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2026-10-11docs: core-api: Document the seq_buf APIKees Cook
The kernel-doc in include/linux/seq_buf.h and lib/seq_buf.c documents the seq_buf interface, but no .rst file pulls either of them in, so none of it reaches the generated documentation. Add the missing kernel-doc for seq_buf_clear() and seq_buf_init(), and a Sequence Buffers section to the kernel API documentation. The static internal helper seq_buf_can_fit() is left out. Additionally fix seq_buf_hex_dump() indentation to avoid the reported Sphinx error: ERROR: Unexpected indentation. WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent. Verified with "make SPHINXDIRS=core-api htmldocs", which rendered happily into core-api/kernel-api.html. Assisted-by: LLM Co-developed-by: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com> Signed-off-by: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com> Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261005155708.1471260-12-kees@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
2026-10-11seq_buf: Clear what a writer did not claim when a seq_buf overflowsKees Cook
Using seq_buf_set_overflow() would leave the bytes between "len" and "size" untouched, so if seq_buf_str() is used on an overflowed seq_buf, those bytes may be exposed. For any paths that don't claim partially written bytes, by setting "len = size" before calling seq_buf_set_overflow(), wipe the unclaimed bytes. The seq_buf_puts() and related APIs already claim those bytes now, so only the unclaimed cases remain. A specific example of this was seq_buf_path() which uses d_path() and would write to the tail before discovering it was out of space, and would correctly mark a seq_buf as overflowed, but the path fragment would be left over. Clear from len to the end of the buffer in seq_buf_set_overflow(), which every overflow goes through, including seq_buf_commit() with a negative count. Add a test that fills a seq_buf, leaves it too little room for a path, and checks that nothing of the path is left in the buffer. The tests run before anything writable is mounted, so it takes its file from shmem. seq_buf_path() was not exported, so the test failed to link as a module. Export it. Tests passed under qemu on ARCH=x86_64 with GCC 16.2.0 and CONFIG_KASAN=y, and on big-endian ARCH=s390 with GCC s390x-linux-gnu 16.2.0, and the test builds as a module (CONFIG_SEQ_BUF_KUNIT_TEST=m). Assisted-by: LLM Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261005155708.1471260-5-kees@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
2026-10-11seq_buf: Copy what fits when seq_buf_puts() and seq_buf_putmem() overflowKees Cook
When seq_buf_puts() or seq_buf_putmem() is given more than fits, it copies nothing and only marks the seq_buf as overflowed. If seq_buf_str() is used, it will terminate the buffer in its last byte, so every byte between the end of the data and the end of the buffer becomes part of the string, though the seq_buf never wrote them. seq_buf_printf() does not have this problem, because vsnprintf() writes as much of the output as fits, followed by a NUL. Repeat this behavior in seq_buf_puts(), using strscpy(), and in seq_buf_putmem(), which also covers seq_buf_putmem_hex(). seq_buf_putc() needs no change, as it can only overflow when the buffer is already full. Each writer now records the buffer as full once it has copied what fits, so that what it wrote can be told apart from bytes nothing touched. Of the callers that check the return value or test for overflow afterward, only lpfc_rx_monitor_report() relied on a string that did not fit being left out, and the previous patch has it drop such a record itself. The others treat overflow as an error or report it. The callers that ignore overflow use whatever the buffer holds, which now ends with the part of the string that fit. Update seq_buf_putmem_hex_overflow_test, which expected a hex group that did not fit whole to be left out entirely, and add tests that overflow seq_buf_puts(), seq_buf_putmem() and seq_buf_putmem_hex() with stale bytes in the buffer. The three partial-overflow tests check the buffer itself rather than seq_buf_str(). Neither writer leaves the last byte of the buffer alone: seq_buf_putmem() copies raw bytes and writes no NUL, and seq_buf_puts() relies on strscpy() to write one. That byte is exactly where seq_buf_str() writes its terminator, so asserting only on the string would pass whether the copy stopped a byte early or dropped the NUL entirely. seq_buf_putmem() was not exported, so the test failed to link as a module. Export it. Tests passed under qemu on ARCH=x86_64 with GCC 16.2.0 and CONFIG_KASAN=y, and on big-endian ARCH=s390 with GCC s390x-linux-gnu 16.2.0, and the test builds as a module (CONFIG_SEQ_BUF_KUNIT_TEST=m). Assisted-by: LLM Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261005155708.1471260-4-kees@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
2026-10-11seq_buf: Do not print an empty line from an overflowed seq_buf_do_printk()Kees Cook
