On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 11:25 PM maowenan <maowenan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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()?
which one?
