PCI: Remove MODULE_LICENSE so boolean drivers don't look like modules

Since 8b41fc4454e3 ("kbuild: create modules.builtin without
Makefile.modbuiltin or tristate.conf"), MODULE_LICENSE declarations are
used to identify modules. As a consequence, MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
causes modprobe to misidentify the object file as a module when it is not,
and modprobe might succeed rather than failing with a suitable error
message.

For tristate modules that can be either built-in or loaded at runtime,
modprobe succeeds in both cases:

  # modprobe ext4
  [exit status zero if CONFIG_EXT4_FS=y or =m]

For boolean modules like the Standard Hot Plug Controller driver (shpchp)
that cannot be loaded at runtime, modprobe should always fail like this:

  # modprobe shpchp
  modprobe: FATAL: Module shpchp not found in directory /lib/modules/...
  [exit status non-zero regardless of CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_SHPC]

but prior to this commit, shpchp_core.c contained MODULE_LICENSE, so
"modprobe shpchp" silently succeeded when it should have failed.

Remove MODULE_LICENSE in files that cannot be built as modules.

[bhelgaas: commit log, squash]
Suggested-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230216152410.4312-1-nick.alcock@oracle.com/
Signed-off-by: Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Hitomi Hasegawa <hasegawa-hitomi@fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lpieralisi@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-hisi-error.c b/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-hisi-error.c
index 7959c9c8d2bc..7d88eb696b06 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-hisi-error.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-hisi-error.c
@@ -324,4 +324,3 @@ static struct platform_driver hisi_pcie_error_handler_driver = {
 module_platform_driver(hisi_pcie_error_handler_driver);
 
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("HiSilicon HIP PCIe controller error handling driver");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");