[PATCH bpf v2 00/15] selftests/bpf: Fixes for userspace ASAN

From: Ihor Solodrai

Date: Tue Feb 17 2026 - 19:31:20 EST


This series includes various fixes aiming to enable test_progs run
with userspace address sanitizer on BPF CI.

The first patch fixes the selftests/bpf/test_progs build with:

SAN_CFLAGS="-fsanitize=address -fno-omit-frame-pointer"

The subsequent patches fix bugs reported by the address sanitizer on
attempt to run the tests.

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v1->v2:
- rebase on bpf (v1 was targeting bpf-next)
- add ASAN flag handling in selftests/bpf/Makefile (Eduard)
- don't override SIGSEGV handler in test_progs with ASAN (Eduard)
- add error messages in detect_bpftool_path (Mykyta)
- various nits (Eduard, Jiri, Mykyta, Alexis)

v1: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260212011356.3266753-1-ihor.solodrai@xxxxxxxxx/

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Ihor Solodrai (15):
selftests/bpf: Pass through build flags to bpftool and resolve_btfids
resolve_btfids: Fix memory leaks reported by ASAN
selftests/bpf: Add DENYLIST.asan
selftests/bpf: Refactor bpf_get_ksyms() trace helper
selftests/bpf: Fix memory leaks in tests
selftests/bpf: Fix cleanup in check_fd_array_cnt__fd_array_too_big()
veristat: Fix a memory leak for preset ENUMERATOR
selftests/bpf: Fix use-after-free in xdp_metadata test
selftests/bpf: Fix double thread join in uprobe_multi_test
selftests/bpf: Fix resource leaks caused by missing cleanups
selftests/bpf: Free bpf_object in test_sysctl
selftests/bpf: Fix array bounds warning in jit_disasm_helpers
selftests/bpf: Fix out-of-bounds array access bugs reported by ASAN
selftests/bpf: Check BPFTOOL env var in detect_bpftool_path()
selftests/bpf: Don't override SIGSEGV handler with ASAN

tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/Makefile | 7 +-
tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/main.c | 81 ++++++++++++-------
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/DENYLIST.asan | 3 +
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile | 13 ++-
.../selftests/bpf/benchs/bench_trigger.c | 14 ++--
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bpftool_helpers.c | 19 ++++-
.../selftests/bpf/jit_disasm_helpers.c | 18 ++---
.../bpf/prog_tests/cgrp_local_storage.c | 4 +-
.../testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/dynptr.c | 5 +-
.../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/fd_array.c | 4 +-
.../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/htab_update.c | 1 +
.../bpf/prog_tests/kmem_cache_iter.c | 7 +-
.../bpf/prog_tests/kprobe_multi_test.c | 12 ++-
.../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/lwt_seg6local.c | 2 +-
.../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/sockmap_basic.c | 28 +++----
.../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/sockmap_listen.c | 2 +-
.../bpf/prog_tests/struct_ops_private_stack.c | 4 +-
.../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/tc_opts.c | 6 +-
.../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/test_sysctl.c | 14 +++-
.../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/test_tc_tunnel.c | 5 +-
.../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/test_xsk.c | 24 +++++-
.../bpf/prog_tests/uprobe_multi_test.c | 1 +
.../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/verifier_log.c | 2 +-
.../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/xdp_metadata.c | 4 +-
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_progs.c | 8 +-
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/testing_helpers.c | 1 +
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/trace_helpers.c | 23 +++---
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/trace_helpers.h | 11 ++-
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/veristat.c | 2 +
29 files changed, 206 insertions(+), 119 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/DENYLIST.asan

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