Re: nf_reject_ipv4: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel

From: Dave Young
Date: Tue Oct 14 2014 - 04:11:46 EST


On 10/10/14 at 11:56am, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 05:19:04PM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > With today's linus tree, I got below kmsg:
> > [ 23.545204] nf_reject_ipv4: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel.
> >
> > It could be caused by below commit:
> >
> > commit c8d7b98bec43faaa6583c3135030be5eb4693acb
> > Author: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Fri Sep 26 14:35:15 2014 +0200
> >
> > netfilter: move nf_send_resetX() code to nf_reject_ipvX modules
> >
> > Move nf_send_reset() and nf_send_reset6() to nf_reject_ipv4 and
> > nf_reject_ipv6 respectively. This code is shared by x_tables and
> > nf_tables.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Patch attached, thanks for reporting.

Tested-by: Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx>

>
> P.S: Please, Cc netfilter-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx in future reports, so
> we make sure things don't get lost.

Sure. Thanks.

> From d4358bcf64ba7a64d4de4e1dc5533c4c8f88ea82 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:25:20 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] netfilter: missing module license in the nf_reject_ipvX
> modules
>
> [ 23.545204] nf_reject_ipv4: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel.
>
> Reported-by: Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_reject_ipv4.c | 3 +++
> net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_reject_ipv6.c | 4 ++++
> 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_reject_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_reject_ipv4.c
> index b023b4e..92b303d 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_reject_ipv4.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_reject_ipv4.c
> @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
> * published by the Free Software Foundation.
> */
>
> +#include <linux/module.h>
> #include <net/ip.h>
> #include <net/tcp.h>
> #include <net/route.h>
> @@ -125,3 +126,5 @@ void nf_send_reset(struct sk_buff *oldskb, int hook)
> kfree_skb(nskb);
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_send_reset);
> +
> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> diff --git a/net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_reject_ipv6.c b/net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_reject_ipv6.c
> index 5f5f043..20d9def 100644
> --- a/net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_reject_ipv6.c
> +++ b/net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_reject_ipv6.c
> @@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
> * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
> * published by the Free Software Foundation.
> */
> +
> +#include <linux/module.h>
> #include <net/ipv6.h>
> #include <net/ip6_route.h>
> #include <net/ip6_fib.h>
> @@ -161,3 +163,5 @@ void nf_send_reset6(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *oldskb, int hook)
> ip6_local_out(nskb);
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_send_reset6);
> +
> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> --
> 1.7.10.4
>

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