6.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Anton Protopopov a.s.protopopov@gmail.com
[ Upstream commit 358b1c0f56ebb6996fcec7dcdcf6bae5dcbc8b6c ]
Return values of the linker_append_sec_data() and the linker_append_elf_relos() functions are propagated all the way up to users of libbpf API. In some error cases these functions return -1 which will be seen as -EPERM from user's point of view. Instead, return a more reasonable -EINVAL.
Fixes: faf6ed321cf6 ("libbpf: Add BPF static linker APIs") Signed-off-by: Anton Protopopov a.s.protopopov@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko andrii@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250430120820.2262053-1-a.s.protopopov@gmail.co... Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- tools/lib/bpf/linker.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/linker.c b/tools/lib/bpf/linker.c index 179f6b31cbd6f..d4ab9315afe71 100644 --- a/tools/lib/bpf/linker.c +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/linker.c @@ -1220,7 +1220,7 @@ static int linker_append_sec_data(struct bpf_linker *linker, struct src_obj *obj } else { if (!secs_match(dst_sec, src_sec)) { pr_warn("ELF sections %s are incompatible\n", src_sec->sec_name); - return -1; + return -EINVAL; }
/* "license" and "version" sections are deduped */ @@ -2067,7 +2067,7 @@ static int linker_append_elf_relos(struct bpf_linker *linker, struct src_obj *ob } } else if (!secs_match(dst_sec, src_sec)) { pr_warn("sections %s are not compatible\n", src_sec->sec_name); - return -1; + return -EINVAL; }
/* shdr->sh_link points to SYMTAB */