netlink: spec: add shaper YAML spec

Define the user-space visible interface to query, configure and delete
network shapers via yaml definition.

Add dummy implementations for the relevant NL callbac

netlink: spec: add shaper YAML spec

Define the user-space visible interface to query, configure and delete
network shapers via yaml definition.

Add dummy implementations for the relevant NL callbacks.

set() and delete() operations touch a single shaper creating/updating or
deleting it.
The group() operation creates a shaper's group, nesting multiple input
shapers under the specified output shaper.

Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <[email protected]>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/7a33a1ff370bdbcd0cd3f909575c912cd56f41da.1728460186.git.pabeni@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>

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af_unix: Remove CONFIG_UNIX_SCM.

Originally, the code related to garbage collection was all in garbage.c.

Commit f4e65870e5ce ("net: split out functions related to registering
inflight socket files

af_unix: Remove CONFIG_UNIX_SCM.

Originally, the code related to garbage collection was all in garbage.c.

Commit f4e65870e5ce ("net: split out functions related to registering
inflight socket files") moved some functions to scm.c for io_uring and
added CONFIG_UNIX_SCM just in case AF_UNIX was built as module.

However, since commit 97154bcf4d1b ("af_unix: Kconfig: make CONFIG_UNIX
bool"), AF_UNIX is no longer built separately. Also, io_uring does not
support SCM_RIGHTS now.

Let's move the functions back to garbage.c

Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>

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bpfilter: remove bpfilter

bpfilter was supposed to convert iptables filtering rules into
BPF programs on the fly, from the kernel, through a usermode
helper. The base code for the UMH was introduced

bpfilter: remove bpfilter

bpfilter was supposed to convert iptables filtering rules into
BPF programs on the fly, from the kernel, through a usermode
helper. The base code for the UMH was introduced in 2018, and
couple of attempts (2, 3) tried to introduce the BPF program
generate features but were abandoned.

bpfilter now sits in a kernel tree unused and unusable, occasionally
causing confusion amongst Linux users (4, 5).

As bpfilter is now developed in a dedicated repository on GitHub (6),
it was suggested a couple of times this year (LSFMM/BPF 2023,
LPC 2023) to remove the deprecated kernel part of the project. This
is the purpose of this patch.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/[email protected]/#t
[3]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/
[4]: https://dxuuu.xyz/bpfilter.html
[5]: https://github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit/pull/3904
[6]: https://github.com/facebook/bpfilter

Signed-off-by: Quentin Deslandes <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>

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net/handshake: Create a NETLINK service for handling handshake requests

When a kernel consumer needs a transport layer security session, it
first needs a handshake to negotiate and establish a sessi

net/handshake: Create a NETLINK service for handling handshake requests

When a kernel consumer needs a transport layer security session, it
first needs a handshake to negotiate and establish a session. This
negotiation can be done in user space via one of the several
existing library implementations, or it can be done in the kernel.

No in-kernel handshake implementations yet exist. In their absence,
we add a netlink service that can:

a. Notify a user space daemon that a handshake is needed.

b. Once notified, the daemon calls the kernel back via this
netlink service to get the handshake parameters, including an
open socket on which to establish the session.

c. Once the handshake is complete, the daemon reports the
session status and other information via a second netlink
operation. This operation marks that it is safe for the
kernel to use the open socket and the security session
established there.

The notification service uses a multicast group. Each handshake
mechanism (eg, tlshd) adopts its own group number so that the
handshake services are completely independent of one another. The
kernel can then tell via netlink_has_listeners() whether a handshake
service is active and prepared to handle a handshake request.

A new netlink operation, ACCEPT, acts like accept(2) in that it
instantiates a file descriptor in the user space daemon's fd table.
If this operation is successful, the reply carries the fd number,
which can be treated as an open and ready file descriptor.

While user space is performing the handshake, the kernel keeps its
muddy paws off the open socket. A second new netlink operation,
DONE, indicates that the user space daemon is finished with the
socket and it is safe for the kernel to use again. The operation
also indicates whether a session was established successfully.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>

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net: dsa: replace NETDEV_PRE_CHANGE_HWTSTAMP notifier with a stub

There was a sort of rush surrounding commit 88c0a6b503b7 ("net: create a
netdev notifier for DSA to reject PTP on DSA master"), due

net: dsa: replace NETDEV_PRE_CHANGE_HWTSTAMP notifier with a stub

There was a sort of rush surrounding commit 88c0a6b503b7 ("net: create a
netdev notifier for DSA to reject PTP on DSA master"), due to a desire
to convert DSA's attempt to deny TX timestamping on a DSA master to
something that doesn't block the kernel-wide API conversion from
ndo_eth_ioctl() to ndo_hwtstamp_set().

