History log of /linux-master/scripts/spdxcheck.py
Revision Date Author Comments
# 0509b270 15-May-2022 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

scripts/spdxcheck: Put excluded files and directories into a separate file

The files and directories which are excluded from scanning are currently
hard coded in the script. That's not maintainable and not accessible for
external tools.

Move the files and directories which should be excluded into a file. The
default file is scripts/spdxexclude. This can be overridden with the
'-e $FILE' command line option.

The file format and syntax is similar to the .gitignore file.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 67924b71 15-May-2022 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

scripts/spdxcheck: Add option to display files without SPDX

Makes life easier when chasing the missing ones. Is activated with '-f'
on the command line.

# scripts/spdxcheck.py -f kernel/
Files without SPDX:
./kernel/cpu.c
./kernel/kmod.c
./kernel/relay.c
./kernel/bpf/offload.c
./kernel/bpf/preload/.gitignore
./kernel/bpf/preload/iterators/README
./kernel/bpf/ringbuf.c
./kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
./kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
./kernel/cgroup/legacy_freezer.c
./kernel/debug/debug_core.h
./kernel/debug/kdb/Makefile
./kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_bp.c
./kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_bt.c
./kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_cmds
./kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_debugger.c
./kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_io.c
./kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_keyboard.c
./kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c
./kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_private.h
./kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c
./kernel/locking/lockdep_states.h
./kernel/locking/mutex-debug.c
./kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c
./kernel/sched/pelt.h

With the optional -D parameter the directory depth can be limited:

# scripts/spdxcheck.py -f -D 0 kernel/
Files without SPDX:
./kernel/cpu.c
./kernel/kmod.c
./kernel/relay.c

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 0e7f0306 15-May-2022 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

scripts/spdxcheck: Add [sub]directory statistics

Add functionality to display [sub]directory statistics. This is enabled by
adding '-d' to the command line. The optional -D parameter allows to limit
the directory depth. If supplied the subdirectories are accumulated

# scripts/spdxcheck.py -d kernel/
Incomplete directories: SPDX in Files
./kernel : 111 of 114 97%
./kernel/bpf : 43 of 45 95%
./kernel/bpf/preload : 4 of 5 80%
./kernel/bpf/preload/iterators : 4 of 5 80%
./kernel/cgroup : 10 of 13 76%
./kernel/configs : 0 of 9 0%
./kernel/debug : 3 of 4 75%
./kernel/debug/kdb : 1 of 11 9%
./kernel/locking : 29 of 32 90%
./kernel/sched : 38 of 39 97%

The result can be accumulated by restricting the depth via the new command
line option '-d $DEPTH':

# scripts/spdxcheck.py -d -D1
Incomplete directories: SPDX in Files
./ : 6 of 13 46%
./Documentation : 4096 of 8451 48%
./arch : 13476 of 16402 82%
./block : 100 of 101 99%
./certs : 11 of 14 78%
./crypto : 145 of 176 82%
./drivers : 24682 of 30745 80%
./fs : 1876 of 2110 88%
./include : 5175 of 5757 89%
./ipc : 12 of 13 92%
./kernel : 493 of 527 93%
./lib : 393 of 524 75%
./mm : 151 of 159 94%
./net : 1713 of 1900 90%
./samples : 211 of 273 77%
./scripts : 341 of 435 78%
./security : 241 of 250 96%
./sound : 2438 of 2503 97%
./tools : 3810 of 5462 69%
./usr : 9 of 10 90%

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# a377ce75 15-May-2022 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

scripts/spdxcheck: Add directory statistics

For better insights.

