From: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
To: bpf@vger.kernel.org, ast@kernel.org, daniel@iogearbox.net,
martin.lau@kernel.org
Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@meta.com,
Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
Lorenz Bauer <lmb@isovalent.com>
Subject: [PATCH bpf] libbpf: handle unsupported mmap-based /sys/kernel/btf/vmlinux correctly
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2025 13:21:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250606202134.2738910-1-andrii@kernel.org> (raw)
libbpf_err_ptr() helpers are meant to return NULL and set errno, if
there is an error. But btf_parse_raw_mmap() is meant to be used
internally and is expected to return ERR_PTR() values. Because of this
mismatch, when libbpf tries to mmap /sys/kernel/btf/vmlinux, we don't
detect the error correctly with IS_ERR() check, and never fallback to
old non-mmap-based way of loading vmlinux BTF.
Fix this by using proper ERR_PTR() returns internally.
Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fixes: 3c0421c93ce4 ("libbpf: Use mmap to parse vmlinux BTF from sysfs")
Cc: Lorenz Bauer <lmb@isovalent.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
---
tools/lib/bpf/btf.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/btf.c b/tools/lib/bpf/btf.c
index f1d495dc66bb..37682908cb0f 100644
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/btf.c
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/btf.c
@@ -1384,12 +1384,12 @@ static struct btf *btf_parse_raw_mmap(const char *path, struct btf *base_btf)
fd = open(path, O_RDONLY);
if (fd < 0)
- return libbpf_err_ptr(-errno);
+ return ERR_PTR(-errno);
if (fstat(fd, &st) < 0) {
err = -errno;
close(fd);
- return libbpf_err_ptr(err);
+ return ERR_PTR(err);
}
data = mmap(NULL, st.st_size, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0);
@@ -1397,7 +1397,7 @@ static struct btf *btf_parse_raw_mmap(const char *path, struct btf *base_btf)
close(fd);
if (data == MAP_FAILED)
- return libbpf_err_ptr(err);
+ return ERR_PTR(err);
btf = btf_new(data, st.st_size, base_btf, true);
if (IS_ERR(btf))
--
2.47.1
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