[PATCH 1/5] kexec: Return -ENOSYS when kexec does not know how to call KEXEC_FILE_LOAD
Simon Horman
horms at verge.net.au
Fri Mar 2 04:34:45 PST 2018
On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 01:00:34PM +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> When the kernel does not know a syscall number it returns -ENOSYS but
> when kexec does not know a syscall number it returns -1. Return -ENOSYS
> from kexec as well.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek at suse.de>
> ---
> kexec/kexec.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kexec/kexec.c b/kexec/kexec.c
> index cfd837c1b6bb..ab8cff7fe083 100644
> --- a/kexec/kexec.c
> +++ b/kexec/kexec.c
> @@ -1166,7 +1166,7 @@ static int do_kexec_file_load(int fileind, int argc, char **argv,
>
> if (!is_kexec_file_load_implemented()) {
> fprintf(stderr, "syscall kexec_file_load not available.\n");
> - return -1;
> + return -ENOSYS;
It seems to me that the current with do_kexec_file_load() returning
0 for success and -1 for error. I think any change to that scheme would
need to be more comprehensive than this.
> }
>
> if (argc - fileind <= 0) {
> --
> 2.13.6
>
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