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Subject[PATCH 8/9] 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>
---
kernel/module.c | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -961,12 +961,12 @@ static struct module_attribute *modinfo_

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
@@ -1978,7 +1977,7 @@ static noinline struct module *load_modu
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)) {
@@ -2167,8 +2166,8 @@ static noinline struct module *load_modu
|| (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;
}


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