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lib: packing: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

Message ID 20230308121230.5354-1-nick.alcock@oracle.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series lib: packing: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules | expand

Commit Message

Nick Alcock March 8, 2023, 12:12 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: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
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 lib/packing.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

(reposted to netdev as requested.)

Comments

patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@kernel.org March 10, 2023, 7:30 a.m. UTC | #1 
Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net-next.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>:

On Wed,  8 Mar 2023 12:12:29 +0000 you 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.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - lib: packing: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/efb5b62d7271

You are awesome, thank you!
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Patch

diff --git a/lib/packing.c b/lib/packing.c
index a96169237ae66..3f656167c17e0 100644
--- a/lib/packing.c
+++ b/lib/packing.c
@@ -198,5 +198,4 @@  int packing(void *pbuf, u64 *uval, int startbit, int endbit, size_t pbuflen,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(packing);
 
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Generic bitfield packing and unpacking");