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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>ext2: check err when partial != NULL</title>
<updated>2019-12-17T19:39:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chengguang Xu</name>
<email>cgxu519@mykernel.net</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-05T04:51:00+00:00</published>
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commit e705f4b8aa27a59f8933e8f384e9752f052c469c upstream.

Check err when partial == NULL is meaningless because
partial == NULL means getting branch successfully without
error.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191105045100.7104-1-cgxu519@mykernel.net
Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu &lt;cgxu519@mykernel.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit e705f4b8aa27a59f8933e8f384e9752f052c469c upstream.

Check err when partial == NULL is meaningless because
partial == NULL means getting branch successfully without
error.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191105045100.7104-1-cgxu519@mykernel.net
Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu &lt;cgxu519@mykernel.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext2: Fix underflow in ext2_max_size()</title>
<updated>2019-03-23T13:35:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-29T16:17:24+00:00</published>
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commit 1c2d14212b15a60300a2d4f6364753e87394c521 upstream.

When ext2 filesystem is created with 64k block size, ext2_max_size()
will return value less than 0. Also, we cannot write any file in this fs
since the sb-&gt;maxbytes is less than 0. The core of the problem is that
the size of block index tree for such large block size is more than
i_blocks can carry. So fix the computation to count with this
possibility.

File size limits computed with the new function for the full range of
possible block sizes look like:

bits file_size
10     17247252480
11    275415851008
12   2196873666560
13   2197948973056
14   2198486220800
15   2198754754560
16   2198888906752

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: yangerkun &lt;yangerkun@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 1c2d14212b15a60300a2d4f6364753e87394c521 upstream.

When ext2 filesystem is created with 64k block size, ext2_max_size()
will return value less than 0. Also, we cannot write any file in this fs
since the sb-&gt;maxbytes is less than 0. The core of the problem is that
the size of block index tree for such large block size is more than
i_blocks can carry. So fix the computation to count with this
possibility.

File size limits computed with the new function for the full range of
possible block sizes look like:

bits file_size
10     17247252480
11    275415851008
12   2196873666560
13   2197948973056
14   2198486220800
15   2198754754560
16   2198888906752

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: yangerkun &lt;yangerkun@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext2: fix potential use after free</title>
<updated>2018-12-05T18:41:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pan Bian</name>
<email>bianpan2016@163.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-25T00:58:02+00:00</published>
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commit ecebf55d27a11538ea84aee0be643dd953f830d5 upstream.

The function ext2_xattr_set calls brelse(bh) to drop the reference count
of bh. After that, bh may be freed. However, following brelse(bh),
it reads bh-&gt;b_data via macro HDR(bh). This may result in a
use-after-free bug. This patch moves brelse(bh) after reading field.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Pan Bian &lt;bianpan2016@163.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit ecebf55d27a11538ea84aee0be643dd953f830d5 upstream.

The function ext2_xattr_set calls brelse(bh) to drop the reference count
of bh. After that, bh may be freed. However, following brelse(bh),
it reads bh-&gt;b_data via macro HDR(bh). This may result in a
use-after-free bug. This patch moves brelse(bh) after reading field.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Pan Bian &lt;bianpan2016@163.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dax: change bdev_dax_supported() to support boolean returns</title>
<updated>2018-07-11T14:29:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Jiang</name>
<email>dave.jiang@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-30T20:03:46+00:00</published>
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commit 80660f20252d6f76c9f203874ad7c7a4a8508cf8 upstream.

The function return values are confusing with the way the function is
named. We expect a true or false return value but it actually returns
0/-errno.  This makes the code very confusing. Changing the return values
to return a bool where if DAX is supported then return true and no DAX
support returns false.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang &lt;dave.jiang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;


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commit 80660f20252d6f76c9f203874ad7c7a4a8508cf8 upstream.

The function return values are confusing with the way the function is
named. We expect a true or false return value but it actually returns
0/-errno.  This makes the code very confusing. Changing the return values
to return a bool where if DAX is supported then return true and no DAX
support returns false.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang &lt;dave.jiang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;


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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: allow per-device dax status checking for filesystems</title>
<updated>2018-07-11T14:29:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Darrick J. Wong</name>
<email>darrick.wong@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-30T20:03:45+00:00</published>
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commit ba23cba9b3bdc967aabdc6ff1e3e9b11ce05bb4f upstream.

Change bdev_dax_supported so it takes a bdev parameter.  This enables
multi-device filesystems like xfs to check that a dax device can work for
the particular filesystem.  Once that's in place, actually fix all the
parts of XFS where we need to be able to distinguish between datadev and
rtdev.

This patch fixes the problem where we screw up the dax support checking
in xfs if the datadev and rtdev have different dax capabilities.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
[rez: Re-added __bdev_dax_supported() for !CONFIG_FS_DAX cases]
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen &lt;sandeen@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit ba23cba9b3bdc967aabdc6ff1e3e9b11ce05bb4f upstream.

Change bdev_dax_supported so it takes a bdev parameter.  This enables
multi-device filesystems like xfs to check that a dax device can work for
the particular filesystem.  Once that's in place, actually fix all the
parts of XFS where we need to be able to distinguish between datadev and
rtdev.

This patch fixes the problem where we screw up the dax support checking
in xfs if the datadev and rtdev have different dax capabilities.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
[rez: Re-added __bdev_dax_supported() for !CONFIG_FS_DAX cases]
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen &lt;sandeen@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>do d_instantiate/unlock_new_inode combinations safely</title>
<updated>2018-05-30T05:51:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-04T12:23:01+00:00</published>
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commit 1e2e547a93a00ebc21582c06ca3c6cfea2a309ee upstream.

For anything NFS-exported we do _not_ want to unlock new inode
before it has grown an alias; original set of fixes got the
ordering right, but missed the nasty complication in case of
lockdep being enabled - unlock_new_inode() does
	lockdep_annotate_inode_mutex_key(inode)
which can only be done before anyone gets a chance to touch
-&gt;i_mutex.  Unfortunately, flipping the order and doing
unlock_new_inode() before d_instantiate() opens a window when
mkdir can race with open-by-fhandle on a guessed fhandle, leading
to multiple aliases for a directory inode and all the breakage
that follows from that.

	Correct solution: a new primitive (d_instantiate_new())
combining these two in the right order - lockdep annotate, then
d_instantiate(), then the rest of unlock_new_inode().  All
combinations of d_instantiate() with unlock_new_inode() should
be converted to that.

Cc: stable@kernel.org	# 2.6.29 and later
Tested-by: Mike Marshall &lt;hubcap@omnibond.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger@dilger.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 1e2e547a93a00ebc21582c06ca3c6cfea2a309ee upstream.

For anything NFS-exported we do _not_ want to unlock new inode
before it has grown an alias; original set of fixes got the
ordering right, but missed the nasty complication in case of
lockdep being enabled - unlock_new_inode() does
	lockdep_annotate_inode_mutex_key(inode)
which can only be done before anyone gets a chance to touch
-&gt;i_mutex.  Unfortunately, flipping the order and doing
unlock_new_inode() before d_instantiate() opens a window when
mkdir can race with open-by-fhandle on a guessed fhandle, leading
to multiple aliases for a directory inode and all the breakage
that follows from that.

	Correct solution: a new primitive (d_instantiate_new())
combining these two in the right order - lockdep annotate, then
d_instantiate(), then the rest of unlock_new_inode().  All
combinations of d_instantiate() with unlock_new_inode() should
be converted to that.

Cc: stable@kernel.org	# 2.6.29 and later
Tested-by: Mike Marshall &lt;hubcap@omnibond.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger@dilger.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext2: fix a block leak</title>
<updated>2018-05-25T14:17:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-17T21:18:30+00:00</published>
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commit 5aa1437d2d9a068c0334bd7c9dafa8ec4f97f13b upstream.

open file, unlink it, then use ioctl(2) to make it immutable or
append only.  Now close it and watch the blocks *not* freed...

Immutable/append-only checks belong in -&gt;setattr().
Note: the bug is old and backport to anything prior to 737f2e93b972
("ext2: convert to use the new truncate convention") will need
these checks lifted into ext2_setattr().

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 5aa1437d2d9a068c0334bd7c9dafa8ec4f97f13b upstream.

open file, unlink it, then use ioctl(2) to make it immutable or
append only.  Now close it and watch the blocks *not* freed...

Immutable/append-only checks belong in -&gt;setattr().
Note: the bug is old and backport to anything prior to 737f2e93b972
("ext2: convert to use the new truncate convention") will need
these checks lifted into ext2_setattr().

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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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>Merge branch 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2017-09-15T01:54:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-15T01:54:01+00:00</published>
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Pull mount flag updates from Al Viro:
 "Another chunk of fmount preparations from dhowells; only trivial
  conflicts for that part. It separates MS_... bits (very grotty
  mount(2) ABI) from the struct super_block -&gt;s_flags (kernel-internal,
  only a small subset of MS_... stuff).

  This does *not* convert the filesystems to new constants; only the
  infrastructure is done here. The next step in that series is where the
  conflicts would be; that's the conversion of filesystems. It's purely
  mechanical and it's better done after the merge, so if you could run
  something like

	list=$(for i in MS_RDONLY MS_NOSUID MS_NODEV MS_NOEXEC MS_SYNCHRONOUS MS_MANDLOCK MS_DIRSYNC MS_NOATIME MS_NODIRATIME MS_SILENT MS_POSIXACL MS_KERNMOUNT MS_I_VERSION MS_LAZYTIME; do git grep -l $i fs drivers/staging/lustre drivers/mtd ipc mm include/linux; done|sort|uniq|grep -v '^fs/namespace.c$')

	sed -i -e 's/\&lt;MS_RDONLY\&gt;/SB_RDONLY/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_NOSUID\&gt;/SB_NOSUID/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_NODEV\&gt;/SB_NODEV/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_NOEXEC\&gt;/SB_NOEXEC/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_SYNCHRONOUS\&gt;/SB_SYNCHRONOUS/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_MANDLOCK\&gt;/SB_MANDLOCK/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_DIRSYNC\&gt;/SB_DIRSYNC/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_NOATIME\&gt;/SB_NOATIME/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_NODIRATIME\&gt;/SB_NODIRATIME/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_SILENT\&gt;/SB_SILENT/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_POSIXACL\&gt;/SB_POSIXACL/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_KERNMOUNT\&gt;/SB_KERNMOUNT/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_I_VERSION\&gt;/SB_I_VERSION/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_LAZYTIME\&gt;/SB_LAZYTIME/g' \
	        $list

  and commit it with something along the lines of 'convert filesystems
  away from use of MS_... constants' as commit message, it would save a
  quite a bit of headache next cycle"

* 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  VFS: Differentiate mount flags (MS_*) from internal superblock flags
  VFS: Convert sb-&gt;s_flags &amp; MS_RDONLY to sb_rdonly(sb)
  vfs: Add sb_rdonly(sb) to query the MS_RDONLY flag on s_flags
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<pre>
Pull mount flag updates from Al Viro:
 "Another chunk of fmount preparations from dhowells; only trivial
  conflicts for that part. It separates MS_... bits (very grotty
  mount(2) ABI) from the struct super_block -&gt;s_flags (kernel-internal,
  only a small subset of MS_... stuff).

  This does *not* convert the filesystems to new constants; only the
  infrastructure is done here. The next step in that series is where the
  conflicts would be; that's the conversion of filesystems. It's purely
  mechanical and it's better done after the merge, so if you could run
  something like

	list=$(for i in MS_RDONLY MS_NOSUID MS_NODEV MS_NOEXEC MS_SYNCHRONOUS MS_MANDLOCK MS_DIRSYNC MS_NOATIME MS_NODIRATIME MS_SILENT MS_POSIXACL MS_KERNMOUNT MS_I_VERSION MS_LAZYTIME; do git grep -l $i fs drivers/staging/lustre drivers/mtd ipc mm include/linux; done|sort|uniq|grep -v '^fs/namespace.c$')

	sed -i -e 's/\&lt;MS_RDONLY\&gt;/SB_RDONLY/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_NOSUID\&gt;/SB_NOSUID/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_NODEV\&gt;/SB_NODEV/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_NOEXEC\&gt;/SB_NOEXEC/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_SYNCHRONOUS\&gt;/SB_SYNCHRONOUS/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_MANDLOCK\&gt;/SB_MANDLOCK/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_DIRSYNC\&gt;/SB_DIRSYNC/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_NOATIME\&gt;/SB_NOATIME/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_NODIRATIME\&gt;/SB_NODIRATIME/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_SILENT\&gt;/SB_SILENT/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_POSIXACL\&gt;/SB_POSIXACL/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_KERNMOUNT\&gt;/SB_KERNMOUNT/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_I_VERSION\&gt;/SB_I_VERSION/g' \
	        -e 's/\&lt;MS_LAZYTIME\&gt;/SB_LAZYTIME/g' \
	        $list

  and commit it with something along the lines of 'convert filesystems
  away from use of MS_... constants' as commit message, it would save a
  quite a bit of headache next cycle"

