Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751519AbXBCUSE (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Feb 2007 15:18:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751534AbXBCUSE (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Feb 2007 15:18:04 -0500 Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:10364 "EHLO rgminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751519AbXBCUSD (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Feb 2007 15:18:03 -0500 Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 12:12:49 -0800 From: Randy Dunlap To: Alan Cc: Russell King , Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Jan Engelhardt , Andrew Morton , Jon Masters , Alexey Dobriyan Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] alternative aproach to: Ban module license tag string termination trick Message-Id: <20070203121249.1f90aa5e.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <20070203195607.1db92edd@localhost.localdomain> References: <20070203081426.GA10520@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20070203195607.1db92edd@localhost.localdomain> Organization: Oracle Linux Eng. X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.3.0 (GTK+ 2.8.10; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 900 Lines: 28 On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 19:56:07 +0000 Alan wrote: > On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 08:14:26 +0000 > Russell King wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 03:08:14AM +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote: > > > This patch changes the module license handling code to: > > > - prevent the "GPL\0 for nothing"-trick > > > > You can achieve this effect without changing the existing module > > format, and it's far more difficult to bypass with build-with- > > modified module.h tricks. > > Nice, this should go in anyway. > > Acked-by: Alan Cox Yes, nice job. Acked-by: Randy Dunlap and Tested-by: :) --- ~Randy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/