Directories accounted: 4646
Directories complete: 2565 55%

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 149d623f 15-May-2022 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

scripts/spdxcheck: Add percentage to statistics

Files checked: 75856
Lines checked: 294516
Files with SPDX: 59410 78%
Files with errors: 0

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 28c9f3f9 13-Jan-2022 Ding Xiang <dingxiang@cmss.chinamobile.com>

spdxcheck.py: Fix a type error

remove unused variable "col", otherwise there will be a type error
as below:

typeerror: not all arguments converted during string formatting

Signed-off-by: Ding Xiang <dingxiang@cmss.chinamobile.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220114024058.74536-1-dingxiang@cmss.chinamobile.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 40751c6c 07-Jul-2021 Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>

scripts/spdxcheck.py: Strictly read license files in utf-8

Commit bc41a7f36469 ("LICENSES: Add the CC-BY-4.0 license")
unfortunately introduced LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0 in UTF-8 Unicode text
While python will barf at it with:

FAIL: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 2109: ordinal not in range(128)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "scripts/spdxcheck.py", line 244, in <module>
spdx = read_spdxdata(repo)
File "scripts/spdxcheck.py", line 47, in read_spdxdata
for l in open(el.path).readlines():
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 2109: ordinal not in range(128)

While it is indeed debatable if 'Licensor.' used in the license file
needs unicode quotes, instead, force spdxcheck to read utf-8.

Reported-by: Rahul T R <r-ravikumar@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210707204840.30891-1-nm@ti.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>


# 40635128 26-Mar-2021 Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>

scripts/spdxcheck.py: Fix a typo

s/Initilize/Initialize/

Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210326091443.26525-1-unixbhaskar@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# d0259c42 21-Jan-2021 Bert Vermeulen <bert@biot.com>

spdxcheck.py: Use Python 3

Python 2.x has been officially EOL'ed for some time, and in any case
the git module for it is hard to come by.

Signed-off-by: Bert Vermeulen <bert@biot.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210121085412.265400-1-bert@biot.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# c5c55385 26-Sep-2020 Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>

scripts/spdxcheck.py: handle license identifiers in XML comments

Commit cc9539e7884c ("media: docs: use the new SPDX header for GFDL-1.1 on
*.svg files") adds SPDX-License-Identifiers enclosed in XML comments,
i.e., <!-- ... -->, for svg files.

Unfortunately, ./scripts/spdxcheck.py does not handle
SPDX-License-Identifiers in XML comments, so it simply fails on checking
these files with 'Invalid License ID: --'.

Strip the XML comment ending simply by copying how it was done for comments
in C. With that, ./scripts/spdxcheck.py handles the svg files properly.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 8d7a7abf 31-May-2019 Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>

spdxcheck.py: fix directory structures

The LICENSE directory has recently changed structure and this makes
spdxcheck fails as per below:

FAIL: "Blob or Tree named 'other' not found"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "scripts/spdxcheck.py", line 240, in <module>
spdx = read_spdxdata(repo)
File "scripts/spdxcheck.py", line 41, in read_spdxdata
for el in lictree[d].traverse():
[...]
KeyError: "Blob or Tree named 'other' not found"

Fix the script to restore the correctness on checkpatch License checking.

References: 62be257e986d ("LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated")
References: 8ea8814fcdcb ("LICENSES: Clearly mark dual license only licenses")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190523084755.56739-1-vincenzo.frascino@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jeremy Cline <jcline@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 29077bc5 11-May-2019 Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

scripts/spdxcheck.py: Add dual license subdirectory

The licenses from the other directory were partially moved to the dual
directory in commit 8ea8814fcdcb ("LICENSES: Clearly mark dual license only
licenses"). checkpatch therefore rejected files like
drivers/staging/android/ashmem.h with

WARNING: 'SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 OR Apache-2.0 */' is not supported in LICENSES/...
#1: FILE: drivers/staging/android/ashmem.h:1:
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 OR Apache-2.0 */

Fixes: 8ea8814fcdcb ("LICENSES: Clearly mark dual license only licenses")
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>


# e6d319f6 11-May-2019 Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>

scripts/spdxcheck.py: Fix path to deprecated licenses

The directory name for other licenses was changed to "deprecated" in
commit 62be257e986d ("LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated"). But it was
not changed for spdxcheck.py. As result, checkpatch failed with

