This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled libbpf: Add explicit padding to btf_dump_emit_type_decl_opts to the 5.10-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-add-explicit-padding-to-btf_dump_emit_type_de.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 11b9d81e0c928392757cc854d4c2cfa88cc58a99 Author: KP Singh <kpsingh@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Mar 19 19:21:17 2021 +0000 libbpf: Add explicit padding to btf_dump_emit_type_decl_opts [ Upstream commit ea24b19562fe5f72c78319dbb347b701818956d9 ] Similar to https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210313210920.1959628-2-andrii@xxxxxxxxxx/ When DECLARE_LIBBPF_OPTS is used with inline field initialization, e.g: DECLARE_LIBBPF_OPTS(btf_dump_emit_type_decl_opts, opts, .field_name = var_ident, .indent_level = 2, .strip_mods = strip_mods, ); and compiled in debug mode, the compiler generates code which leaves the padding uninitialized and triggers errors within libbpf APIs which require strict zero initialization of OPTS structs. Adding anonymous padding field fixes the issue. Fixes: 9f81654eebe8 ("libbpf: Expose BTF-to-C type declaration emitting API") Suggested-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: KP Singh <kpsingh@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210319192117.2310658-1-kpsingh@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/btf.h b/tools/lib/bpf/btf.h index 57247240a20a..9cabc8b620e3 100644 --- a/tools/lib/bpf/btf.h +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/btf.h @@ -164,6 +164,7 @@ struct btf_dump_emit_type_decl_opts { int indent_level; /* strip all the const/volatile/restrict mods */ bool strip_mods; + size_t :0; }; #define btf_dump_emit_type_decl_opts__last_field strip_mods