kernel/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h, branch linux-4.15.y

License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license

2017-11-02T10:19:54Z

Many user space API headers are missing licensing information, which makes it hard for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default are files without license information under the default license of the kernel, which is GPLV2. Marking them GPLV2 would exclude them from being included in non GPLV2 code, which is obviously not intended. The user space API headers fall under the syscall exception which is in the kernels COPYING file: NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work". otherwise syscall usage would not be possible. Update the files which contain no license information with an SPDX license identifier. The chosen identifier is 'GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note' which is the officially assigned identifier for the Linux syscall exception. SPDX license identifiers are 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. See the previous patch in this series for the methodology of how this patch was researched. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Remove compat_sys_getdents64()

2017-04-17T16:52:22Z

Unlike normal compat syscall variants, it is needed only for biarch architectures that have different alignement requirements for u64 in 32bit and 64bit ABI *and* have __put_user() that won't handle a store of 64bit value at 32bit-aligned address. We used to have one such (ia64), but its biarch support has been gone since 2010 (after being broken in 2008, which went unnoticed since nobody had been using it). It had escaped removal at the same time only because back in 2004 a patch that switched several syscalls on amd64 from private wrappers to generic compat ones had switched to use of compat_sys_getdents64(), which hadn't needed (or used) a compat wrapper on amd64. Let's bury it - it's at least 7 years overdue. Signed-off-by: Al Viro

generic syscalls: Wire up statx syscall

2017-03-20T12:32:37Z

The new syscall statx is implemented as generic code, so enable it for architectures like openrisc which use the generic syscall table. Fixes: a528d35e8bfcc ("statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available") Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Al Viro Cc: David Howells Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Will Deacon Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Signed-off-by: Stafford Horne Signed-off-by: Will Deacon

generic syscalls: kill cruft from removed pkey syscalls

2016-10-17T16:50:56Z

pkey_set() and pkey_get() were syscalls present in older versions of the protection keys patches. They were fully excised from the x86 code, but some cruft was left in the generic syscall code. The C++ comments were intended to help to make it more glaring to me to fix them before actually submitting them. That technique worked, but later than I would have liked. I test-compiled this for arm64. Fixes: a60f7b69d92c0 ("generic syscalls: Wire up memory protection keys syscalls") Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: x86@kernel.org Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: mgorman@techsingularity.net Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: luto@kernel.org Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

generic syscalls: Wire up memory protection keys syscalls

2016-09-09T11:02:27Z

These new syscalls are implemented as generic code, so enable them for architectures like arm64 which use the generic syscall table. According to Arnd: Even if the support is x86 specific for the forseeable future, it may be good to reserve the number just in case. The other architecture specific syscall lists are usually left to the individual arch maintainers, most a lot of the newer architectures share this table. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: mgorman@techsingularity.net Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: luto@kernel.org Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160729163018.505A6875@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

asm-generic: Drop renameat syscall from default list

2016-05-04T22:42:21Z

The newer renameat2 syscall provides all the functionality provided by the renameat syscall and adds flags, so future architectures won't need to include renameat. Therefore drop the renameat syscall from the generic syscall list unless __ARCH_WANT_RENAMEAT is defined by the architecture's unistd.h prior to including asm-generic/unistd.h, and adjust all architectures using the generic syscall list to define it so that no in-tree architectures are affected. Signed-off-by: James Hogan Acked-by: Vineet Gupta Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Will Deacon Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: Mark Salter Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org Cc: Richard Kuo Cc: linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org Cc: Jonas Bonn Cc: linux@lists.openrisc.net Cc: Chen Liqin Cc: Lennox Wu Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: Guan Xuetao Cc: Ley Foon Tan Cc: nios2-dev@lists.rocketboards.org Cc: Yoshinori Sato Cc: uclinux-h8-devel@lists.sourceforge.jp Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

asm-generic: use compat version for preadv2 and pwritev2

2016-05-04T22:42:20Z

Compat architectures that does not use generic unistd (mips, s390), declare compat version in their syscall tables for preadv2 and pwritev2. Generic unistd syscall table should do it as well. [arnd: this initially slipped through the review and an incorrect patch got merged. arch/tile/ is the only architecture that could be affected for their 32-bit compat mode, every other architecture we support today is fine.] Signed-off-by: Yury Norov Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

generic syscalls: wire up preadv2 and pwritev2 syscalls

2016-04-23T20:38:08Z

These new syscalls are implemented as generic code, so enable them for architectures like arm64 which use the generic syscall table. Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

vfs: add copy_file_range syscall and vfs helper

2015-12-01T19:00:53Z

Add a copy_file_range() system call for offloading copies between regular files. This gives an interface to underlying layers of the storage stack which can copy without reading and writing all the data. There are a few candidates that should support copy offloading in the nearer term: - btrfs shares extent references with its clone ioctl - NFS has patches to add a COPY command which copies on the server - SCSI has a family of XCOPY commands which copy in the device This system call avoids the complexity of also accelerating the creation of the destination file by operating on an existing destination file descriptor, not a path. Currently the high level vfs entry point limits copy offloading to files on the same mount and super (and not in the same file). This can be relaxed if we get implementations which can copy between file systems safely. Signed-off-by: Zach Brown [Anna Schumaker: Change -EINVAL to -EBADF during file verification, Change flags parameter from int to unsigned int, Add function to include/linux/syscalls.h, Check copy len after file open mode, Don't forbid ranges inside the same file, Use rw_verify_area() to veriy ranges, Use file_out rather than file_in, Add COPY_FR_REFLINK flag] Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Al Viro

mm: mlock: add new mlock system call

2015-11-06T03:34:48Z

With the refactored mlock code, introduce a new system call for mlock. The new call will allow the user to specify what lock states are being added. mlock2 is trivial at the moment, but a follow on patch will add a new mlock state making it useful. Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Stephen Rothwell Cc: Guenter Roeck Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Michael Kerrisk Cc: Ralf Baechle Cc: Shuah Khan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds