License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

2017-11-02T10:10:55Z

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 Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

rdma: Autoload netlink client modules

2017-08-22T21:04:22Z

If a message comes in and we do not have the client in the table, then try to load the module supplying that client using MODULE_ALIAS to find it. This duplicates the scheme seen in other netlink muxes (eg nfnetlink). Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford

RDMA/netlink: Add and implement doit netlink callback

2017-08-10T10:21:55Z

The .doit callback is used by netlink core to differentiate between get and set operations. Common convention is to use that call for command operations like (SET, ADD, e.t.c.) and/or access without NLF_M_DUMP flag. This commit adds proper declaration and implementation to RDMA netlink. Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky Reviewed-by: Steve Wise

RDMA/netlink: Rename netlink callback struct

2017-08-10T10:20:15Z

The RDMA netlink client infrastructure was removed and made obsolete. The old infrastructure defined struct ibnl_client_cbs. Now that all uses of this have been updated to the new infrastructure, rename the struct to be compliant with the current stack naming standards: struct rdma_nl_cbs. Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky Reviewed-by: Steve Wise

RDMA/netlink: Simplify and rename ibnl_chk_listeners

2017-08-10T10:19:03Z

Make ibnl_chk_listeners function to be one line by removing unneeded comparison. Rename that function to be complaint to other functions in RDMA netlink. Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky Reviewed-by: Steve Wise

RDMA/netlink: Rename and remove redundant parameter from ibnl_multicast

2017-08-10T10:19:03Z

The pointer to netlink header was not used in the ibnl_multicast function, so let's remove it and simplify the function signature. Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky Reviewed-by: Steve Wise

RDMA/netlink: Rename and remove redundant parameter from ibnl_unicast*

2017-08-10T10:19:02Z

Netlink message header is not needed for unicast reply, hence remove it. Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky Reviewed-by: Steve Wise

RDMA/netlink: Add flag to consolidate common handling

2017-08-10T10:18:45Z

Add ability to provide flags to control RDMA netlink callbacks and convert addr.c and sa_query.c to be first users of such infrastructure. It allows to move their CAP_NET_ADMIN checks into netlink core. Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky Reviewed-by: Steve Wise

RDMA/netlink: Remove redundant owner option for netlink callbacks

2017-08-10T10:15:41Z

Owner field is not needed to be set because netlink is part of ib_core which will be unloaded last after all other modules are unloaded. Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky

RDMA/netlink: Remove netlink clients infrastructure

2017-08-10T10:13:06Z

RDMA netlink has a complicated infrastructure for dynamically registering and de-registering netlink clients to the NETLINK_RDMA group. The complicated portion of this code is not widely used because 2 of the 3 current clients are statically compiled together with netlink.c. The infrastructure, therefore, is deemed overkill. Refactor the code to eliminate the dynamically added clients. Now all clients are pre-registered in a client array at compile time, and at run time they merely check-in with the infrastructure to pass their callback table for inclusion in the pre-sized client array. This also allows for future cleanups and removal of unneeded code in the iwcm* netlink handler. Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky Reviewed-by: Chien Tin Tung

kernel/include/rdma/rdma_netlink.h, branch linux-4.15.y