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>
systemd > 218 fails to compile on ia64 with:
error: ‘__NR_kcmp’ undeclared [1].
I've been told that this is because the kcmp syscall hasn't been wired up
for the ia64 arch [2].
The proposed patch thus wire up the kcmp syscall for the ia64 arch.
[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=560492
[2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=560492#c17
Signed-off-by: Émeric MASCHINO <emeric.maschino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cut & paste typo from the line above.
Reported-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
See commit c6e9d6f388
random: introduce getrandom(2) system call
for all the details (and even a manual page!)
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Linux was granted a new system call to load modules by file descriptor
in commit 34e1169d99 ("module: add syscall to load module from fd").
Wire it up for ia64 (ready for the Chrome port :-)
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
