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Commit 3fe2867c authored by Daniel Borkmann's avatar Daniel Borkmann Committed by Alexei Starovoitov
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bpf: fixup error message from gpl helpers on license mismatch 

Stating 'proprietary program' in the error is just silly since it
can also be a different open source license than that which is just
not compatible.

Reference: https://twitter.com/majek04/status/998531268039102465


Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarJesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarSong Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
parent be08815c

kernel/bpf/verifier.c

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@@ -2462,7 +2462,7 @@ static int check_helper_call(struct bpf_verifier_env *env, int func_id, int insn 


	/* eBPF programs must be GPL compatible to use GPL-ed functions */

	if (!env->prog->gpl_compatible && fn->gpl_only) {

		verbose(env, "cannot call GPL only function from proprietary program\n");

		verbose(env, "cannot call GPL-restricted function from non-GPL compatible program\n");

		return -EINVAL;

	}