[Crash-utility] [PATCH] Endian-mismatch: crash shows a contrary error message

HuKeping hukeping at huawei.com
Tue Sep 30 11:49:07 UTC 2014


When the vmcore or vmlinux is not the same endian with the host,
crash will give out a error message to show that mismatching, but
the message itself is not correct.
This patch fix that logical bug.

Signed-off-by: Hu Keping <hukeping at huawei.com>
---
 tools.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools.c b/tools.c
index 4ff3fd5..cb684b1 100644
--- a/tools.c
+++ b/tools.c
@@ -5515,12 +5515,12 @@ endian_mismatch(char *file, char dumpfile_endian, ulong query)
 	case ELFDATA2LSB:
 		if (__BYTE_ORDER == __LITTLE_ENDIAN)
 			return FALSE;
-		endian = "big-endian";
+		endian = "little-endian";
 		break;
 	case ELFDATA2MSB:
 		if (__BYTE_ORDER == __BIG_ENDIAN)	
 			return FALSE;
-		endian = "little-endian";
+		endian = "big-endian";
 		break;
 	default:
 		endian = "unknown";	
-- 
1.8.5.5




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