linux-kernel - Re: nf_reject_ipv4: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel

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Date:	Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:56:16 +0200
From:	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To:	Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: nf_reject_ipv4: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 05:19:04PM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> With today's linus tree, I got below kmsg:
> [   23.545204] nf_reject_ipv4: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel.
> 
> It could be caused by below commit:
> 
> commit c8d7b98bec43faaa6583c3135030be5eb4693acb
> Author: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
> Date:   Fri Sep 26 14:35:15 2014 +0200
> 
>     netfilter: move nf_send_resetX() code to nf_reject_ipvX modules
>     
>     Move nf_send_reset() and nf_send_reset6() to nf_reject_ipv4 and
>     nf_reject_ipv6 respectively. This code is shared by x_tables and
>     nf_tables.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>

Patch attached, thanks for reporting.

P.S: Please, Cc netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org in future reports, so
we make sure things don't get lost.

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