netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 bpf-next 1/9] libbpf: make libbpf_strerror

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Date:   Fri, 28 Jun 2019 12:34:57 -0700
From:   Song Liu <liu.song.a23@...il.com>
To:     Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@...com>
Cc:     Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...com>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
        Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...ichev.me>,
        Kernel Team <kernel-team@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 bpf-next 1/9] libbpf: make libbpf_strerror_r agnostic
 to sign of error

On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 10:53 PM Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@...com> wrote:
>
> It's often inconvenient to switch sign of error when passing it into
> libbpf_strerror_r. It's better for it to handle that automatically.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@...com>
> Reviewed-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...gle.com>

Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>

> ---
>  tools/lib/bpf/str_error.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/str_error.c b/tools/lib/bpf/str_error.c
> index 00e48ac5b806..b8064eedc177 100644
> --- a/tools/lib/bpf/str_error.c
> +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/str_error.c
> @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
>   */
>  char *libbpf_strerror_r(int err, char *dst, int len)
>  {
> -       int ret = strerror_r(err, dst, len);
> +       int ret = strerror_r(err < 0 ? -err : err, dst, len);
>         if (ret)
>                 snprintf(dst, len, "ERROR: strerror_r(%d)=%d", err, ret);
>         return dst;
> --
> 2.17.1
>