linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] module: change to print useful messages from elf_validity

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Date:   Wed, 13 Oct 2021 06:07:41 -0700
From:   Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
To:     Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     jeyu@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] module: change to print useful messages from
 elf_validity_check()

On Mon, Oct 04, 2021 at 02:06:25PM -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
> elf_validity_check() checks ELF headers for errors and ELF Spec.
> compliance and if any of them fail it returns -ENOEXEC from all of
> these error paths. Almost all of them don't print any messages.
> 
> When elf_validity_check() returns an error, load_module() prints an
> error message without error code. It is hard to determine why the
> module ELF structure is invalid, even if load_module() prints the
> error code which is -ENOEXEC in all of these cases.
> 
> Change to print useful error messages from elf_validity_check() to
> clearly say what went wrong and why the ELF validity checks failed.
> 
> Remove the load_module() error message which is no longer needed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>

Thanks! Queued for modules-next [0].

[0] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux.git/log/?h=modules-next

  Luis