It's often inconvenient to switch sign of error when passing it into libbpf_strerror_r. It's better for it to handle that automatically. Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@xxxxxx> --- tools/lib/bpf/str_error.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/str_error.c b/tools/lib/bpf/str_error.c index 00e48ac5b806..b8064eedc177 100644 --- a/tools/lib/bpf/str_error.c +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/str_error.c @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ */ char *libbpf_strerror_r(int err, char *dst, int len) { - int ret = strerror_r(err, dst, len); + int ret = strerror_r(err < 0 ? -err : err, dst, len); if (ret) snprintf(dst, len, "ERROR: strerror_r(%d)=%d", err, ret); return dst; -- 2.17.1