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Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 15:53:06 +0100
From: "Paul Rolland" <rol@...917.net>
To: "'Jan Engelhardt'" <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
"'Linux Kernel Mailing List'" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: "'Andrew Morton'" <akpm@...l.org>,
"'Jon Masters'" <jonathan@...masters.org>,
"'Alexey Dobriyan'" <adobriyan@...il.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] Ban module license tag string termination trick
Hello,
> will be written to the object file will be "license=GPL\0for
> nothing\0".
> When this is interpreted back again in the kernel module
> loader, it is
> read as "license=GPL", having circumvented the loading mechanism and
> having wrongfully access to GPL symbols. According to Alexey [
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/27/233 ], LinuxAnt is one vendor to use
> this trick.
If that is really one important point, why not simply adding a :
MODULE_IS_UNDER_GPL_LICENSE("yes|no")
and a
MODULE_IS_UNDER_GPL_LIKE_LICENSE("yes|no")
or use 0 and 1 instead of yes and no, and thus clearly avoid all the
C string mess ?
Regards,
Paul
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