From f45bbd95be060a7eb67ce2f1a1404a82be93d0e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Josh Poimboeuf Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 08:17:08 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] objtool: Improve error message for bad file argument 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 Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/406a3d00a21225eee2819844048e17f68523ccf6.1516025651.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- tools/objtool/elf.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/objtool/elf.c b/tools/objtool/elf.c index 2446015..c1c3386 100644 --- a/tools/objtool/elf.c +++ b/tools/objtool/elf.c @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include "elf.h" #include "warn.h" @@ -358,7 +359,8 @@ struct elf *elf_open(const char *name, int flags) elf->fd = open(name, flags); if (elf->fd == -1) { - perror("open"); + fprintf(stderr, "objtool: Can't open '%s': %s\n", + name, strerror(errno)); goto err; } -- 2.7.4