[PATCH v2 1/4] pstore/blk: Improve failure reporting

From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	gmpy.liaowx@gmail.com, Anton Vorontsov <anton@enomsg.org>,
	Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
	Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@ti.com>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/4] pstore/blk: Improve failure reporting
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2021 14:21:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210615212121.1200820-2-keescook@chromium.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210615212121.1200820-1-keescook@chromium.org>

There was no feedback on bad registration attempts. Add details on the
failure cause.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
---
 fs/pstore/blk.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/pstore/blk.c b/fs/pstore/blk.c
index 4bb8a344957a..91d7a848c85b 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/blk.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/blk.c
@@ -114,8 +114,19 @@ static int __register_pstore_device(struct pstore_device_info *dev)
 
 	lockdep_assert_held(&pstore_blk_lock);
 
-	if (!dev || !dev->total_size || !dev->read || !dev->write)
+	if (!dev || !dev->total_size || !dev->read || !dev->write) {
+		if (!dev)
+			pr_err("NULL device info\n");
+		else {
+			if (!dev->total_size)
+				pr_err("zero sized device\n");
+			if (!dev->read)
+				pr_err("no read handler for device\n");
+			if (!dev->write)
+				pr_err("no write handler for device\n");
+		}
 		return -EINVAL;
+	}
 
 	/* someone already registered before */
 	if (pstore_zone_info)
-- 
2.25.1

