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<title>linux-toradex.git/tools/testing/radix-tree/Makefile, branch v5.10-rc2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>xarray: Fix early termination of xas_for_each_marked</title>
<updated>2020-03-12T21:42:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-12T21:29:11+00:00</published>
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xas_for_each_marked() is using entry == NULL as a termination condition
of the iteration. When xas_for_each_marked() is used protected only by
RCU, this can however race with xas_store(xas, NULL) in the following
way:

TASK1                                   TASK2
page_cache_delete()         	        find_get_pages_range_tag()
                                          xas_for_each_marked()
                                            xas_find_marked()
                                              off = xas_find_chunk()

  xas_store(&amp;xas, NULL)
    xas_init_marks(&amp;xas);
    ...
    rcu_assign_pointer(*slot, NULL);
                                              entry = xa_entry(off);

And thus xas_for_each_marked() terminates prematurely possibly leading
to missed entries in the iteration (translating to missing writeback of
some pages or a similar problem).

If we find a NULL entry that has been marked, skip it (unless we're trying
to allocate an entry).

Reported-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: ef8e5717db01 ("page cache: Convert delete_batch to XArray")
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
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xas_for_each_marked() is using entry == NULL as a termination condition
of the iteration. When xas_for_each_marked() is used protected only by
RCU, this can however race with xas_store(xas, NULL) in the following
way:

TASK1                                   TASK2
page_cache_delete()         	        find_get_pages_range_tag()
                                          xas_for_each_marked()
                                            xas_find_marked()
                                              off = xas_find_chunk()

  xas_store(&amp;xas, NULL)
    xas_init_marks(&amp;xas);
    ...
    rcu_assign_pointer(*slot, NULL);
                                              entry = xa_entry(off);

And thus xas_for_each_marked() terminates prematurely possibly leading
to missed entries in the iteration (translating to missing writeback of
some pages or a similar problem).

If we find a NULL entry that has been marked, skip it (unless we're trying
to allocate an entry).

Reported-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: ef8e5717db01 ("page cache: Convert delete_batch to XArray")
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>radix tree: Don't return retry entries from lookup</title>
<updated>2018-12-06T13:26:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-06T13:19:13+00:00</published>
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Commit 66ee620f06f9 ("idr: Permit any valid kernel pointer to be stored")
changed the radix tree lookup so that it stops when reaching the bottom
of the tree.  However, the condition was added in the wrong place,
making it possible to return retry entries to the caller.  Reorder the
tests to check for the retry entry before checking whether we're at the
bottom of the tree.  The retry entry should never be found in the tree
root, so it's safe to defer the check until the end of the loop.

Add a regression test to the test-suite to be sure this doesn't come
back.

Fixes: 66ee620f06f9 ("idr: Permit any valid kernel pointer to be stored")
Reported-by: Greg Kurz &lt;groug@kaod.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
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Commit 66ee620f06f9 ("idr: Permit any valid kernel pointer to be stored")
changed the radix tree lookup so that it stops when reaching the bottom
of the tree.  However, the condition was added in the wrong place,
making it possible to return retry entries to the caller.  Reorder the
tests to check for the retry entry before checking whether we're at the
bottom of the tree.  The retry entry should never be found in the tree
root, so it's safe to defer the check until the end of the loop.

Add a regression test to the test-suite to be sure this doesn't come
back.

Fixes: 66ee620f06f9 ("idr: Permit any valid kernel pointer to be stored")
Reported-by: Greg Kurz &lt;groug@kaod.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
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<title>xarray: Add XArray unconditional store operations</title>
<updated>2018-10-21T14:45:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-10T20:15:08+00:00</published>
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xa_store() differs from radix_tree_insert() in that it will overwrite an
existing element in the array rather than returning an error.  This is
the behaviour which most users want, and those that want more complex
behaviour generally want to use the xas family of routines anyway.

For memory allocation, xa_store() will first attempt to request memory
from the slab allocator; if memory is not immediately available, it will
drop the xa_lock and allocate memory, keeping a pointer in the xa_state.
It does not use the per-CPU cache, although those will continue to exist
until all radix tree users are converted to the xarray.

This patch also includes xa_erase() and __xa_erase() for a streamlined
way to store NULL.  Since there is no need to allocate memory in order
to store a NULL in the XArray, we do not need to trouble the user with
deciding what memory allocation flags to use.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
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xa_store() differs from radix_tree_insert() in that it will overwrite an
existing element in the array rather than returning an error.  This is
the behaviour which most users want, and those that want more complex
behaviour generally want to use the xas family of routines anyway.

