From: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>,
Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>,
Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH bpf-next v1 3/4] bpftool: Don't drop a type in the sorted C dump
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:06:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260820000627.3826188-4-ihor.solodrai@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260820000627.3826188-1-ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>
The C dump sorts types by default, so that generated headers are
diffable. The sorted dump emits one type fewer than the unsorted dump
of the same BTF.
dump_btf_c() starts its loop at index 1 to skip the void type at BTF
type ID 0. That holds for the unsorted dump, where the array index is
the type ID, but not after qsort(): position 0 is then the lowest ranked
type, and btf_type_rank() ranks an anonymous enum 0 while void takes the
default rank of 10. So the enum is skipped, and void is emitted instead
as a no-op.
Skip by type ID rather than by position.
Fixes: 94133cf24bb3 ("bpftool: Introduce btf c dump sorting")
Signed-off-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>
---
tools/bpf/bpftool/btf.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/bpf/bpftool/btf.c b/tools/bpf/bpftool/btf.c
index c9589026da8d..345d49a9a22c 100644
--- a/tools/bpf/bpftool/btf.c
+++ b/tools/bpf/bpftool/btf.c
@@ -805,9 +805,13 @@ static int dump_btf_c(const struct btf *btf,
if (sort_dump)
datums = sort_btf_c(btf);
- for (i = 1; i < cnt; i++) {
+ for (i = 0; i < cnt; i++) {
int idx = datums ? datums[i].index : i;
+ /* type ID 0 is void, skip it */
+ if (!idx)
+ continue;
+
err = btf_dump__dump_type(d, idx);
if (err)
goto done;
--
2.55.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-20 0:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-20 0:06 [PATCH bpf-next v1 0/4] bpftool, selftests: Add tests for C dump and fix a dropped type Ihor Solodrai
2026-08-20 0:06 ` [PATCH bpf-next v1 1/4] selftests/bpf: NUL-terminate bpftool command output Ihor Solodrai
2026-08-20 0:06 ` [PATCH bpf-next v1 2/4] selftests/bpf: Add tests for bpftool btf dump format c Ihor Solodrai
2026-08-20 0:16 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-20 0:51 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-08-20 0:06 ` Ihor Solodrai [this message]
2026-08-20 0:06 ` [PATCH bpf-next v1 4/4] selftests/bpf: Check that sorting preserves types in bpftool dump Ihor Solodrai
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