Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 3 authors, 2021-07-05

Re: [PATCH bpf] samples/bpf: Fix the error return code of xdp_redirect's main()

From: wanghai (M) <hidden>
Date: 2021-07-05 07:45:13
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在 2021/7/2 18:29, Jesper Dangaard Brouer 写道:
On 16/06/2021 06.25, Wang Hai wrote:
quoted
Fix to return a negative error code from the error handling
case instead of 0, as done elsewhere in this function.
The main() function in C should never return a negative value on Unix 
POSIX systems.


There is a good explaination in exit(3p): `man 3p exit`

   The  value  of  status may be 0, EXIT_SUCCESS, EXIT_FAILURE, or any 
other value, though only the least significant 8 bits (that is, status 
& 0377) shall be available to a waiting parent process.

Thus, negative values are often seen as 255 in the $? program exit 
status variable $?.


Also explained in exit(3):

    The C standard specifies two constants, EXIT_SUCCESS=0 and 
EXIT_FAILURE=1.

I see the 'samples/bpf/xdp_redirect_user.c' in most places just use 0 
or 1.
Got it, thanks for the explanation, I will fix it to return 1, just like 
the other error paths in samples/bpf/xdp_redirect_user.c
quoted
If bpf_map_update_elem() failed, main() should return a negative error.

Fixes: 832622e6bd18 ("xdp: sample program for new bpf_redirect helper")
Signed-off-by: Wang Hai <redacted>
---
  samples/bpf/xdp_redirect_user.c | 2 +-
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/samples/bpf/xdp_redirect_user.c 
b/samples/bpf/xdp_redirect_user.c
index 41d705c3a1f7..c903f1ccc15e 100644
--- a/samples/bpf/xdp_redirect_user.c
+++ b/samples/bpf/xdp_redirect_user.c
@@ -213,5 +213,5 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
      poll_stats(2, ifindex_out);
    out:
-    return 0;
+    return ret;
  }

(Sorry, I didn't complain it time as I see this patch is already applied)

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