Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 15:04:08 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
        Konstantin Serebryany <kcc@google.com>,
        Dmitry Chernenkov <dmitryc@google.com>,
        Andrey Konovalov <adech.fo@gmail.com>,
        Yuri Gribov <tetra2005@gmail.com>,
        Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>,
        Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>, Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 02/19] Add kernel address sanitizer infrastructure.
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On Tue, 03 Feb 2015 20:42:55 +0300 Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com> wrote:

>
> ...
>
> Based on work by Andrey Konovalov <adech.fo@gmail.com>
>

We still don't have Andrey Konovalov's signoff?  As it stands we're
taking some of his work and putting it into Linux without his
permission.

> ...
>
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/mm/kasan/kasan.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,302 @@
> +/*
> + * This file contains shadow memory manipulation code.
> + *
> + * Copyright (c) 2014 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
> + * Author: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>
> + *
> + * Some of code borrowed from https://github.com/xairy/linux by
> + *        Andrey Konovalov <adech.fo@gmail.com>
> + *
> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
> + * published by the Free Software Foundation.
> + *
> + */

https://code.google.com/p/thread-sanitizer/ is BSD licensed and we're
changing it to GPL.

I don't do the lawyer stuff, but this is all a bit worrisome.  I'd be a
lot more comfortable with that signed-off-by, please.


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