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| -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 |