To provoke this bug, remember that you MUST call: make headers_install
In the kernels root directory, else you will be compiling samples/bpf/ against the older headers previously installed. The error looks like: $ sudo ./sockex1 bpf_load_program() err=22 fd 0 is not pointing to valid bpf_map sockex1: [...]/samples/bpf/sockex1_user.c:26: main: Assertion `setsockopt(sock, SOL_SOCKET, SO_ATTACH_BPF, prog_fd, sizeof(prog_fd[0])) == 0' failed. Aborted I've found that the bug were introduced in commit: fb30d4b71214 ("bpf: Add tests for map-in-map") -- Best regards, Jesper Dangaard Brouer MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer