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[24/27] kbuild, binfmt_elf: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

Message ID 20230222121453.91915-25-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: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
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 fs/binfmt_elf.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
index 9a780fafc539..40e87c0eaf15 100644
--- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
@@ -2169,7 +2169,6 @@  static void __exit exit_elf_binfmt(void)
 
 core_initcall(init_elf_binfmt);
 module_exit(exit_elf_binfmt);
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF_KUNIT_TEST
 #include "binfmt_elf_test.c"