diff mbox series

[15/17] xen: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

Message ID 20230302211759.30135-16-nick.alcock@oracle.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
Headers show
Series MODULE_LICENSE removals, sixth tranche | expand

Commit Message

Nick Alcock March 2, 2023, 9:17 p.m. UTC 
Since commit 8b41fc4454e ("kbuild: create modules.builtin without
Makefile.modbuiltin or tristate.conf"), MODULE_LICENSE declarations
are used to identify modules. As a consequence, uses of the macro
in non-modules will cause modprobe to misidentify their containing
object file as a module when it is not (false positives), and modprobe
might succeed rather than failing with a suitable error message.

So remove it in the files in this commit, none of which can be built as
modules.

Signed-off-by: Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
Suggested-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-modules@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Hitomi Hasegawa <hasegawa-hitomi@fujitsu.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
---
 drivers/xen/grant-dma-ops.c       | 1 -
 drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c | 1 -
 2 files changed, 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Jürgen Groß March 6, 2023, 7:45 a.m. UTC | #1 
On 02.03.23 22:17, Nick Alcock wrote:
> Since commit 8b41fc4454e ("kbuild: create modules.builtin without
> Makefile.modbuiltin or tristate.conf"), MODULE_LICENSE declarations
> are used to identify modules. As a consequence, uses of the macro
> in non-modules will cause modprobe to misidentify their containing
> object file as a module when it is not (false positives), and modprobe
> might succeed rather than failing with a suitable error message.
> 
> So remove it in the files in this commit, none of which can be built as
> modules.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
> Suggested-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
> Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
> Cc: linux-modules@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: Hitomi Hasegawa <hasegawa-hitomi@fujitsu.com>
> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org

Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>


Juergen
diff mbox series

Patch

diff --git a/drivers/xen/grant-dma-ops.c b/drivers/xen/grant-dma-ops.c
index 9784a77fa3c99..ca0249fc4d18f 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/grant-dma-ops.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/grant-dma-ops.c
@@ -413,4 +413,3 @@  bool xen_virtio_restricted_mem_acc(struct virtio_device *dev)
 
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Xen grant DMA-mapping layer");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
diff --git a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c
index 58b732dcbfb83..86c04f239e873 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c
@@ -1066,4 +1066,3 @@  static int __init xenbus_init(void)
 
 postcore_initcall(xenbus_init);
 
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");