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    • Greg Kroah-Hartman's avatar
      License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license · b2441318
      Greg Kroah-Hartman authored 
      

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: default avatarKate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarPhilippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      b2441318
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    • Andy Leiserson's avatar
      [PATCH] fix calculation of meta_bg descriptor backups · 904dad47
      Andy Leiserson authored 
      

"group" is the group where the backup will be placed, and is
initialized to zero in the declaration. This meant that backups for
meta_bg descriptors were erroneously written to the backup block group
descriptors in groups 1 and (desc_per_block-1).

Reproduction information:
  mke2fs -Fq -t ext4 -b 1024 -O ^resize_inode /tmp/foo.img 16G
  truncate -s 24G /tmp/foo.img
  losetup /dev/loop0 /tmp/foo.img
  mount /dev/loop0 /mnt
  resize2fs /dev/loop0
  umount /dev/loop0
  dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/loop0 bs=1024 count=2
  e2fsck -fy /dev/loop0
  losetup -d /dev/loop0
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndy Leiserson <andy@leiserson.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      904dad47
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    • Jan Kara's avatar
      ext4: fix growing of tiny filesystems · 2c869b26
      Jan Kara authored 
      

The estimate of necessary transaction credits in ext4_flex_group_add()
is too pessimistic. It reserves credit for sb, resize inode, and resize
inode dindirect block for each group added in a flex group although they
are always the same block and thus it is enough to account them only
once. Also the number of modified GDT block is overestimated since we
fit EXT4_DESC_PER_BLOCK(sb) descriptors in one block.

Make the estimation more precise. That reduces number of requested
credits enough that we can grow 20 MB filesystem (which has 1 MB
journal, 79 reserved GDT blocks, and flex group size 16 by default).
Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: default avatarEric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
      2c869b26
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    • Theodore Ts'o's avatar
      ext4: fix online resize with a non-standard blocks per group setting · 3d2660d0
      Theodore Ts'o authored 
      

The set_flexbg_block_bitmap() function assumed that the number of
blocks in a blockgroup was sb->blocksize * 8, which is normally true,
but not always!  Use EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP(sb) instead, to fix block
bitmap corruption after:

mke2fs -t ext4 -g 3072 -i 4096 /dev/vdd 1G
mount -t ext4 /dev/vdd /vdd
resize2fs /dev/vdd 8G
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reported-by: default avatarJon Bernard <jbernard@tuxion.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      3d2660d0
    • Theodore Ts'o's avatar
      ext4: fix online resize with very large inode tables · b93c9535
      Theodore Ts'o authored 
      

If a file system has a large number of inodes per block group, all of
the metadata blocks in a flex_bg may be larger than what can fit in a
single block group.  Unfortunately, ext4_alloc_group_tables() in
resize.c was never tested to see if it would handle this case
correctly, and there were a large number of bugs which caused the
following sequence to result in a BUG_ON:

kernel bug at fs/ext4/resize.c:409!
   ...
call trace:
 [<ffffffff81256768>] ext4_flex_group_add+0x1448/0x1830
 [<ffffffff81257de2>] ext4_resize_fs+0x7b2/0xe80
 [<ffffffff8123ac50>] ext4_ioctl+0xbf0/0xf00
 [<ffffffff811c111d>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x2dd/0x4b0
 [<ffffffff811b9df2>] ? final_putname+0x22/0x50
 [<ffffffff811c1371>] sys_ioctl+0x81/0xa0
 [<ffffffff81676aa9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
code: c8 4c 89 df e8 41 96 f8 ff 44 89 e8 49 01 c4 44 29 6d d4 0
rip  [<ffffffff81254fa1>] set_flexbg_block_bitmap+0x171/0x180


This can be reproduced with the following command sequence:

   mke2fs -t ext4 -i 4096 /dev/vdd 1G
   mount -t ext4 /dev/vdd /vdd
   resize2fs /dev/vdd 8G

To fix this, we need to make sure the right thing happens when a block
group's inode table straddles two block groups, which means the
following bugs had to be fixed:

1) Not clearing the BLOCK_UNINIT flag in the second block group in
   ext4_alloc_group_tables --- the was proximate cause of the BUG_ON.

2) Incorrectly determining how many block groups contained contiguous
   free blocks in ext4_alloc_group_tables().

3) Incorrectly setting the start of the next block range to be marked
   in use after a discontinuity in setup_new_flex_group_blocks().
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      b93c9535
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    • Lukas Czerner's avatar
      ext4: introduce ext4_get_group_number() · bd86298e
      Lukas Czerner authored 
      

Currently on many places in ext4 we're using
ext4_get_group_no_and_offset() even though we're only interested in
knowing the block group of the particular block, not the offset within
the block group so we can use more efficient way to compute block
group.

This patch introduces ext4_get_group_number() which computes block
group for a given block much more efficiently. Use this function
instead of ext4_get_group_no_and_offset() everywhere where we're only
interested in knowing the block group.
Signed-off-by: default avatarLukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      bd86298e
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    • Theodore Ts'o's avatar
      ext4: pass context information to jbd2__journal_start() · 9924a92a
      Theodore Ts'o authored 
      

So we can better understand what bits of ext4 are responsible for
long-running jbd2 handles, use jbd2__journal_start() so we can pass
context information for logging purposes.

The recommended way for finding the longer-running handles is:

   T=/sys/kernel/debug/tracing
   EVENT=$T/events/jbd2/jbd2_handle_stats
   echo "interval > 5" > $EVENT/filter
   echo 1 > $EVENT/enable

   ./run-my-fs-benchmark

   cat $T/trace > /tmp/problem-handles

This will list handles that were active for longer than 20ms.  Having
longer-running handles is bad, because a commit started at the wrong
time could stall for those 20+ milliseconds, which could delay an
fsync() or an O_SYNC operation.  Here is an example line from the
trace file describing a handle which lived on for 311 jiffies, or over
1.2 seconds:

postmark-2917  [000] ....   196.435786: jbd2_handle_stats: dev 254,32 
   tid 570 type 2 line_no 2541 interval 311 sync 0 requested_blocks 1
   dirtied_blocks 0
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      9924a92a
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