As qmonnet said [1], map pinning will fail if the pinmaps path not under the bpffs, like: libbpf: specified path /home/ubuntu/test/sock_ops_map is not on BPF FS Error: failed to pin all maps [1]: https://github.com/libbpf/bpftool/issues/146 Fixes: 3767a94b3253 ("bpftool: add pinmaps argument to the load/loadall") Signed-off-by: Tao Chen <chen.dylane@xxxxxxxxx> --- tools/bpf/bpftool/prog.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/bpf/bpftool/prog.c b/tools/bpf/bpftool/prog.c index 1a501cf09e78..40ea743d139f 100644 --- a/tools/bpf/bpftool/prog.c +++ b/tools/bpf/bpftool/prog.c @@ -1813,6 +1813,10 @@ static int load_with_options(int argc, char **argv, bool first_prog_only) } if (pinmaps) { + err = create_and_mount_bpffs_dir(pinmaps); + if (err) + goto err_unpin; + err = bpf_object__pin_maps(obj, pinmaps); if (err) { p_err("failed to pin all maps"); -- 2.34.1