This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled libbpf: Fix error path in bpf_object__elf_init() to the 5.11-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: libbpf-fix-error-path-in-bpf_object__elf_init.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.11 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit c99ee9ee9b352920a25504c9c05aa562c05e9373 Author: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Mar 17 23:54:14 2021 +0900 libbpf: Fix error path in bpf_object__elf_init() [ Upstream commit 8f3f5792f2940c16ab63c614b26494c8689c9c1e ] When it failed to get section names, it should call into bpf_object__elf_finish() like others. Fixes: 88a82120282b ("libbpf: Factor out common ELF operations and improve logging") Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210317145414.884817-1-namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c index a0d4fc4de402..8913e5e7bedb 100644 --- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c @@ -1180,7 +1180,8 @@ static int bpf_object__elf_init(struct bpf_object *obj) if (!elf_rawdata(elf_getscn(obj->efile.elf, obj->efile.shstrndx), NULL)) { pr_warn("elf: failed to get section names strings from %s: %s\n", obj->path, elf_errmsg(-1)); - return -LIBBPF_ERRNO__FORMAT; + err = -LIBBPF_ERRNO__FORMAT; + goto errout; } /* Old LLVM set e_machine to EM_NONE */