[PATCH] checkpatch: validate MODULE_LICENSE content

[Bjorn Andersson]

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index d124359..7087b28 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -5354,6 +5354,22 @@ sub process {
 				}
 			}
 		}
+
+		if ($line =~ /MODULE_LICENSE\(($String)\)/) {
+			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
-- 
1.8.2.2

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