On Mon, Jan 06, 2025 at 01:25:32PM -0800, Namhyung Kim wrote:

On Fri, Dec 27, 2024 at 04:18:32PM +0530, Athira Rajeev wrote:

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On 23 Dec 2024, at 7:28 PM, Athira Rajeev [off-list ref] wrote:

When kernel is built without debuginfo, running perf record with
--off-cpu results in segfault as below:

  ./perf record --off-cpu -e dummy sleep 1
  libbpf: kernel BTF is missing at '/sys/kernel/btf/vmlinux', was CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF enabled?
  libbpf: failed to find '.BTF' ELF section in /lib/modules/6.13.0-rc3+/build/vmlinux
  libbpf: failed to find valid kernel BTF
  Segmentation fault (core dumped)

The backtrace pointed to:

  #0  0x00000000100fb17c in btf.type_cnt ()
  #1  0x00000000100fc1a8 in btf_find_by_name_kind ()
  #2  0x00000000100fc38c in btf.find_by_name_kind ()
  #3  0x00000000102ee3ac in off_cpu_prepare ()
  #4  0x000000001002f78c in cmd_record ()
  #5  0x00000000100aee78 in run_builtin ()
  #6  0x00000000100af3e4 in handle_internal_command ()
  #7  0x000000001001004c in main ()

Code sequence is:
  static void check_sched_switch_args(void)
  {
       struct btf *btf = btf__load_vmlinux_btf();
       const struct btf_type *t1, *t2, *t3;
       u32 type_id;

       type_id = btf__find_by_name_kind(btf, "btf_trace_sched_switch",
                                        BTF_KIND_TYPEDEF);

btf__load_vmlinux_btf fails when CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF is not enabled.
Here bpf__find_by_name_kind calls btf__type_cnt with NULL btf
value and results in segfault. To fix this, add a check to see if
btf is not NULL before invoking bpf__find_by_name_kind

Signed-off-by: Athira Rajeev <redacted>

Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>

Thanks, applied to perf-tools-next,

- Arnaldo