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  1. Nov 15, 2019
  2. Jan 25, 2019
    • Arnd Bergmann's avatar
      ipc: rename old-style shmctl/semctl/msgctl syscalls · 275f2214
      Arnd Bergmann authored
      
      The behavior of these system calls is slightly different between
      architectures, as determined by the CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
      symbol. Most architectures that implement the split IPC syscalls don't set
      that symbol and only get the modern version, but alpha, arm, microblaze,
      mips-n32, mips-n64 and xtensa expect the caller to pass the IPC_64 flag.
      
      For the architectures that so far only implement sys_ipc(), i.e. m68k,
      mips-o32, powerpc, s390, sh, sparc, and x86-32, we want the new behavior
      when adding the split syscalls, so we need to distinguish between the
      two groups of architectures.
      
      The method I picked for this distinction is to have a separate system call
      entry point: sys_old_*ctl() now uses ipc_parse_version, while sys_*ctl()
      does not. The system call tables of the five architectures are changed
      accordingly.
      
      As an additional benefit, we no longer need the configuration specific
      definition for ipc_parse_version(), it always does the same thing now,
      but simply won't get called on architectures with the modern interface.
      
      A small downside is that on architectures that do set
      ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION, we now have an extra set of entry points
      that are never called. They only add a few bytes of bloat, so it seems
      better to keep them compared to adding yet another Kconfig symbol.
      I considered adding new syscall numbers for the IPC_64 variants for
      consistency, but decided against that for now.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      275f2214
  3. Jan 18, 2019
  4. Aug 27, 2018
    • Arnd Bergmann's avatar
      y2038: globally rename compat_time to old_time32 · 9afc5eee
      Arnd Bergmann authored
      
      Christoph Hellwig suggested a slightly different path for handling
      backwards compatibility with the 32-bit time_t based system calls:
      
      Rather than simply reusing the compat_sys_* entry points on 32-bit
      architectures unchanged, we get rid of those entry points and the
      compat_time types by renaming them to something that makes more sense
      on 32-bit architectures (which don't have a compat mode otherwise),
      and then share the entry points under the new name with the 64-bit
      architectures that use them for implementing the compatibility.
      
      The following types and interfaces are renamed here, and moved
      from linux/compat_time.h to linux/time32.h:
      
      old				new
      ---				---
      compat_time_t			old_time32_t
      struct compat_timeval		struct old_timeval32
      struct compat_timespec		struct old_timespec32
      struct compat_itimerspec	struct old_itimerspec32
      ns_to_compat_timeval()		ns_to_old_timeval32()
      get_compat_itimerspec64()	get_old_itimerspec32()
      put_compat_itimerspec64()	put_old_itimerspec32()
      compat_get_timespec64()		get_old_timespec32()
      compat_put_timespec64()		put_old_timespec32()
      
      As we already have aliases in place, this patch addresses only the
      instances that are relevant to the system call interface in particular,
      not those that occur in device drivers and other modules. Those
      will get handled separately, while providing the 64-bit version
      of the respective interfaces.
      
      I'm not renaming the timex, rusage and itimerval structures, as we are
      still debating what the new interface will look like, and whether we
      will need a replacement at all.
      
      This also doesn't change the names of the syscall entry points, which can
      be done more easily when we actually switch over the 32-bit architectures
      to use them, at that point we need to change COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx to
      SYSCALL_DEFINEx with a new name, e.g. with a _time32 suffix.
      
      Suggested-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
      Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180705222110.GA5698@infradead.org/
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      9afc5eee
  5. Apr 20, 2018
    • Arnd Bergmann's avatar
      y2038: ipc: Redirect ipc(SEMTIMEDOP, ...) to compat_ksys_semtimedop · 5dc0b152
      Arnd Bergmann authored
      
      32-bit architectures implementing 64BIT_TIME and COMPAT_32BIT_TIME
      need to have the traditional semtimedop() behavior with 32-bit timestamps
      for sys_ipc() by calling compat_ksys_semtimedop(), while those that
      are not yet converted need to keep using ksys_semtimedop() like
      64-bit architectures do.
      
      Note that I chose to not implement a new SEMTIMEDOP64 function that
      corresponds to the new sys_semtimedop() with 64-bit timeouts. The reason
      here is that sys_ipc() should no longer be used for new system calls,
      and libc should just call the semtimedop syscall directly.
      
      One open question remain to whether we want to completely avoid the
      sys_ipc() system call for architectures that do not yet have all the
      individual calls as they get converted to 64-bit time_t. Doing that
      would require adding several extra system calls on m68k, mips, powerpc,
      s390, sh, sparc, and x86-32.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      5dc0b152
  6. Apr 02, 2018
  7. Nov 02, 2017
    • 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
  8. Oct 11, 2017
  9. Jul 16, 2017
  10. Mar 05, 2013
  11. Jul 31, 2012
  12. Mar 22, 2010
    • Anton Blanchard's avatar
      ppc64 sys_ipc breakage in 2.6.34-rc2 · 45575f5a
      Anton Blanchard authored
      
      I chased down a fail on ppc64 on 2.6.34-rc2 where an application that
      uses shared memory was getting a SEGV.
      
      Commit baed7fc9 ("Add generic sys_ipc
      wrapper") changed the second argument from an unsigned long to an int.
      When we call shmget the system call wrappers for sys_ipc will sign
      extend second (ie the size) which truncates it.  It took a while to
      track down because the call succeeds and strace shows the untruncated
      size :)
      
      The patch below changes second from an int to an unsigned long which
      fixes shmget on ppc64 (and I assume s390, sparc64 and mips64).
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
      --
      
      I assume the function prototypes for the other IPC methods would cause us
      to sign or zero extend second where appropriate (avoiding any security
      issues). Come to think of it, the syscall wrappers for each method should do
      that for us as well.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      45575f5a
  13. Mar 13, 2010
    • Christoph Hellwig's avatar
      Add generic sys_ipc wrapper · baed7fc9
      Christoph Hellwig authored
      
      Add a generic implementation of the ipc demultiplexer syscall.  Except for
      s390 and sparc64 all implementations of the sys_ipc are nearly identical.
      
      There are slight differences in the types of the parameters, where mips
      and powerpc as the only 64-bit architectures with sys_ipc use unsigned
      long for the "third" argument as it gets casted to a pointer later, while
      it traditionally is an "int" like most other paramters.  frv goes even
      further and uses unsigned long for all parameters execept for "ptr" which
      is a pointer type everywhere.  The change from int to unsigned long for
      "third" and back to "int" for the others on frv should be fine due to the
      in-register calling conventions for syscalls (we already had a similar
      issue with the generic sys_ptrace), but I'd prefer to have the arch
      maintainers looks over this in details.
      
      Except for that h8300, m68k and m68knommu lack an impplementation of the
      semtimedop sub call which this patch adds, and various architectures have
      gets used - at least on i386 it seems superflous as the compat code on
      x86-64 and ia64 doesn't even bother to implement it.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add sys_ipc to sys_ni.c]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
      Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
      Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
      Acked-by: default avatarJesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Acked-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarKyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      baed7fc9
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