modpost: change mod->gpl_compatible to bool type

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 1d6cd39293 ("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>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
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Masahiro Yamada
2022-05-01 17:40:08 +09:00
parent 58e01fcae1
commit 5066743e4c
2 changed files with 12 additions and 7 deletions

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@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ buf_write(struct buffer *buf, const char *s, int len);
struct module {
struct module *next;
int gpl_compatible;
bool is_gpl_compatible;
struct symbol *unres;
bool from_dump; /* true if module was loaded from *.symvers */
bool is_vmlinux;