Re: [PATCH] Taint kernel when lve module is loaded

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 07:51:42PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:43:59AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > Do you have a pointer to this code anywhere?  Lying about the license to
> > the kernel is a pretty blatent thing to do and I'd like to have some
> > people follow up on that issue.
> 
> http://repo.cloudlinux.com/cloudlinux/5.8/updates-testing/x86_64/RPMS/kmod-lve-2.6.18-408.el5.lve1.1.64.2-1.1-10.7.3.el5.x86_64.rpm 
> - there's no corresponding SRPM in 
> http://repo.cloudlinux.com/cloudlinux/5.8/updates-testing/SRPMS/ and 
> upstream apparently refuse to provide source. Alex Lyashkov (Cc:ed) is 
> listed as module author in the metadata.

Hm, and at least one reason it needs to be GPL is due to it using
symbols I created, no fun.

Alex, can you please provide the source code for this module?  Or is the
license that the code is saying it is, somehow incorrect?  If so, can
you please fix it?  If you can't do this, is there someone else I should
be contacting?

thanks,

greg k-h