FAIL: "Blob or Tree named 'other' not found"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "scripts/spdxcheck.py", line 240, in <module>
spdx = read_spdxdata(repo)
File "scripts/spdxcheck.py", line 41, in read_spdxdata
for el in lictree[d].traverse():
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/git/objects/tree.py", line 298, in __getitem__
return self.join(item)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/git/objects/tree.py", line 244, in join
raise KeyError(msg % file)
KeyError: "Blob or Tree named 'other' not found"

Fixes: 62be257e986d ("LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated")
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>


# a5f4cb42 20-Feb-2019 Aurélien Cedeyn <aurelien.cedeyn@gmail.com>

scripts/spdxcheck.py: fix C++ comment style detection

With the last commit to support the SuperH boot code files, we have the
following regression:

$ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f <(echo '/* SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT */')
WARNING: 'SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT */' is not supported in LICENSES/..
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT */

total: 0 errors, 1 warnings, 1 lines checked

NOTE: For some of the reported defects, checkpatch may be able to
mechanically convert to the typical style using --fix or --fix-inplace.

/dev/fd/63 has style problems, please review.

NOTE: If any of the errors are false positives, please report
them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.

This is not obvious, but spdxcheck.py is launched in checkpatch.pl with :
...
} elsif ($rawline =~ /(SPDX-License-Identifier: .*)/) {
my $spdx_license = $1;
if (!is_SPDX_License_valid($spdx_license)) {
WARN("SPDX_LICENSE_TAG",
"'$spdx_license' is not supported in LICENSES/...\n" . \
$herecurr);
}
...
sub is_SPDX_License_valid {
my ($license) = @_;
...
my $status = `cd "$root_path"; echo "$license" |
python scripts/spdxcheck.py -`;
...
}

The first chars before 'SPDX-License-Identifier:' are ignored.
This commit fixes this regression.

Fixes:959b49687838 (scripts/spdxcheck.py: Handle special quotation mark comments)
Signed-off-by:Aurélien Cedeyn <aurelien.cedeyn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>


# 959b4968 16-Jan-2019 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

scripts/spdxcheck.py: Handle special quotation mark comments

The SuperH boot code files use a magic format for the SPDX identifier
comment:

LIST "SPDX-License-Identifier: .... "

The trailing quotation mark is not stripped before the token parser is
invoked and causes the scan to fail. Handle it gracefully.

Fixes: 6a0abce4c4cc ("sh: include: convert to SPDX identifiers")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@verge.net.au>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>


# 3a6ab5c7 14-Dec-2018 Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>

scripts/spdxcheck.py: always open files in binary mode

The spdxcheck script currently falls over when confronted with a binary
file (such as Documentation/logo.gif). To avoid that, always open files
in binary mode and decode line-by-line, ignoring encoding errors.

One tricky case is when piping data into the script and reading it from
standard input. By default, standard input will be opened in text mode,
so we need to reopen it in binary mode.

The breakage only happens with python3 and results in a
UnicodeDecodeError (according to Uwe).

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181212131210.28024-1-thierry.reding@gmail.com
Fixes: 6f4d29df66ac ("scripts/spdxcheck.py: make python3 compliant")
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeremy Cline <jcline@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 6f4d29df 16-Nov-2018 Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>

scripts/spdxcheck.py: make python3 compliant

Without this change the following happens when using Python3 (3.6.6):

$ echo "GPL-2.0" | python3 scripts/spdxcheck.py -
FAIL: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "scripts/spdxcheck.py", line 253, in <module>
parser.parse_lines(sys.stdin, args.maxlines, '-')
File "scripts/spdxcheck.py", line 171, in parse_lines
line = line.decode(locale.getpreferredencoding(False), errors='ignore')
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'

So as the line is already a string, there is no need to decode it and
the line can be dropped.

/usr/bin/python on Arch is Python 3. So this would indeed be worth
going into 4.19.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181023070802.22558-1-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# bed95c43 17-Aug-2018 Jeremy Cline <jcline@redhat.com>

scripts: add Python 3 compatibility to spdxcheck.py

"dict.has_key(key)" on dictionaries has been replaced with "key in
dict". Additionally, when run under Python 3 some files don't decode
with the default encoding (tested with UTF-8). To handle that, don't
open the file in text mode and decode text line-by-line, ignoring
encoding errors.