What was required was a mechanism that did not depend on ndo_eth_ioctl(),
and what was provided was a mechanism that did not depend on
ndo_eth_ioctl(), while at the same time introducing something that
wasn't absolutely necessary - a new netdev notifier.

There have been objections from Jakub Kicinski that using notifiers in
general when they are not absolutely necessary creates complications to
the control flow and difficulties to maintainers who look at the code.
So there is a desire to not use notifiers.

In addition to that, the notifier chain gets called even if there is no
DSA in the system and no one is interested in applying any restriction.

Take the model of udp_tunnel_nic_ops and introduce a stub mechanism,
through which net/core/dev_ioctl.c can call into DSA even when
CONFIG_NET_DSA=m.

Compared to the code that existed prior to the notifier conversion, aka
what was added in commits:
- 4cfab3566710 ("net: dsa: Add wrappers for overloaded ndo_ops")
- 3369afba1e46 ("net: Call into DSA netdevice_ops wrappers")

this is different because we are not overloading any struct
net_device_ops of the DSA master anymore, but rather, we are exposing a
rather specific functionality which is orthogonal to which API is used
to enable it - ndo_eth_ioctl() or ndo_hwtstamp_set().

Also, what is similar is that both approaches use function pointers to
get from built-in code to DSA.

There is no point in replicating the function pointers towards
__dsa_master_hwtstamp_validate() once for every CPU port (dev->dsa_ptr).
Instead, it is sufficient to introduce a singleton struct dsa_stubs,
built into the kernel, which contains a single function pointer to
__dsa_master_hwtstamp_validate().

I find this approach preferable to what we had originally, because
dev->dsa_ptr->netdev_ops->ndo_do_ioctl() used to require going through
struct dsa_port (dev->dsa_ptr), and so, this was incompatible with any
attempts to add any data encapsulation and hide DSA data structures from
the outside world.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/[email protected]/
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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devlink: move code to a dedicated directory

The devlink code is hard to navigate with 13kLoC in one file.
I really like the way Michal split the ethtool into per-command
files and core. It'd probabl

devlink: move code to a dedicated directory

The devlink code is hard to navigate with 13kLoC in one file.
I really like the way Michal split the ethtool into per-command
files and core. It'd probably be too much to split it all up,
but we can at least separate the core parts out of the per-cmd
implementations and put it in a directory so that new commands
can be separate files.

Move the code, subsequent commit will do a partial split.

Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>

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Remove DECnet support from kernel

DECnet is an obsolete network protocol that receives more attention
from kernel janitors than users. It belongs in computer protocol
history museum not in Linux ker

Remove DECnet support from kernel

DECnet is an obsolete network protocol that receives more attention
from kernel janitors than users. It belongs in computer protocol
history museum not in Linux kernel.

It has been "Orphaned" in kernel since 2010. The iproute2 support
for DECnet was dropped in 5.0 release. The documentation link on
Sourceforge says it is abandoned there as well.

Leave the UAPI alone to keep userspace programs compiling.
This means that there is still an empty neighbour table
for AF_DECNET.

The table of /proc/sys/net entries was updated to match
current directories and reformatted to be alphabetical.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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mctp: Add MCTP base

Add basic Kconfig, an initial (empty) af_mctp source object, and
{AF,PF}_MCTP definitions, and the required definitions for a new
protocol type.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@c

mctp: Add MCTP base

Add basic Kconfig, an initial (empty) af_mctp source object, and
{AF,PF}_MCTP definitions, and the required definitions for a new
protocol type.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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net: l3mdev: use obj-$(CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV) form in net/Makefile

CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV is a bool option. Change the ifeq conditional
to the standard obj-$(CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV) form.

Us

net: l3mdev: use obj-$(CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV) form in net/Makefile

CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV is a bool option. Change the ifeq conditional
to the standard obj-$(CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV) form.

Use obj-y in net/l3mdev/Makefile because Kbuild visits this Makefile
only when CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV=y.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>

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net: switchdev: use obj-$(CONFIG_NET_SWITCHDEV) form in net/Makefile

CONFIG_NET_SWITCHDEV is a bool option. Change the ifeq conditional to
the standard obj-$(CONFIG_NET_SWITCHDEV) form.

Use obj-y i

net: switchdev: use obj-$(CONFIG_NET_SWITCHDEV) form in net/Makefile

CONFIG_NET_SWITCHDEV is a bool option. Change the ifeq conditional to
the standard obj-$(CONFIG_NET_SWITCHDEV) form.

