From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: mohit89mlnc@gmail.com (mohit verma)
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 20:44:39 +0530
Subject: adding a system call
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=1wH+uVCPEGhXB7_UnAQp61ayKO6vee5Lg7GaD@mail.gmail.com>
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
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hi all ,
i followed the link and tried to add a system call in kernel-version 2.6.37
here is the code :


#include<linux/linkage.h>
#include<linux/kernel.h>
#include<linux/fs.h>  //for getname
#include<linux/err.h> //for PTR_ERR
asmlinkage int sys_hariohm(const char __user *filename)
{
    char *tmp = getname(filename);
     int fd=PTR_ERR(tmp);
        if (!IS_ERR(tmp))
        {
        printk("filename %s \n",tmp);
        putname(tmp);
        return fd;
        }
        else
        {
        return 2;
        }
}


the compilation process was silent (without any error).
 but when i try to boot into the kernel having this system call , i get the
errors like :

do_exit() ,do_group_exit() , syscall_init() error lines with some addresses.

can someone help me understand what is wrong with this code?

thanks in advance :)

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*MOHIT VERMA*
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