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From: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
 Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>,
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Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 15:25:23 +0100
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Subject: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] eal: fix errno on service cores init failure
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Currently, when rte_service_init() fails at initialization, we
see the following message:

  Cannot init EAL: Exec format error

This error code does describe the real issue. Instead, use the error
code returned by the function.

Fixes: e39824500825 ("service: initialize with EAL")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
---
 lib/librte_eal/freebsd/eal.c | 4 ++--
 lib/librte_eal/linux/eal.c   | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/freebsd/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/freebsd/eal.c
index d6ea023750..51478358c7 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/freebsd/eal.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/freebsd/eal.c
@@ -906,7 +906,7 @@ rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv)
 	ret = rte_service_init();
 	if (ret) {
 		rte_eal_init_alert("rte_service_init() failed");
-		rte_errno = ENOEXEC;
+		rte_errno = -ret;
 		return -1;
 	}
 
@@ -922,7 +922,7 @@ rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv)
 	 */
 	ret = rte_service_start_with_defaults();
 	if (ret < 0 && ret != -ENOTSUP) {
-		rte_errno = ENOEXEC;
+		rte_errno = -ret;
 		return -1;
 	}
 
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal.c
index a4161be630..32b48c3de9 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal.c
@@ -1273,7 +1273,7 @@ rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv)
 	ret = rte_service_init();
 	if (ret) {
 		rte_eal_init_alert("rte_service_init() failed");
-		rte_errno = ENOEXEC;
+		rte_errno = -ret;
 		return -1;
 	}
 
@@ -1295,7 +1295,7 @@ rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv)
 	 */
 	ret = rte_service_start_with_defaults();
 	if (ret < 0 && ret != -ENOTSUP) {
-		rte_errno = ENOEXEC;
+		rte_errno = -ret;
 		return -1;
 	}
 
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