PCI: Remove MODULE_LICENSE so boolean drivers don't look like modules
authorNick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
Thu, 16 Feb 2023 15:24:04 +0000 (15:24 +0000)
committerBjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Fri, 17 Feb 2023 14:47:58 +0000 (08:47 -0600)
commitf98954b293d0a0f9646117af75c82c1b89191c53
treef85cb016a73518dcf8ab28ea81edf64ad7f202c0
parent1b929c02afd37871d5afb9d498426f83432e71c2
PCI: Remove MODULE_LICENSE so boolean drivers don't look like modules

Since 8b41fc4454e3 ("kbuild: create modules.builtin without
Makefile.modbuiltin or tristate.conf"), MODULE_LICENSE declarations are
used to identify modules. As a consequence, MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
causes modprobe to misidentify the object file as a module when it is not,
and modprobe might succeed rather than failing with a suitable error
message.

For tristate modules that can be either built-in or loaded at runtime,
modprobe succeeds in both cases:

  # modprobe ext4
  [exit status zero if CONFIG_EXT4_FS=y or =m]

For boolean modules like the Standard Hot Plug Controller driver (shpchp)
that cannot be loaded at runtime, modprobe should always fail like this:

  # modprobe shpchp
  modprobe: FATAL: Module shpchp not found in directory /lib/modules/...
  [exit status non-zero regardless of CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_SHPC]

but prior to this commit, shpchp_core.c contained MODULE_LICENSE, so
"modprobe shpchp" silently succeeded when it should have failed.

Remove MODULE_LICENSE in files that cannot be built as modules.

[bhelgaas: commit log, squash]
Suggested-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230216152410.4312-1-nick.alcock@oracle.com/
Signed-off-by: Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Hitomi Hasegawa <hasegawa-hitomi@fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lpieralisi@kernel.org>
12 files changed:
drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-histb.c
drivers/pci/controller/mobiveil/pcie-mobiveil-plat.c
drivers/pci/controller/pci-tegra.c
drivers/pci/controller/pci-versatile.c
drivers/pci/controller/pcie-hisi-error.c
drivers/pci/controller/pcie-microchip-host.c
drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-ep-cfs.c
drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epc-core.c
drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epc-mem.c
drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epf-core.c
drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_core.c
drivers/pci/hotplug/shpchp_core.c