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| author | Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@sonymobile.com> | 2015-06-26 00:03:24 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-06-26 02:00:42 +0200 |
| commit | 5a6d20ce19b770c9946281783614294b3f570ab8 (patch) | |
| tree | 5ccc301d22f41d8567e34a239f48c24955a2887d /scripts | |
| parent | checkpatch: add multi-line handling for PREFER_ETHER_ADDR_COPY (diff) | |
| download | linux-5a6d20ce19b770c9946281783614294b3f570ab8.tar.xz linux-5a6d20ce19b770c9946281783614294b3f570ab8.zip | |
checkpatch: validate MODULE_LICENSE content
There is a well defined list of expected values for MODULE_LICENSE so warn
the user upon usage of unknown values.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@sonymobile.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 18 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index dfeb553de798..4cf4473ebf17 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -5626,6 +5626,24 @@ sub process { } } } + +# validate content of MODULE_LICENSE against list from include/linux/module.h + if ($line =~ /\bMODULE_LICENSE\s*\(\s*($String)\s*\)/) { + my $extracted_string = get_quoted_string($line, $rawline); + my $valid_licenses = qr{ + GPL| + GPL\ v2| + GPL\ and\ additional\ rights| + Dual\ BSD/GPL| + Dual\ MIT/GPL| + Dual\ MPL/GPL| + Proprietary + }x; + if ($extracted_string !~ /^"(?:$valid_licenses)"$/x) { + WARN("MODULE_LICENSE", + "unknown module license " . $extracted_string . "\n" . $herecurr); + } + } } # If we have no input at all, then there is nothing to report on |