netdev - [PATCH bpf-next v2] libbpf: Print hint about ulimit when getting permission denied error

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Date:   Mon, 16 Dec 2019 19:12:04 +0100
From:   Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>
To:     Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
Cc:     Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>,
        Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>
Subject: [PATCH bpf-next v2] libbpf: Print hint about ulimit when getting permission denied error

Probably the single most common error newcomers to XDP are stumped by is
the 'permission denied' error they get when trying to load their program
and 'ulimit -l' is set too low. For examples, see [0], [1].

Since the error code is UAPI, we can't change that. Instead, this patch
adds a few heuristics in libbpf and outputs an additional hint if they are
met: If an EPERM is returned on map create or program load, and geteuid()
shows we are root, and the current RLIMIT_MEMLOCK is not infinity, we
output a hint about raising 'ulimit -l' as an additional log line.

[0] https://marc.info/?l=xdp-newbies&m=157043612505624&w=2
[1] https://github.com/xdp-project/xdp-tutorial/issues/86

Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>
---
v2:
  - Format current output as KiB/MiB
  - It's ulimit -l, not ulimit -r
  
 tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
index a2cc7313763a..3fe42d6b0c2f 100644
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
 #include <sys/types.h>
 #include <sys/vfs.h>
 #include <sys/utsname.h>
+#include <sys/resource.h>
 #include <tools/libc_compat.h>
 #include <libelf.h>
 #include <gelf.h>
@@ -100,6 +101,32 @@ void libbpf_print(enum libbpf_print_level level, const char *format, ...)
 	va_end(args);
 }
 
+static void pr_perm_msg(int err)
+{
+	struct rlimit limit;
+	char buf[100];
+
+	if (err != -EPERM || geteuid() != 0)
+		return;
+
+	err = getrlimit(RLIMIT_MEMLOCK, &limit);
+	if (err)
+		return;
+
+	if (limit.rlim_cur == RLIM_INFINITY)
+		return;
+
+	if (limit.rlim_cur < 1024)
+		snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%lu bytes", limit.rlim_cur);
+	else if (limit.rlim_cur < 1024*1024)
+		snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%.1f KiB", (double)limit.rlim_cur / 1024);
+	else
+		snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%.1f MiB", (double)limit.rlim_cur / (1024*1024));
+
+	pr_warn("permission error while running as root; try raising 'ulimit -l'? current value: %s\n",
+		buf);
+}
+
 #define STRERR_BUFSIZE  128
 
 /* Copied from tools/perf/util/util.h */
@@ -2983,6 +3010,7 @@ bpf_object__create_maps(struct bpf_object *obj)
 			cp = libbpf_strerror_r(err, errmsg, sizeof(errmsg));
 			pr_warn("failed to create map (name: '%s'): %s(%d)\n",
 				map->name, cp, err);
+			pr_perm_msg(err);
 			for (j = 0; j < i; j++)
 				zclose(obj->maps[j].fd);
 			return err;
@@ -4381,6 +4409,7 @@ load_program(struct bpf_program *prog, struct bpf_insn *insns, int insns_cnt,
 	ret = -errno;
 	cp = libbpf_strerror_r(errno, errmsg, sizeof(errmsg));
 	pr_warn("load bpf program failed: %s\n", cp);
+	pr_perm_msg(ret);
 
 	if (log_buf && log_buf[0] != '\0') {
 		ret = -LIBBPF_ERRNO__VERIFY;
-- 
2.24.1