Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi reported a bug ([1]) where BTF_KIND_TYPE_TAG types
are not generated.
Currently, BPF backend only generates BTF types which are used by
the program, e.g., global variables, functions and some builtin functions.
For example, suppose we have
struct task_struct { ... struct task_group *sched_task_group; struct mm_struct *mm; ... pid_t pid; pid_t tgid; ... }
If BPF program intends to access task_struct->pid and task_struct->tgid,
there really no need to generate BTF types for struct task_group
and mm_struct.
In BPF backend, during BTF generation, when generating BTF for struct
task_struct, if types for task_group and mm_struct have not been generated
yet, a Fixup structure will be created, which will be reexamined later
to instantiate into either a full type or a forward type.
In current implementation, if we have something like
struct foo { struct bar __tag1 *f; };
and when generating types for struct foo, struct bar type
has not been generated, the __tag1 will be lost during later
Fixup instantiation. This patch fixed this issue by properly
handling btf_type_tag's during Fixup instantiation stage.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220210232411.pmhzj7v5uptqby7r@apollo.legion/