Use obj-y in net/switchdev/Makefile because Kbuild visits this Makefile
only when CONFIG_NET_SWITCHDEV=y.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>

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net: dcb: use obj-$(CONFIG_DCB) form in net/Makefile

CONFIG_DCB is a bool option. Change the ifeq conditional to the
standard obj-$(CONFIG_DCB) form.

Use obj-y in net/dcb/Makefile because Kbuild vi

net: dcb: use obj-$(CONFIG_DCB) form in net/Makefile

CONFIG_DCB is a bool option. Change the ifeq conditional to the
standard obj-$(CONFIG_DCB) form.

Use obj-y in net/dcb/Makefile because Kbuild visits this Makefile
only when CONFIG_DCB=y.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>

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net: move CONFIG_NET guard to top Makefile

When CONFIG_NET is disabled, nothing under the net/ directory is
compiled. Move the CONFIG_NET guard to the top Makefile so the net/
directory is entirely

net: move CONFIG_NET guard to top Makefile

When CONFIG_NET is disabled, nothing under the net/ directory is
compiled. Move the CONFIG_NET guard to the top Makefile so the net/
directory is entirely skipped.

When Kbuild visits net/Makefile, CONFIG_NET is obvioulsy 'y' because
CONFIG_NET is a bool option. Clean up net/Makefile.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>

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wimax: move out to staging

There are no known users of this driver as of October 2020, and it will
be removed unless someone turns out to still need it in future releases.

According to https://en.w

wimax: move out to staging

There are no known users of this driver as of October 2020, and it will
be removed unless someone turns out to still need it in future releases.

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WiMAX_networks, there
have been many public wimax networks, but it appears that many of these
have migrated to LTE or discontinued their service altogether.
As most PCs and phones lack WiMAX hardware support, the remaining
networks tend to use standalone routers. These almost certainly
run Linux, but not a modern kernel or the mainline wimax driver stack.

NetworkManager appears to have dropped userspace support in 2015
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747846, the
www.linuxwimax.org
site had already shut down earlier.

WiMax is apparently still being deployed on airport campus networks
("AeroMACS"), but in a frequency band that was not supported by the old
Intel 2400m (used in Sandy Bridge laptops and earlier), which is the
only driver using the kernel's wimax stack.

Move all files into drivers/staging/wimax, including the uapi header
files and documentation, to make it easier to remove it when it gets
to that. Only minimal changes are made to the source files, in order
to make it possible to port patches across the move.

Also remove the MAINTAINERS entry that refers to a broken mailing
list and website.

Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Acked-By: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>

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net: move devres helpers into a separate source file

There's currently only a single devres helper in net/ - devm variant
of alloc_etherdev. Let's move it to net/devres.c with the intention of
assin

net: move devres helpers into a separate source file

There's currently only a single devres helper in net/ - devm variant
of alloc_etherdev. Let's move it to net/devres.c with the intention of
assing a second one: devm_register_netdev(). This new routine will need
to know the address of the release function of devm_alloc_etherdev() so
that it can verify (using devres_find()) that the struct net_device
that's being passed to it is also resource managed.

Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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mptcp: Add MPTCP socket stubs

Implements the infrastructure for MPTCP sockets.

MPTCP sockets open one in-kernel TCP socket per subflow. These subflow
sockets are only managed by the MPTCP socket th

mptcp: Add MPTCP socket stubs

Implements the infrastructure for MPTCP sockets.

MPTCP sockets open one in-kernel TCP socket per subflow. These subflow
sockets are only managed by the MPTCP socket that owns them and are not
visible from userspace. This commit allows a userspace program to open
an MPTCP socket with:

sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_MPTCP);

The resulting socket is simply a wrapper around a single regular TCP
socket, without any of the MPTCP protocol implemented over the wire.

Co-developed-by: Florian Westphal <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <[email protected]>
Co-developed-by: Peter Krystad <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Krystad <[email protected]>
Co-developed-by: Matthieu Baerts <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts <[email protected]>
Co-developed-by: Paolo Abeni <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Mat Martineau <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Paasch <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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ethtool: move to its own directory

The ethtool netlink interface is going to be split into multiple files so
that it will be more convenient to put all of them in a separate directory
net/ethtool. S

ethtool: move to its own directory

The ethtool netlink interface is going to be split into multiple files so
that it will be more convenient to put all of them in a separate directory
net/ethtool. Start by moving current ethtool.c with ioctl interface into
this directory and renaming it to ioctl.c.

Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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net: split out functions related to registering inflight socket files

We need this functionality for the io_uring file registration, but
we cannot rely on it since CONFIG_UNIX can be modular. Move t

net: split out functions related to registering inflight socket files

We need this functionality for the io_uring file registration, but
we cannot rely on it since CONFIG_UNIX can be modular. Move the helpers
to a separate file, that's always builtin to the kernel if CONFIG_UNIX is
m/y.

No functional changes in this patch, just moving code around.

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>

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bpfilter: check compiler capability in Kconfig

With the brand-new syntax extension of Kconfig, we can directly
check the compiler capability in the configuration phase.

If the cc-can-link.sh fails,

bpfilter: check compiler capability in Kconfig

With the brand-new syntax extension of Kconfig, we can directly
check the compiler capability in the configuration phase.

If the cc-can-link.sh fails, the BPFILTER_UMH is automatically
hidden by the dependency.

I also deleted 'default n', which is no-op.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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bpfilter: switch to CC from HOSTCC

check that CC can build executables and use that compiler instead of HOSTCC

Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@ker

bpfilter: switch to CC from HOSTCC

check that CC can build executables and use that compiler instead of HOSTCC

Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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net: add skeleton of bpfilter kernel module

bpfilter.ko consists of bpfilter_kern.c (normal kernel module code)
and user mode helper code that is embedded into bpfilter.ko

The steps to build bpfilt

net: add skeleton of bpfilter kernel module

bpfilter.ko consists of bpfilter_kern.c (normal kernel module code)
and user mode helper code that is embedded into bpfilter.ko

The steps to build bpfilter.ko are the following:
- main.c is compiled by HOSTCC into the bpfilter_umh elf executable file
- with quite a bit of objcopy and Makefile magic the bpfilter_umh elf file
is converted into bpfilter_umh.o object file
with _binary_net_bpfilter_bpfilter_umh_start and _end symbols
Example:
$ nm ./bld_x64/net/bpfilter/bpfilter_umh.o
0000000000004cf8 T _binary_net_bpfilter_bpfilter_umh_end
0000000000004cf8 A _binary_net_bpfilter_bpfilter_umh_size
0000000000000000 T _binary_net_bpfilter_bpfilter_umh_start
- bpfilter_umh.o and bpfilter_kern.o are linked together into bpfilter.ko

bpfilter_kern.c is a normal kernel module code that calls
the fork_usermode_blob() helper to execute part of its own data
as a user mode process.

Notice that _binary_net_bpfilter_bpfilter_umh_start - end
is placed into .init.rodata section, so it's freed as soon as __init
function of bpfilter.ko is finished.
As part of __init the bpfilter.ko does first request/reply action
via two unix pipe provided by fork_usermode_blob() helper to
make sure that umh is healthy. If not it will kill it via pid.

Later bpfilter_process_sockopt() will be called from bpfilter hooks
in get/setsockopt() to pass iptable commands into umh via bpfilter.ko

If admin does 'rmmod bpfilter' the __exit code bpfilter.ko will
kill umh as well.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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xsk: add user memory registration support sockopt

In this commit the base structure of the AF_XDP address family is set
up. Further, we introduce the abilty register a window of user memory
to the k

xsk: add user memory registration support sockopt

In this commit the base structure of the AF_XDP address family is set
up. Further, we introduce the abilty register a window of user memory
to the kernel via the XDP_UMEM_REG setsockopt syscall. The memory
window is viewed by an AF_XDP socket as a set of equally large
frames. After a user memory registration all frames are "owned" by the
user application, and not the kernel.

v2: More robust checks on umem creation and unaccount on error.
Call set_page_dirty_lock on cleanup.
Simplified xdp_umem_reg.

Co-authored-by: Magnus Karlsson <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Magnus Karlsson <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>

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ipx: move Novell IPX protocol support into staging

The Netware IPX protocol is very old and no one should still be using
it. It is time to move it into staging for a while and eventually
decommision

ipx: move Novell IPX protocol support into staging

The Netware IPX protocol is very old and no one should still be using
it. It is time to move it into staging for a while and eventually
decommision it.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

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

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine

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

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 <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

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nsh: add GSO support

Add a new nsh/ directory. It currently holds only GSO functions but more
will come: in particular, code shared by openvswitch and tc to manipulate
NSH headers.

For now, assume

nsh: add GSO support

Add a new nsh/ directory. It currently holds only GSO functions but more
will come: in particular, code shared by openvswitch and tc to manipulate
NSH headers.

For now, assume there's no hardware support for NSH segmentation. We can
always introduce netdev->nsh_features later.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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irda: move net/irda/ to drivers/staging/irda/net/

It's time to get rid of IRDA. It's long been broken, and no one seems
to use it anymore. So move it to staging and after a while, we can
delete it

irda: move net/irda/ to drivers/staging/irda/net/

It's time to get rid of IRDA. It's long been broken, and no one seems
to use it anymore. So move it to staging and after a while, we can
delete it from there.

To start, move the network irda core from net/irda to
drivers/staging/irda/net/

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

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