linux-kernel - [PATCH 03/27] kbuild, KEYS: remove MODULE

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Date:   Wed, 22 Feb 2023 12:14:29 +0000
From:   Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@...cle.com>
To:     mcgrof@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-modules@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Hitomi Hasegawa <hasegawa-hitomi@...itsu.com>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, keyrings@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 03/27] kbuild, KEYS: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules

Since commit 8b41fc4454e ("kbuild: create modules.builtin without
Makefile.modbuiltin or tristate.conf"), MODULE_LICENSE declarations
are used to identify modules. As a consequence, uses of the macro
in non-modules will cause modprobe to misidentify their containing
object file as a module when it is not (false positives), and modprobe
might succeed rather than failing with a suitable error message.

So remove it in the files in this commit, none of which can be built as
modules.

Signed-off-by: Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@...cle.com>
Suggested-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-modules@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Hitomi Hasegawa <hasegawa-hitomi@...itsu.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc: keyrings@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
---
 crypto/asymmetric_keys/asymmetric_type.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/crypto/asymmetric_keys/asymmetric_type.c b/crypto/asymmetric_keys/asymmetric_type.c
index 41a2f0eb4ce4..a5da8ccd353e 100644
--- a/crypto/asymmetric_keys/asymmetric_type.c
+++ b/crypto/asymmetric_keys/asymmetric_type.c
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
 #include <keys/user-type.h>
 #include "asymmetric_keys.h"
 
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 
 const char *const key_being_used_for[NR__KEY_BEING_USED_FOR] = {
 	[VERIFYING_MODULE_SIGNATURE]		= "mod sig",
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303