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@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 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@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Josh
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