netdev - Re: [PATCH net] bpf: uninitialized variables in test code

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Date:   Sat, 1 Dec 2018 12:36:14 -0800
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:     Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
Cc:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org" <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] bpf: uninitialized variables in test code

On Sat, Dec 01, 2018 at 08:12:34PM +0000, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> 
> From dc70ddb39c2f8d87d64b8d0fd71f4baa956d5f50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
> Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2018 10:39:44 -0800
> Subject: [PATCH v2 bpf] bpf: refactor bpf_test_run() to separate own failures
>  and test program result
> 
> After commit f42ee093be29 ("bpf/test_run: support cgroup local
> storage") the bpf_test_run() function may fail with -ENOMEM, if
> it's not possible to allocate memory for a cgroup local storage.
> 
> This error shouldn't be mixed with the return value of the testing
> program. Let's add an additional argument with a pointer where to
> store the testing program's result; and make bpf_test_run()
> return either 0 or -ENOMEM.
> 
> Fixes: f42ee093be29 ("bpf/test_run: support cgroup local storage")
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
> Suggested-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>

Applied to bpf tree. Thanks!