Re: [PATCH 08/30] x86, kaiser: unmap kernel from userspace page tables (core patch)

[Ingo Molnar]

* Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> These patches are based on work from a team at Graz University of
> Technology: https://github.com/IAIK/KAISER .  This work would not have
> been possible without their work as a starting point.

> Note: The original KAISER authors signed-off on their patch.  Some of
> their code has been broken out into other patches in this series, but
> their SoB was only retained here.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Richard Fellner <richard.fellner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Moritz Lipp <moritz.lipp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Gruss <daniel.gruss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Schwarz <michael.schwarz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

That's not how SOB chains should be used normally - nor does the current code have 
much resemblance to the original code.

So you credit them in the file:

> --- /dev/null	2017-11-06 07:51:38.702108459 -0800
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c	2017-11-08 10:45:29.893681394 -0800
> @@ -0,0 +1,412 @@
> +/*
> + * Copyright(c) 2017 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
> + *
> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> + * it under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License as
> + * published by the Free Software Foundation.
> + *
> + * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
> + * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> + * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
> + * General Public License for more details.
> + *
> + * Based on work published here: https://github.com/IAIK/KAISER
> + * Modified by Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx to actually work.

You could credit the original authors via something like:

	/*
	 * The original KAISER patch, on which this code is based in part, was 
	 * written by and signed off by for the Linux kernel by:
	 *
	 *   Signed-off-by: Richard Fellner <richard.fellner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
	 *   Signed-off-by: Moritz Lipp <moritz.lipp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
         *   Signed-off-by: Daniel Gruss <daniel.gruss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
	 *   Signed-off-by: Michael Schwarz <michael.schwarz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
	 *
	 * At:
	 *
	 *   https://github.com/IAIK/KAISER
	 */

Or something like that - but the original SOBs should not be carried over as-is 
into the commit log entry.

Thanks,

	Ingo