Re: [PATCH v2 bpf-next] libbpf: Improve debug message when the base BTF cannot be found

[Andrii Nakryiko]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 5:07 PM Olson, Matthew <matthew.olson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From 22ed11ee2153fc921987eac7de24f564da9f9230 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Ben Olson <matthew.olson@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 11:26:35 -0600
> Subject: [PATCH v2 bpf-next] libbpf: Improve debug message when the base BTF
>  cannot be found
>
> When running `bpftool` on a kernel module installed in `/lib/modules...`,
> this error is encountered if the user does not specify `--base-btf` to
> point to a valid base BTF (e.g. usually in `/sys/kernel/btf/vmlinux`).
> However, looking at the debug output to determine the cause of the error
> simply says `Invalid BTF string section`, which does not point to the
> actual source of the error. This just improves that debug message to tell
> users what happened.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Olson <matthew.olson@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Changed in v2:
>   * Made error message better reflect the condition
>
>  tools/lib/bpf/btf.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/btf.c b/tools/lib/bpf/btf.c
> index 12468ae0d573..a4ae2df68b91 100644
> --- a/tools/lib/bpf/btf.c
> +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/btf.c
> @@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ static int btf_parse_str_sec(struct btf *btf)
>      return -EINVAL;
>    }
>    if (!btf->base_btf && start[0]) {
> -    pr_debug("Invalid BTF string section\n");
> +    pr_debug("Malformed BTF string section, did you forget to provide base BTF?\n");

I'm not sure why, but this v2 didn't make it into patchworks, so I
can't apply it. Can you please resend?

Also please make sure you don't change indentation (tabs -> spaces),
because it looks like that's what happened here.

>      return -EINVAL;
>    }
>    return 0;
> --
> 2.47.0