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>
diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h
index 2188ccd..4014d1b 100644
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@
#define __BPF_LIBBPF_H
#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdbool.h>
-#include <linux/err.h>
#include <sys/types.h> // for size_t
enum libbpf_errno {
@@ -234,4 +234,6 @@
bpf_map_clear_priv_t clear_priv);
void *bpf_map__priv(struct bpf_map *map);
+long libbpf_get_error(const void *ptr);
+
#endif