module: allow ndiswrapper to use GPL-only symbols

A change after 2.6.24 broke ndiswrapper by accidentally removing its
access to GPL-only symbols.  Revert that change and add comments about
the reasons why ndiswrapper and driverloader are treated in a special
way.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Acked-by: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 901cd6ac2f11d9d4b54d3bff34e10495e86f01a2..be4807fb90e48afd4ec74c460aaf8a214c4b0a4a 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -1933,8 +1933,15 @@ static struct module *load_module(void __user *umod,
        /* Set up license info based on the info section */
        set_license(mod, get_modinfo(sechdrs, infoindex, "license"));
 
+       /*
+        * ndiswrapper is under GPL by itself, but loads proprietary modules.
+        * Don't use add_taint_module(), as it would prevent ndiswrapper from
+        * using GPL-only symbols it needs.
+        */
        if (strcmp(mod->name, "ndiswrapper") == 0)
-               add_taint_module(mod, TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE);
+               add_taint(TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE);
+
+       /* driverloader was caught wrongly pretending to be under GPL */
        if (strcmp(mod->name, "driverloader") == 0)
                add_taint_module(mod, TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE);