4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoim...@redhat.com> 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 <m4rkus...@web.de> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoim...@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/406a3d00a21225eee2819844048e17f68523ccf6.1516025651.git.jpoim...@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> --- tools/objtool/elf.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/tools/objtool/elf.c +++ b/tools/objtool/elf.c @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <unistd.h> +#include <errno.h> #include "elf.h" #include "warn.h" @@ -370,7 +371,8 @@ struct elf *elf_open(const char *name) elf->fd = open(name, O_RDONLY); if (elf->fd == -1) { - perror("open"); + fprintf(stderr, "objtool: Can't open '%s': %s\n", + name, strerror(errno)); goto err; }