Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] libbpf: show error info about missing ".BTF" section

Leo Yan
2022-12-20T11:34:40Z

On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 09:31:14AM +0800, Changbin Du wrote:

[...]

> > > Now will print below info:
> > > libbpf: failed to find '.BTF' ELF section in /home/changbin/work/linux/vmlinux
> >
> > Recently I encountered the same issue, it could be caused by:
> > either missing to install tool pahole or missing to enable kernel
> > configuration CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF.
> >
> > Could we give explict info for reasoning failure? Like:
> >
> > "libbpf: failed to find '.BTF' ELF section in /home/changbin/work/linux/vmlinux,
> > please install pahole and enable CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y for kernel building".
> >
> This is vmlinux special information and similar tips are removed from
> patch V2. libbpf is common for all ELFs.

Okay, I see. Sorry for noise.

> > > Error: failed to load BTF from /home/changbin/work/linux/vmlinux: No such file or directory
> >
> > This log is confusing when we can find vmlinux file but without BTF
> > section. Consider to use a separate patch to detect vmlinux not
> > found case and print out "No such file or directory"?
> >
> I think it's already there. If the file doesn't exist, open will fail.

[...]

> > > @@ -990,6 +990,7 @@ static struct btf *btf_parse_elf(const char *path, struct btf *base_btf,
> > > err = 0;
> > >
> > > if (!btf_data) {
> > > + pr_warn("failed to find '%s' ELF section in %s\n", BTF_ELF_SEC, path);
> > > err = -ENOENT;

btf_parse_elf() returns -ENOENT when ELF file doesn't contain BTF
section, therefore, bpftool dumps error string "No such file or
directory". It's confused that actually vmlinux is existed.

I am wondering if we can use error -LIBBPF_ERRNO__FORMAT (or any
better choice?) to replace -ENOENT at here, this can avoid bpftool to
outputs "No such file or directory" in this case.

Thanks,
Leo