Re: [BPF v1] tools: bpftool: Fix JSON output when lookup fails

From: Daniel Borkmann
Date: Wed Jun 05 2019 - 16:14:39 EST


On 06/05/2019 09:17 PM, Krzesimir Nowak wrote:
> In commit 9a5ab8bf1d6d ("tools: bpftool: turn err() and info() macros
> into functions") one case of error reporting was special cased, so it
> could report a lookup error for a specific key when dumping the map
> element. What the code forgot to do is to wrap the key and value keys
> into a JSON object, so an example output of pretty JSON dump of a
> sockhash map (which does not support looking up its values) is:
>
> [
> "key": ["0x0a","0x41","0x00","0x02","0x1f","0x78","0x00","0x00"
> ],
> "value": {
> "error": "Operation not supported"
> },
> "key": ["0x0a","0x41","0x00","0x02","0x1f","0x78","0x00","0x01"
> ],
> "value": {
> "error": "Operation not supported"
> }
> ]
>
> Note the key-value pairs inside the toplevel array. They should be
> wrapped inside a JSON object, otherwise it is an invalid JSON. This
> commit fixes this, so the output now is:
>
> [{
> "key": ["0x0a","0x41","0x00","0x02","0x1f","0x78","0x00","0x00"
> ],
> "value": {
> "error": "Operation not supported"
> }
> },{
> "key": ["0x0a","0x41","0x00","0x02","0x1f","0x78","0x00","0x01"
> ],
> "value": {
> "error": "Operation not supported"
> }
> }
> ]
>
> Fixes: 9a5ab8bf1d6d ("tools: bpftool: turn err() and info() macros into functions")
> Cc: Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Krzesimir Nowak <krzesimir@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks!