On 2020/4/23 13:43, Alexei Starovoitov wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 8:31 PM Mao Wenan <maowenan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> There is one error printed when use BPF_MAP_TYPE_SOCKMAP to create map: >> libbpf: failed to create map (name: 'sock_map'): Invalid argument(-22) >> >> This is because CONFIG_BPF_STREAM_PARSER is not set, and >> bpf_map_types[type] return invalid ops. It is not clear to show the >> cause of config missing with return code -EINVAL, so add pr_warn() and >> change error code to describe the reason. >> >> Signed-off-by: Mao Wenan <maowenan@xxxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> kernel/bpf/syscall.c | 7 ++++--- >> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c >> index d85f37239540..7686778457c7 100644 >> --- a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c >> +++ b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c >> @@ -112,9 +112,10 @@ static struct bpf_map *find_and_alloc_map(union bpf_attr *attr) >> return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); >> type = array_index_nospec(type, ARRAY_SIZE(bpf_map_types)); >> ops = bpf_map_types[type]; >> - if (!ops) >> - return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); >> - >> + if (!ops) { >> + pr_warn("map type %d not supported or kernel config not opened\n", type); >> + return ERR_PTR(-EOPNOTSUPP); >> + } > > I don't think users will like it when kernel spams dmesg. > If you need this level of verbosity please teach consumer of libbpf to > print them. > It's not a job of libbpf either. thanks for reviw, so is it better to delete redundant pr_warn()? > > . >