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<title>Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm</title>
<updated>2017-11-17T17:51:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2017-11-17T17:51:57+00:00</published>
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Pull libnvdimm and dax updates from Dan Williams:
 "Save for a few late fixes, all of these commits have shipped in -next
  releases since before the merge window opened, and 0day has given a
  build success notification.

  The ext4 touches came from Jan, and the xfs touches have Darrick's
  reviewed-by. An xfstest for the MAP_SYNC feature has been through
  a few round of reviews and is on track to be merged.

   - Introduce MAP_SYNC and MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE, a mechanism to enable
     'userspace flush' of persistent memory updates via filesystem-dax
     mappings. It arranges for any filesystem metadata updates that may
     be required to satisfy a write fault to also be flushed ("on disk")
     before the kernel returns to userspace from the fault handler.
     Effectively every write-fault that dirties metadata completes an
     fsync() before returning from the fault handler. The new
     MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE mapping type guarantees that the MAP_SYNC flag
     is validated as supported by the filesystem's -&gt;mmap() file
     operation.

   - Add support for the standard ACPI 6.2 label access methods that
     replace the NVDIMM_FAMILY_INTEL (vendor specific) label methods.
     This enables interoperability with environments that only implement
     the standardized methods.

   - Add support for the ACPI 6.2 NVDIMM media error injection methods.

   - Add support for the NVDIMM_FAMILY_INTEL v1.6 DIMM commands for
     latch last shutdown status, firmware update, SMART error injection,
     and SMART alarm threshold control.

   - Cleanup physical address information disclosures to be root-only.

   - Fix revalidation of the DIMM "locked label area" status to support
     dynamic unlock of the label area.

   - Expand unit test infrastructure to mock the ACPI 6.2 Translate SPA
     (system-physical-address) command and error injection commands.

  Acknowledgements that came after the commits were pushed to -next:

   - 957ac8c421ad ("dax: fix PMD faults on zero-length files"):
       Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;

   - a39e596baa07 ("xfs: support for synchronous DAX faults") and
     7b565c9f965b ("xfs: Implement xfs_filemap_pfn_mkwrite() using __xfs_filemap_fault()")
        Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (49 commits)
  acpi, nfit: add 'Enable Latch System Shutdown Status' command support
  dax: fix general protection fault in dax_alloc_inode
  dax: fix PMD faults on zero-length files
  dax: stop requiring a live device for dax_flush()
  brd: remove dax support
  dax: quiet bdev_dax_supported()
  fs, dax: unify IOMAP_F_DIRTY read vs write handling policy in the dax core
  tools/testing/nvdimm: unit test clear-error commands
  acpi, nfit: validate commands against the device type
  tools/testing/nvdimm: stricter bounds checking for error injection commands
  xfs: support for synchronous DAX faults
  xfs: Implement xfs_filemap_pfn_mkwrite() using __xfs_filemap_fault()
  ext4: Support for synchronous DAX faults
  ext4: Simplify error handling in ext4_dax_huge_fault()
  dax: Implement dax_finish_sync_fault()
  dax, iomap: Add support for synchronous faults
  mm: Define MAP_SYNC and VM_SYNC flags
  dax: Allow tuning whether dax_insert_mapping_entry() dirties entry
  dax: Allow dax_iomap_fault() to return pfn
  dax: Fix comment describing dax_iomap_fault()
  ...
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Pull libnvdimm and dax updates from Dan Williams:
 "Save for a few late fixes, all of these commits have shipped in -next
  releases since before the merge window opened, and 0day has given a
  build success notification.

  The ext4 touches came from Jan, and the xfs touches have Darrick's
  reviewed-by. An xfstest for the MAP_SYNC feature has been through
  a few round of reviews and is on track to be merged.

