elf-loader: add more return codes

The existing load_elf() just returns -1 if it fails to load ELF. However
it could be smarter than this and tell more about the failure such as
wrong endianness or incompatible platform.

This adds additional return codes for wrong architecture, wrong
endianness and if the image is not ELF at all.

This adds a load_elf_strerror() helper to convert return codes into
string messages.

This fixes handling of what load_elf() returns for s390x, other
callers just check the return value for <0 and this remains unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/hw/core/loader.c b/hw/core/loader.c
index e1c3f3a860..b323c0c7b8 100644
--- a/hw/core/loader.c
+++ b/hw/core/loader.c
@@ -284,12 +284,30 @@ static void *load_at(int fd, int offset, int size)
 #define SZ		64
 #include "hw/elf_ops.h"
 
+const char *load_elf_strerror(int error)
+{
+    switch (error) {
+    case 0:
+        return "No error";
+    case ELF_LOAD_FAILED:
+        return "Failed to load ELF";
+    case ELF_LOAD_NOT_ELF:
+        return "The image is not ELF";
+    case ELF_LOAD_WRONG_ARCH:
+        return "The image is from incompatible architecture";
+    case ELF_LOAD_WRONG_ENDIAN:
+        return "The image has incorrect endianness";
+    default:
+        return "Unknown error";
+    }
+}
+
 /* return < 0 if error, otherwise the number of bytes loaded in memory */
 int load_elf(const char *filename, uint64_t (*translate_fn)(void *, uint64_t),
              void *translate_opaque, uint64_t *pentry, uint64_t *lowaddr,
              uint64_t *highaddr, int big_endian, int elf_machine, int clear_lsb)
 {
-    int fd, data_order, target_data_order, must_swab, ret;
+    int fd, data_order, target_data_order, must_swab, ret = ELF_LOAD_FAILED;
     uint8_t e_ident[EI_NIDENT];
 
     fd = open(filename, O_RDONLY | O_BINARY);
@@ -302,8 +320,10 @@ int load_elf(const char *filename, uint64_t (*translate_fn)(void *, uint64_t),
     if (e_ident[0] != ELFMAG0 ||
         e_ident[1] != ELFMAG1 ||
         e_ident[2] != ELFMAG2 ||
-        e_ident[3] != ELFMAG3)
+        e_ident[3] != ELFMAG3) {
+        ret = ELF_LOAD_NOT_ELF;
         goto fail;
+    }
 #ifdef HOST_WORDS_BIGENDIAN
     data_order = ELFDATA2MSB;
 #else
@@ -317,6 +337,7 @@ int load_elf(const char *filename, uint64_t (*translate_fn)(void *, uint64_t),
     }
 
     if (target_data_order != e_ident[EI_DATA]) {
+        ret = ELF_LOAD_WRONG_ENDIAN;
         goto fail;
     }
 
@@ -329,12 +350,9 @@ int load_elf(const char *filename, uint64_t (*translate_fn)(void *, uint64_t),
                          pentry, lowaddr, highaddr, elf_machine, clear_lsb);
     }
 
-    close(fd);
-    return ret;
-
  fail:
     close(fd);
-    return -1;
+    return ret;
 }
 
 static void bswap_uboot_header(uboot_image_header_t *hdr)