linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] livepatch: Fix the error message about unresolvable ambiguity

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Date:	Wed, 9 Mar 2016 10:40:23 -0600
From:	Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@...onical.com>
To:	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
Cc:	Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>, Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>,
	Jessica Yu <jeyu@...hat.com>, Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>,
	live-patching@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] livepatch: Fix the error message about unresolvable
 ambiguity

On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 10:19:46AM -0600, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 03:20:59PM +0100, Petr Mladek wrote:
> > klp_find_callback() stops the search when sympos is not defined and
> > a second symbol of the same name is found. It means that the current
> > error message about the unresolvable ambiguity always prints "(2 matches)".
> > 
> > Let's remove this information. The total number of occurrences is
> > not much helpful. The author of the patch still must put a non-trivial
> > effort into searching the right position in the object file.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
> > ---
> >  kernel/livepatch/core.c | 4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/kernel/livepatch/core.c b/kernel/livepatch/core.c
> > index bc2c85c064c1..f2eda09e8357 100644
> > --- a/kernel/livepatch/core.c
> > +++ b/kernel/livepatch/core.c
> > @@ -190,8 +190,8 @@ static int klp_find_object_symbol(const char *objname, const char *name,
> >  	if (args.addr == 0)
> >  		pr_err("symbol '%s' not found in symbol table\n", name);
> >  	else if (args.count > 1 && sympos == 0) {
> > -		pr_err("unresolvable ambiguity (%lu matches) on symbol '%s' in object '%s'\n",
> > -		       args.count, name, objname);
> > +		pr_err("unresolvable ambiguity on symbol '%s' in object '%s'\n",
> 
> While you're at it, can you improve the grammar: s/on/for/ ?
> 
> "unresolvable ambiguity *for* symbol..."
> 
> Either way,
> 
> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
> 
> -- 
> Josh
>

I agree that the 'matches' error message doesn't added anything helpful.
With the word change above:
Acked-by: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@...onical.com>

--chris