When finding target type candidates, ignore forward declarations, functions, and other named types of incompatible kind. Not doing this can cause false errors. See [0] for one such case (due to struct pt_regs forward declaration). [0] https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/pull/2806#issuecomment-598543645 Fixes: ddc7c3042614 ("libbpf: implement BPF CO-RE offset relocation algorithm") Reported-by: Wenbo Zhang <ethercflow@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@xxxxxx> --- tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c index 1a787a2faf58..085e41f9b68e 100644 --- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c @@ -3873,6 +3873,10 @@ static struct ids_vec *bpf_core_find_cands(const struct btf *local_btf, if (str_is_empty(targ_name)) continue; + t = skip_mods_and_typedefs(targ_btf, i, NULL); + if (!btf_is_composite(t) && !btf_is_array(t)) + continue; + targ_essent_len = bpf_core_essential_name_len(targ_name); if (targ_essent_len != local_essent_len) continue; -- 2.17.1
