Pull x86 cpu-feature updates from Ingo Molnar:
- Rework the Intel model names symbols/macros, which were decades of
ad-hoc extensions and added random noise. It's now a coherent, easy
to follow nomenclature.
- Add new Intel CPU model IDs:
- "Tiger Lake" desktop and mobile models
- "Elkhart Lake" model ID
- and the "Lightning Mountain" variant of Airmont, plus support code
- Add the new AVX512_VP2INTERSECT instruction to cpufeatures
- Remove Intel MPX user-visible APIs and the self-tests, because the
toolchain (gcc) is not supporting it going forward. This is the
first, lowest-risk phase of MPX removal.
- Remove X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC
- Various smaller cleanups and fixes
* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (25 commits)
x86/cpu: Update init data for new Airmont CPU model
x86/cpu: Add new Airmont variant to Intel family
x86/cpu: Add Elkhart Lake to Intel family
x86/cpu: Add Tiger Lake to Intel family
x86: Correct misc typos
x86/intel: Add common OPTDIFFs
x86/intel: Aggregate microserver naming
x86/intel: Aggregate big core graphics naming
x86/intel: Aggregate big core mobile naming
x86/intel: Aggregate big core client naming
x86/cpufeature: Explain the macro duplication
x86/ftrace: Remove mcount() declaration
x86/PCI: Remove superfluous returns from void functions
x86/msr-index: Move AMD MSRs where they belong
x86/cpu: Use constant definitions for CPU models
lib: Remove redundant ftrace flag removal
x86/crash: Remove unnecessary comparison
x86/bitops: Use __builtin_constant_p() directly instead of IS_IMMEDIATE()
x86: Remove X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC
x86/mpx: Remove MPX APIs
...
Pull Documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"It's been a relatively busy cycle for docs:
- A fair pile of RST conversions, many from Mauro. These create more
than the usual number of simple but annoying merge conflicts with
other trees, unfortunately. He has a lot more of these waiting on
the wings that, I think, will go to you directly later on.
- A new document on how to use merges and rebases in kernel repos,
and one on Spectre vulnerabilities.
- Various improvements to the build system, including automatic
markup of function() references because some people, for reasons I
will never understand, were of the opinion that
:c:func:``function()`` is unattractive and not fun to type.
- We now recommend using sphinx 1.7, but still support back to 1.4.
- Lots of smaller improvements, warning fixes, typo fixes, etc"
* tag 'docs-5.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (129 commits)
docs: automarkup.py: ignore exceptions when seeking for xrefs
docs: Move binderfs to admin-guide
Disable Sphinx SmartyPants in HTML output
doc: RCU callback locks need only _bh, not necessarily _irq
docs: format kernel-parameters -- as code
Doc : doc-guide : Fix a typo
platform: x86: get rid of a non-existent document
Add the RCU docs to the core-api manual
Documentation: RCU: Add TOC tree hooks
Documentation: RCU: Rename txt files to rst
Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU UP systems to reST
Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU linked list to reST
Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU basic concepts to reST
docs: filesystems: Remove uneeded .rst extension on toctables
scripts/sphinx-pre-install: fix out-of-tree build
docs: zh_CN: submitting-drivers.rst: Remove a duplicated Documentation/
Documentation: PGP: update for newer HW devices
Documentation: Add section about CPU vulnerabilities for Spectre
Documentation: platform: Delete x86-laptop-drivers.txt
docs: Note that :c:func: should no longer be used
...
Pull x86 paravirt updates from Ingo Molnar:
"A handful of paravirt patching code enhancements to make it more
robust against patching failures, and related cleanups and not so
related cleanups - by Thomas Gleixner and myself"
* 'x86-paravirt-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/paravirt: Rename paravirt_patch_site::instrtype to paravirt_patch_site::type
x86/paravirt: Standardize 'insn_buff' variable names
x86/paravirt: Match paravirt patchlet field definition ordering to initialization ordering
x86/paravirt: Replace the paravirt patch asm magic
x86/paravirt: Unify the 32/64 bit paravirt patching code
x86/paravirt: Detect over-sized patching bugs in paravirt_patch_call()
x86/paravirt: Detect over-sized patching bugs in paravirt_patch_insns()
x86/paravirt: Remove bogus extern declarations
Currently pt_regs on x86_32 has an oddity in that kernel regs
(!user_mode(regs)) are short two entries (esp/ss). This means that any
code trying to use them (typically: regs->sp) needs to jump through
some unfortunate hoops.
Change the entry code to fix this up and create a full pt_regs frame.
This then simplifies various trampolines in ftrace and kprobes, the
stack unwinder, ptrace, kdump and kgdb.
Much thanks to Josh for help with the cleanups!
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The kprobe trampolines have a FRAME_POINTER annotation that makes no
sense. It marks the frame in the middle of pt_regs, at the place of
saving BP.
Change it to mark the pt_regs frame as per the ENCODE_FRAME_POINTER
from the respective entry_*.S.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):
this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
your option any later version this program is distributed in the
hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even
the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular
purpose see the gnu general public license for more details you
should have received a copy of the gnu general public license along
with this program if not write to the free software foundation inc
59 temple place suite 330 boston ma 02111 1307 usa
extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier
GPL-2.0-or-later
has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 1334 file(s).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana <rfontana@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070033.113240726@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Add SPDX license identifiers to all Make/Kconfig files which:
- Have no license information of any form
These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:
GPL-2.0-only
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Pull x86 mm updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The changes in here are:
- text_poke() fixes and an extensive set of executability lockdowns,
to (hopefully) eliminate the last residual circumstances under
which we are using W|X mappings even temporarily on x86 kernels.
This required a broad range of surgery in text patching facilities,
module loading, trampoline handling and other bits.
- tweak page fault messages to be more informative and more
structured.
- remove DISCONTIGMEM support on x86-32 and make SPARSEMEM the
default.
- reduce KASLR granularity on 5-level paging kernels from 512 GB to
1 GB.
- misc other changes and updates"
* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (36 commits)
x86/mm: Initialize PGD cache during mm initialization
x86/alternatives: Add comment about module removal races
x86/kprobes: Use vmalloc special flag
x86/ftrace: Use vmalloc special flag
bpf: Use vmalloc special flag
modules: Use vmalloc special flag
mm/vmalloc: Add flag for freeing of special permsissions
mm/hibernation: Make hibernation handle unmapped pages
x86/mm/cpa: Add set_direct_map_*() functions
x86/alternatives: Remove the return value of text_poke_*()
x86/jump-label: Remove support for custom text poker
x86/modules: Avoid breaking W^X while loading modules
x86/kprobes: Set instruction page as executable
x86/ftrace: Set trampoline pages as executable
x86/kgdb: Avoid redundant comparison of patched code
x86/alternatives: Use temporary mm for text poking
x86/alternatives: Initialize temporary mm for patching
fork: Provide a function for copying init_mm
uprobes: Initialize uprobes earlier
x86/mm: Save debug registers when loading a temporary mm
...
Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar:
"This includes the following changes:
- cpu_has() cleanups
- sync_bitops.h modernization to the rmwcc.h facility, similarly to
bitops.h
- continued LTO annotations/fixes
- misc cleanups and smaller cleanups"
* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/um/vdso: Drop unnecessary cc-ldoption
x86/vdso: Rename variable to fix -Wshadow warning
x86/cpu/amd: Exclude 32bit only assembler from 64bit build
x86/asm: Mark all top level asm statements as .text
x86/build/vdso: Add FORCE to the build rule of %.so
x86/asm: Modernize sync_bitops.h
x86/mm: Convert some slow-path static_cpu_has() callers to boot_cpu_has()
x86: Convert some slow-path static_cpu_has() callers to boot_cpu_has()
x86/asm: Clarify static_cpu_has()'s intended use
x86/uaccess: Fix implicit cast of __user pointer
x86/cpufeature: Remove __pure attribute to _static_cpu_has()
With gcc toplevel assembler statements that do not mark themselves as .text
may end up in other sections. This causes LTO boot crashes because various
assembler statements ended up in the middle of the initcall section. It's
also a latent problem without LTO, although it's currently not known to
cause any real problems.
According to the gcc team it's expected behavior.
Always mark all the top level assembler statements as text so that they
switch to the right section.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190330004743.29541-1-andi@firstfloor.org
Avoid kretprobe recursion loop bg by setting a dummy
kprobes to current_kprobe per-CPU variable.
This bug has been introduced with the asm-coded trampoline
code, since previously it used another kprobe for hooking
the function return placeholder (which only has a nop) and
trampoline handler was called from that kprobe.
This revives the old lost kprobe again.
With this fix, we don't see deadlock anymore.
And you can see that all inner-called kretprobe are skipped.
event_1 235 0
event_2 19375 19612
The 1st column is recorded count and the 2nd is missed count.
Above shows (event_1 rec) + (event_2 rec) ~= (event_2 missed)
(some difference are here because the counter is racy)
Reported-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: c9becf58d9 ("[PATCH] kretprobe: kretprobe-booster")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/155094064889.6137.972160690963039.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
... and make it static. It is called only by the kretprobe_trampoline()
from asm.
It was marked __visible so that it is visible outside of the current
compilation unit but that is not needed as it is used only in this
compilation unit.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181205162526.GB109259@gmail.com
After copy_optimized_instructions() copies several instructions
to the working buffer it tries to fix up the real RIP address, but it
adjusts the RIP-relative instruction with an incorrect RIP address
for the 2nd and subsequent instructions due to a bug in the logic.
This will break the kernel pretty badly (with likely outcomes such as
a kernel freeze, a crash, or worse) because probed instructions can refer
to the wrong data.
For example putting kprobes on cpumask_next() typically hits this bug.
cpumask_next() is normally like below if CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y
(in this case nr_cpumask_bits is an alias of nr_cpu_ids):
<cpumask_next>:
48 89 f0 mov %rsi,%rax
8b 35 7b fb e2 00 mov 0xe2fb7b(%rip),%esi # ffffffff82db9e64 <nr_cpu_ids>
55 push %rbp
...
If we put a kprobe on it and it gets jump-optimized, it gets
patched by the kprobes code like this:
<cpumask_next>:
e9 95 7d 07 1e jmpq 0xffffffffa000207a
7b fb jnp 0xffffffff81f8a2e2 <cpumask_next+2>
e2 00 loop 0xffffffff81f8a2e9 <cpumask_next+9>
55 push %rbp
This shows that the first two MOV instructions were copied to a
trampoline buffer at 0xffffffffa000207a.
Here is the disassembled result of the trampoline, skipping
the optprobe template instructions:
# Dump of assembly code from 0xffffffffa000207a to 0xffffffffa00020ea:
54 push %rsp
...
48 83 c4 08 add $0x8,%rsp
9d popfq
48 89 f0 mov %rsi,%rax
8b 35 82 7d db e2 mov -0x1d24827e(%rip),%esi # 0xffffffff82db9e67 <nr_cpu_ids+3>
This dump shows that the second MOV accesses *(nr_cpu_ids+3) instead of
the original *nr_cpu_ids. This leads to a kernel freeze because
cpumask_next() always returns 0 and for_each_cpu() never ends.
Fix this by adding 'len' correctly to the real RIP address while
copying.
[ mingo: Improved the changelog. ]
Reported-by: Michael Rodin <michael@rodin.online>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.15+
Fixes: 63fef14fc9 ("kprobes/x86: Make insn buffer always ROX and use text_poke()")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/153504457253.22602.1314289671019919596.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull x86 pti updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes:
- Make the IBPB barrier more strict and add STIBP support (Jiri
Kosina)
- Micro-optimize and clean up the entry code (Andy Lutomirski)
- ... plus misc other fixes"
* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/speculation: Propagate information about RSB filling mitigation to sysfs
x86/speculation: Enable cross-hyperthread spectre v2 STIBP mitigation
x86/speculation: Apply IBPB more strictly to avoid cross-process data leak
x86/speculation: Add RETPOLINE_AMD support to the inline asm CALL_NOSPEC variant
x86/CPU: Fix unused variable warning when !CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION
x86/pti/64: Remove the SYSCALL64 entry trampoline
x86/entry/64: Use the TSS sp2 slot for SYSCALL/SYSRET scratch space
x86/entry/64: Document idtentry
Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main updates in this cycle were:
- Lots of perf tooling changes too voluminous to list (big perf trace
and perf stat improvements, lots of libtraceevent reorganization,
etc.), so I'll list the authors and refer to the changelog for
details:
Benjamin Peterson, Jérémie Galarneau, Kim Phillips, Peter
Zijlstra, Ravi Bangoria, Sangwon Hong, Sean V Kelley, Steven
Rostedt, Thomas Gleixner, Ding Xiang, Eduardo Habkost, Thomas
Richter, Andi Kleen, Sanskriti Sharma, Adrian Hunter, Tzvetomir
Stoyanov, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, Jiri Olsa.
... with the bulk of the changes written by Jiri Olsa, Tzvetomir
Stoyanov and Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo.
- Continued intel_rdt work with a focus on playing well with perf
events. This also imported some non-perf RDT work due to
dependencies. (Reinette Chatre)
- Implement counter freezing for Arch Perfmon v4 (Skylake and newer).
This allows to speed up the PMI handler by avoiding unnecessary MSR
writes and make it more accurate. (Andi Kleen)
- kprobes cleanups and simplification (Masami Hiramatsu)
- Intel Goldmont PMU updates (Kan Liang)
- ... plus misc other fixes and updates"
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (155 commits)
kprobes/x86: Use preempt_enable() in optimized_callback()
x86/intel_rdt: Prevent pseudo-locking from using stale pointers
kprobes, x86/ptrace.h: Make regs_get_kernel_stack_nth() not fault on bad stack
perf/x86/intel: Export mem events only if there's PEBS support
x86/cpu: Drop pointless static qualifier in punit_dev_state_show()
x86/intel_rdt: Fix initial allocation to consider CDP
x86/intel_rdt: CBM overlap should also check for overlap with CDP peer
x86/intel_rdt: Introduce utility to obtain CDP peer
tools lib traceevent, perf tools: Move struct tep_handler definition in a local header file
tools lib traceevent: Separate out tep_strerror() for strerror_r() issues
perf python: More portable way to make CFLAGS work with clang
perf python: Make clang_has_option() work on Python 3
perf tools: Free temporary 'sys' string in read_event_files()
perf tools: Avoid double free in read_event_file()
perf tools: Free 'printk' string in parse_ftrace_printk()
perf tools: Cleanup trace-event-info 'tdata' leak
perf strbuf: Match va_{add,copy} with va_end
perf test: S390 does not support watchpoints in test 22
perf auxtrace: Include missing asm/bitsperlong.h to get BITS_PER_LONG
tools include: Adopt linux/bits.h
...
