This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled libbpf: Fix btf__align_of() by taking into account field offsets to the 6.1-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-btf__align_of-by-taking-into-account-fiel.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit eaaec354ffafbba57f4397bf1e4c8777185835e3 Author: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Dec 12 13:15:03 2022 -0800 libbpf: Fix btf__align_of() by taking into account field offsets [ Upstream commit 25a4481b4136af7794e1df2d6c90ed2f354d60ce ] btf__align_of() is supposed to be return alignment requirement of a requested BTF type. For STRUCT/UNION it doesn't always return correct value, because it calculates alignment only based on field types. But for packed structs this is not enough, we need to also check field offsets and struct size. If field offset isn't aligned according to field type's natural alignment, then struct must be packed. Similarly, if struct size is not a multiple of struct's natural alignment, then struct must be packed as well. This patch fixes this issue precisely by additionally checking these conditions. Fixes: 3d208f4ca111 ("libbpf: Expose btf__align_of() API") Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20221212211505.558851-5-andrii@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/btf.c b/tools/lib/bpf/btf.c index 675a0df5c840f..8224a797c2da5 100644 --- a/tools/lib/bpf/btf.c +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/btf.c @@ -688,8 +688,21 @@ int btf__align_of(const struct btf *btf, __u32 id) if (align <= 0) return libbpf_err(align); max_align = max(max_align, align); + + /* if field offset isn't aligned according to field + * type's alignment, then struct must be packed + */ + if (btf_member_bitfield_size(t, i) == 0 && + (m->offset % (8 * align)) != 0) + return 1; } + /* if struct/union size isn't a multiple of its alignment, + * then struct must be packed + */ + if ((t->size % max_align) != 0) + return 1; + return max_align; } default: