In some scenarios, such as buggy guest or incorrect configuration of the
VMM and firmware description data, userspace will detect a memory access
to a portion of the IPA, which is not mapped to any MMIO region.
For this purpose, the appropriate action is to inject an external abort
to the guest. The kernel already has functionality to inject an
external abort, but we need to wire up a signal from user space that
lets user space tell the kernel to do this.
It turns out, we already have the set event functionality which we can
perfectly reuse for this.
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
While parts of the VGIC support a large number of vcpus (we
bravely allow up to 512), other parts are more limited.
One of these limits is visible in the KVM_IRQ_LINE ioctl, which
only allows 256 vcpus to be signalled when using the CPU or PPI
types. Unfortunately, we've cornered ourselves badly by allocating
all the bits in the irq field.
Since the irq_type subfield (8 bit wide) is currently only taking
the values 0, 1 and 2 (and we have been careful not to allow anything
else), let's reduce this field to only 4 bits, and allocate the
remaining 4 bits to a vcpu2_index, which acts as a multiplier:
vcpu_id = 256 * vcpu2_index + vcpu_index
With that, and a new capability (KVM_CAP_ARM_IRQ_LINE_LAYOUT_2)
allowing this to be discovered, it becomes possible to inject
PPIs to up to 4096 vcpus. But please just don't.
Whilst we're there, add a clarification about the use of KVM_IRQ_LINE
on arm, which is not completely conditionned by KVM_CAP_IRQCHIP.
Reported-by: Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Converts ARM the text files to ReST, preparing them to be an
architecture book.
The conversion is actually:
- add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs;
- fix tables markups;
- add some lists markups;
- mark literal blocks;
- adjust title markups.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com> # For sun4i-ss
KVM implements the firmware interface for mitigating cache speculation
vulnerabilities. Guests may use this interface to ensure mitigation is
active.
If we want to migrate such a guest to a host with a different support
level for those workarounds, migration might need to fail, to ensure that
critical guests don't loose their protection.
Introduce a way for userland to save and restore the workarounds state.
On restoring we do checks that make sure we don't downgrade our
mitigation level.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
I do not see any consistency about headers_install of <linux/kvm_para.h>
and <asm/kvm_para.h>.
According to my analysis of Linux 5.1-rc1, there are 3 groups:
[1] Both <linux/kvm_para.h> and <asm/kvm_para.h> are exported
alpha, arm, hexagon, mips, powerpc, s390, sparc, x86
[2] <asm/kvm_para.h> is exported, but <linux/kvm_para.h> is not
arc, arm64, c6x, h8300, ia64, m68k, microblaze, nios2, openrisc,
parisc, sh, unicore32, xtensa
[3] Neither <linux/kvm_para.h> nor <asm/kvm_para.h> is exported
csky, nds32, riscv
This does not match to the actual KVM support. At least, [2] is
half-baked.
Nor do arch maintainers look like they care about this. For example,
commit 0add53713b ("microblaze: Add missing kvm_para.h to Kbuild")
exported <asm/kvm_para.h> to user-space in order to fix an in-kernel
build error.
We have two ways to make this consistent:
[A] export both <linux/kvm_para.h> and <asm/kvm_para.h> for all
architectures, irrespective of the KVM support
[B] Match the header export of <linux/kvm_para.h> and <asm/kvm_para.h>
to the KVM support
My first attempt was [A] because the code looks cleaner, but Paolo
suggested [B].
So, this commit goes with [B].
For most architectures, <asm/kvm_para.h> was moved to the kernel-space.
I changed include/uapi/linux/Kbuild so that it checks generated
asm/kvm_para.h as well as check-in ones.
After this commit, there will be two groups:
[1] Both <linux/kvm_para.h> and <asm/kvm_para.h> are exported
arm, arm64, mips, powerpc, s390, x86
[2] Neither <linux/kvm_para.h> nor <asm/kvm_para.h> is exported
alpha, arc, c6x, csky, h8300, hexagon, ia64, m68k, microblaze,
nds32, nios2, openrisc, parisc, riscv, sh, sparc, unicore32, xtensa
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Currently, every arch/*/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild explicitly includes
the common Kbuild.asm file. Factor out the duplicated include directives
to scripts/Makefile.asm-generic so that no architecture would opt out
of the mandatory-y mechanism.
um is not forced to include mandatory-y since it is a very exceptional
case which does not support UAPI.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Now that Kbuild automatically creates asm-generic wrappers for missing
mandatory headers, it is redundant to list the same headers in
generic-y and mandatory-y.
Suggested-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
These comments are leftovers of commit fcc8487d47 ("uapi: export all
headers under uapi directories").
Prior to that commit, exported headers must be explicitly added to
header-y. Now, all headers under the uapi/ directories are exported.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
arm64's new use of KVMs get_events/set_events API calls isn't just
or RAS, it allows an SError that has been made pending by KVM as
part of its device emulation to be migrated.
Wire this up for 32bit too.
We only need to read/write the HCR_VA bit, and check that no esr has
been provided, as we don't yet support VDFSR.
Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Dongjiu Geng <gengdongjiu@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
"Small update for KVM:
ARM:
- lazy context-switching of FPSIMD registers on arm64
- "split" regions for vGIC redistributor
s390:
- cleanups for nested
- clock handling
- crypto
- storage keys
- control register bits
x86:
- many bugfixes
- implement more Hyper-V super powers
- implement lapic_timer_advance_ns even when the LAPIC timer is
emulated using the processor's VMX preemption timer.
- two security-related bugfixes at the top of the branch"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (79 commits)
kvm: fix typo in flag name
kvm: x86: use correct privilege level for sgdt/sidt/fxsave/fxrstor access
KVM: x86: pass kvm_vcpu to kvm_read_guest_virt and kvm_write_guest_virt_system
KVM: x86: introduce linear_{read,write}_system
kvm: nVMX: Enforce cpl=0 for VMX instructions
kvm: nVMX: Add support for "VMWRITE to any supported field"
kvm: nVMX: Restrict VMX capability MSR changes
KVM: VMX: Optimize tscdeadline timer latency
KVM: docs: nVMX: Remove known limitations as they do not exist now
KVM: docs: mmu: KVM support exposing SLAT to guests
kvm: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
kvm: Make VM ioctl do valloc for some archs
kvm: Change return type to vm_fault_t
KVM: docs: mmu: Fix link to NPT presentation from KVM Forum 2008
kvm: x86: Amend the KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID API documentation
KVM: x86: hyperv: declare KVM_CAP_HYPERV_TLBFLUSH capability
KVM: x86: hyperv: simplistic HVCALL_FLUSH_VIRTUAL_ADDRESS_{LIST,SPACE}_EX implementation
KVM: x86: hyperv: simplistic HVCALL_FLUSH_VIRTUAL_ADDRESS_{LIST,SPACE} implementation
KVM: introduce kvm_make_vcpus_request_mask() API
KVM: x86: hyperv: do rep check for each hypercall separately
...
This new attribute allows the userspace to set the base address
of a reditributor region, relaxing the constraint of having all
consecutive redistibutor frames contiguous.
Signed-off-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Pull ARM fixes from Russell King:
- Łukasz Stelmach spotted a couple of issues with the decompressor.
- a couple of kdump fixes found while testing kdump
- replace some perl with shell code
- resolve SIGFPE breakage
- kprobes fixes
* 'fixes' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm:
ARM: fix kill( ,SIGFPE) breakage
ARM: 8772/1: kprobes: Prohibit kprobes on get_user functions
ARM: 8771/1: kprobes: Prohibit kprobes on do_undefinstr
ARM: 8770/1: kprobes: Prohibit probing on optimized_callback
ARM: 8769/1: kprobes: Fix to use get_kprobe_ctlblk after irq-disabed
ARM: replace unnecessary perl with sed and the shell $(( )) operator
ARM: kexec: record parent context registers for non-crash CPUs
ARM: kexec: fix kdump register saving on panic()
ARM: 8758/1: decompressor: restore r1 and r2 just before jumping to the kernel
ARM: 8753/1: decompressor: add a missing parameter to the addruart macro
Commit 7771c66457 ("signal/arm: Document conflicts with SI_USER and
SIGFPE") broke the siginfo structure for userspace triggered signals,
causing the strace testsuite to regress. Fix this by eliminating
the FPE_FIXME definition (which is at the root of the breakage) and
use FPE_FLTINV instead for the case where the hardware appears to be
reporting nonsense.
