netdev - [PATCH bpf v2 3/3] bpftool: handle EAGAIN error code properly in pids collection

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Date:   Tue, 18 Aug 2020 15:23:12 -0700
From:   Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>
To:     <bpf@...r.kernel.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>, <kernel-team@...com>
Subject: [PATCH bpf v2 3/3] bpftool: handle EAGAIN error code properly in pids collection

When the error code is EAGAIN, the kernel signals the user
space should retry the read() operation for bpf iterators.
Let us do it.

Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>
---
 tools/bpf/bpftool/pids.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/bpf/bpftool/pids.c b/tools/bpf/bpftool/pids.c
index e3b116325403..df7d8ec76036 100644
--- a/tools/bpf/bpftool/pids.c
+++ b/tools/bpf/bpftool/pids.c
@@ -134,6 +134,8 @@ int build_obj_refs_table(struct obj_refs_table *table, enum bpf_obj_type type)
 	while (true) {
 		ret = read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf));
 		if (ret < 0) {
+			if (errno == EAGAIN)
+				continue;
 			err = -errno;
 			p_err("failed to read PID iterator output: %d", err);
 			goto out;
-- 
2.24.1