When dumping a character array, libbpf will watch for a '\0' and set is_array_terminated=true if found. This prevents libbpf from printing the remaining characters of the array, treating it as a nul-terminated string. However, once this flag is set, it's never reset, leading to subsequent characters array not being printed properly: .str_multi = (__u8[2][16])[ [ 'H', 'e', 'l', ], ], This patch saves the is_array_terminated flag and restores its default (false) value before looping over the elements of an array, then restores it afterward. This way, libbpf's behavior is unchanged when dumping the characters of an array, but subsequent arrays are printed properly: .str_multi = (__u8[2][16])[ [ 'H', 'e', 'l', ], [ 'l', 'o', ], ], Signed-off-by: Quentin Deslandes <qde@xxxxxxxx> --- tools/lib/bpf/btf_dump.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/btf_dump.c b/tools/lib/bpf/btf_dump.c index 6a37e8517435..5dbca76b953f 100644 --- a/tools/lib/bpf/btf_dump.c +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/btf_dump.c @@ -2032,6 +2032,7 @@ static int btf_dump_array_data(struct btf_dump *d, __u32 i, elem_type_id; __s64 elem_size; bool is_array_member; + bool is_array_terminated; elem_type_id = array->type; elem_type = skip_mods_and_typedefs(d->btf, elem_type_id, NULL); @@ -2067,12 +2068,15 @@ static int btf_dump_array_data(struct btf_dump *d, */ is_array_member = d->typed_dump->is_array_member; d->typed_dump->is_array_member = true; + is_array_terminated = d->typed_dump->is_array_terminated; + d->typed_dump->is_array_terminated = false; for (i = 0; i < array->nelems; i++, data += elem_size) { if (d->typed_dump->is_array_terminated) break; btf_dump_dump_type_data(d, NULL, elem_type, elem_type_id, data, 0, 0); } d->typed_dump->is_array_member = is_array_member; + d->typed_dump->is_array_terminated = is_array_terminated; d->typed_dump->depth--; btf_dump_data_pfx(d); btf_dump_type_values(d, "]"); -- 2.44.0