linux-kernel - [PATCH] module: print sensible error code

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Date:   Fri, 22 Jun 2018 17:38:50 +0200
From:   "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
To:     jeyu@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
Subject: [PATCH] module: print sensible error code

Printing "err 0" to the user in the warning message is not particularly
useful, especially when this gets transformed into a -ENOENT for the
remainder of the call chain.

Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@...c4.com>
---
 kernel/module.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index f475f30eed8c..c666ab4139f4 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -2282,9 +2282,9 @@ static int simplify_symbols(struct module *mod, const struct load_info *info)
 			if (!ksym && ELF_ST_BIND(sym[i].st_info) == STB_WEAK)
 				break;

-			pr_warn("%s: Unknown symbol %s (err %li)\n",
-				mod->name, name, PTR_ERR(ksym));
 			ret = PTR_ERR(ksym) ?: -ENOENT;
+			pr_warn("%s: Unknown symbol %s (err %d)\n",
+				mod->name, name, ret);
 			break;

 		default:
-- 
2.17.1