In a scenario where livepatch and aggrprobe coexist, the creating kprobe_event using tracefs API will succeed, a trace event (e.g. /debugfs/tracing/events/kprobe/XX) will exist, but perf_event_open() will return an error. Signed-off-by: Chuang W <nashuiliang@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jingren Zhou <zhoujingren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c index 0781fae58a06..d0a36350e22a 100644 --- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c @@ -10809,10 +10809,11 @@ static int perf_event_kprobe_open_legacy(const char *probe_name, bool retprobe, } type = determine_kprobe_perf_type_legacy(probe_name, retprobe); if (type < 0) { + err = type; pr_warn("failed to determine legacy kprobe event id for '%s+0x%zx': %s\n", kfunc_name, offset, - libbpf_strerror_r(type, errmsg, sizeof(errmsg))); - return type; + libbpf_strerror_r(err, errmsg, sizeof(errmsg))); + goto clear_kprobe_event; } attr.size = sizeof(attr); attr.config = type; @@ -10826,9 +10827,14 @@ static int perf_event_kprobe_open_legacy(const char *probe_name, bool retprobe, err = -errno; pr_warn("legacy kprobe perf_event_open() failed: %s\n", libbpf_strerror_r(err, errmsg, sizeof(errmsg))); - return err; + goto clear_kprobe_event; } return pfd; + +clear_kprobe_event: + /* Clear the newly added kprobe_event */ + remove_kprobe_event_legacy(probe_name, retprobe); + return err; } struct bpf_link * -- 2.34.1