   - Introduce MAP_SYNC and MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE, a mechanism to enable
     'userspace flush' of persistent memory updates via filesystem-dax
     mappings. It arranges for any filesystem metadata updates that may
     be required to satisfy a write fault to also be flushed ("on disk")
     before the kernel returns to userspace from the fault handler.
     Effectively every write-fault that dirties metadata completes an
     fsync() before returning from the fault handler. The new
     MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE mapping type guarantees that the MAP_SYNC flag
     is validated as supported by the filesystem's -&gt;mmap() file
     operation.

   - Add support for the standard ACPI 6.2 label access methods that
     replace the NVDIMM_FAMILY_INTEL (vendor specific) label methods.
     This enables interoperability with environments that only implement
     the standardized methods.

   - Add support for the ACPI 6.2 NVDIMM media error injection methods.

   - Add support for the NVDIMM_FAMILY_INTEL v1.6 DIMM commands for
     latch last shutdown status, firmware update, SMART error injection,
     and SMART alarm threshold control.

   - Cleanup physical address information disclosures to be root-only.

   - Fix revalidation of the DIMM "locked label area" status to support
     dynamic unlock of the label area.

   - Expand unit test infrastructure to mock the ACPI 6.2 Translate SPA
     (system-physical-address) command and error injection commands.

  Acknowledgements that came after the commits were pushed to -next:

   - 957ac8c421ad ("dax: fix PMD faults on zero-length files"):
       Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;

   - a39e596baa07 ("xfs: support for synchronous DAX faults") and
     7b565c9f965b ("xfs: Implement xfs_filemap_pfn_mkwrite() using __xfs_filemap_fault()")
        Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (49 commits)
  acpi, nfit: add 'Enable Latch System Shutdown Status' command support
  dax: fix general protection fault in dax_alloc_inode
  dax: fix PMD faults on zero-length files
  dax: stop requiring a live device for dax_flush()
  brd: remove dax support
  dax: quiet bdev_dax_supported()
  fs, dax: unify IOMAP_F_DIRTY read vs write handling policy in the dax core
  tools/testing/nvdimm: unit test clear-error commands
  acpi, nfit: validate commands against the device type
  tools/testing/nvdimm: stricter bounds checking for error injection commands
  xfs: support for synchronous DAX faults
  xfs: Implement xfs_filemap_pfn_mkwrite() using __xfs_filemap_fault()
  ext4: Support for synchronous DAX faults
  ext4: Simplify error handling in ext4_dax_huge_fault()
  dax: Implement dax_finish_sync_fault()
  dax, iomap: Add support for synchronous faults
  mm: Define MAP_SYNC and VM_SYNC flags
  dax: Allow tuning whether dax_insert_mapping_entry() dirties entry
  dax: Allow dax_iomap_fault() to return pfn
  dax: Fix comment describing dax_iomap_fault()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4</title>
<updated>2017-11-14T20:59:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-14T20:59:42+00:00</published>
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Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:

 - Add support for online resizing of file systems with bigalloc

 - Fix a two data corruption bugs involving DAX, as well as a corruption
   bug after a crash during a racing fallocate and delayed allocation.

 - Finally, a number of cleanups and optimizations.

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  ext4: improve smp scalability for inode generation
  ext4: add support for online resizing with bigalloc
  ext4: mention noload when recovering on read-only device
  Documentation: fix little inconsistencies
  ext4: convert timers to use timer_setup()
  jbd2: convert timers to use timer_setup()
  ext4: remove duplicate extended attributes defs
  ext4: add ext4_should_use_dax()
  ext4: add sanity check for encryption + DAX
  ext4: prevent data corruption with journaling + DAX
  ext4: prevent data corruption with inline data + DAX
  ext4: fix interaction between i_size, fallocate, and delalloc after a crash
  ext4: retry allocations conservatively
  ext4: Switch to iomap for SEEK_HOLE / SEEK_DATA
  ext4: Add iomap support for inline data
  iomap: Add IOMAP_F_DATA_INLINE flag
  iomap: Switch from blkno to disk offset
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Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:

 - Add support for online resizing of file systems with bigalloc

 - Fix a two data corruption bugs involving DAX, as well as a corruption
   bug after a crash during a racing fallocate and delayed allocation.

