Hacker News story: Ask HN: How to handle kernel struct changes (e.g. iov_iter) in eBPF?

Ask HN: How to handle kernel struct changes (e.g. iov_iter) in eBPF?
I used the kernel vmlinux header file(6.10 version) from pwru to compile, but my actual kernel version was 6.6. the iov field name in iov_iter become an internal anonymous structure __iov file on kernel changing(6.10->6.6), so the led to that if I extracted and compiled according to the field name of version 6.10, I could not run in my current system, and vice versa. I would like to ask what is a more formal or official solution to deal with this change in kernel structure? My current solution is to directly customize two different versions of iov anonymous structures to judge whether two ways to obtain iov are compatible through bpf_core_field_exists. 1 comments on Hacker News.
I used the kernel vmlinux header file(6.10 version) from pwru to compile, but my actual kernel version was 6.6. the iov field name in iov_iter become an internal anonymous structure __iov file on kernel changing(6.10->6.6), so the led to that if I extracted and compiled according to the field name of version 6.10, I could not run in my current system, and vice versa. I would like to ask what is a more formal or official solution to deal with this change in kernel structure? My current solution is to directly customize two different versions of iov anonymous structures to judge whether two ways to obtain iov are compatible through bpf_core_field_exists.

Hacker News story: Ask HN: How to handle kernel struct changes (e.g. iov_iter) in eBPF? Hacker News story: Ask HN: How to handle kernel struct changes (e.g. iov_iter) in eBPF? Reviewed by Tha Kur on June 20, 2026 Rating: 5

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