The btf validator should croak when the variable size is larger than its type size, not less. The LLVM optimizer may use smaller sizes for the C type. We ran into this issue with real-world BPF programs emitted by the latest version of Clang/LLVM. Fixes: 1dc92851849cc ("bpf: kernel side support for BTF Var and DataSec") Signed-off-by: Yichun Zhang (agentzh) <yichun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/bpf/btf.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/bpf/btf.c b/kernel/bpf/btf.c index 9bdb03767db5..2a6967b13ce1 100644 --- a/kernel/bpf/btf.c +++ b/kernel/bpf/btf.c @@ -3696,7 +3696,7 @@ static int btf_datasec_resolve(struct btf_verifier_env *env, return -EINVAL; } - if (vsi->size < type_size) { + if (vsi->size > type_size) { btf_verifier_log_vsi(env, v->t, vsi, "Invalid size"); return -EINVAL; } -- 2.17.2