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From: Jiri Olsa <olsajiri@gmail.com>
To: Li kunyu <kunyu@nfschina.com>
Cc: lkp@intel.com, andrii@kernel.org, ast@kernel.org,
	bpf@vger.kernel.org, daniel@iogearbox.net, haoluo@google.com,
	john.fastabend@gmail.com, kbuild-all@lists.01.org,
	kpsingh@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	martin.lau@linux.dev, sdf@google.com, song@kernel.org,
	yhs@fb.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib: bpf: Optimized variable usage in the btf_parse_elf function
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2022 14:53:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y0LEVuvk/O93xBAn@krava> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221009070827.525694-2-kunyu@nfschina.com>

On Sun, Oct 09, 2022 at 03:08:28PM +0800, Li kunyu wrote:
> The following changes were made in the btf_parse_elf function:
> 1. The initialization assignments of err, fd, scn and elf variables are
> removed, and they do not affect function security after analysis.
> 2. Remove unnecessary assignments to err variable (-error).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Li kunyu <kunyu@nfschina.com>
> ---
>  tools/lib/bpf/btf.c | 11 ++++-------
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/btf.c b/tools/lib/bpf/btf.c
> index 2d14f1a52d7a..fa9d5fa03da4 100644
> --- a/tools/lib/bpf/btf.c
> +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/btf.c
> @@ -910,10 +910,10 @@ static struct btf *btf_parse_elf(const char *path, struct btf *base_btf,
>  				 struct btf_ext **btf_ext)
>  {
>  	Elf_Data *btf_data = NULL, *btf_ext_data = NULL;
> -	int err = 0, fd = -1, idx = 0;
> +	int err, fd, idx = 0;
>  	struct btf *btf = NULL;
> -	Elf_Scn *scn = NULL;
> -	Elf *elf = NULL;
> +	Elf_Scn *scn;
> +	Elf *elf;
>  	GElf_Ehdr ehdr;
>  	size_t shstrndx;
>  
> @@ -924,9 +924,8 @@ static struct btf *btf_parse_elf(const char *path, struct btf *base_btf,
>  
>  	fd = open(path, O_RDONLY | O_CLOEXEC);
>  	if (fd < 0) {
> -		err = -errno;
>  		pr_warn("failed to open %s: %s\n", path, strerror(errno));
> -		return ERR_PTR(err);
> +		return ERR_PTR(-errno);

hum, pr_warn could potentionally change errno

jirka

>  	}
>  
>  	err = -LIBBPF_ERRNO__FORMAT;
> @@ -987,8 +986,6 @@ static struct btf *btf_parse_elf(const char *path, struct btf *base_btf,
>  		}
>  	}
>  
> -	err = 0;
> -
>  	if (!btf_data) {
>  		err = -ENOENT;
>  		goto done;
> -- 
> 2.18.2
> 

      reply	other threads:[~2022-10-09 12:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-08  8:21 [PATCH] lib: bpf: Optimized variable usage in the btf_parse_elf function Li kunyu
2022-10-08 11:06 ` kernel test robot
2022-10-08 12:30 ` kernel test robot
2022-10-09  7:08   ` Li kunyu
2022-10-09 12:53     ` Jiri Olsa [this message]

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