This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled modules: rename the licence field in struct symsearch to license to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: modules-rename-the-licence-field-in-struct-symsearch-to-license.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From cd8732cdcc37d7077c4fa2c966b748c0662b607e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 08:10:25 +0200 Subject: modules: rename the licence field in struct symsearch to license From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> commit cd8732cdcc37d7077c4fa2c966b748c0662b607e upstream. Use the same spelling variant as the rest of the file. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/module.h | 2 +- kernel/module.c | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/include/linux/module.h +++ b/include/linux/module.h @@ -565,7 +565,7 @@ struct symsearch { NOT_GPL_ONLY, GPL_ONLY, WILL_BE_GPL_ONLY, - } licence; + } license; bool unused; }; --- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -502,9 +502,9 @@ static bool check_exported_symbol(const struct find_symbol_arg *fsa = data; if (!fsa->gplok) { - if (syms->licence == GPL_ONLY) + if (syms->license == GPL_ONLY) return false; - if (syms->licence == WILL_BE_GPL_ONLY && fsa->warn) { + if (syms->license == WILL_BE_GPL_ONLY && fsa->warn) { pr_warn("Symbol %s is being used by a non-GPL module, " "which will not be allowed in the future\n", fsa->name); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hch@xxxxxx are queue-5.4/modules-unexport-__module_address.patch queue-5.4/modules-mark-find_symbol-static.patch queue-5.4/modules-return-licensing-information-from-find_symbol.patch queue-5.4/modules-inherit-taint_proprietary_module.patch queue-5.4/modules-mark-ref_module-static.patch queue-5.4/modules-rename-the-licence-field-in-struct-symsearch-to-license.patch queue-5.4/modules-unexport-__module_text_address.patch queue-5.4/modules-mark-each_symbol_section-static.patch