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Date:   Mon, 17 Jul 2023 19:51:29 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To:     "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc:     linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@linux.dev>, bpf@vger.kernel.org,
        Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/9] bpf/btf: tracing: Move finding func-proto API
 and getting func-param API to BTF
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On Tue, 18 Jul 2023 08:46:34 +0900
Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> wrote:

> > > + * Get function parameter with the number of parameters.
> > > + * This can return NULL if the function has no parameters.  
> > 
> >   " It can return EINVAL if this function's parameters are NULL."  
> 
> No, as you can see the code, if btf_type_vlen(func_proto) returns 0 (means
> the function proto type has no parameters), btf_get_func_param() returns
> NULL. This is important point because user needs to use IS_ERR_OR_NULL(ret)
> instead of IS_ERR(ret).

I didn't mean to replace what you had, I meant you left that part out. In
other words, you have to check for IS_ERR_OR_NULL(ret), not just "!ret".

-- Steve

> >   
> > > + */
> > > +const struct btf_param *btf_get_func_param(const struct btf_type *func_proto, s32 *nr)
> > > +{
> > > +	if (!func_proto || !nr)
> > > +		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> > > +