module,bug: Add TAINT_OOT_MODULE flag for modules not built in-tree

Use of the GPL or a compatible licence doesn't necessarily make the code
any good.  We already consider staging modules to be suspect, and this
should also be true for out-of-tree modules which may receive very
little review.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (patched oops-tracing.txt)

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index a509ff8f32f..2bd594e6d1b 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -1849,6 +1849,12 @@ static void add_header(struct buffer *b, struct module *mod)
         buf_printf(b, "};\n");
 }
 
+static void add_intree_flag(struct buffer *b, int is_intree)
+{
+        if (is_intree)
+                buf_printf(b, "\nMODULE_INFO(intree, \"Y\");\n");
+}
+
 static void add_staging_flag(struct buffer *b, const char *name)
 {
         static const char *staging_dir = "drivers/staging";
@@ -2169,6 +2175,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
                 buf.pos = 0;
 
                 add_header(&buf, mod);
+                add_intree_flag(&buf, !external_module);
                 add_staging_flag(&buf, mod->name);
                 err |= add_versions(&buf, mod);
                 add_depends(&buf, mod, modules);