On 3/7/19 9:18 PM, Nikita V. Shirokov wrote:
> we could end up in situation when we have object file w/ all btf
> info but kernel does not support btf yet. in this situation currently
> libbpf just set obj->btf to NULL w/o freeing it first.
> this patch if fixing it by making sure to run btf__free first
>
> v2->v3:
> - adding "Fixes" tag
>
> v1->v2:
> - adding netdev to cc
>
> Fixes: 8a138aed4a80 ("bpf: btf: Add BTF support to libbpf")
> Signed-off-by: Nikita V. Shirokov <tehn...@tehnerd.com>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <y...@fb.com>
> ---
> tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
> index f5eb60379c8d..d5b830d60601 100644
> --- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
> +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
> @@ -838,6 +838,8 @@ static int bpf_object__elf_collect(struct bpf_object
> *obj, int flags)
> if (IS_ERR(obj->btf) || btf__load(obj->btf)) {
> pr_warning("Error loading ELF section %s: %ld.
> Ignored and continue.\n",
> BTF_ELF_SEC, PTR_ERR(obj->btf));
> + if (!IS_ERR(obj->btf))
> + btf__free(obj->btf);
> obj->btf = NULL;
> }
> } else if (strcmp(name, BTF_EXT_ELF_SEC) == 0) {
>
