Return value of the validate_nla() function can be propagated all the
way up to users of libbpf API. In case of error this libbpf version
of validate_nla returns -1 which will be seen as -EPERM from user's
point of view. Instead, return a more reasonable -EINVAL.
Fixes: bbf48c18ee0c ("libbpf: add error reporting in XDP")
Suggested-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Anton Protopopov <a.s.protopopov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250510182011.2246631-1-a.s.protopopov@gmail.com
With the latest LLVM bpf selftests build will fail with
the following error message:
progs/profiler.inc.h:710:31: error: default initialization of an object of type 'typeof ((parent_task)->real_cred->uid.val)' (aka 'const unsigned int') leaves the object uninitialized and is incompatible with C++ [-Werror,-Wdefault-const-init-unsafe]
710 | proc_exec_data->parent_uid = BPF_CORE_READ(parent_task, real_cred, uid.val);
| ^
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/tools/include/bpf/bpf_core_read.h:520:35: note: expanded from macro 'BPF_CORE_READ'
520 | ___type((src), a, ##__VA_ARGS__) __r; \
| ^
This happens because BPF_CORE_READ (and other macro) declare the
variable __r using the ___type macro which can inherit const modifier
from intermediate types.
Fix this by using __typeof_unqual__, when supported. (And when it
is not supported, the problem shouldn't appear, as older compilers
haven't complained.)
Fixes: 792001f4f7aa ("libbpf: Add user-space variants of BPF_CORE_READ() family of macros")
Fixes: a4b09a9ef945 ("libbpf: Add non-CO-RE variants of BPF_CORE_READ() macro family")
Signed-off-by: Anton Protopopov <a.s.protopopov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250502193031.3522715-1-a.s.protopopov@gmail.com
Return values of the linker_append_sec_data() and the
linker_append_elf_relos() functions are propagated all the
way up to users of libbpf API. In some error cases these
functions return -1 which will be seen as -EPERM from user's
point of view. Instead, return a more reasonable -EINVAL.
Fixes: faf6ed321cf6 ("libbpf: Add BPF static linker APIs")
Signed-off-by: Anton Protopopov <a.s.protopopov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250430120820.2262053-1-a.s.protopopov@gmail.com
Anton Protopopov