From 3b39d73cc3379360a33eb583b17f21fe55e1288e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jakub Kicinski Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2026 11:41:50 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] bpftool: Fix truncated netlink dumps Netlink requires that the recv buffer used during dumps is at least min(PAGE_SIZE, 8k) (see the man page). Otherwise the messages will get truncated. Make sure bpftool follows this requirement, avoid missing information on systems with large pages. Acked-by: Quentin Monnet Fixes: 7084566a236f ("tools/bpftool: Remove libbpf_internal.h usage in bpftool") Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260217194150.734701-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov --- tools/bpf/bpftool/net.c | 5 ++++- tools/lib/bpf/netlink.c | 4 +++- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/bpf/bpftool/net.c b/tools/bpf/bpftool/net.c index f25d66c8395e..974189da8a91 100644 --- a/tools/bpf/bpftool/net.c +++ b/tools/bpf/bpftool/net.c @@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ static int netlink_recv(int sock, __u32 nl_pid, __u32 seq, bool multipart = true; struct nlmsgerr *err; struct nlmsghdr *nh; - char buf[4096]; + char buf[8192]; int len, ret; while (multipart) { @@ -201,6 +201,9 @@ static int netlink_recv(int sock, __u32 nl_pid, __u32 seq, return ret; } } + + if (len) + p_err("Invalid message or trailing data in Netlink response: %d bytes left", len); } ret = 0; done: diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/netlink.c b/tools/lib/bpf/netlink.c index c997e69d507f..c9a78fb16f11 100644 --- a/tools/lib/bpf/netlink.c +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/netlink.c @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ static int libbpf_netlink_recv(int sock, __u32 nl_pid, int seq, struct nlmsghdr *nh; int len, ret; - ret = alloc_iov(&iov, 4096); + ret = alloc_iov(&iov, 8192); if (ret) goto done; @@ -212,6 +212,8 @@ start: } } } + if (len) + pr_warn("Invalid message or trailing data in Netlink response: %d bytes left\n", len); } ret = 0; done: -- 2.30.2