This remains compatible with Python 2 and should have no functional
change.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180717190635.29467-1-jcline@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Cline <jcline@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# fde5e903 17-Aug-2018 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>

scripts/spdxcheck.py: work with current HEAD LICENSES/ directory

Depending on how old your -next tree is, it may not have a master that
has the LICENSES directory.

Change the lookup to HEAD and find whatever LICENSE directory files are
used in that branch.

Miscellanea:

- Remove the checkpatch test as it will have its own SPDX license
identifier.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/7eeefc862194930c773e662cb2152e178441d3b8.camel@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 5385a295 26-Apr-2018 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

scripts: Add SPDX checker script

The SPDX-License-Identifiers are growing in the kernel and so grow
expression failures and license IDs are used which have no corresponding
license text file in the LICENSES directory.

Add a script which gathers information from the LICENSES directory,
i.e. the various tags in the licenses and exception files and then scans
either input from stdin, which it treats as a single file or if started
without arguments it scans the full kernel tree.

It checks whether the license expression syntax is correct and also
validates whether the license identifiers used in the expressions are
available in the LICENSES files.

scripts/spdxcheck.py -h
usage: spdxcheck.py [-h] [-m MAXLINES] [-v] [path [path ...]]

SPDX expression checker

positional arguments:
path Check path or file. If not given full git tree scan.
For stdin use "-"

optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-m MAXLINES, --maxlines MAXLINES
Maximum number of lines to scan in a file. Default 15
-v, --verbose Verbose statistics output

include/dt-bindings/reset/amlogic,meson-axg-reset.h: 9:41 Invalid License ID: BSD

drivers/pinctrl/sh-pfc/pfc-r8a77965.c: 1:28 Invalid License ID: GPL-2.
include/dt-bindings/reset/amlogic,meson-axg-reset.h: 9:41 Invalid License ID: BSD

arch/x86/kernel/jailhouse.c: 1:28 Invalid License ID: GPL2.0
include/dt-bindings/reset/amlogic,meson-axg-reset.h: 9:41 Invalid License ID: BSD

arch/arm/mach-s3c24xx/h1940-bluetooth.c: 1:28 Invalid License ID: GPL-1.0
arch/x86/kernel/jailhouse.c: 1:28 Invalid License ID: GPL2.0
drivers/pinctrl/sh-pfc/pfc-r8a77965.c: 1:28 Invalid License ID: GPL-2.
include/dt-bindings/reset/amlogic,meson-axg-reset.h: 9:41 Invalid License ID: BSD
arch/x86/include/asm/jailhouse_para.h: 1:28 Invalid License ID: GPL2.0

arch/arm/mach-s3c24xx/h1940-bluetooth.c: 1:28 Invalid License ID: GPL-1.0
arch/x86/kernel/jailhouse.c: 1:28 Invalid License ID: GPL2.0
drivers/pinctrl/sh-pfc/pfc-r8a77965.c: 1:28 Invalid License ID: GPL-2.
include/dt-bindings/reset/amlogic,meson-axg-reset.h: 9:41 Invalid License ID: BSD
arch/x86/include/asm/jailhouse_para.h: 1:28 Invalid License ID: GPL2.0

License files: 14
Exception files: 1
License IDs 19
Exception IDs 1

Files checked: 61332
Lines checked: 669181
Files with SPDX: 16169
Files with errors: 5

real 0m2.642s
user 0m2.231s
sys 0m0.467s

That's a full tree sweep on my laptop. Note, this runs single threaded.

It scans by default the first 15 lines for a SPDX identifier where the
current max inside a top comment is at line 10. But that's going to be
faster once the identifiers are all in the first two lines as documented.

The python wizards will surely know how to do that smarter and faster, but
its at least better than no tool at all.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
[jc: Fixed ironically erroneous SPDX tag and did chmod +x ]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>