Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:43:13 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Taint kernel when lve module is loaded |
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On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:22:22PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 07:51:42PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:43:59AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > > > Do you have a pointer to this code anywhere? Lying about the license to > > > the kernel is a pretty blatent thing to do and I'd like to have some > > > people follow up on that issue. > > > > http://repo.cloudlinux.com/cloudlinux/5.8/updates-testing/x86_64/RPMS/kmod-lve-2.6.18-408.el5.lve1.1.64.2-1.1-10.7.3.el5.x86_64.rpm > > - there's no corresponding SRPM in > > http://repo.cloudlinux.com/cloudlinux/5.8/updates-testing/SRPMS/ and > > upstream apparently refuse to provide source. Alex Lyashkov (Cc:ed) is > > listed as module author in the metadata. > > Hm, and at least one reason it needs to be GPL is due to it using > symbols I created, no fun. > > Alex, can you please provide the source code for this module? Or is the > license that the code is saying it is, somehow incorrect? If so, can > you please fix it? If you can't do this, is there someone else I should > be contacting?
Also, I almost hate to ask this, but why in the world are you creating sysfs binary files? I really don't think you should be doing this, as those are only for firmware and other "pass-through" things the kernel uses to have userspace talk directly to hardware.
Odds are you can remove these files, and use the "correct" user/kernel interface which will result in much better speed and handle things properly for you, instead of abusing this interface.
Unless you really are talking directly to hardware, in which case, I'm kind of interested to see what you are doing here, so the source code would be greatly appreciated.
thanks,
greg k-h
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