Skip load steps for struct_ops maps not marked for automatic creation. This should allow to load bpf object in situations like below: SEC("struct_ops/foo") int BPF_PROG(foo) { ... } SEC("struct_ops/bar") int BPF_PROG(bar) { ... } struct test_ops___v1 { int (*foo)(void); }; struct test_ops___v2 { int (*foo)(void); int (*does_not_exist)(void); }; SEC(".struct_ops.link") struct test_ops___v1 map_for_old = { .test_1 = (void *)foo }; SEC(".struct_ops.link") struct test_ops___v2 map_for_new = { .test_1 = (void *)foo, .does_not_exist = (void *)bar }; Suppose program is loaded on old kernel that does not have definition for 'does_not_exist' struct_ops member. After this commit it would be possible to load such object file after the following tweaks: bpf_program__set_autoload(skel->progs.bar, false); bpf_map__set_autocreate(skel->maps.map_for_new, false); Acked-by: David Vernet <void@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@xxxxxxxxx> --- tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c | 18 +++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c index 2c0cb72bc7a4..1fb9a4f237b4 100644 --- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c @@ -1212,6 +1212,9 @@ static int bpf_object__init_kern_struct_ops_maps(struct bpf_object *obj) if (!bpf_map__is_struct_ops(map)) continue; + if (!map->autocreate) + continue; + err = bpf_map__init_kern_struct_ops(map); if (err) return err; @@ -8133,11 +8136,20 @@ static void bpf_map_prepare_vdata(const struct bpf_map *map) static int bpf_object_prepare_struct_ops(struct bpf_object *obj) { + struct bpf_map *map; int i; - for (i = 0; i < obj->nr_maps; i++) - if (bpf_map__is_struct_ops(&obj->maps[i])) - bpf_map_prepare_vdata(&obj->maps[i]); + for (i = 0; i < obj->nr_maps; i++) { + map = &obj->maps[i]; + + if (!bpf_map__is_struct_ops(map)) + continue; + + if (!map->autocreate) + continue; + + bpf_map_prepare_vdata(map); + } return 0; } -- 2.43.0