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Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:01:28 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <73e7a9185fa9de89513108a5ec2b545fa344d237.camel@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 bpf-next 02/10] libbpf: Support kind layout section handling in BTF From: Eduard Zingerman To: Alan Maguire , andrii@kernel.org, ast@kernel.org Cc: daniel@iogearbox.net, martin.lau@linux.dev, song@kernel.org, yonghong.song@linux.dev, john.fastabend@gmail.com, kpsingh@kernel.org, sdf@fomichev.me, haoluo@google.com, jolsa@kernel.org, qmo@kernel.org, ihor.solodrai@linux.dev, dwarves@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org, ttreyer@meta.com, mykyta.yatsenko5@gmail.com Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:01:25 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20251215091730.1188790-3-alan.maguire@oracle.com> References: <20251215091730.1188790-1-alan.maguire@oracle.com> <20251215091730.1188790-3-alan.maguire@oracle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Evolution 3.56.2 (3.56.2-2.fc42) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: bpf@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 On Mon, 2025-12-15 at 09:17 +0000, Alan Maguire wrote: [...] > @@ -951,7 +1018,8 @@ __s32 btf__find_by_name_kind(const struct btf *btf, = const char *type_name, > =20 > static bool btf_is_modifiable(const struct btf *btf) > { > - return (void *)btf->hdr !=3D btf->raw_data; > + /* BTF is modifiable if split into multiple sections */ > + return btf->modifiable; > } One more thought. If some kinds are not known to libbpf, BTF modifications are not safe, e.g. endianness swap will fail for non-native endianness and anything that depends on btf_field_iter will produce partial results. So, maybe forbid conversion to modifiable in such scenarios? [...]