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authorMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>2022-05-01 17:40:08 +0900
committerMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>2022-05-08 03:17:00 +0900
commit5066743e4c2f702c1da8ba00a1dc217527a0ab7c (patch)
treeb61529b62333fce47f78c9c9e18fa11e209f61e6 /scripts/mod/modpost.h
parent58e01fcae18c9d01be701bec9e9a8ee58269c7c1 (diff)
modpost: change mod->gpl_compatible to bool type
Currently, mod->gpl_compatible is tristate; it is set to -1 by default, then to 1 or 0 when MODULE_LICENSE() is found. Maybe, -1 was chosen to represent the 'unknown' license, but it is not useful. The current code: if (!mod->gpl_compatible) check_for_gpl_usage(exp->export, basename, exp->name); ... only cares whether gpl_compatible is zero or not. Change it to a bool type with the initial value 'true', which has no functional change. The default value should be 'true' instead of 'false'. Since commit 1d6cd3929360 ("modpost: turn missing MODULE_LICENSE() into error"), unknown module license is an error. The error message, "missing MODULE_LICENSE()" is enough to explain the issue. It is not sensible to show another message, "GPL-incompatible module ... uses GPL-only symbol". Add comments to explain this. While I was here, I renamed gpl_compatible to is_gpl_compatible for clarification, and also slightly refactored the code. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/mod/modpost.h')
-rw-r--r--scripts/mod/modpost.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.h b/scripts/mod/modpost.h
index 0bd8f697f94c..73c36dfbf0e1 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.h
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.h
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ buf_write(struct buffer *buf, const char *s, int len);
struct module {
struct module *next;
- int gpl_compatible;
+ bool is_gpl_compatible;
struct symbol *unres;
bool from_dump; /* true if module was loaded from *.symvers */
bool is_vmlinux;