netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf] tools: bpf: fix NULL return handling in bpf__prepare

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Date:   Tue, 15 May 2018 16:20:48 +0200
From:   Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
Cc:     YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>,
        alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com, mingo@...hat.com,
        peterz@...radead.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, namhyung@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf] tools: bpf: fix NULL return handling in
 bpf__prepare_load

On 05/15/2018 04:11 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Sun, May 13, 2018 at 01:20:22AM +0200, Daniel Borkmann escreveu:
>> [ +Arnaldo ]
>>
>> On 05/11/2018 01:21 PM, YueHaibing wrote:
>>> bpf_object__open()/bpf_object__open_buffer can return error pointer or NULL,
>>> check the return values with IS_ERR_OR_NULL() in bpf__prepare_load and
>>> bpf__prepare_load_buffer
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>
>>> ---
>>>  tools/perf/util/bpf-loader.c | 6 +++---
>>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> This should probably be routed via Arnaldo due to the fix in perf itself. If
>> there's no particular preference on which tree, we could potentially route it
>> as well via bpf with Acked-by from Arnaldo, but that is up to him. Arnaldo,
>> any preference?
> 
> I'm preparing a pull req right now, and working a bit on perf's BPF
> support, so why not, I'll merge it, thanks,

Sounds good, thanks Arnaldo!

> - Arnaldo