On 11/19/2018 10:35 PM, Stanislav Fomichev wrote:
> Since commit 88cda1c9da02 ("bpf: libbpf: Provide basic API support
> to specify BPF obj name"), libbpf unconditionally sets bpf_attr->name
> for maps. Pre v4.14 kernels don't know about map names and return an
> error about unexpected non-zero data. Retry sys_bpf without a map
> name to cover older kernels.

Looks good, small nit below:

> Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <[email protected]>
> ---
>  tools/lib/bpf/bpf.c | 11 ++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/bpf.c b/tools/lib/bpf/bpf.c
> index 03f9bcc4ef50..673175bc06ee 100644
> --- a/tools/lib/bpf/bpf.c
> +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/bpf.c
> @@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ int bpf_create_map_xattr(const struct bpf_create_map_attr 
> *create_attr)
>  {
>       __u32 name_len = create_attr->name ? strlen(create_attr->name) : 0;
>       union bpf_attr attr;
> +     int ret;
>  
>       memset(&attr, '\0', sizeof(attr));
>  
> @@ -86,7 +87,15 @@ int bpf_create_map_xattr(const struct bpf_create_map_attr 
> *create_attr)
>       attr.map_ifindex = create_attr->map_ifindex;
>       attr.inner_map_fd = create_attr->inner_map_fd;
>  
> -     return sys_bpf(BPF_MAP_CREATE, &attr, sizeof(attr));
> +     ret = sys_bpf(BPF_MAP_CREATE, &attr, sizeof(attr));
> +     if (ret < 0 && create_attr->name) {

Could you also check errno being EINVAL here so that we do not try to
confuse it with an error coming from insufficient memlock which is
EPERM in that case.

> +             /* Retry the same syscall, but without the name.
> +              * Pre v4.14 kernels don't support map names.
> +              */
> +             memset(attr.map_name, 0, sizeof(attr.map_name));
> +             return sys_bpf(BPF_MAP_CREATE, &attr, sizeof(attr));
> +     }
> +     return ret;
>  }
>  
>  int bpf_create_map_node(enum bpf_map_type map_type, const char *name,
> 

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