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>
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index dfeb553..4cf4473 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -5626,6 +5626,24 @@
}
}
}
+
+# 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