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From: Siddharth Nayyar <sidnayyar@google.com>
To: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>,
	Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>,
	 Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	 Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@linux.dev>,
	Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>,
	Song Liu <song@kernel.org>,
	 Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	gprocida@google.com,  maennich@google.com,
	Siddharth Nayyar <sidnayyar@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 3/3] libbpf: plumb btf_vmlinux_value_type_id and btf_fd in gen_loader
Date: Wed, 27 May 2026 12:52:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260527-libbpf-load-vmlinux-btf-in-gen_loader-mode-v4-3-27daa15487a9@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260527-libbpf-load-vmlinux-btf-in-gen_loader-mode-v4-0-27daa15487a9@google.com>

BPF `STRUCT_OPS` maps (such as `sched_ext_ops` maps) require resolving
and plumbing the kernel-side structure value type ID
(`btf_vmlinux_value_type_id`) into the BPF map creation system call
attributes. Additionally, when `btf_vmlinux_value_type_id` is supplied,
the kernel requires a valid userspace BTF file descriptor (`btf_fd`) to
be supplied to verify types.

Previously, the `gen_loader` map creation generator
(`bpf_gen__map_create()`) omitted plumbing `btf_vmlinux_value_type_id`.
Furthermore, `gen_loader.c` only copied the loaded `btf_fd` from the
stack to the attributes blob if `btf_value_type_id` was non-zero.
Because `STRUCT_OPS` maps explicitly zero out `btf_value_type_id`, the
loader program skipped copying `btf_fd`, leaving it as `0` (standard
input), which caused the kernel's `btf_get_by_fd(0)` check to fail.

Fix this by:

1. Copying `btf_vmlinux_value_type_id` from the options inside
   `bpf_gen__map_create()`.
2. Modifying the `btf_fd` copying condition to populate `btf_fd` if
   either `btf_value_type_id` OR `btf_vmlinux_value_type_id` is set.

Signed-off-by: Siddharth Nayyar <sidnayyar@google.com>
---
 tools/lib/bpf/gen_loader.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/gen_loader.c b/tools/lib/bpf/gen_loader.c
index cd5c2543f54d..a9be0c241025 100644
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/gen_loader.c
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/gen_loader.c
@@ -525,13 +525,14 @@ void bpf_gen__map_create(struct bpf_gen *gen,
 	attr.max_entries = tgt_endian(max_entries);
 	attr.btf_key_type_id = tgt_endian(map_attr->btf_key_type_id);
 	attr.btf_value_type_id = tgt_endian(map_attr->btf_value_type_id);
+	attr.btf_vmlinux_value_type_id = tgt_endian(map_attr->btf_vmlinux_value_type_id);
 
 	map_create_attr = add_data(gen, &attr, attr_size);
 	pr_debug("gen: map_create: %s idx %d type %d value_type_id %d, attr: off %d size %d\n",
 		 map_name, map_idx, map_type, map_attr->btf_value_type_id,
 		 map_create_attr, attr_size);
 
-	if (map_attr->btf_value_type_id)
+	if (map_attr->btf_value_type_id || map_attr->btf_vmlinux_value_type_id)
 		/* populate union bpf_attr with btf_fd saved in the stack earlier */
 		move_stack2blob(gen, attr_field(map_create_attr, btf_fd), 4,
 				stack_off(btf_fd));

-- 
2.54.0.746.g67dd491aae-goog


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-05-27 12:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-27 12:52 [PATCH v4 0/3] libbpf: support STRUCT_OPS in light skeletons Siddharth Nayyar
2026-05-27 12:52 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] libbpf: load vmlinux BTF in gen_loader mode for struct_ops Siddharth Nayyar
2026-05-27 13:39   ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-05-27 14:17     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2026-05-27 12:52 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] libbpf: zero out btf_key_type_id for STRUCT_OPS maps Siddharth Nayyar
2026-05-27 13:39   ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-05-27 12:52 ` Siddharth Nayyar [this message]
2026-05-27 13:39   ` [PATCH v4 3/3] libbpf: plumb btf_vmlinux_value_type_id and btf_fd in gen_loader bot+bpf-ci
2026-05-28 21:35 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] libbpf: support STRUCT_OPS in light skeletons Andrii Nakryiko
2026-05-29 10:31   ` Sid Nayyar

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