The SYSCALL64 trampoline has a couple of nice properties:
- The usual sequence of SWAPGS followed by two GS-relative accesses to
set up RSP is somewhat slow because the GS-relative accesses need
to wait for SWAPGS to finish. The trampoline approach allows
RIP-relative accesses to set up RSP, which avoids the stall.
- The trampoline avoids any percpu access before CR3 is set up,
which means that no percpu memory needs to be mapped in the user
page tables. This prevents using Meltdown to read any percpu memory
outside the cpu_entry_area and prevents using timing leaks
to directly locate the percpu areas.
The downsides of using a trampoline may outweigh the upsides, however.
It adds an extra non-contiguous I$ cache line to system calls, and it
forces an indirect jump to transfer control back to the normal kernel
text after CR3 is set up. The latter is because x86 lacks a 64-bit
direct jump instruction that could jump from the trampoline to the entry
text. With retpolines enabled, the indirect jump is extremely slow.
Change the code to map the percpu TSS into the user page tables to allow
the non-trampoline SYSCALL64 path to work under PTI. This does not add a
new direct information leak, since the TSS is readable by Meltdown from the
cpu_entry_area alias regardless. It does allow a timing attack to locate
the percpu area, but KASLR is more or less a lost cause against local
attack on CPUs vulnerable to Meltdown regardless. As far as I'm concerned,
on current hardware, KASLR is only useful to mitigate remote attacks that
try to attack the kernel without first gaining RCE against a vulnerable
user process.
On Skylake, with CONFIG_RETPOLINE=y and KPTI on, this reduces syscall
overhead from ~237ns to ~228ns.
There is a possible alternative approach: Move the trampoline within 2G of
the entry text and make a separate copy for each CPU. This would allow a
direct jump to rejoin the normal entry path. There are pro's and con's for
this approach:
+ It avoids a pipeline stall
- It executes from an extra page and read from another extra page during
the syscall. The latter is because it needs to use a relative
addressing mode to find sp1 -- it's the same *cacheline*, but accessed
using an alias, so it's an extra TLB entry.
- Slightly more memory. This would be one page per CPU for a simple
implementation and 64-ish bytes per CPU or one page per node for a more
complex implementation.
- More code complexity.
The current approach is chosen for simplicity and because the alternative
does not provide a significant benefit, which makes it worth.
[ tglx: Added the alternative discussion to the changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/8c7c6e483612c3e4e10ca89495dc160b1aa66878.1536015544.git.luto@kernel.org
Disable the kprobe probing of the entry trampoline:
.entry_trampoline is a code area that is used to ensure page table
isolation between userspace and kernelspace.
At the beginning of the execution of the trampoline, we load the
kernel's CR3 register. This has the effect of enabling the translation
of the kernel virtual addresses to physical addresses. Before this
happens most kernel addresses can not be translated because the running
process' CR3 is still used.
If a kprobe is placed on the trampoline code before that change of the
CR3 register happens the kernel crashes because int3 handling pages are
not accessible.
To fix this, add the .entry_trampoline section to the kprobe blacklist
to prohibit the probing of code before all the kernel pages are
accessible.
Signed-off-by: Francis Deslauriers <francis.deslauriers@efficios.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
Cc: mhiramat@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1520565492-4637-2-git-send-email-francis.deslauriers@efficios.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull x86 pti fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"A small set of fixes for the meltdown/spectre mitigations:
- Make kprobes aware of retpolines to prevent probes in the retpoline
thunks.
- Make the machine check exception speculation protected. MCE used to
issue an indirect call directly from the ASM entry code. Convert
that to a direct call into a C-function and issue the indirect call
from there so the compiler can add the retpoline protection,
- Make the vmexit_fill_RSB() assembly less stupid
- Fix a typo in the PTI documentation"
* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/retpoline: Optimize inline assembler for vmexit_fill_RSB
x86/pti: Document fix wrong index
kprobes/x86: Disable optimizing on the function jumps to indirect thunk
kprobes/x86: Blacklist indirect thunk functions for kprobes
retpoline: Introduce start/end markers of indirect thunk
x86/mce: Make machine check speculation protected
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 <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
