When fed an empty BPF object, bpftool gen skeleton -L crashes at btf__set_fd since it assumes presence of obj->btf, however for the sequence below clang adds no .BTF section (hence no BTF). Reproducer: $ touch a.bpf.c $ clang -O2 -g -target bpf -c a.bpf.c $ bpftool gen skeleton -L a.bpf.o /* SPDX-License-Identifier: (LGPL-2.1 OR BSD-2-Clause) */ /* THIS FILE IS AUTOGENERATED! */ struct a_bpf { struct bpf_loader_ctx ctx; Segmentation fault (core dumped) The same occurs for files compiled without BTF info, i.e. without clang's -g flag. Fixes: 67234743736a (libbpf: Generate loader program out of BPF ELF file.) Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@xxxxxxxxx> --- tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c index 0f85d441fca3..b6b130171b86 100644 --- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c @@ -7031,7 +7031,8 @@ int bpf_object__load_xattr(struct bpf_object_load_attr *attr) if (obj->gen_loader) { /* reset FDs */ - btf__set_fd(obj->btf, -1); + if (obj->btf) + btf__set_fd(obj->btf, -1); for (i = 0; i < obj->nr_maps; i++) obj->maps[i].fd = -1; if (!err) -- 2.33.0