danieltimlee@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200516040608.1377876-4-danieltimlee@gmail.com
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BPF tail call uses the BPF_MAP_TYPE_PROG_ARRAY type map for calling
into other BPF programs and this PROG_ARRAY should be filled prior to
use. Currently, samples with the PROG_ARRAY type MAP fill this program
array with bpf_load. For bpf_load to fill this map, kernel BPF program
must specify the section with specific format of &lt;prog_type&gt;/&lt;array_idx&gt;
(e.g. SEC("socket/0"))

But by using libbpf instead of bpf_load, user program can specify which
programs should be added to PROG_ARRAY. The advantage of this approach
is that you can selectively add only the programs you want, rather than
adding all of them to PROG_ARRAY, and it's much more intuitive than the
traditional approach.

This commit refactors user programs with the PROG_ARRAY type MAP with
libbpf instead of using bpf_load.

Signed-off-by: Daniel T. Lee &lt;danieltimlee@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200516040608.1377876-4-danieltimlee@gmail.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>samples: bpf: force IPv4 in ping</title>
<updated>2019-02-28T23:53:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>jakub.kicinski@netronome.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-28T03:04:10+00:00</published>
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ping localhost may default of IPv6 on modern systems, but
samples are trying to only parse IPv4.  Force IPv4.

samples/bpf/tracex1_user.c doesn't interpret the packet so
we don't care which IP version will be used there.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;jakub.kicinski@netronome.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet &lt;quentin.monnet@netronome.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
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ping localhost may default of IPv6 on modern systems, but
samples are trying to only parse IPv4.  Force IPv4.

samples/bpf/tracex1_user.c doesn't interpret the packet so
we don't care which IP version will be used there.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;jakub.kicinski@netronome.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet &lt;quentin.monnet@netronome.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>samples/bpf: fix compilation failure</title>
<updated>2018-09-21T20:51:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Prashant Bhole</name>
<email>bhole_prashant_q7@lab.ntt.co.jp</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-20T07:52:03+00:00</published>
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following commit:
commit d58e468b1112 ("flow_dissector: implements flow dissector BPF hook")
added struct bpf_flow_keys which conflicts with the struct with
same name in sockex2_kern.c and sockex3_kern.c

similar to commit:
commit 534e0e52bc23 ("samples/bpf: fix a compilation failure")
we tried the rename it "flow_keys" but it also conflicted with struct
having same name in include/net/flow_dissector.h. Hence renaming the
struct to "flow_key_record". Also, this commit doesn't fix the
compilation error completely because the similar struct is present in
sockex3_kern.c. Hence renaming it in both files sockex3_user.c and
sockex3_kern.c

Signed-off-by: Prashant Bhole &lt;bhole_prashant_q7@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
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following commit:
commit d58e468b1112 ("flow_dissector: implements flow dissector BPF hook")
added struct bpf_flow_keys which conflicts with the struct with
same name in sockex2_kern.c and sockex3_kern.c

similar to commit:
commit 534e0e52bc23 ("samples/bpf: fix a compilation failure")
we tried the rename it "flow_keys" but it also conflicted with struct
having same name in include/net/flow_dissector.h. Hence renaming the
struct to "flow_key_record". Also, this commit doesn't fix the
compilation error completely because the similar struct is present in
sockex3_kern.c. Hence renaming it in both files sockex3_user.c and
sockex3_kern.c

Signed-off-by: Prashant Bhole &lt;bhole_prashant_q7@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>samples/bpf: fix a compilation failure</title>
<updated>2018-09-18T15:50:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yonghong Song</name>
<email>yhs@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-18T05:08:13+00:00</published>
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samples/bpf build failed with the following errors:

  $ make samples/bpf/
  ...
  HOSTCC  samples/bpf/sockex3_user.o
  /data/users/yhs/work/net-next/samples/bpf/sockex3_user.c:16:8: error: redefinition of ‘struct bpf_flow_keys’
   struct bpf_flow_keys {
          ^
  In file included from /data/users/yhs/work/net-next/samples/bpf/sockex3_user.c:4:0:
  ./usr/include/linux/bpf.h:2338:9: note: originally defined here
    struct bpf_flow_keys *flow_keys;
           ^
  make[3]: *** [samples/bpf/sockex3_user.o] Error 1

Commit d58e468b1112d ("flow_dissector: implements flow dissector BPF hook")
introduced struct bpf_flow_keys in include/uapi/linux/bpf.h and hence
caused the naming conflict with samples/bpf/sockex3_user.c.

The fix is to rename struct bpf_flow_keys in samples/bpf/sockex3_user.c
to flow_keys to avoid the conflict.

Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
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samples/bpf build failed with the following errors:

  $ make samples/bpf/
  ...
  HOSTCC  samples/bpf/sockex3_user.o
  /data/users/yhs/work/net-next/samples/bpf/sockex3_user.c:16:8: error: redefinition of ‘struct bpf_flow_keys’
   struct bpf_flow_keys {
          ^
  In file included from /data/users/yhs/work/net-next/samples/bpf/sockex3_user.c:4:0:
  ./usr/include/linux/bpf.h:2338:9: note: originally defined here
    struct bpf_flow_keys *flow_keys;
           ^
  make[3]: *** [samples/bpf/sockex3_user.o] Error 1

Commit d58e468b1112d ("flow_dissector: implements flow dissector BPF hook")
introduced struct bpf_flow_keys in include/uapi/linux/bpf.h and hence
caused the naming conflict with samples/bpf/sockex3_user.c.

The fix is to rename struct bpf_flow_keys in samples/bpf/sockex3_user.c
to flow_keys to avoid the conflict.

Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>samples: bpf: include bpf/bpf.h instead of local libbpf.h</title>
<updated>2018-05-15T05:52:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>jakub.kicinski@netronome.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-15T05:35:02+00:00</published>
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There are two files in the tree called libbpf.h which is becoming
problematic.  Most samples don't actually need the local libbpf.h
they simply include it to get to bpf/bpf.h.  Include bpf/bpf.h
directly instead.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;jakub.kicinski@netronome.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer &lt;brouer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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There are two files in the tree called libbpf.h which is becoming
problematic.  Most samples don't actually need the local libbpf.h
they simply include it to get to bpf/bpf.h.  Include bpf/bpf.h
directly instead.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;jakub.kicinski@netronome.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer &lt;brouer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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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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