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<title>linux-stable.git/arch/sparc/prom, branch linux-rolling-stable</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>sparc64: Replace deprecated strcpy() with strscpy() in prom_nextprop()</title>
<updated>2025-09-26T15:27:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thorsten Blum</name>
<email>thorsten.blum@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-22T21:03:53+00:00</published>
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strcpy() is deprecated; use strscpy() instead.

No functional changes intended.

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/88
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum &lt;thorsten.blum@linux.dev&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
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strcpy() is deprecated; use strscpy() instead.

No functional changes intended.

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/88
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum &lt;thorsten.blum@linux.dev&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sparc: Drop the "-ansi" from the asflags</title>
<updated>2025-09-26T14:55:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Huth</name>
<email>thuth@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-05T09:25:40+00:00</published>
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In the very early kernel 1.x days, assembler files were pre-processed
with the "-traditional" flag. With kernel 1.1.85, the sparc subsystem
was changed to use "-ansi" instead while the other parts of the kernel
continued to use "-traditional". That "-traditional" got removed from
the other architectures in the course of time, but the sparc part
kept the "-ansi" until today.

This is bad since it comes with some disadvantages nowadays: You have
to make sure to not include any header that contains a "//" C++ comment
by accident (there are now some in the tree that use these for SPDX
identifiers for example), and with "-ansi" we also do not get the
pre-defined __ASSEMBLER__ macro which we'd like to use instead of the
kernel-only __ASSEMBLY__ macro in the future.

Since there does not seem to be any compelling reason anymore to use
"-ansi" nowadays, let's simply drop the "-ansi" flag from the sparc
subsystem now to get rid of those disadvantages.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth &lt;thuth@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
Tested-by: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
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In the very early kernel 1.x days, assembler files were pre-processed
with the "-traditional" flag. With kernel 1.1.85, the sparc subsystem
was changed to use "-ansi" instead while the other parts of the kernel
continued to use "-traditional". That "-traditional" got removed from
the other architectures in the course of time, but the sparc part
kept the "-ansi" until today.

This is bad since it comes with some disadvantages nowadays: You have
to make sure to not include any header that contains a "//" C++ comment
by accident (there are now some in the tree that use these for SPDX
identifiers for example), and with "-ansi" we also do not get the
pre-defined __ASSEMBLER__ macro which we'd like to use instead of the
kernel-only __ASSEMBLY__ macro in the future.

Since there does not seem to be any compelling reason anymore to use
"-ansi" nowadays, let's simply drop the "-ansi" flag from the sparc
subsystem now to get rid of those disadvantages.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth &lt;thuth@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
Tested-by: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sparc64: Fix prototype warning for prom_get_mmu_ihandle</title>
<updated>2024-07-11T13:58:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andreas Larsson</name>
<email>andreas@gaisler.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-10T09:41:54+00:00</published>
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arch/sparc/prom/misc_64.c:165:5: warning: no previous prototype for ‘prom_get_mmu_ihandle’

The function prom_get_mmu_ihandle has no users outside of misc_64.c so
declare it static.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240710094155.458731-4-andreas@gaisler.com
Signed-off-by: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
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arch/sparc/prom/misc_64.c:165:5: warning: no previous prototype for ‘prom_get_mmu_ihandle’

The function prom_get_mmu_ihandle has no users outside of misc_64.c so
declare it static.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240710094155.458731-4-andreas@gaisler.com
Signed-off-by: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sparc64: Fix incorrect function signature and add prototype for prom_cif_init</title>
<updated>2024-07-11T13:58:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andreas Larsson</name>
<email>andreas@gaisler.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-10T09:41:53+00:00</published>
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Remove the unused cif_stack argument and add a protype in oplib_64.h
Commit ef3e035c3a9b ("sparc64: Fix register corruption in top-most
kernel stack frame during boot.") removed the cif_stack argument to
prom_cif init in the declaration at the caller site and the usage of it
within prom_cif_init, but not in the function signature of the function
itself.

This also fixes the following warning:
arch/sparc/prom/p1275.c:52:6: warning: no previous prototype for ‘prom_cif_init’

Fixes: ef3e035c3a9b ("sparc64: Fix register corruption in top-most kernel stack frame during boot.")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240710094155.458731-3-andreas@gaisler.com
Signed-off-by: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
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Remove the unused cif_stack argument and add a protype in oplib_64.h
Commit ef3e035c3a9b ("sparc64: Fix register corruption in top-most
kernel stack frame during boot.") removed the cif_stack argument to
prom_cif init in the declaration at the caller site and the usage of it
within prom_cif_init, but not in the function signature of the function
itself.

This also fixes the following warning:
arch/sparc/prom/p1275.c:52:6: warning: no previous prototype for ‘prom_cif_init’

Fixes: ef3e035c3a9b ("sparc64: Fix register corruption in top-most kernel stack frame during boot.")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240710094155.458731-3-andreas@gaisler.com
Signed-off-by: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sparc: Compare pointers to NULL instead of 0</title>
<updated>2024-04-22T14:45:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thorsten Blum</name>
<email>thorsten.blum@toblux.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-04T19:29:33+00:00</published>
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Fixes the following two Coccinelle/coccicheck warnings reported by
badzero.cocci:

	WARNING comparing pointer to 0
	WARNING comparing pointer to 0

Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum &lt;thorsten.blum@toblux.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240404192932.13075-2-thorsten.blum@toblux.com
Signed-off-by: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
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Fixes the following two Coccinelle/coccicheck warnings reported by
badzero.cocci:

	WARNING comparing pointer to 0
	WARNING comparing pointer to 0

Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum &lt;thorsten.blum@toblux.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240404192932.13075-2-thorsten.blum@toblux.com
Signed-off-by: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch: turn off -Werror for architectures with known warnings</title>
<updated>2023-12-11T01:21:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-30T08:07:38+00:00</published>
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A couple of architectures enable -Werror for their own files regardless of
CONFIG_WERROR but also have known warnings that fail the build with
-Wmissing-prototypes enabled by default:

arch/alpha/lib/memcpy.c:153:8: error: no previous prototype for 'memcpy' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
arch/alpha/kernel/irq.c:96:1: error: no previous prototype for 'handle_irq' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
arch/mips/kernel/signal.c:673:17: error: no previous prototype for ‘sys_rt_sigreturn’ [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
arch/mips/kernel/signal.c:636:17: error: no previous prototype for ‘sys_sigreturn’ [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
arch/mips/kernel/syscall.c:51:16: error: no previous prototype for ‘sysm_pipe’ [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
arch/mips/mm/fault.c:323:17: error: no previous prototype for ‘do_page_fault’ [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
arch/sparc/vdso/vma.c:246:12: warning: no previous prototype for ‘init_vdso_image’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]v
arch/sparc/vdso/vdso32/../vclock_gettime.c:343:1: warning: no previous prototype for ‘__vdso_gettimeofday_stick’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]
arch/sparc/vdso/vclock_gettime.c:343:1: warning: no previous prototype for ‘__vdso_gettimeofday_stick’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]
arch/sparc/prom/p1275.c:52:6: warning: no previous prototype for ‘prom_cif_init’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]
arch/sparc/prom/misc_64.c:165:5: warning: no previous prototype for ‘prom_get_mmu_ihandle’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]

This appears to be an artifact from the times when this architecture code
was better maintained that most device drivers and before CONFIG_WERROR
was added.  Now it just gets in the way, so remove all of these.

Powerpc and x86 both still have their own Kconfig options to enable
-Werror for some of their files.  These architectures are better
maintained than most and the options are easy to disable, so leave those
untouched.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/4be73872-c1f5-4c31-8201-712c19290a22@app.fastmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@rothwell.id.au&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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A couple of architectures enable -Werror for their own files regardless of
CONFIG_WERROR but also have known warnings that fail the build with
-Wmissing-prototypes enabled by default:

arch/alpha/lib/memcpy.c:153:8: error: no previous prototype for 'memcpy' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
arch/alpha/kernel/irq.c:96:1: error: no previous prototype for 'handle_irq' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
arch/mips/kernel/signal.c:673:17: error: no previous prototype for ‘sys_rt_sigreturn’ [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
arch/mips/kernel/signal.c:636:17: error: no previous prototype for ‘sys_sigreturn’ [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
arch/mips/kernel/syscall.c:51:16: error: no previous prototype for ‘sysm_pipe’ [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
arch/mips/mm/fault.c:323:17: error: no previous prototype for ‘do_page_fault’ [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
arch/sparc/vdso/vma.c:246:12: warning: no previous prototype for ‘init_vdso_image’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]v
arch/sparc/vdso/vdso32/../vclock_gettime.c:343:1: warning: no previous prototype for ‘__vdso_gettimeofday_stick’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]
arch/sparc/vdso/vclock_gettime.c:343:1: warning: no previous prototype for ‘__vdso_gettimeofday_stick’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]
arch/sparc/prom/p1275.c:52:6: warning: no previous prototype for ‘prom_cif_init’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]
arch/sparc/prom/misc_64.c:165:5: warning: no previous prototype for ‘prom_get_mmu_ihandle’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]

This appears to be an artifact from the times when this architecture code
was better maintained that most device drivers and before CONFIG_WERROR
was added.  Now it just gets in the way, so remove all of these.

Powerpc and x86 both still have their own Kconfig options to enable
-Werror for some of their files.  These architectures are better
maintained than most and the options are easy to disable, so leave those
untouched.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/4be73872-c1f5-4c31-8201-712c19290a22@app.fastmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@rothwell.id.au&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sparc64: Replace all non-returning strlcpy with strscpy</title>
<updated>2023-06-14T19:04:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Azeem Shaikh</name>
<email>azeemshaikh38@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-30T16:30:01+00:00</published>
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strlcpy() reads the entire source buffer first.
This read may exceed the destination size limit.
This is both inefficient and can lead to linear read
overflows if a source string is not NUL-terminated [1].
In an effort to remove strlcpy() completely [2], replace
strlcpy() here with strscpy().
No return values were used, so direct replacement is safe.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strlcpy
[2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/89

Signed-off-by: Azeem Shaikh &lt;azeemshaikh38@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230530163001.985256-1-azeemshaikh38@gmail.com
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strlcpy() reads the entire source buffer first.
This read may exceed the destination size limit.
This is both inefficient and can lead to linear read
overflows if a source string is not NUL-terminated [1].
In an effort to remove strlcpy() completely [2], replace
strlcpy() here with strscpy().
No return values were used, so direct replacement is safe.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strlcpy
[2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/89

Signed-off-by: Azeem Shaikh &lt;azeemshaikh38@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230530163001.985256-1-azeemshaikh38@gmail.com
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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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<entry>
<title>sparc: fixing ident and beautifying code</title>
<updated>2016-10-06T05:46:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>netmonk@netmonk.org</name>
<email>netmonk@netmonk.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-01T21:42:41+00:00</published>
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Good evening,

Following LinuxCodingStyle documentation and with the help of Sam, fixed
severals identation issues in the code, and few others cosmetic changes

And last and i hope least fixing my name :)

Signed-off-by : Dominique Carrel &lt;netmonk@netmonk.org&gt;
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Good evening,

Following LinuxCodingStyle documentation and with the help of Sam, fixed
severals identation issues in the code, and few others cosmetic changes

And last and i hope least fixing my name :)

Signed-off-by : Dominique Carrel &lt;netmonk@netmonk.org&gt;
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sparc64: Fix register corruption in top-most kernel stack frame during boot.</title>
<updated>2014-10-24T16:52:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-23T19:58:13+00:00</published>
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Meelis Roos reported that kernels built with gcc-4.9 do not boot, we
eventually narrowed this down to only impacting machines using
UltraSPARC-III and derivitive cpus.

The crash happens right when the first user process is spawned:

[   54.451346] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000004
[   54.451346]
[   54.571516] CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: init Not tainted 3.16.0-rc2-00211-gd7933ab #96
[   54.666431] Call Trace:
[   54.698453]  [0000000000762f8c] panic+0xb0/0x224
[   54.759071]  [000000000045cf68] do_exit+0x948/0x960
[   54.823123]  [000000000042cbc0] fault_in_user_windows+0xe0/0x100
[   54.902036]  [0000000000404ad0] __handle_user_windows+0x0/0x10
[   54.978662] Press Stop-A (L1-A) to return to the boot prom
[   55.050713] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000004

Further investigation showed that compiling only per_cpu_patch() with
an older compiler fixes the boot.

Detailed analysis showed that the function is not being miscompiled by
gcc-4.9, but it is using a different register allocation ordering.

With the gcc-4.9 compiled function, something during the code patching
causes some of the %i* input registers to get corrupted.  Perhaps
we have a TLB miss path into the firmware that is deep enough to
cause a register window spill and subsequent restore when we get
back from the TLB miss trap.

Let's plug this up by doing two things:

1) Stop using the firmware stack for client interface calls into
   the firmware.  Just use the kernel's stack.

2) As soon as we can, call into a new function "start_early_boot()"
   to put a one-register-window buffer between the firmware's
   deepest stack frame and the top-most initial kernel one.

Reported-by: Meelis Roos &lt;mroos@linux.ee&gt;
Tested-by: Meelis Roos &lt;mroos@linux.ee&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Meelis Roos reported that kernels built with gcc-4.9 do not boot, we
eventually narrowed this down to only impacting machines using
UltraSPARC-III and derivitive cpus.

The crash happens right when the first user process is spawned:

[   54.451346] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000004
[   54.451346]
[   54.571516] CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: init Not tainted 3.16.0-rc2-00211-gd7933ab #96
[   54.666431] Call Trace:
[   54.698453]  [0000000000762f8c] panic+0xb0/0x224
[   54.759071]  [000000000045cf68] do_exit+0x948/0x960
[   54.823123]  [000000000042cbc0] fault_in_user_windows+0xe0/0x100
[   54.902036]  [0000000000404ad0] __handle_user_windows+0x0/0x10
[   54.978662] Press Stop-A (L1-A) to return to the boot prom
[   55.050713] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000004

Further investigation showed that compiling only per_cpu_patch() with
an older compiler fixes the boot.

Detailed analysis showed that the function is not being miscompiled by
gcc-4.9, but it is using a different register allocation ordering.

With the gcc-4.9 compiled function, something during the code patching
causes some of the %i* input registers to get corrupted.  Perhaps
we have a TLB miss path into the firmware that is deep enough to
cause a register window spill and subsequent restore when we get
back from the TLB miss trap.

Let's plug this up by doing two things:

1) Stop using the firmware stack for client interface calls into
   the firmware.  Just use the kernel's stack.

2) As soon as we can, call into a new function "start_early_boot()"
   to put a one-register-window buffer between the firmware's
   deepest stack frame and the top-most initial kernel one.

Reported-by: Meelis Roos &lt;mroos@linux.ee&gt;
Tested-by: Meelis Roos &lt;mroos@linux.ee&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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