linux-kernel - [PATCH 14/17] mm: remove MODULE

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Date:   Thu,  2 Mar 2023 21:17:56 +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>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        x86@...nel.org
Subject: [PATCH 14/17] mm: 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: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: x86@...nel.org
---
 arch/x86/mm/debug_pagetables.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/debug_pagetables.c b/arch/x86/mm/debug_pagetables.c
index 092ea436c7e62..b43301cb2a80c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/debug_pagetables.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/debug_pagetables.c
@@ -71,6 +71,5 @@ static void __exit pt_dump_debug_exit(void)
 
 module_init(pt_dump_debug_init);
 module_exit(pt_dump_debug_exit);
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Kernel debugging helper that dumps pagetables");
-- 
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303