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[PATCH 14/20] rv/reactor: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

From: Nick Alcock <hidden>
Date: 2023-02-28 14:05:18
Also in: linux-trace-kernel, lkml
Subsystem: runtime verification (rv), the rest, tracing · Maintainers: Steven Rostedt, Gabriele Monaco, Linus Torvalds, Masami Hiramatsu

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 <redacted>
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: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org
---
 kernel/trace/rv/reactor_panic.c  | 1 -
 kernel/trace/rv/reactor_printk.c | 1 -
 2 files changed, 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/rv/reactor_panic.c b/kernel/trace/rv/reactor_panic.c
index d65f6c25a87cd..0186ff4cbd0b4 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/rv/reactor_panic.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/rv/reactor_panic.c
@@ -38,6 +38,5 @@ static void __exit unregister_react_panic(void)
 module_init(register_react_panic);
 module_exit(unregister_react_panic);
 
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Daniel Bristot de Oliveira");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("panic rv reactor: panic if an exception is found.");
diff --git a/kernel/trace/rv/reactor_printk.c b/kernel/trace/rv/reactor_printk.c
index 4b6b7106a477c..178759dbf89f5 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/rv/reactor_printk.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/rv/reactor_printk.c
@@ -37,6 +37,5 @@ static void __exit unregister_react_printk(void)
 module_init(register_react_printk);
 module_exit(unregister_react_printk);
 
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Daniel Bristot de Oliveira");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("printk rv reactor: printk if an exception is hit.");
-- 
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