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 <qmo@kernel.org>
Fixes: 7084566 ("tools/bpftool: Remove libbpf_internal.h usage in bpftool")
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260217194150.734701-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

Author: kuba-moo

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:

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 @@ static int libbpf_netlink_recv(int sock, __u32 nl_pid, int seq,
 				}
 			}
 		}
+		if (len)
+			pr_warn("Invalid message or trailing data in Netlink response: %d bytes left\n", len);
 	}
 	ret = 0;
 done: