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-rw-r--r--scripts/mod/modpost.c17
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index a6035ab78cd8..25066dc25790 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -187,7 +187,14 @@ static struct module *new_module(const char *modname)
/* add to list */
strcpy(mod->name, modname);
mod->is_vmlinux = (strcmp(modname, "vmlinux") == 0);
- mod->gpl_compatible = -1;
+
+ /*
+ * Set mod->is_gpl_compatible to true by default. If MODULE_LICENSE()
+ * is missing, do not check the use for EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() becasue
+ * modpost will exit wiht error anyway.
+ */
+ mod->is_gpl_compatible = true;
+
mod->next = modules;
modules = mod;
@@ -2012,10 +2019,8 @@ static void read_symbols(const char *modname)
if (!license)
error("missing MODULE_LICENSE() in %s\n", modname);
while (license) {
- if (license_is_gpl_compatible(license))
- mod->gpl_compatible = 1;
- else {
- mod->gpl_compatible = 0;
+ if (!license_is_gpl_compatible(license)) {
+ mod->is_gpl_compatible = false;
break;
}
license = get_next_modinfo(&info, "license", license);
@@ -2183,7 +2188,7 @@ static void check_exports(struct module *mod)
add_namespace(&mod->missing_namespaces, exp->namespace);
}
- if (!mod->gpl_compatible)
+ if (!mod->is_gpl_compatible)
check_for_gpl_usage(exp->export, basename, exp->name);
}
}