Re: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license

Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-04-27T09:22:07Z

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On Tue, 2004-04-27 16:04:06 +1000, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
wrote in message <1083045844.2150.105.camel@bach>:
> On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 14:31, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> diff -urpN --exclude TAGS -X /home/rusty/devel/kernel/kernel-patches/current-dontdiff --minimal .31262-linux-2.6.6-rc2-bk4/include/linux/module.h .31262-linux-2.6.6-rc2-bk4.updated/include/linux/module.h
> --- .31262-linux-2.6.6-rc2-bk4/include/linux/module.h 2004-04-22 08:03:55.000000000 +1000
> +++ .31262-linux-2.6.6-rc2-bk4.updated/include/linux/module.h 2004-04-27 15:52:19.000000000 +1000
> @@ -61,7 +64,14 @@ void sort_main_extable(void);
> #ifdef MODULE
> #define ___module_cat(a,b) __mod_ ## a ## b
> #define __module_cat(a,b) ___module_cat(a,b)
> +/* Some sick fucks embeded NULs in MODULE_LICENSE to circumvent checks. */
> +#define __MODULE_INFO_CHECK(info) \
> + static void __init __attribute_used__ \
> + __module_cat(__mc_,__LINE__)(void) { \
> + BUILD_BUG_ON(__builtin_strlen(info) + 1 != sizeof(info)); \
> + }
> #define __MODULE_INFO(tag, name, info) \
> +__MODULE_INFO_CHECK(info); \
> static const char __module_cat(name,__LINE__)[] \
> __attribute_used__ \
> __attribute__((section(".modinfo"),unused)) = __stringify(tag) "=" info

Erm, that's a pure compile-time check, which the companies can remove.
So they can still put their fucked up license string into the module,
customer's kernel won't detect it.

So I'm full for embedding the supplied string's size into the module, or
some compile-time generated checksum. We need something that can be
checked at module load time, not at compile time, or do I misread the
code?

MfG, JBG

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