When the probe code was failing for any reason ENOTSUP was returned, even if this was due to no having enough lock space. This patch fixes this by returning EPERM to the user application, so it can respond and increase the RLIMIT_MEMLOCK size. Signed-off-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@xxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c index 8f480e29a6b0..a62388a151d4 100644 --- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c @@ -3381,8 +3381,13 @@ bpf_object__probe_caps(struct bpf_object *obj) for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(probe_fn); i++) { ret = probe_fn[i](obj); - if (ret < 0) + if (ret < 0) { pr_debug("Probe #%d failed with %d.\n", i, ret); + if (ret == -EPERM) { + pr_perm_msg(ret); + return ret; + } + } } return 0;