2023-02-22 12:35:23

by Nick Alcock

Subject: [PATCH 15/27] kbuild, cpufreq: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

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 <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Luis Chamberlain <[email protected]>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Hitomi Hasegawa <[email protected]>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[email protected]>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
---
drivers/cpufreq/freq_table.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/freq_table.c b/drivers/cpufreq/freq_table.c
index 67e56cf638ef..90bfc27ed1ba 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/freq_table.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/freq_table.c
@@ -367,4 +367,3 @@ int cpufreq_table_validate_and_sort(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)

MODULE_AUTHOR("Dominik Brodowski <[email protected]>");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("CPUfreq frequency table helpers");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
--
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303

2023-02-23 04:22:15

by Viresh Kumar

Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/27] kbuild, cpufreq: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

On 22-02-23, 12:14, 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 <[email protected]>
> Suggested-by: Luis Chamberlain <[email protected]>
> Cc: Luis Chamberlain <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: Hitomi Hasegawa <[email protected]>
> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[email protected]>
> Cc: Viresh Kumar <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> ---
> drivers/cpufreq/freq_table.c | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

Applied. Thanks.

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viresh