Re: [PATCH v2 02/26] modpost: change mod->gpl_compatible to bool type

Nick Desaulniers
2022-05-03T21:45:50Z

On Sun, May 1, 2022 at 1:42 AM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> Currently, mod->gpl_compatible is tristate; it is set to -1 by default,
> then to 1 or 0 when MODULE_LICENSE() is found.
>
> Maybe, -1 was chosen to represent the 'unknown' license, but it is not
> useful.
>
> The current code:
>
> if (!mod->gpl_compatible)
> check_for_gpl_usage(exp->export, basename, exp->name);
>
> ... only cares whether gpl_compatible is zero or not.
>
> Change it to a bool type with the initial value 'true', which has no
> functional change.
>
> The default value should be 'true' instead of 'false'.
>
> Since commit 1d6cd3929360 ("modpost: turn missing MODULE_LICENSE() into
> error"), unknown module license is an error.
>
> The error message, "missing MODULE_LICENSE()" is enough to explain the
> issue. It is not sensible to show another message, "GPL-incompatible
> module ... uses GPL-only symbol".
>
> Add comments to explain this.
>
> While I was here, I renamed gpl_compatible to is_gpl_compatible for
> clarification, and also slightly refactored the code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

Thanks for the patch!
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers