linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH/RFC] alternative aproach to: Ban module license tag string termination trick

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Date:	Sat, 3 Feb 2007 12:12:49 -0800
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Alan <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>,
	Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Jon Masters <jonathan@...masters.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] alternative aproach to: Ban module license tag
 string termination trick

On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 19:56:07 +0000 Alan wrote:

> On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 08:14:26 +0000
> Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 03:08:14AM +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote:
> > > This patch changes the module license handling code to:
> > > - prevent the "GPL\0 for nothing"-trick
> > 
> > You can achieve this effect without changing the existing module
> > format, and it's far more difficult to bypass with build-with-
> > modified module.h tricks.
> 
> Nice, this should go in anyway.
> 
> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@...hat.com>

Yes, nice job.  Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>

and Tested-by: :)

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~Randy
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