Re: inherit TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE v2

2020-08-01 Thread Josh Triplett
On July 31, 2020 11:53:08 PM PDT, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >[note: private reply now to start a flame fest with the usual suspects] [You still CCed LKML.] >On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 01:11:46PM -0700, j...@joshtriplett.org wrote: >> Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> > we've had a bug in our resolution of

Re: inherit TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE v2

2020-07-31 Thread Christoph Hellwig
[note: private reply now to start a flame fest with the usual suspects] On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 01:11:46PM -0700, j...@joshtriplett.org wrote: > Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > we've had a bug in our resolution of _GPL modules since day one, that > > is a module can claim to be GPL licensed and use _

Re: inherit TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE v2

2020-07-31 Thread josh
Christoph Hellwig wrote: > we've had a bug in our resolution of _GPL modules since day one, that > is a module can claim to be GPL licensed and use _GPL exports, while > it also depends on symbols from non-GPL modules. This is used as a > circumvention of the _GPL exports by using a small shim mod

inherit TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE v2

2020-07-29 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Hi Jessica, we've had a bug in our resolution of _GPL modules since day one, that is a module can claim to be GPL licensed and use _GPL exports, while it also depends on symbols from non-GPL modules. This is used as a circumvention of the _GPL exports by using a small shim module using the _GPL e