seq_buf_do_printk() prints a buffer line by line, then prints whatever follows the last newline. When a string has overflowed at exactly a newline, an empty line is printed since the pointer hasn't reached the overflow mark of the seq_buf. Switch to just check if the string is already empty and only print if not. The only caller is the memory cgroup OOM report, so this could only ever add a blank line to a report whose statistics already did not fit. Add a test that registers a console to count the records that seq_buf_do_printk() emits. It counts the records carrying the test's marker, and the records holding nothing but a line feed that arrive after one, so that unrelated kernel messages do not disturb it. Both states that reach the flaw are covered: exactly full, and overflowed. Tests passed under qemu on ARCH=x86_64 with GCC 16.2.0 and CONFIG_KASAN=y, and on big-endian ARCH=s390 with GCC s390x-linux-gnu 16.2.0. Fixes: 96928d9032a7c ("seq_buf: Add seq_buf_do_printk() helper") Assisted-by: LLM Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261005155708.1471260-1-kees@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
2026-07-31seq_file: rename mangle_path to seq_mangle_pathJohannes Berg
The symbol mangle_path conflicts with a gcov symbol which can break the build of ARCH=um with gcov, and it's also not very specific and descriptive. Rename mangle_path() to seq_mangle_path(), and also remove the export since it's not needed or used by any modules. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Alex Hung <alex.hung@amd.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260727195730.2306887-1-alex.hung@amd.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-05-21seq_buf: Export seq_buf_putmem_hex() and add KUnit testsShuvam Pandey
The seq_buf KUnit suite does not exercise seq_buf_putmem_hex(). Add one test for the len > 8 chunking path and one overflow test where a later chunk no longer fits in the buffer. Export seq_buf_putmem_hex() as well so SEQ_BUF_KUNIT_TEST=m links cleanly. Without the export, modpost reports seq_buf_putmem_hex as undefined when seq_buf_kunit is built as a module. Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: David Gow <david@davidgow.net> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260408202351.21829-1-shuvampandey1@gmail.com Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Shuvam Pandey <shuvampandey1@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2024-02-15seq_buf: Fix kernel documentationAndy Shevchenko
There are plenty of issues with the kernel documentation here: - misspelled word "sequence" - different style of returned value descriptions - missed Return sections - unaligned style of ASCII / NUL-terminated / etc - wrong function references Fix all these. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240215152506.598340-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2024-02-15seq_buf: Don't use "proxy" headersAndy Shevchenko
Update header inclusions to follow IWYU (Include What You Use) principle. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240215142255.400264-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2023-11-02seq_buf: Export seq_buf_puts()Christophe JAILLET
Mark seq_buf_puts() which is part of the seq_buf API to be exported to kernel loadable GPL modules. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b9e3737f66ec2450221b492048ce0d9c65c84953.1698861216.git.christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2023-11-02seq_buf: Export seq_buf_putc()Christophe JAILLET
Mark seq_buf_putc() which is part of the seq_buf API to be exported to kernel loadable GPL modules. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/5c9a5ed97ac37dbdcd9c1e7bcbdec9ac166e79be.1698861216.git.christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2023-10-28seq_buf: Introduce DECLARE_SEQ_BUF and seq_buf_str()Kees Cook
Solve two ergonomic issues with struct seq_buf; 1) Too much boilerplate is required to initialize: struct seq_buf s; char buf[32]; seq_buf_init(s, buf, sizeof(buf)); Instead, we can build this directly on the stack. Provide DECLARE_SEQ_BUF() macro to do this: DECLARE_SEQ_BUF(s, 32); 2) %NUL termination is fragile and requires 2 steps to get a valid C String (and is a layering violation exposing the "internals" of seq_buf): seq_buf_terminate(s); do_something(s->buffer); Instead, we can just return s->buffer directly after terminating it in the refactored seq_buf_terminate(), now known as seq_buf_str(): do_something(seq_buf_str(s)); Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231027155634.make.260-kees@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231026194033.it.702-kees@kernel.org/ Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com> Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Yun Zhou <yun.zhou@windriver.com> Cc: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> Cc: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2023-10-20tracing: Move readpos from seq_buf to trace_seqMatthew Wilcox (Oracle)
To make seq_buf more lightweight as a string buf, move the readpos member from seq_buf to its container, trace_seq. That puts the responsibility of maintaining the readpos entirely in the tracing code. If some future users want to package up the readpos with a seq_buf, we can define a new struct then. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231020033545.2587554-2-willy@infradead.org Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com> Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2023-04-25seq_buf: Add seq_buf_do_printk() helperSergey Senozhatsky
Sometimes we use seq_buf to format a string buffer, which we then pass to printk(). However, in certain situations the seq_buf string buffer can get too big, exceeding the PRINTKRB_RECORD_MAX bytes limit, and causing printk() to truncate the string. Add a new seq_buf helper. This helper prints the seq_buf string buffer line by line, using \n as a delimiter, rather than passing the whole string buffer to printk() at once. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230415100110.1419872-1-senozhatsky@chromium.org Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Tested-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-07-08lib: fix spelling mistakesZhen Lei
