tools lib bpf: Add libbpf_get_error()

This function will turn a libbpf pointer into a standard error code (or
0 if the pointer is valid).

This also allows removal of the dependency on linux/err.h in the public
header file, which causes problems in userspace programs built against
libbpf.

Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joe@ovn.org>
Acked-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170123011128.26534-5-joe@ovn.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
index 406838fa9c4f..e6cd62b1264b 100644
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 #include <fcntl.h>
 #include <errno.h>
 #include <asm/unistd.h>
+#include <linux/err.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/bpf.h>
 #include <linux/list.h>
@@ -1542,3 +1543,10 @@ bpf_object__find_map_by_offset(struct bpf_object *obj, size_t offset)
         }
         return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
 }
+
+long libbpf_get_error(const void *ptr)
+{
+        if (IS_ERR(ptr))
+                return PTR_ERR(ptr);
+        return 0;
+}