[PATCH] libkmod: Avoid calling syscall() with -1

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At least in qemu 1.4.1 for vexpress/arm-cortexa9, this resulted in an
illegal instruction error. Solve that by returning an error when
__NR_finit_module is -1.
---
 libkmod/missing.h |    9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/libkmod/missing.h b/libkmod/missing.h
index edb88b9..ac24a35 100644
--- a/libkmod/missing.h
+++ b/libkmod/missing.h
@@ -20,8 +20,15 @@
 #endif
 
 #ifndef HAVE_FINIT_MODULE
+#include <errno.h>
+
 static inline int finit_module(int fd, const char *uargs, int flags)
 {
-	return syscall(__NR_finit_module, fd, uargs, flags);
+	if (__NR_finit_module == -1) {
+		errno = ENOSYS;
+		return -1;
+	} else {
+		return syscall(__NR_finit_module, fd, uargs, flags);
+	}
 }
 #endif
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