Fix some spelling mistakes in comments: permanentely ==> permanently wont ==> won't remaning ==> remaining succed ==> succeed shouldnt ==> shouldn't alpha-numeric ==> alphanumeric storeing ==> storing funtion ==> function documenation ==> documentation Determin ==> Determine intepreted ==> interpreted ammount ==> amount obious ==> obvious interupts ==> interrupts occured ==> occurred asssociated ==> associated taking into acount ==> taking into account squence ==> sequence stil ==> still contiguos ==> contiguous matchs ==> matches Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210607072555.12416-1-thunder.leizhen@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-06-26seq_buf: Make trace_seq_putmem_hex() support data longer than 8Yun Zhou
Since the raw memory 'data' does not go forward, it will dump repeated data if the data length is more than 8. If we want to dump longer data blocks, we need to repeatedly call macro SEQ_PUT_HEX_FIELD. I think it is a bit redundant, and multiple function calls also affect the performance. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210625122453.5e2fe304@oasis.local.home/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210626032156.47889-2-yun.zhou@windriver.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 6d2289f3faa7 ("tracing: Make trace_seq_putmem_hex() more robust") Signed-off-by: Yun Zhou <yun.zhou@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-06-26seq_buf: Fix overflow in seq_buf_putmem_hex()Yun Zhou
There's two variables being increased in that loop (i and j), and i follows the raw data, and j follows what is being written into the buffer. We should compare 'i' to MAX_MEMHEX_BYTES or compare 'j' to HEX_CHARS. Otherwise, if 'j' goes bigger than HEX_CHARS, it will overflow the destination buffer. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210625122453.5e2fe304@oasis.local.home/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210626032156.47889-1-yun.zhou@windriver.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 5e3ca0ec76fce ("ftrace: introduce the "hex" output method") Signed-off-by: Yun Zhou <yun.zhou@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2020-06-15seq_buf: Export seq_buf_printfVaibhav Jain
'seq_buf' provides a very useful abstraction for writing to a string buffer without needing to worry about it over-flowing. However even though the API has been stable for couple of years now its still not exported to kernel loadable modules limiting its usage. Hence this patch proposes update to 'seq_buf.c' to mark seq_buf_printf() which is part of the seq_buf API to be exported to kernel loadable GPL modules. This symbol will be used in later parts of this patch-set to simplify content creation for a sysfs attribute. Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Piotr Maziarz <piotrx.maziarz@linux.intel.com> Cc: Cezary Rojewski <cezary.rojewski@intel.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200615124407.32596-3-vaibhav@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2019-11-14seq_buf: Add printing formatted hex dumpsPiotr Maziarz
Provided function is an analogue of print_hex_dump(). Implementing this function in seq_buf allows using for multiple purposes (e.g. for tracing) and therefore prevents from code duplication in every layer that uses seq_buf. print_hex_dump() is an essential part of logging data to dmesg. Adding similar capability for other purposes is beneficial to all users. Example usage: seq_buf_hex_dump(seq, "", DUMP_PREFIX_OFFSET, 16, 4, buf, ARRAY_SIZE(buf), true); Example output: 00000000: 00000000 ffffff10 ffffff32 ffff3210 ........2....2.. 00000010: ffff3210 83d00437 c0700000 00000000 .2..7.....p..... 00000020: 02010004 0000000f 0000000f 00004002 .............@.. 00000030: 00000fff 00000000 ........ Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1573130738-29390-1-git-send-email-piotrx.maziarz@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Piotr Maziarz <piotrx.maziarz@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Cezary Rojewski <cezary.rojewski@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2018-12-22seq_buf: Use size_t for len in seq_buf_puts()Michael Ellerman
Jann Horn points out that we're using unsigned int for len in seq_buf_puts(), which could potentially overflow if we're passed a UINT_MAX sized string. The rest of the code already uses size_t, so we should also use that in seq_buf_puts() to avoid any issues. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181019042109.8064-2-mpe@ellerman.id.au Suggested-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2018-12-22seq_buf: Make seq_buf_puts() null-terminate the bufferMichael Ellerman
Currently seq_buf_puts() will happily create a non null-terminated string for you in the buffer. This is particularly dangerous if the buffer is on the stack. For example: char buf[8]; char secret = "secret"; struct seq_buf s; seq_buf_init(&s, buf, sizeof(buf)); seq_buf_puts(&s, "foo"); printk("Message is %s\n", buf); Can result in: Message is fooªªªªªsecret We could require all users to memset() their buffer to zero before use. But that seems likely to be forgotten and lead to bugs. Instead we can change seq_buf_puts() to always leave the buffer in a null-terminated state. The only downside is that this makes the buffer 1 character smaller for seq_buf_puts(), but that seems like a good trade off. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181019042109.8064-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2017-11-02License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no licenseGreg Kroah-Hartman
