RE: [PATCH] Ban module license tag string termination trick

[Paul Rolland]

Hello,

> will be written to the object file will be "license=GPL\0for 
> nothing\0". 
> When this is interpreted back again in the kernel module 
> loader, it is 
> read as "license=GPL", having circumvented the loading mechanism and 
> having wrongfully access to GPL symbols. According to Alexey [ 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/27/233 ], LinuxAnt is one vendor to use 
> this trick.

If that is really one important point, why not simply adding a :
MODULE_IS_UNDER_GPL_LICENSE("yes|no")
and a
MODULE_IS_UNDER_GPL_LIKE_LICENSE("yes|no")

or use 0 and 1 instead of yes and no, and thus clearly avoid all the
C string mess ?

Regards,
Paul

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