There are code paths where EINVAL is returned directly without setting errno. In that case, errno could be 0, which would mask the failure. For example, if a careless programmer set log_level to 10000 out of laziness, they would have to spend a long time trying to figure out why. Fixes: 4f33ddb4e3e2 ("libbpf: Propagate EPERM to caller on program load") Signed-off-by: Alex Gartrell <alexgartrell@xxxxxxxxx> --- tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c index 2e2523d8bb6d..8f9e7d281225 100644 --- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c @@ -6067,7 +6067,7 @@ load_program(struct bpf_program *prog, struct bpf_insn *insns, int insns_cnt, free(log_buf); goto retry_load; } - ret = -errno; + ret = errno ? -errno : -LIBBPF_ERRNO__LOAD; cp = libbpf_strerror_r(errno, errmsg, sizeof(errmsg)); pr_warn("load bpf program failed: %s\n", cp); pr_perm_msg(ret); -- 2.26.0