libbpf: Streamline error reporting for low-level APIs

Ensure that low-level APIs behave uniformly across the libbpf as follows:
  - in case of an error, errno is always set to the correct error code;
  - when libbpf 1.0 mode is enabled with LIBBPF_STRICT_DIRECT_ERRS option to
    libbpf_set_strict_mode(), return -Exxx error value directly, instead of -1;
  - by default, until libbpf 1.0 is released, keep returning -1 directly.

More context, justification, and discussion can be found in "Libbpf: the road
to v1.0" document ([0]).

  [0] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UyjTZuPFWiPFyKk1tV5an11_iaRuec6U-ZESZ54nNTY

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210525035935.1461796-4-andrii@kernel.org

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf_legacy.h b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf_legacy.h
index 7482cfe22ab2..df0d03dcffab 100644
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf_legacy.h
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf_legacy.h
@@ -33,6 +33,18 @@ enum libbpf_strict_mode {
 	 * code so that it handles LIBBPF_STRICT_ALL mode before libbpf v1.0.
 	 */
 	LIBBPF_STRICT_NONE = 0x00,
+	/*
+	 * Return NULL pointers on error, not ERR_PTR(err).
+	 * Additionally, libbpf also always sets errno to corresponding Exx
+	 * (positive) error code.
+	 */
+	LIBBPF_STRICT_CLEAN_PTRS = 0x01,
+	/*
+	 * Return actual error codes from low-level APIs directly, not just -1.
+	 * Additionally, libbpf also always sets errno to corresponding Exx
+	 * (positive) error code.
+	 */
+	LIBBPF_STRICT_DIRECT_ERRS = 0x02,
 
 	__LIBBPF_STRICT_LAST,
 };