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[net-next,5/8] tools: bpftool: print only one error message on byte parsing failure

Message ID 20171019224626.31608-6-jakub.kicinski@netronome.com
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Series tools: bpftool: add a "version" command, and fix several items | expand

Commit Message

Jakub Kicinski Oct. 19, 2017, 10:46 p.m. UTC 
From: Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com>

Make error messages more consistent. Specifically, when bpftool fails at
parsing map key bytes, make it print a single error message to stderr
and return from the function, instead of (always) printing a second
error message afterwards.

Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
---
 tools/bpf/bpftool/map.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Daniel Borkmann Oct. 20, 2017, 10:56 a.m. UTC | #1 
On 10/20/2017 12:46 AM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> From: Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com>
>
> Make error messages more consistent. Specifically, when bpftool fails at
> parsing map key bytes, make it print a single error message to stderr
> and return from the function, instead of (always) printing a second
> error message afterwards.
>
> Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>

Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
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diff --git a/tools/bpf/bpftool/map.c b/tools/bpf/bpftool/map.c
index b1dad76215ed..e1004d825392 100644
--- a/tools/bpf/bpftool/map.c
+++ b/tools/bpf/bpftool/map.c
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@  static char **parse_bytes(char **argv, const char *name, unsigned char *val,
 		val[i] = strtoul(argv[i], &endptr, 0);
 		if (*endptr) {
 			err("error parsing byte: %s\n", argv[i]);
-			break;
+			return NULL;
 		}
 		i++;
 	}