Re: [PATCH bpf-next] libbpf: preserve errno across pr_warn/pr_info/pr_debug

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On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 11:34:25AM -0700, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
> As suggested in [0], make sure that libbpf_print saves and restored
> errno and as such guaranteed that no matter what actual print callback
> user installs, macros like pr_warn/pr_info/pr_debug are completely
> transparent as far as errno goes.
> 
> While libbpf code is pretty careful about not clobbering important errno
> values accidentally with pr_warn(), it's a trivial change to make sure
> that pr_warn can be used anywhere without a risk of clobbering errno.
> 
> No functional changes, just future proofing.
> 
>   [0] https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf/pull/536
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
> index f7364ea82ac1..917d975bd4c6 100644
> --- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
> +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
> @@ -223,13 +223,18 @@ __printf(2, 3)
>  void libbpf_print(enum libbpf_print_level level, const char *format, ...)
>  {
>  	va_list args;
> +	int old_errno;
>  
>  	if (!__libbpf_pr)
>  		return;
>  
> +	old_errno = errno;
> +
>  	va_start(args, format);
>  	__libbpf_pr(level, format, args);
>  	va_end(args);
> +
> +	errno = old_errno;
>  }
>  
>  static void pr_perm_msg(int err)
> -- 
> 2.30.2
> 

The change looks good to me.

Acked-by: Daniel Müller <deso@xxxxxxxxxx>



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