On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 10:04:48AM +0900, Prashant Bhole wrote:
> Currently when map a lookup fails, user space API can not make any
> distinction whether given key was not found or lookup is not supported
> by particular map.
> 
> In this series we modify return value of maps which do not support
> lookup. Lookup on such map implementation will return -EOPNOTSUPP.
> bpf() syscall with BPF_MAP_LOOKUP_ELEM command will set EOPNOTSUPP
> errno. We also handle this error in bpftool to print appropriate
> message.
> 
> Patch 1: adds handling of BPF_MAP_LOOKUP ELEM command of bpf syscall
> such that errno will set to EOPNOTSUPP when map doesn't support lookup
> 
> Patch 2: Modifies the return value of map_lookup_elem() to EOPNOTSUPP
> for maps which do not support lookup
> 
> Patch 3: Splits do_dump() in bpftool/map.c. Element printing code is
> moved out into new function dump_map_elem(). This was done in order to
> reduce deep indentation and accomodate further changes.
> 
> Patch 4: Changes in bpftool to print strerror() message when lookup
> error is occured. This will result in appropriate message like
> "Operation not supported" when map doesn't support lookup.
> 
> Patch 5: test_verifier: change fixup map naming convention as
> suggested by Alexei
> 
> Patch 6: Added verifier tests to check whether verifier rejects call 
> to bpf_map_lookup_elem from bpf program. For all map types those
> do not support map lookup.

Applied, Thanks

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