Differentiate between struct and union forwards in BTF. BTF type representing forward declaration (BTF_KIND_FWD) encodes whether the forward declaration is for struct or union type by using kflag. So use that kflag to create a proper internal representation of forward declaration. Tested with btfdiff on vmlinux: $ PAHOLE=build/pahole ./btfdiff ~/linux-build/default/vmlinux | wc -l 0 Also tested manually: $ cat test.c struct struct_fwd; union union_fwd; struct s { struct struct_fwd *f1; union union_fwd *f2; }; int func(struct s *s) { return !!s->f1 + !!s->f2; } $ clang -g -target bpf -c test.c -o test.o $ bpftool btf dump file test.o | grep fwd_kind [6] FWD 'struct_fwd' fwd_kind=struct [8] FWD 'union_fwd' fwd_kind=union $ build/pahole -F btf test.o struct s { struct struct_fwd * f1; /* 0 8 */ union union_fwd * f2; /* 8 8 */ /* size: 16, cachelines: 1, members: 2 */ /* last cacheline: 16 bytes */ }; Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@xxxxxxxxxx> --- btf_loader.c | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/btf_loader.c b/btf_loader.c index 9b5da3a4997a..6ea207ea65b4 100644 --- a/btf_loader.c +++ b/btf_loader.c @@ -134,12 +134,13 @@ static struct type *type__new(uint16_t tag, strings_t name, size_t size) return type; } -static struct class *class__new(strings_t name, size_t size) +static struct class *class__new(strings_t name, size_t size, bool is_union) { struct class *class = tag__alloc(sizeof(*class)); + uint32_t tag = is_union ? DW_TAG_union_type : DW_TAG_structure_type; if (class != NULL) { - type__init(&class->type, DW_TAG_structure_type, name, size); + type__init(&class->type, tag, name, size); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&class->vtable); } @@ -228,7 +229,7 @@ static int create_members(struct btf_elf *btfe, const struct btf_type *tp, static int create_new_class(struct btf_elf *btfe, const struct btf_type *tp, uint32_t id) { - struct class *class = class__new(tp->name_off, tp->size); + struct class *class = class__new(tp->name_off, tp->size, false); int member_size = create_members(btfe, tp, &class->type); if (member_size < 0) @@ -313,7 +314,7 @@ static int create_new_subroutine_type(struct btf_elf *btfe, const struct btf_typ static int create_new_forward_decl(struct btf_elf *btfe, const struct btf_type *tp, uint32_t id) { - struct class *fwd = class__new(tp->name_off, 0); + struct class *fwd = class__new(tp->name_off, 0, btf_kflag(tp)); if (fwd == NULL) return -ENOMEM; -- 2.24.1