It's legal for ELF symbol to have size 0, if it's size is unknown or
unspecified. Instead of erroring out, just ignore such symbols, as they can't
be a valid per-CPU variable anyways.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
btf_encoder.c | 12 ++++--------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/btf_encoder.c b/btf_encoder.c
index 2a6455be4c52..2af1fe447834 100644
--- a/btf_encoder.c
+++ b/btf_encoder.c
@@ -287,6 +287,10 @@ static int find_all_percpu_vars(struct btf_elf *btfe)
if (!addr)
continue;
+ size = elf_sym__size(&sym);
+ if (!size)
+ continue; /* ignore zero-sized symbols */
+
sym_name = elf_sym__name(&sym, btfe->symtab);
if (!btf_name_valid(sym_name)) {
dump_invalid_symbol("Found symbol of invalid name when encoding btf",
@@ -295,14 +299,6 @@ static int find_all_percpu_vars(struct btf_elf *btfe)
continue;
return -1;
}
- size = elf_sym__size(&sym);
- if (!size) {
- dump_invalid_symbol("Found symbol of zero size when encoding btf",
- sym_name, btf_elf__verbose, btf_elf__force);
- if (btf_elf__force)
- continue;
- return -1;
- }
if (btf_elf__verbose)
printf("Found per-CPU symbol '%s' at address 0x%lx\n", sym_name, addr);
--
2.24.1
