[PATCH 04/18] pstore: Improve register_pstore() error reporting

Kees Cook keescook at chromium.org
Tue Mar 7 08:55:18 AEDT 2017


Uncommon errors are better to get reported to dmesg so developers can
more easily figure out why pstore is unhappy with a backend attempting
to register.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
---
 fs/pstore/platform.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/pstore/platform.c b/fs/pstore/platform.c
index d69ef8a840b9..320a673ecb5b 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/platform.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/platform.c
@@ -673,11 +673,15 @@ int pstore_register(struct pstore_info *psi)
 {
 	struct module *owner = psi->owner;
 
-	if (backend && strcmp(backend, psi->name))
+	if (backend && strcmp(backend, psi->name)) {
+		pr_warn("ignoring unexpected backend '%s'\n", psi->name);
 		return -EPERM;
+	}
 
 	spin_lock(&pstore_lock);
 	if (psinfo) {
+		pr_warn("backend '%s' already loaded: ignoring '%s'\n",
+			psinfo->name, psi->name);
 		spin_unlock(&pstore_lock);
 		return -EBUSY;
 	}
-- 
2.7.4



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