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This benefits all callers, not just kprobe.session. When the pattern contains no '*' or '?' characters, set syms to point directly at the pattern string and cnt to 1, skipping the expensive /proc/kallsyms or available_filter_functions parsing (~150ms per function). Error code normalization: the fast path returns ESRCH from kernel's ftrace_lookup_symbols(), while the slow path returns ENOENT from userspace kallsyms parsing. Convert ESRCH to ENOENT in the bpf_link_create error path to maintain API consistency - both paths now return identical error codes for "symbol not found". Signed-off-by: Andrey Grodzovsky --- tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c | 18 +++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c index 0be7017800fe..80278385bc9c 100644 --- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c @@ -12041,7 +12041,15 @@ bpf_program__attach_kprobe_multi_opts(const struct bpf_program *prog, if (addrs && syms) return libbpf_err_ptr(-EINVAL); - if (pattern) { + /* + * Exact function name (no wildcards): bypass kallsyms parsing + * and pass the symbol directly to the kernel via syms[] array. + * The kernel's ftrace_lookup_symbols() resolves it efficiently. + */ + if (pattern && !strpbrk(pattern, "*?")) { + syms = &pattern; + cnt = 1; + } else if (pattern) { if (has_available_filter_functions_addrs()) err = libbpf_available_kprobes_parse(&res); else @@ -12084,6 +12092,14 @@ bpf_program__attach_kprobe_multi_opts(const struct bpf_program *prog, link_fd = bpf_link_create(prog_fd, 0, attach_type, &lopts); if (link_fd < 0) { err = -errno; + /* + * Normalize error code: when exact name bypasses kallsyms + * parsing, kernel returns ESRCH from ftrace_lookup_symbols(). + * Convert to ENOENT for API consistency with the pattern + * matching path which returns ENOENT from userspace. + */ + if (err == -ESRCH) + err = -ENOENT; pr_warn("prog '%s': failed to attach: %s\n", prog->name, errstr(err)); goto error; -- 2.34.1