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mctp: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

Message ID 20230308121230.5354-2-nick.alcock@oracle.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series mctp: 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: Jeremy Kerr <jk@codeconstruct.com.au>
Cc: Matt Johnston <matt@codeconstruct.com.au>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
---
 net/mctp/af_mctp.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

(Reposted to netdev as requested.)

Comments

patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@kernel.org March 10, 2023, 7:11 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 12:12:30 +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:
  - mctp: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/14296c7d72ec

You are awesome, thank you!
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Patch

diff --git a/net/mctp/af_mctp.c b/net/mctp/af_mctp.c
index 3150f3f0c8725..bb4bd0b6a4f79 100644
--- a/net/mctp/af_mctp.c
+++ b/net/mctp/af_mctp.c
@@ -704,7 +704,6 @@  subsys_initcall(mctp_init);
 module_exit(mctp_exit);
 
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("MCTP core");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Jeremy Kerr <jk@codeconstruct.com.au>");
 
 MODULE_ALIAS_NETPROTO(PF_MCTP);