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

Message ID 20230222121453.91915-16-nick.alcock@oracle.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series [01/27] kbuild, power: reset: keystone-reset: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules | expand

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Nick Alcock Feb. 22, 2023, 12:14 p.m. UTC 
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 <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
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: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
---
 drivers/cpufreq/freq_table.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Viresh Kumar Feb. 23, 2023, 4:20 a.m. UTC | #1 
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 <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
> 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: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
> Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
> ---
>  drivers/cpufreq/freq_table.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

Applied. Thanks.
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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 <linux@brodo.de>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("CPUfreq frequency table helpers");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");