 - Finally, a number of cleanups and optimizations.

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  ext4: improve smp scalability for inode generation
  ext4: add support for online resizing with bigalloc
  ext4: mention noload when recovering on read-only device
  Documentation: fix little inconsistencies
  ext4: convert timers to use timer_setup()
  jbd2: convert timers to use timer_setup()
  ext4: remove duplicate extended attributes defs
  ext4: add ext4_should_use_dax()
  ext4: add sanity check for encryption + DAX
  ext4: prevent data corruption with journaling + DAX
  ext4: prevent data corruption with inline data + DAX
  ext4: fix interaction between i_size, fallocate, and delalloc after a crash
  ext4: retry allocations conservatively
  ext4: Switch to iomap for SEEK_HOLE / SEEK_DATA
  ext4: Add iomap support for inline data
  iomap: Add IOMAP_F_DATA_INLINE flag
  iomap: Switch from blkno to disk offset
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'fscrypt-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/fscrypt</title>
<updated>2017-11-14T19:35:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-14T19:35:15+00:00</published>
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Pull fscrypt updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "Lots of cleanups, mostly courtesy by Eric Biggers"

* tag 'fscrypt-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/fscrypt:
  fscrypt: lock mutex before checking for bounce page pool
  fscrypt: add a documentation file for filesystem-level encryption
  ext4: switch to fscrypt_prepare_setattr()
  ext4: switch to fscrypt_prepare_lookup()
  ext4: switch to fscrypt_prepare_rename()
  ext4: switch to fscrypt_prepare_link()
  ext4: switch to fscrypt_file_open()
  fscrypt: new helper function - fscrypt_prepare_setattr()
  fscrypt: new helper function - fscrypt_prepare_lookup()
  fscrypt: new helper function - fscrypt_prepare_rename()
  fscrypt: new helper function - fscrypt_prepare_link()
  fscrypt: new helper function - fscrypt_file_open()
  fscrypt: new helper function - fscrypt_require_key()
  fscrypt: remove unneeded empty fscrypt_operations structs
  fscrypt: remove -&gt;is_encrypted()
  fscrypt: switch from -&gt;is_encrypted() to IS_ENCRYPTED()
  fs, fscrypt: add an S_ENCRYPTED inode flag
  fscrypt: clean up include file mess
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Pull fscrypt updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "Lots of cleanups, mostly courtesy by Eric Biggers"

* tag 'fscrypt-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/fscrypt:
  fscrypt: lock mutex before checking for bounce page pool
  fscrypt: add a documentation file for filesystem-level encryption
  ext4: switch to fscrypt_prepare_setattr()
  ext4: switch to fscrypt_prepare_lookup()
  ext4: switch to fscrypt_prepare_rename()
  ext4: switch to fscrypt_prepare_link()
  ext4: switch to fscrypt_file_open()
  fscrypt: new helper function - fscrypt_prepare_setattr()
  fscrypt: new helper function - fscrypt_prepare_lookup()
  fscrypt: new helper function - fscrypt_prepare_rename()
  fscrypt: new helper function - fscrypt_prepare_link()
  fscrypt: new helper function - fscrypt_file_open()
  fscrypt: new helper function - fscrypt_require_key()
  fscrypt: remove unneeded empty fscrypt_operations structs
  fscrypt: remove -&gt;is_encrypted()
  fscrypt: switch from -&gt;is_encrypted() to IS_ENCRYPTED()
  fs, fscrypt: add an S_ENCRYPTED inode flag
  fscrypt: clean up include file mess
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<entry>
<title>ext4: Support for synchronous DAX faults</title>
<updated>2017-11-03T13:26:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T15:36:45+00:00</published>
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We return IOMAP_F_DIRTY flag from ext4_iomap_begin() when asked to
prepare blocks for writing and the inode has some uncommitted metadata
changes. In the fault handler ext4_dax_fault() we then detect this case
(through VM_FAULT_NEEDDSYNC return value) and call helper
dax_finish_sync_fault() to flush metadata changes and insert page table
entry. Note that this will also dirty corresponding radix tree entry
which is what we want - fsync(2) will still provide data integrity
guarantees for applications not using userspace flushing. And
applications using userspace flushing can avoid calling fsync(2) and
thus avoid the performance overhead.

Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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We return IOMAP_F_DIRTY flag from ext4_iomap_begin() when asked to
prepare blocks for writing and the inode has some uncommitted metadata
changes. In the fault handler ext4_dax_fault() we then detect this case
(through VM_FAULT_NEEDDSYNC return value) and call helper
dax_finish_sync_fault() to flush metadata changes and insert page table
entry. Note that this will also dirty corresponding radix tree entry
which is what we want - fsync(2) will still provide data integrity
guarantees for applications not using userspace flushing. And
applications using userspace flushing can avoid calling fsync(2) and
thus avoid the performance overhead.

Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: Simplify error handling in ext4_dax_huge_fault()</title>
<updated>2017-11-03T13:26:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T15:36:44+00:00</published>
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If transaction starting fails, just bail out of the function immediately
instead of checking for that condition throughout the function.

Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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If transaction starting fails, just bail out of the function immediately
instead of checking for that condition throughout the function.

Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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<title>dax: Allow dax_iomap_fault() to return pfn</title>
<updated>2017-11-03T13:26:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T15:36:39+00:00</published>
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For synchronous page fault dax_iomap_fault() will need to return PFN
which will then need to be inserted into page tables after fsync()
completes. Add necessary parameter to dax_iomap_fault().

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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For synchronous page fault dax_iomap_fault() will need to return PFN
which will then need to be inserted into page tables after fsync()
completes. Add necessary parameter to dax_iomap_fault().

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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<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>ext4: switch to fscrypt_file_open()</title>
<updated>2017-10-19T00:21:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-19T00:21:57+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: Switch to iomap for SEEK_HOLE / SEEK_DATA</title>
<updated>2017-10-01T21:58:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-01T21:58:54+00:00</published>
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Switch to the iomap_seek_hole and iomap_seek_data helpers for
implementing lseek SEEK_HOLE / SEEK_DATA, and remove all the code that
isn't needed any more.

Note that with this patch ext4 will now always depend on the iomap code
instead of only when CONFIG_DAX is enabled, and it requires adding a
call into the extent status tree for iomap_begin as well to properly
deal with delalloc extents.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
[More fixes and cleanups by Andreas]
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Switch to the iomap_seek_hole and iomap_seek_data helpers for
implementing lseek SEEK_HOLE / SEEK_DATA, and remove all the code that
isn't needed any more.

Note that with this patch ext4 will now always depend on the iomap code
instead of only when CONFIG_DAX is enabled, and it requires adding a
call into the extent status tree for iomap_begin as well to properly
deal with delalloc extents.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
[More fixes and cleanups by Andreas]
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'work.read_write' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2017-09-15T02:29:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-15T02:29:55+00:00</published>
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Pull nowait read support from Al Viro:
 "Support IOCB_NOWAIT for buffered reads and block devices"

* 'work.read_write' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  block_dev: support RFW_NOWAIT on block device nodes
  fs: support RWF_NOWAIT for buffered reads
  fs: support IOCB_NOWAIT in generic_file_buffered_read
  fs: pass iocb to do_generic_file_read
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Pull nowait read support from Al Viro:
 "Support IOCB_NOWAIT for buffered reads and block devices"

* 'work.read_write' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  block_dev: support RFW_NOWAIT on block device nodes
  fs: support RWF_NOWAIT for buffered reads
  fs: support IOCB_NOWAIT in generic_file_buffered_read
  fs: pass iocb to do_generic_file_read
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