Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.
By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.
Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.
This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.
How this work was done:
Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,
Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.
The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.
The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <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 <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
cc-option uses KBUILD_CFLAGS and KBUILD_CPPFLAGS when it determines
whether an option is supported or not. This is fine for options used to
build the kernel itself, however some components like the x86 boot code
use a different set of flags.
Add the new macro __cc-option which is a more generic version of
cc-option with additional parameters. One parameter is the compiler
with which the check should be performed, the other the compiler options
to be used instead KBUILD_C*FLAGS.
Refactor cc-option and hostcc-option to use __cc-option and move
hostcc-option to scripts/Kbuild.include.
Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Suggested-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Infrastructure for building independent shared library targets.
Based on work created by the PaX Team.
Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
Assume we have a Makefile like:
hostprogs-y := foo bar
foo-objs := foo1.o foo2.o
bar-objs := bar1.o bar2.o
Without this commit, the host program foo depends on all of
foo1.o foo2.o bar1.o bar2.o.
This commit allows to handle the dependency of each host program
separately.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Assume we have a Makefile like this:
hostprogs-y := foo
foo-cxxobjs := bar/baz.o
foo-objs := qux/quux.o
In this case, Kbuild creates bar/ directory,
but fails to create qux/ directory.
This commit re-writes directory creation more simply,
fixing that bug.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
The directory creation can be more simplified by two levels.
[1] Drop $(dir ...)
$(dir $(f)) always returns non-empty string.
So, $(if $(dir $(f)),$(dir $(f)) is equivalent to $(dir $(f)).
[2] Unroll $(foreach ...) loop
$(dir ...) can take one or more arguments and returns a list of
directories of them.
$(foreach f, $(progs), $(dir $(f))) can be unrolled as $(dir $(progs)).
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
The shared library feature in Makefile.host is no longer used.
Rip it off to keep the build infrastucture simple.
Update Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt too.
The section "4.3 Definition shared libraries" should be removed
and the following sections should be re-numbered.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Suggested-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
The comment claims:
C++ executables compiled from at least one .cc file
and zero or more .c files
But C++ executables with zero .c file fail in build.
For example, assume we have a Makefile like this:
hostprogs-y := foo
foo-cxxobjs := bar.o
In this case, foo is treated as host-csingle
and Kbuild tries to search non-existing foo.c source.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Pull kbuild misc updates from Michal Marek:
"This is the non-critical part of kbuild for v3.16-rc1:
- make deb-pkg can do s390x and arm64
- new patterns in scripts/tags.sh
- scripts/tags.sh skips userspace tools' sources (which sometimes
have copies of kernel structures) and symlinks
- improvements to the objdiff tool
- two new coccinelle patches
- other minor fixes"
* 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
scripts: objdiff: support directories for the augument of record command
scripts: objdiff: fix a comment
scripts: objdiff: change the extension of disassembly from .o to .dis
scripts: objdiff: improve path flexibility for record command
scripts: objdiff: remove unnecessary code
scripts: objdiff: direct error messages to stderr
scripts: objdiff: get the path to .tmp_objdiff more simply
deb-pkg: Add automatic support for s390x architecture
coccicheck: Add unneeded return variable test
kbuild: Fix a typo in documentation
kbuild: trivial - use tabs for code indent where possible
kbuild: trivial - remove trailing empty lines
coccinelle: Check for missing NULL terminators in of_device_id tables
scripts/tags.sh: ignore symlink'ed source files
scripts/tags.sh: add regular expression replacement pattern for memcg
builddeb: add arm64 in the supported architectures
builddeb: use $OBJCOPY variable instead of objcopy
scripts/tags.sh: ignore code of user space tools
scripts/tags.sh: add pattern for DEFINE_HASHTABLE
.gitignore: ignore Module.symvers in all directories
To introduce support for source in one directory but output files
in another directory during a non O= build prefix all paths
with $(src) repsectively $(obj).
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
hostprogs-y only supported creating output directory for the final
program. Extend this to also cover the situation where a .o
file (used when host program is made from compositie objects) is
locate in another directory.
First user of this is the built-in lxdialog that.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
kbuild used $¤(*F to get filename of target without extension.
This was used in several places all over kbuild, but introducing
make -rR broke his for all cases where we specified full path to
target/prerequsite. It is assumed that make -rR disables old style
suffix-rules which is why is suddenly failed.
ia64 was impacted by this change because several div* routines in
arch/ia64/lib are build using explicit paths and then kbuild failed.
Thanks to David Mosberger-Tang <David.Mosberger@acm.org> for an explanation
what was the root-cause and for testing on ia64.
This patch also fixes two uses of $(*F) in arch/um
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
This reverts commit e5c44fd88c.
Thanks to Daniel Ritz and Michal Piotrowski for noticing the problem.
Daniel says:
"[The] reason is a recent change that made modules always shows as
module.mod. it breaks modprobe and probably many scripts..besides
lsmod looking horrible
stuff like this in modprobe.conf:
install pcmcia_core /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install pcmcia_core; /sbin/modprobe pcmcia
makes modprobe fork/exec endlessly calling itself...until oom
interrupts it"
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
make failed to supply the filename when using make -rR and using $(*F)
to get target filename without extension.
This bug was not reproduceable in small scale but using:
$(basename $(notdir $@)) fixes it with same functionality.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
When Makefile.host is included, $(obj-dirs) is subjected to the
addprefix operation for the second time. Prefix only needs to be added
to the newly added directories, but not to those that came from
Makefile.lib.
This causes the build system to create unneeded empty directories in the
build tree when building in a separate directory. For instance,
lib/lib/zlib_inflate is created in the build tree.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Single-file HOSTCC calls added the libraries from $(HOSTLOADLIBES),
but not from $(HOSTLOADLIBES_programname). Multi-file HOSTCC calls do
both.
This patch fixes that inconsistency.
Signed-Off-By: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
