From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B85202EF297; Tue, 17 Jun 2025 16:14:25 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1750176865; cv=none; b=lt/6YMyO0vMo+xmF55CV6HnUVhCi9v8DT5NMRTVdyWYeih2CsfmBku6S0IWaFfiki3KbeUJtd4gwGuOBEIONK7Ad014e8cvHg1bHeVbKcTEa+4xgH1WqcQAaSLqrK6/8pj4qZnemHZpJcToyQKKCJJ1e6PH6sJ4czDeqyMBDS64= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1750176865; c=relaxed/simple; bh=6++8/E2qwlXO18K7fYF09VqEkOBCuGzgeUyAvHLHLa8=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version; b=isfJgPbNzSJAgljrm2//L18VcoiXTAhcOkNvpw3dmkJTtKhqb2I0F+SbjYObL36hrbEj2Tr86lQ53Iu0/jaYdEKmzfqDL6ziN92vMGz5vvvr6MUAuTjBJ4bbwoHFRmo/ht6Uc7LINJalrmTGD9vpy45K5J+5BpHsw2T7PagNx7Q= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=L6H9573H; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="L6H9573H" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 20EB5C4CEE3; Tue, 17 Jun 2025 16:14:24 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1750176865; bh=6++8/E2qwlXO18K7fYF09VqEkOBCuGzgeUyAvHLHLa8=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=L6H9573HfSRPUrRiE4c8a7OpVI0xk9niSlxa28C/NumRKbKJxJece9AEZtBUydESl w/Gd3aJZrficHqE4KemoOn9z7R1YG2uT5Lm+MnZCCaHGnyElU8KOKRikaiq6rM33RM 1iR9k+g4aWzhdz0SguE2W8NXmuGaFDSLzyRP1TNA= From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , patches@lists.linux.dev, Anton Protopopov , Andrii Nakryiko , Sasha Levin Subject: [PATCH 6.15 233/780] libbpf: Use proper errno value in linker Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2025 17:19:01 +0200 Message-ID: <20250617152500.943140867@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.49.0 In-Reply-To: <20250617152451.485330293@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20250617152451.485330293@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.68 X-stable: review X-Patchwork-Hint: ignore Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: patches@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 6.15-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Anton Protopopov [ Upstream commit 358b1c0f56ebb6996fcec7dcdcf6bae5dcbc8b6c ] 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 Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250430120820.2262053-1-a.s.protopopov@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- tools/lib/bpf/linker.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/linker.c b/tools/lib/bpf/linker.c index 56f5068e2ebab..a469e5d4fee70 100644 --- a/tools/lib/bpf/linker.c +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/linker.c @@ -1376,7 +1376,7 @@ static int linker_append_sec_data(struct bpf_linker *linker, struct src_obj *obj } else { if (!secs_match(dst_sec, src_sec)) { pr_warn("ELF sections %s are incompatible\n", src_sec->sec_name); - return -1; + return -EINVAL; } /* "license" and "version" sections are deduped */ @@ -2223,7 +2223,7 @@ static int linker_append_elf_relos(struct bpf_linker *linker, struct src_obj *ob } } else if (!secs_match(dst_sec, src_sec)) { pr_warn("sections %s are not compatible\n", src_sec->sec_name); - return -1; + return -EINVAL; } /* shdr->sh_link points to SYMTAB */ -- 2.39.5