pr_warning ultimately may call into user-provided callback function, which can clobber errno value, so we need to save it before that. Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@xxxxxx> --- tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c index c6c9d632624a..5af331cb8e4f 100644 --- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c @@ -565,12 +565,12 @@ static int bpf_object__elf_init(struct bpf_object *obj) } else { obj->efile.fd = open(obj->path, O_RDONLY); if (obj->efile.fd < 0) { - char errmsg[STRERR_BUFSIZE]; - char *cp = libbpf_strerror_r(errno, errmsg, - sizeof(errmsg)); + char errmsg[STRERR_BUFSIZE], *cp; + err = -errno; + cp = libbpf_strerror_r(err, errmsg, sizeof(errmsg)); pr_warning("failed to open %s: %s\n", obj->path, cp); - return -errno; + return err; } obj->efile.elf = elf_begin(obj->efile.fd, -- 2.17.1