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libbpf: Relax check whether BTF is mandatory
authorAndrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Thu, 20 Feb 2020 06:26:35 +0000 (22:26 -0800)
committerAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Thu, 20 Feb 2020 19:03:39 +0000 (11:03 -0800)
commit41885a37076a568eff1a2a575cd34d6f0c3309df
treea21295e7bfb9fc349419565cb2af344b4b0e2f31
parent34c8b13dd1e97cd9e4ff348af2cc0c1505130548
libbpf: Relax check whether BTF is mandatory

If BPF program is using BTF-defined maps, BTF is required only for
libbpf itself to process map definitions. If after that BTF fails to
be loaded into kernel (e.g., if it doesn't support BTF at all), this
shouldn't prevent valid BPF program from loading. Existing
retry-without-BTF logic for creating maps will succeed to create such
maps without any problems. So, presence of .maps section shouldn't make
BTF required for kernel. Update the check accordingly.

Validated by ensuring simple BPF program with BTF-defined maps is still
loaded on old kernel without BTF support and map is correctly parsed and
created.

Fixes: 25dd5cfedbb7 ("libbpf: allow specifying map definitions using BTF")
Reported-by: Julia Kartseva <hex@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200220062635.1497872-1-andriin@fb.com
tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c