For memory allocation, xa_store() will first attempt to request memory
from the slab allocator; if memory is not immediately available, it will
drop the xa_lock and allocate memory, keeping a pointer in the xa_state.
It does not use the per-CPU cache, although those will continue to exist
until all radix tree users are converted to the xarray.

This patch also includes xa_erase() and __xa_erase() for a streamlined
way to store NULL.  Since there is no need to allocate memory in order
to store a NULL in the XArray, we do not need to trouble the user with
deciding what memory allocation flags to use.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xarray: Add XArray load operation</title>
<updated>2018-10-21T14:45:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-07T19:57:46+00:00</published>
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The xa_load function brings with it a lot of infrastructure; xa_empty(),
xa_is_err(), and large chunks of the XArray advanced API that are used
to implement xa_load.

As the test-suite demonstrates, it is possible to use the XArray functions
on a radix tree.  The radix tree functions depend on the GFP flags being
stored in the root of the tree, so it's not possible to use the radix
tree functions on an XArray.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
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The xa_load function brings with it a lot of infrastructure; xa_empty(),
xa_is_err(), and large chunks of the XArray advanced API that are used
to implement xa_load.

As the test-suite demonstrates, it is possible to use the XArray functions
on a radix tree.  The radix tree functions depend on the GFP flags being
stored in the root of the tree, so it's not possible to use the radix
tree functions on an XArray.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>xarray: Add definition of struct xarray</title>
<updated>2018-10-21T14:45:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-07T21:30:10+00:00</published>
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This is a direct replacement for struct radix_tree_root.  Some of the
struct members have changed name; convert those, and use a #define so
that radix_tree users continue to work without change.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik &lt;jbacik@fb.com&gt;
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This is a direct replacement for struct radix_tree_root.  Some of the
struct members have changed name; convert those, and use a #define so
that radix_tree users continue to work without change.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik &lt;jbacik@fb.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xarray: Change definition of sibling entries</title>
<updated>2018-09-30T02:47:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-04T03:09:45+00:00</published>
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Instead of storing a pointer to the slot containing the canonical entry,
store the offset of the slot.  Produces slightly more efficient code
(~300 bytes) and simplifies the implementation.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik &lt;jbacik@fb.com&gt;
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Instead of storing a pointer to the slot containing the canonical entry,
store the offset of the slot.  Produces slightly more efficient code
(~300 bytes) and simplifies the implementation.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik &lt;jbacik@fb.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ida: Start new test_ida module</title>
<updated>2018-08-22T03:54:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-18T20:59:29+00:00</published>
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Start transitioning the IDA tests into kernel space.  Framework heavily
cribbed from test_xarray.c.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
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Start transitioning the IDA tests into kernel space.  Framework heavily
cribbed from test_xarray.c.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>radix tree test suite: Enable ubsan</title>
<updated>2018-08-22T03:31:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-19T20:30:54+00:00</published>
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Add support for the undefined behaviour sanitizer and fix the bugs
that ubsan pointed out.  Nothing major, and all in the test suite,
not the code.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
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Add support for the undefined behaviour sanitizer and fix the bugs
that ubsan pointed out.  Nothing major, and all in the test suite,
not the code.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>radix tree test suite: fix mapshift build target</title>
<updated>2018-05-19T00:17:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ross Zwisler</name>
<email>ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-18T23:08:51+00:00</published>
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Commit c6ce3e2fe3da ("radix tree test suite: Add config option for map
shift") introduced a phony makefile target called 'mapshift' that ends
up generating the file generated/map-shift.h.  This phony target was
then added as a dependency of the top level 'targets' build target,
which is what is run when you go to tools/testing/radix-tree and just
type 'make'.

Unfortunately, this phony target doesn't actually work as a dependency,
so you end up getting:

  $ make
  make: *** No rule to make target 'generated/map-shift.h', needed by 'main.o'.  Stop.
  make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

Fix this by making the file generated/map-shift.h our real makefile
target, and add this a dependency of the top level build target.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180503192430.7582-2-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: CR, Sapthagirish &lt;sapthagirish.cr@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Commit c6ce3e2fe3da ("radix tree test suite: Add config option for map
shift") introduced a phony makefile target called 'mapshift' that ends
up generating the file generated/map-shift.h.  This phony target was
then added as a dependency of the top level 'targets' build target,
which is what is run when you go to tools/testing/radix-tree and just
type 'make'.

Unfortunately, this phony target doesn't actually work as a dependency,
so you end up getting:

  $ make
  make: *** No rule to make target 'generated/map-shift.h', needed by 'main.o'.  Stop.
  make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

Fix this by making the file generated/map-shift.h our real makefile
target, and add this a dependency of the top level build target.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180503192430.7582-2-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: CR, Sapthagirish &lt;sapthagirish.cr@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&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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