netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf-next] libbpf: Fix unintentional success return code in bpf_object_

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Date:   Wed, 26 Aug 2020 15:17:40 -0700
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:     Alex Gartrell <alexgartrell@...il.com>
Cc:     Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Kernel Team <kernel-team@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next] libbpf: Fix unintentional success return code in bpf_object__load

On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 12:56 AM Alex Gartrell <alexgartrell@...il.com> wrote:
>
> There are code paths where EINVAL is returned directly without setting
> errno. In that case, errno could be 0, which would mask the
> failure. For example, if a careless programmer set log_level to 10000
> out of laziness, they would have to spend a long time trying to figure
> out why.
>
> Fixes: 4f33ddb4e3e2 ("libbpf: Propagate EPERM to caller on program load")
> Signed-off-by: Alex Gartrell <alexgartrell@...il.com>

Applied. Thanks