Thread (31 messages) 31 messages, 7 authors, 2023-03-26
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[PATCH 14/17] mm: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

From: Nick Alcock <hidden>
Date: 2023-03-02 22:45:01
Also in: lkml
Subsystem: the rest, x86 architecture (32-bit and 64-bit), x86 mm · Maintainers: Linus Torvalds, Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov, Dave Hansen, Andy Lutomirski, Peter Zijlstra

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: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <redacted>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
---
 arch/x86/mm/debug_pagetables.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/debug_pagetables.c b/arch/x86/mm/debug_pagetables.c
index 092ea436c7e62..b43301cb2a80c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/debug_pagetables.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/debug_pagetables.c
@@ -71,6 +71,5 @@ static void __exit pt_dump_debug_exit(void)
 
 module_init(pt_dump_debug_init);
 module_exit(pt_dump_debug_exit);
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Kernel debugging helper that dumps pagetables");
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303
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