More strict error checking in bpf_asm?

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Hi,

I'm using the `bpf_asm` tool to do some syscall filtering, and found out
the hard way that its error checking isn't very strict. In particular,
it issues a warning (not an error) when a jump offset overflows the
instruction's field. It really seems like this *ought* to be a hard
error, but I see from the commit message in
7e22077d0c73a68ff3fd8b3d2f6564fcbcf8cb23 that this was left as a warning
due to backwards compatibility concerns.

I'm skeptical of this trade-off, but would people at least be open to
adding a -Werror flag or the like, if changing it to a hard error
unconditionally is off the table?

Relatedly, while looking through the code I noticed there are several
places where an error occurs that does cause to tool to exit without
generating code, but it exits with 0 (success) status code. It seems
like this ought to report a failure to the caller?

-Ian




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