Fixes: 7771c66457 ("signal/arm: Document conflicts with SI_USER and SIGFPE")
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Although we've implemented PSCI 0.1, 0.2 and 1.0, we expose either 0.1
or 1.0 to a guest, defaulting to the latest version of the PSCI
implementation that is compatible with the requested version. This is
no different from doing a firmware upgrade on KVM.
But in order to give a chance to hypothetical badly implemented guests
that would have a fit by discovering something other than PSCI 0.2,
let's provide a new API that allows userspace to pick one particular
version of the API.
This is implemented as a new class of "firmware" registers, where
we expose the PSCI version. This allows the PSCI version to be
save/restored as part of a guest migration, and also set to
any supported version if the guest requires it.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org #4.16
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
We have a KVM_REG_ARM encoding that we use to expose KVM guest registers
to userspace. Define that bit 28 in this encoding indicates secure vs
nonsecure, so we can distinguish the secure and nonsecure banked versions
of a banked AArch32 register.
For KVM currently, all guest registers are nonsecure, but defining
the bit is useful for userspace. In particular, QEMU uses this
encoding as part of its on-the-wire migration format, and needs to be
able to describe secure-bank registers when it is migrating (fully
emulated) EL3-enabled CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Setting si_code to 0 results in a userspace seeing an si_code of 0.
This is the same si_code as SI_USER. Posix and common sense requires
that SI_USER not be a signal specific si_code. As such this use of 0
for the si_code is a pretty horribly broken ABI.
Further use of si_code == 0 guaranteed that copy_siginfo_to_user saw a
value of __SI_KILL and now sees a value of SIL_KILL with the result
that uid and pid fields are copied and which might copying the si_addr
field by accident but certainly not by design. Making this a very
flakey implementation.
Utilizing FPE_FIXME, siginfo_layout will now return SIL_FAULT and the
appropriate fields will be reliably copied.
Possible ABI fixes includee:
- Send the signal without siginfo
- Don't generate a signal
- Possibly assign and use an appropriate si_code
- Don't handle cases which can't happen
Cc: Russell King <rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Ref: 451436b7bbb2 ("[ARM] Add support code for ARM hardware vector floating point")
History Tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Commit 0515e5999a ("bpf: introduce BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT
program type") introduced the bpf_perf_event_data structure which
exports the pt_regs structure. This is OK for multiple architectures
but fail for s390 and arm64 which do not export pt_regs. Programs
using them, for example, the bpf selftest fail to compile on these
architectures.
For s390, exporting the pt_regs is not an option because s390 wants
to allow changes to it. For arm64, there is a user_pt_regs structure
that covers parts of the pt_regs structure for use by user space.
To solve the broken uapi for s390 and arm64, introduce an abstract
type for pt_regs and add an asm/bpf_perf_event.h file that concretes
the type. An asm-generic header file covers the architectures that
export pt_regs today.
The arch-specific enablement for s390 and arm64 follows in separate
commits.
Reported-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Fixes: 0515e5999a ("bpf: introduce BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT program type")
Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Pull ARM SoC platform updates from Arnd Bergmann:
"Most of the commits are for defconfig changes, to enable newly added
drivers or features that people have started using. For the changed
lines lines, we have mostly cleanups, the affected platforms are OMAP,
Versatile, EP93xx, Samsung, Broadcom, i.MX, and Actions.
The largest single change is the introduction of the TI "sysc" bus
driver, with the intention of cleaning up more legacy code.
Two new SoC platforms get added this time:
- Allwinner R40 is a modernized version of the A20 chip, now with a
Quad-Core ARM Cortex-A7. According to the manufacturer, it is
intended for "Smart Hardware"
- Broadcom Hurricane 2 (Aka Strataconnect BCM5334X) is a family of
chips meant for managed gigabit ethernet switches, based around a
Cortex-A9 CPU.
