From ba1029c9cbc5af834467bf264e58f9d1074735fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Randy Dunlap Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 11:21:45 -0800 Subject: modpost: detect modules without a MODULE_LICENSE Partially revert commit 2fa365682943 ("kbuild: soften MODULE_LICENSE check") so that modpost detects modules that do not have a MODULE_LICENSE. Sam's commit also changed the fatal error to a warning, which I am leaving as is. This gives advance notice of when a module has no license and will taint the kernel if the module is loaded. This produces the following warnings on x86_64 allmodconfig: MODPOST 6520 modules WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in drivers/auxdisplay/img-ascii-lcd.o WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in drivers/gpio/gpio-ath79.o WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in drivers/gpio/gpio-iop.o WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in drivers/iio/accel/kxsd9-i2c.o WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in drivers/iio/adc/qcom-vadc-common.o WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in drivers/media/platform/mtk-vcodec/mtk-vcodec-common.o WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in drivers/media/platform/soc_camera/soc_scale_crop.o WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in drivers/mtd/nand/denali_pci.o WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in drivers/net/phy/cortina.o WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in drivers/pinctrl/pxa/pinctrl-pxa2xx.o WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in drivers/power/reset/zx-reboot.o WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in drivers/rpmsg/qcom_glink_native.o WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_atmio.o WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in net/9p/9pnet_xen.o WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in sound/soc/codecs/snd-soc-pcm512x-spi.o Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: Sam Ravnborg Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- scripts/mod/modpost.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'scripts/mod') diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c index 98314b400a95..f51cf977c65b 100644 --- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c +++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c @@ -1963,7 +1963,7 @@ static void read_symbols(char *modname) } license = get_modinfo(info.modinfo, info.modinfo_len, "license"); - if (info.modinfo && !license && !is_vmlinux(modname)) + if (!license && !is_vmlinux(modname)) warn("modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in %s\n" "see include/linux/module.h for " "more information\n", modname); -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b