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 <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>
2015-12-23tracing: Use seq_buf_used() in seq_buf_to_user() instead of lenJerry Snitselaar
commit 5ac48378414d ("tracing: Use trace_seq_used() and seq_buf_used() instead of len") changed the tracing code to use trace_seq_used() and seq_buf_used() instead of using the seq_buf len directly to avoid overflow issues, but missed a spot in seq_buf_to_user() that makes use of s->len. Cleaned up the code a bit as well per suggestion of Steve Rostedt. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1447703848-2951-1-git-send-email-jsnitsel@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jerry Snitselaar <jsnitsel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-03-04seq_buf: Fix seq_buf_bprintf() truncationSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
In seq_buf_bprintf(), bstr_printf() is used to copy the format into the buffer remaining in the seq_buf structure. The return of bstr_printf() is the amount of characters written to the buffer excluding the '\0', unless the line was truncated! If the line copied does not fit, it is truncated, and a '\0' is added to the end of the buffer. But in this case, '\0' is included in the length of the line written. To know if the buffer had overflowed, the return length will be the same or greater than the length of the buffer passed in. The check in seq_buf_bprintf() only checked if the length returned from bstr_printf() would fit in the buffer, as the seq_buf_bprintf() is only to be an all or nothing command. It either writes all the string into the seq_buf, or none of it. If the string is truncated, the pointers inside the seq_buf must be reset to what they were when the function was called. This is not the case. On overflow, it copies only part of the string. The fix is to change the overflow check to see if the length returned from bstr_printf() is less than the length remaining in the seq_buf buffer, and not if it is less than or equal to as it currently does. Then seq_buf_bprintf() will know if the write from bstr_printf() was truncated or not. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1425500481.2712.27.camel@perches.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-03-04seq_buf: Fix seq_buf_vprintf() truncationSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
In seq_buf_vprintf(), vsnprintf() is used to copy the format into the buffer remaining in the seq_buf structure. The return of vsnprintf() is the amount of characters written to the buffer excluding the '\0', unless the line was truncated! If the line copied does not fit, it is truncated, and a '\0' is added to the end of the buffer. But in this case, '\0' is included in the length of the line written. To know if the buffer had overflowed, the return length will be the same as the length of the buffer passed in. The check in seq_buf_vprintf() only checked if the length returned from vsnprintf() would fit in the buffer, as the seq_buf_vprintf() is only to be an all or nothing command. It either writes all the string into the seq_buf, or none of it. If the string is truncated, the pointers inside the seq_buf must be reset to what they were when the function was called. This is not the case. On overflow, it copies only part of the string. The fix is to change the overflow check to see if the length returned from vsnprintf() is less than the length remaining in the seq_buf buffer, and not if it is less than or equal to as it currently does. Then seq_buf_vprintf() will know if the write from vsnpritnf() was truncated or not. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-02-13bitmap, cpumask, nodemask: remove dedicated formatting functionsTejun Heo
Now that all bitmap formatting usages have been converted to '%*pb[l]', the separate formatting functions are unnecessary. The following functions are removed. * bitmap_scn[list]printf() * cpumask_scnprintf(), cpulist_scnprintf() * [__]nodemask_scnprintf(), [__]nodelist_scnprintf() * seq_bitmap[_list](), seq_cpumask[_list](), seq_nodemask[_list]() * seq_buf_bitmask() Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-11-19seq_buf: Move the seq_buf code to lib/Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
The seq_buf functions are rather useful outside of tracing. Instead of having it be dependent on CONFIG_TRACING, move the code into lib/ and allow other users to have access to it even when tracing is not configured. The seq_buf utility is similar to the seq_file utility, but instead of writing sending data back up to userland, it writes it into a buffer defined at seq_buf_init(). This allows us to send a descriptor around that writes printf() formatted strings into it that can be retrieved later. It is currently used by the tracing facility for such things like trace events to convert its binary saved data in the ring buffer into an ASCII human readable context to be displayed in /sys/kernel/debug/trace. It can also be used for doing NMI prints safely from NMI context into the seq_buf and retrieved later and dumped to printk() safely. Doing printk() from an NMI context is dangerous because an NMI can preempt a current printk() and deadlock on it. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/20140619213952.058255809@goodmis.org Tested-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>