netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf] libbpf: handle BTF parsing and loading properly

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Date:   Sat, 9 Mar 2019 06:10:23 +0000
From:   Martin Lau <kafai@...com>
To:     Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@...com>
CC:     "andrii.nakryiko@...il.com" <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>,
        Kernel Team <Kernel-team@...com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "bpf@...r.kernel.org" <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
        "daniel@...earbox.net" <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        "tehnerd@...nerd.com" <tehnerd@...nerd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf] libbpf: handle BTF parsing and loading properly

On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 03:58:20PM -0800, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
> This patch splits and cleans up error handling logic for loading BTF data.
> Previously, if BTF data was parsed successfully, but failed to load into
> kernel, we'd report nonsensical error code, instead of error returned from
> btf__load(). Now btf__new() and btf__load() are handled separately with proper
> cleanup and warning reporting.
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>