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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2009-03-31 13:05:33 -0600
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2009-03-31 13:05:33 +1030
commitc6e665c8f0c18ab3686117905765b5139efd6ebd (patch)
tree0e478ff0a38a52b2c3ff00024f081c94260fdd61 /kernel
parentc6b37801911d7f4663c99cad8aa230bc934cea82 (diff)
module: clarify the force-loading taint message.
Impact: Message cleanup Two of three callers of try_to_force_load() are not because of a missing version, so change the messages: Old: <modname>: no version for "magic" found: kernel tainted. New: <modname>: bad vermagic: kernel tainted. Old: <modname>: no version for "nocrc" found: kernel tainted. New: <modname>: no versions for exported symbols: kernel tainted. Old: <modname>: no version for "<symname>" found: kernel tainted. New: <modname>: <symname>: kernel tainted. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/module.c12
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 5fd00766a4dc..599fc85bd2cc 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -990,12 +990,12 @@ static struct module_attribute *modinfo_attrs[] = {
static const char vermagic[] = VERMAGIC_STRING;
-static int try_to_force_load(struct module *mod, const char *symname)
+static int try_to_force_load(struct module *mod, const char *reason)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_MODULE_FORCE_LOAD
if (!test_taint(TAINT_FORCED_MODULE))
- printk("%s: no version for \"%s\" found: kernel tainted.\n",
- mod->name, symname);
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: %s: kernel tainted.\n",
+ mod->name, reason);
add_taint_module(mod, TAINT_FORCED_MODULE);
return 0;
#else
@@ -2002,7 +2002,7 @@ static noinline struct module *load_module(void __user *umod,
modmagic = get_modinfo(sechdrs, infoindex, "vermagic");
/* This is allowed: modprobe --force will invalidate it. */
if (!modmagic) {
- err = try_to_force_load(mod, "magic");
+ err = try_to_force_load(mod, "bad vermagic");
if (err)
goto free_hdr;
} else if (!same_magic(modmagic, vermagic, versindex)) {
@@ -2191,8 +2191,8 @@ static noinline struct module *load_module(void __user *umod,
|| (mod->num_unused_gpl_syms && !mod->unused_gpl_crcs)
#endif
) {
- printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: No versions for exported symbols.\n", mod->name);
- err = try_to_force_load(mod, "nocrc");
+ err = try_to_force_load(mod,
+ "no versions for exported symbols");
if (err)
goto cleanup;
}