* 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  VFS: Differentiate mount flags (MS_*) from internal superblock flags
  VFS: Convert sb-&gt;s_flags &amp; MS_RDONLY to sb_rdonly(sb)
  vfs: Add sb_rdonly(sb) to query the MS_RDONLY flag on s_flags
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm</title>
<updated>2017-09-11T20:10:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-11T20:10:57+00:00</published>
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Pull libnvdimm from Dan Williams:
 "A rework of media error handling in the BTT driver and other updates.
  It has appeared in a few -next releases and collected some late-
  breaking build-error and warning fixups as a result.

  Summary:

   - Media error handling support in the Block Translation Table (BTT)
     driver is reworked to address sleeping-while-atomic locking and
     memory-allocation-context conflicts.

   - The dax_device lookup overhead for xfs and ext4 is moved out of the
     iomap hot-path to a mount-time lookup.

   - A new 'ecc_unit_size' sysfs attribute is added to advertise the
     read-modify-write boundary property of a persistent memory range.

   - Preparatory fix-ups for arm and powerpc pmem support are included
     along with other miscellaneous fixes"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (26 commits)
  libnvdimm, btt: fix format string warnings
  libnvdimm, btt: clean up warning and error messages
  ext4: fix null pointer dereference on sbi
  libnvdimm, nfit: move the check on nd_reserved2 to the endpoint
  dax: fix FS_DAX=n BLOCK=y compilation
  libnvdimm: fix integer overflow static analysis warning
  libnvdimm, nd_blk: remove mmio_flush_range()
  libnvdimm, btt: rework error clearing
  libnvdimm: fix potential deadlock while clearing errors
  libnvdimm, btt: cache sector_size in arena_info
  libnvdimm, btt: ensure that flags were also unchanged during a map_read
  libnvdimm, btt: refactor map entry operations with macros
  libnvdimm, btt: fix a missed NVDIMM_IO_ATOMIC case in the write path
  libnvdimm, nfit: export an 'ecc_unit_size' sysfs attribute
  ext4: perform dax_device lookup at mount
  ext2: perform dax_device lookup at mount
  xfs: perform dax_device lookup at mount
  dax: introduce a fs_dax_get_by_bdev() helper
  libnvdimm, btt: check memory allocation failure
  libnvdimm, label: fix index block size calculation
  ...
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<pre>
Pull libnvdimm from Dan Williams:
 "A rework of media error handling in the BTT driver and other updates.
  It has appeared in a few -next releases and collected some late-
  breaking build-error and warning fixups as a result.

  Summary:

   - Media error handling support in the Block Translation Table (BTT)
     driver is reworked to address sleeping-while-atomic locking and
     memory-allocation-context conflicts.

   - The dax_device lookup overhead for xfs and ext4 is moved out of the
     iomap hot-path to a mount-time lookup.

   - A new 'ecc_unit_size' sysfs attribute is added to advertise the
     read-modify-write boundary property of a persistent memory range.

   - Preparatory fix-ups for arm and powerpc pmem support are included
     along with other miscellaneous fixes"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (26 commits)
  libnvdimm, btt: fix format string warnings
  libnvdimm, btt: clean up warning and error messages
  ext4: fix null pointer dereference on sbi
  libnvdimm, nfit: move the check on nd_reserved2 to the endpoint
  dax: fix FS_DAX=n BLOCK=y compilation
  libnvdimm: fix integer overflow static analysis warning
  libnvdimm, nd_blk: remove mmio_flush_range()
  libnvdimm, btt: rework error clearing
  libnvdimm: fix potential deadlock while clearing errors
  libnvdimm, btt: cache sector_size in arena_info
  libnvdimm, btt: ensure that flags were also unchanged during a map_read
  libnvdimm, btt: refactor map entry operations with macros
  libnvdimm, btt: fix a missed NVDIMM_IO_ATOMIC case in the write path
  libnvdimm, nfit: export an 'ecc_unit_size' sysfs attribute
  ext4: perform dax_device lookup at mount
  ext2: perform dax_device lookup at mount
  xfs: perform dax_device lookup at mount
  dax: introduce a fs_dax_get_by_bdev() helper
  libnvdimm, btt: check memory allocation failure
  libnvdimm, label: fix index block size calculation
  ...
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