Finally, we gain SMP support for two platforms: Renesas R-Car E2 and
Amlogic Meson8/8b, which were previously added but only supported
uniprocessor operation"
* tag 'armsoc-soc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (118 commits)
ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: Select RPMSG_VIRTIO as module
ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: enable CONFIG_GPIO_UNIPHIER
arm64: defconfig: enable CONFIG_GPIO_UNIPHIER
ARM: meson: enable MESON_IRQ_GPIO in Kconfig for meson8b
ARM: meson: Add SMP bringup code for Meson8 and Meson8b
ARM: smp_scu: allow the platform code to read the SCU CPU status
ARM: smp_scu: add a helper for powering on a specific CPU
dt-bindings: Amlogic: Add Meson8 and Meson8b SMP related documentation
ARM: OMAP3: Delete an unnecessary variable initialisation in omap3xxx_hwmod_init()
ARM: OMAP3: Use common error handling code in omap3xxx_hwmod_init()
ARM: defconfig: select the right SX150X driver
arm64: defconfig: Enable QCOM_IOMMU
arm64: Add ThunderX drivers to defconfig
arm64: defconfig: Enable Tegra PCI controller
cpufreq: imx6q: Move speed grading check to cpufreq driver
arm64: defconfig: re-enable Qualcomm DB410c USB
ARM: configs: stm32: Add MDMA support in STM32 defconfig
ARM: imx: Enable cpuidle for i.MX6DL starting at 1.1
bus: ti-sysc: Fix unbalanced pm_runtime_enable by adding remove
bus: ti-sysc: mark PM functions as __maybe_unused
...
Pull KVM updates from Radim Krčmář:
"First batch of KVM changes for 4.15
Common:
- Python 3 support in kvm_stat
- Accounting of slabs to kmemcg
ARM:
- Optimized arch timer handling for KVM/ARM
- Improvements to the VGIC ITS code and introduction of an ITS reset
ioctl
- Unification of the 32-bit fault injection logic
- More exact external abort matching logic
PPC:
- Support for running hashed page table (HPT) MMU mode on a host that
is using the radix MMU mode; single threaded mode on POWER 9 is
added as a pre-requisite
- Resolution of merge conflicts with the last second 4.14 HPT fixes
- Fixes and cleanups
s390:
- Some initial preparation patches for exitless interrupts and crypto
- New capability for AIS migration
- Fixes
x86:
- Improved emulation of LAPIC timer mode changes, MCi_STATUS MSRs,
and after-reset state
- Refined dependencies for VMX features
- Fixes for nested SMI injection
- A lot of cleanups"
* tag 'kvm-4.15-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (89 commits)
KVM: s390: provide a capability for AIS state migration
KVM: s390: clear_io_irq() requests are not expected for adapter interrupts
KVM: s390: abstract conversion between isc and enum irq_types
KVM: s390: vsie: use common code functions for pinning
KVM: s390: SIE considerations for AP Queue virtualization
KVM: s390: document memory ordering for kvm_s390_vcpu_wakeup
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Cosmetic post-merge cleanups
KVM: arm/arm64: fix the incompatible matching for external abort
KVM: arm/arm64: Unify 32bit fault injection
KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-its: Implement KVM_DEV_ARM_ITS_CTRL_RESET
KVM: arm/arm64: Document KVM_DEV_ARM_ITS_CTRL_RESET
KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-its: Free caches when GITS_BASER Valid bit is cleared
KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-its: New helper functions to free the caches
KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-its: Remove kvm_its_unmap_device
arm/arm64: KVM: Load the timer state when enabling the timer
KVM: arm/arm64: Rework kvm_timer_should_fire
KVM: arm/arm64: Get rid of kvm_timer_flush_hwstate
KVM: arm/arm64: Avoid phys timer emulation in vcpu entry/exit
KVM: arm/arm64: Move phys_timer_emulate function
KVM: arm/arm64: Use kvm_arm_timer_set/get_reg for guest register traps
...
