libbpf: Allow loading empty BTFs
authorAndrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Sun, 10 Jan 2021 07:03:41 +0000 (23:03 -0800)
committerDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Tue, 12 Jan 2021 20:12:05 +0000 (21:12 +0100)
commitb8d52264df85ec12f370c0a8b28d0ac59a05877a
treed3e86dc8fc134ff615c2ba7b70ae249167cf1829
parentbcc5e6162d66d44f7929f30fce032f95855fc8b4
libbpf: Allow loading empty BTFs

Empty BTFs do come up (e.g., simple kernel modules with no new types and
strings, compared to the vmlinux BTF) and there is nothing technically wrong
with them. So remove unnecessary check preventing loading empty BTFs.

Fixes: d8123624506c ("libbpf: Fix BTF data layout checks and allow empty BTF")
Reported-by: Christopher William Snowhill <chris@kode54.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210110070341.1380086-2-andrii@kernel.org
tools/lib/bpf/btf.c