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@xxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-modules@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Hitomi Hasegawa <hasegawa-hitomi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
---
fs/binfmt_elf.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
index 9a780fafc539..40e87c0eaf15 100644
--- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
@@ -2169,7 +2169,6 @@ static void __exit exit_elf_binfmt(void)
core_initcall(init_elf_binfmt);
module_exit(exit_elf_binfmt);
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
#ifdef CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF_KUNIT_TEST
#include "binfmt_elf_test.c"
--
2.39.1.268.g9de2f9a303
