On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 07:58:13PM +0100, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 11:39:01AM -0700, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 9:23 AM Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 12:40:31PM -0700, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
> > >
> > > SNIP
> > >
> > > > +
> > > > + return NULL;
> > > > +}
> > > > +
> > > > +static int linker_fixup_btf(struct src_obj *obj)
> > > > +{
> > > > + const char *sec_name;
> > > > + struct src_sec *sec;
> > > > + int i, j, n, m;
> > > > +
> > > > + n = btf__get_nr_types(obj->btf);
> > >
> > > hi,
> > > I'm getting bpftool crash when building tests,
> > >
> > > looks like above obj->btf can be NULL:
> >
> > I lost if (!obj->btf) return 0; somewhere along the rebases. I'll send
> > a fix shortly. But how did you end up with selftests BPF objects built
> > without BTF?
>
> no idea.. I haven't even updated llvm for almost 3 days now ;-)
sorry for late follow up on this, and it's actually forgotten empty
object in progs directory that was causing this
I wonder we should add empty object like below to catch these cases,
because there's another place that bpftool is crashing on with it
I can send full patch for that if you think it's worth having
jirka
---
diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
index 7aad78dbb4b4..aecb6ca52bce 100644
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
@@ -3165,6 +3165,9 @@ static int add_dummy_ksym_var(struct btf *btf)
const struct btf_var_secinfo *vs;
const struct btf_type *sec;
+ if (!btf)
+ return 0;
+
sec_btf_id = btf__find_by_name_kind(btf, KSYMS_SEC,
BTF_KIND_DATASEC);
if (sec_btf_id < 0)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/empty.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/empty.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e69de29bb2d1
