From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755581Ab2A0Ewu (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:52:50 -0500 Received: from out03.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.233]:56533 "EHLO out03.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755403Ab2A0Etg (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:49:36 -0500 From: "Eric W. Biederman" To: Cc: , , Lucian Adrian Grijincu , Damien Millescamps , "Eric W. Biederman" Subject: [PATCH 23/29] sysctl: Add sysctl_print_dir and use it in get_subdir Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:51:59 -0800 Message-Id: <1327639925-12920-23-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.2.5 In-Reply-To: References: X-XM-SPF: eid=;;;mid=;;;hst=in02.mta.xmission.com;;;ip=98.207.153.68;;;frm=ebiederm@xmission.com;;;spf=neutral X-XM-AID: U2FsdGVkX1+Q9Oe5lSN8xy+lNJPYUD5eBhFyUYoDhCA= X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 98.207.153.68 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ebiederm@xmission.com X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on in02.mta.xmission.com); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org When there are errors it is very nice to know the full sysctl path. Add a simple function that computes the sysctl path and prints it out. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman --- fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 11 ++++++++++- 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c index 3c0767d..a785565 100644 --- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c +++ b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c @@ -53,6 +53,13 @@ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(sysctl_lock); static void drop_sysctl_table(struct ctl_table_header *header); +static void sysctl_print_dir(struct ctl_dir *dir) +{ + if (dir->header.parent) + sysctl_print_dir(dir->header.parent); + printk(KERN_CONT "%s/", dir->header.ctl_table[0].procname); +} + static int namecmp(const char *name1, int len1, const char *name2, int len2) { int minlen; @@ -822,7 +829,9 @@ found: subdir->header.nreg++; failed: if (unlikely(IS_ERR(subdir))) { - printk(KERN_ERR "sysctl could not get directory: %*.*s %ld\n", + printk(KERN_ERR "sysctl could not get directory: "); + sysctl_print_dir(dir); + printk(KERN_CONT "/%*.*s %ld\n", namelen, namelen, name, PTR_ERR(subdir)); } drop_sysctl_table(&dir->header); -- 1.7.2.5