bpf: Preserve unique-field state across nested structs

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btf_find_struct_field() initializes a fresh seen mask for every recursive
descent. Unique special fields in different levels of the same aggregate
therefore do not see one another. The duplicate fields can reach
btf_parse_fields(), where they trigger an invariant WARN_ON_ONCE(). A
crafted user BTF can consequently trigger the warning before map creation
checks capabilities.

Initialize the seen mask once in btf_find_field() and pass the same pointer
through struct, datasec, and nested-struct walks. This gives the entire field
traversal one shared uniqueness state.

Fixes: 64e8ee8148 ("bpf: look into the types of the fields of a struct type recursively.")
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260719153634.2908692-3-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>

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Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi 2026-07-19 17:36:29 +02:00 • committed by Eduard Zingerman

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