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authorGuilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com>2022-10-06 19:42:05 -0300
committerKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2022-10-17 13:14:10 -0700
commitd85644dc5cf4023bf1a325f476d58a16bcc0798b (patch)
tree5ed6b20b421c3292db4df49fd490fb150349bccc
parent99b3b837855b987563bcfb397cf9ddd88262814b (diff)
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pstore: Improve error reporting in case of backend overlap
The pstore infrastructure supports one single backend at a time; trying to load a another backend causes an error and displays a message, introduced on commit 0d7cd09a3dbb ("pstore: Improve register_pstore() error reporting"). Happens that this message is not really clear about the situation, also the current error returned (-EPERM) isn't accurate, whereas -EBUSY makes more sense. We have another place in the code that relies in the -EBUSY return for a similar check. So, make it consistent here by returning -EBUSY and using a similar message in both scenarios. Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221006224212.569555-2-gpiccoli@igalia.com
-rw-r--r--fs/pstore/platform.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/pstore/platform.c b/fs/pstore/platform.c
index 0c034ea39954..c32957e4b256 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/platform.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/platform.c
@@ -562,8 +562,9 @@ out:
int pstore_register(struct pstore_info *psi)
{
if (backend && strcmp(backend, psi->name)) {
- pr_warn("ignoring unexpected backend '%s'\n", psi->name);
- return -EPERM;
+ pr_warn("backend '%s' already in use: ignoring '%s'\n",
+ backend, psi->name);
+ return -EBUSY;
}
/* Sanity check flags. */