From patchwork Thu Nov 15 05:48:14 2012 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [3.5.yuz, extended, stable] Patch "module: taint kernel when lve module is loaded" has been added to staging queue Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:48:14 -0000 From: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski X-Patchwork-Id: 199151 Message-Id: <1352958494-15652-1-git-send-email-herton.krzesinski@canonical.com> To: Matthew Garrett Cc: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com, Rusty Russell , Alex Lyashkov This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled module: taint kernel when lve module is loaded to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.yuz extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 3.5.yuz tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Herton ------ >From fcac46550aff0774a73604e9f0357fabf11293b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthew Garrett Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:49:31 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] module: taint kernel when lve module is loaded commit c99af3752bb52ba3aece5315279a57a477edfaf1 upstream. Cloudlinux have a product called lve that includes a kernel module. This was previously GPLed but is now under a proprietary license, but the module continues to declare MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") and makes use of some EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL symbols. Forcibly taint it in order to avoid this. Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett Cc: Alex Lyashkov Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski --- kernel/module.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) -- 1.7.9.5 diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c index 4edbd9c..9ad9ee9 100644 --- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -2730,6 +2730,10 @@ static int check_module_license_and_versions(struct module *mod) if (strcmp(mod->name, "driverloader") == 0) add_taint_module(mod, TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE); + /* lve claims to be GPL but upstream won't provide source */ + if (strcmp(mod->name, "lve") == 0) + add_taint_module(mod, TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE); + #ifdef CONFIG_MODVERSIONS if ((mod->num_syms && !mod->crcs) || (mod->num_gpl_syms && !mod->gpl_crcs)