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* [PATCH v2 1/4] perf symbol: Fix symbol loading from libbfd
@ 2026-10-12  5:30 Namhyung Kim
  2026-10-12  5:30 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] perf symbol: Add missing symsrc__destroy() for libbfd Namhyung Kim
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From: Namhyung Kim @ 2026-10-12  5:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, Ian Rogers, James Clark
  Cc: Jiri Olsa, Adrian Hunter, Peter Zijlstra, Ingo Molnar, LKML,
	linux-perf-users, Sashiko

The dso__load() should return a positive number (number of symbols
loaded) when it succeded to load symbols.  But dso__load_bfd_symbols()
only returns 0 and it's hard to check if it actually loaded symbols or
not.  Let's return the value of dso__has_symbol() and check it in
dso__load() so that it can return 1 for success.

Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/sashiko-outbox-162540@kernel.org
Fixes: eac9a4342e5447cad ("perf symbols: Try reading the symbol table with libbfd")
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
---
 tools/perf/tests/pe-file-parsing.c | 2 +-
 tools/perf/util/libbfd.c           | 2 +-
 tools/perf/util/symbol.c           | 4 ++--
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/pe-file-parsing.c b/tools/perf/tests/pe-file-parsing.c
index 30c7da79e109b480..3979f38bf127c218 100644
--- a/tools/perf/tests/pe-file-parsing.c
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/pe-file-parsing.c
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ static int run_dir(const char *d)
 	TEST_ASSERT_VAL("Failed to get dso", dso);
 
 	ret = dso__load_bfd_symbols(dso, debugfile);
-	TEST_ASSERT_VAL("Failed to load symbols", ret == 0);
+	TEST_ASSERT_VAL("Failed to load symbols", ret > 0);
 
 	dso__sort_by_name(dso);
 	sym = dso__find_symbol_by_name(dso, "main", &idx);
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/libbfd.c b/tools/perf/util/libbfd.c
index a907d7c1ac948808..a4dcb406c79e9cee 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/libbfd.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/libbfd.c
@@ -463,7 +463,7 @@ int dso__load_bfd_symbols(struct dso *dso, const char *debugfile)
 	symbols__fixup_duplicate(dso__symbols(dso));
 	dso__set_adjust_symbols(dso, true);
 
-	err = 0;
+	err = dso__has_symbols(dso);
 out_free:
 	free(symbols);
 out_close:
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
index 5d98888d068c741a..a394e742f9b18812 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
@@ -1930,8 +1930,8 @@ int dso__load(struct dso *dso, struct map *map)
 		if (nsexit)
 			nsinfo__mountns_enter(dso__nsinfo(dso), &nsc);
 
-		if (bfdrc == 0) {
-			ret = 0;
+		if (bfdrc > 0) {
+			ret = 1;
 			break;
 		}
 
-- 
2.55.0


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