This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
objtool: Improve error message for bad file argument
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
objtool-improve-error-message-for-bad-file-argument.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 385d11b152c4eb638eeb769edcb3249533bb9a00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 08:17:08 -0600
Subject: objtool: Improve error message for bad file argument
From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 385d11b152c4eb638eeb769edcb3249533bb9a00 upstream.
If a nonexistent file is supplied to objtool, it complains with a
non-helpful error:
open: No such file or directory
Improve it to:
objtool: Can't open 'foo': No such file or directory
Reported-by: Markus <M4rkusXXL@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/406a3d00a21225eee2819844048e17f68523ccf6.1516025651.git.jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/objtool/elf.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/tools/objtool/elf.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/elf.c
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
+#include <errno.h>
#include "elf.h"
#include "warn.h"
@@ -370,7 +371,8 @@ struct elf *elf_open(const char *name)
elf->fd = open(name, O_RDONLY);
if (elf->fd == -1) {
- perror("open");
+ fprintf(stderr, "objtool: Can't open '%s': %s\n",
+ name, strerror(errno));
goto err;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/objtool-improve-error-message-for-bad-file-argument.patch
queue-4.9/x86-retpoline-fill-rsb-on-context-switch-for-affected-cpus.patch
queue-4.9/x86-retpoline-add-lfence-to-the-retpoline-rsb-filling-rsb-macros.patch