kernel/linux.git/fs/notify/fsnotify.h, branch linux-4.16.y

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

2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fsnotify: Remove fsnotify_find_{inode|vfsmount}_mark()

2017-04-10T15:37:36+00:00

These are very thin wrappers, just remove them. Drop fs/notify/vfsmount_mark.c as it is empty now. Reviewed-by: Miklos Szeredi Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein Signed-off-by: Jan Kara

fsnotify: Remove fsnotify_detach_group_marks()

2017-04-10T15:37:36+00:00

The function is already mostly contained in what fsnotify_clear_marks_by_group() does. Just update that function to not select marks when all of them should be destroyed and remove fsnotify_detach_group_marks(). Reviewed-by: Miklos Szeredi Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein Signed-off-by: Jan Kara

fsnotify: Provide framework for dropping SRCU lock in ->handle_event

2017-04-10T15:37:36+00:00

fanotify wants to drop fsnotify_mark_srcu lock when waiting for response from userspace so that the whole notification subsystem is not blocked during that time. This patch provides a framework for safely getting mark reference for a mark found in the object list which pins the mark in that list. We can then drop fsnotify_mark_srcu, wait for userspace response and then safely continue iteration of the object list once we reaquire fsnotify_mark_srcu. Reviewed-by: Miklos Szeredi Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein Signed-off-by: Jan Kara

fsnotify: Remove special handling of mark destruction on group shutdown

2017-04-10T15:37:36+00:00

Currently we queue all marks for destruction on group shutdown and then destroy them from fsnotify_destroy_group() instead from a worker thread which is the usual path. However worker can already be processing some list of marks to destroy so this does not make 100% all marks are really destroyed by the time group is shut down. This isn't a big problem as each mark holds group reference and thus group stays partially alive until all marks are really freed but there's no point in complicating our lives - just wait for the delayed work to be finished instead. Reviewed-by: Miklos Szeredi Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein Signed-off-by: Jan Kara

fsnotify: Free fsnotify_mark_connector when there is no mark attached

2017-04-10T15:37:35+00:00

Currently we free fsnotify_mark_connector structure only when inode / vfsmount is getting freed. This can however impose noticeable memory overhead when marks get attached to inodes only temporarily. So free the connector structure once the last mark is detached from the object. Since notification infrastructure can be working with the connector under the protection of fsnotify_mark_srcu, we have to be careful and free the fsnotify_mark_connector only after SRCU period passes. Reviewed-by: Miklos Szeredi Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein Signed-off-by: Jan Kara

fsnotify: Remove indirection from fsnotify_detach_mark()

2017-04-10T15:37:35+00:00

fsnotify_detach_mark() calls fsnotify_destroy_inode_mark() or fsnotify_destroy_vfsmount_mark() to remove mark from object list. These two functions are however very similar and differ only in the lock they use to protect the object list of marks. Simplify the code by removing the indirection and removing mark from the object list in a common function. Reviewed-by: Miklos Szeredi Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein Signed-off-by: Jan Kara

fsnotify: Determine lock in fsnotify_destroy_marks()

2017-04-10T15:37:35+00:00

Instead of passing spinlock into fsnotify_destroy_marks() determine it directly in that function from the connector type. This will reduce code churn when changing lock protecting list of marks. Reviewed-by: Miklos Szeredi Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein Signed-off-by: Jan Kara

fsnotify: Move locking into fsnotify_recalc_mask()

2017-04-10T15:37:35+00:00

Move locking of locks protecting a list of marks into fsnotify_recalc_mask(). This reduces code churn in the following patch which changes the lock protecting the list of marks. Reviewed-by: Miklos Szeredi Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein Signed-off-by: Jan Kara

fsnotify: Remove indirection from mark list addition

2017-04-10T15:37:35+00:00

Adding notification mark to object list has been currently done through fsnotify_add_{inode|vfsmount}_mark() helpers from fsnotify_add_mark_locked() which call fsnotify_add_mark_list(). Remove this unnecessary indirection to simplify the code. Pushing all the locking to fsnotify_add_mark_list() also allows us to allocate the connector structure with GFP_KERNEL mode. Reviewed-by: Miklos Szeredi Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein Signed-off-by: Jan Kara