Pull ARM updates from Russell King:
- add support for ELF fdpic binaries on both MMU and noMMU platforms
- linker script cleanups
- support for compressed .data section for XIP images
- discard memblock arrays when possible
- various cleanups
- atomic DMA pool updates
- better diagnostics of missing/corrupt device tree
- export information to allow userspace kexec tool to place images more
inteligently, so that the device tree isn't overwritten by the
booting kernel
- make early_printk more efficient on semihosted systems
- noMMU cleanups
- SA1111 PCMCIA update in preparation for further cleanups
* 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm: (38 commits)
ARM: 8719/1: NOMMU: work around maybe-uninitialized warning
ARM: 8717/2: debug printch/printascii: translate '\n' to "\r\n" not "\n\r"
ARM: 8713/1: NOMMU: Support MPU in XIP configuration
ARM: 8712/1: NOMMU: Use more MPU regions to cover memory
ARM: 8711/1: V7M: Add support for MPU to M-class
ARM: 8710/1: Kconfig: Kill CONFIG_VECTORS_BASE
ARM: 8709/1: NOMMU: Disallow MPU for XIP
ARM: 8708/1: NOMMU: Rework MPU to be mostly done in C
ARM: 8707/1: NOMMU: Update MPU accessors to use cp15 helpers
ARM: 8706/1: NOMMU: Move out MPU setup in separate module
ARM: 8702/1: head-common.S: Clear lr before jumping to start_kernel()
ARM: 8705/1: early_printk: use printascii() rather than printch()
ARM: 8703/1: debug.S: move hexbuf to a writable section
ARM: add additional table to compressed kernel
ARM: decompressor: fix BSS size calculation
pcmcia: sa1111: remove special sa1111 mmio accessors
pcmcia: sa1111: use sa1111_get_irq() to obtain IRQ resources
ARM: better diagnostics with missing/corrupt dtb
ARM: 8699/1: dma-mapping: Remove init_dma_coherent_pool_size()
ARM: 8698/1: dma-mapping: Mark atomic_pool as __ro_after_init
..
On reset we clear the valid bits of GITS_CBASER and GITS_BASER<n>.
We also clear command queue registers and free the cache (device,
collection, and lpi lists).
As we need to take the same locks as save/restore functions, we
create a vgic_its_ctrl() wrapper that handles KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_CTRL
group functions.
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Add suport for the physical timer registers in kvm_arm_timer_set_reg and
kvm_arm_timer_get_reg so that these functions can be reused to interact
with the rest of the system.
Note that this paves part of the way for the physical timer state
save/restore, but we still need to add those registers to
KVM_GET_REG_LIST before we support migrating the physical timer state.
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@linaro.org>
Many user space API headers have licensing information, which is either
incomplete, badly formatted or just a shorthand for referring to the
license under which the file is supposed to be. This makes it hard for
compliance tools to determine the correct license.
Update these files with an SPDX license identifier. The identifier was
chosen based on the license information in the file.
GPL/LGPL licensed headers get the matching GPL/LGPL SPDX license
identifier with the added 'WITH Linux-syscall-note' exception, which is
the officially assigned exception identifier for the kernel syscall
exception:
NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".
This exception makes it possible to include GPL headers into non GPL
code, without confusing license compliance tools.
Headers which have either explicit dual licensing or are just licensed
under a non GPL license are updated with the corresponding SPDX
identifier and the GPLv2 with syscall exception identifier. The format
is:
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR SPDX-ID-OF-OTHER-LICENSE)
SPDX license identifiers are a legally binding shorthand, which can be
used instead of the full boiler plate text. The update does not remove
existing license information as this has to be done on a case by case
basis and the copyright holders might have to be consulted. This will
happen in a separate step.
This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne. See the previous patch in this series for the
methodology of how this patch was researched.
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>
Many user space API headers are missing licensing information, which
makes it hard for compliance tools to determine the correct license.
By default are files without license information under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPLV2. Marking them GPLV2 would exclude
them from being included in non GPLV2 code, which is obviously not
intended. The user space API headers fall under the syscall exception
which is in the kernels COPYING file:
NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".
otherwise syscall usage would not be possible.
Update the files which contain no license information with an SPDX
license identifier. The chosen identifier is 'GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note' which is the officially assigned identifier for the
Linux syscall exception. SPDX license identifiers are 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. See the previous patch in this series for the
methodology of how this patch was researched.
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>
