Before this patch, btf_new() was liable to close an arbitrary FD 0 if BTF parsing failed. This was because: * btf->fd was initialized to 0 through the calloc() * btf__free() (in the `done` label) closed any FDs >= 0 * btf->fd is left at 0 if parsing fails This issue was discovered on a system using libbpf v0.3 (without BTF_KIND_FLOAT support) but with a kernel that had BTF_KIND_FLOAT types in BTF. Thus, parsing fails. While this patch technically doesn't fix any issues b/c upstream libbpf has BTF_KIND_FLOAT support, it'll help prevent issues in the future if more BTF types are added. It also allow the fix to be backported to older libbpf's. Fixes: 3289959b97ca ("libbpf: Support BTF loading and raw data output in both endianness") Signed-off-by: Daniel Xu <dxu@dxuuu.xyz> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/5969bb991adedb03c6ae93e051fd2a00d293cf25.1627513670.git.dxu@dxuuu.xyz
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