llvm patch https://reviews.llvm.org/D84002 permitted
to emit empty rodata datasec if the elf .rodata section
contains read-only data from local variables. These
local variables will be not emitted as BTF_KIND_VARs
since llvm converted these local variables as
static variables with private linkage without debuginfo
types. Such an empty rodata datasec will make
skeleton code generation easy since for skeleton
a rodata struct will be generated if there is a
.rodata elf section. The existence of a rodata
btf datasec is also consistent with the existence
of a rodata map created by libbpf.
The btf with such an empty rodata datasec will fail
in the kernel though as kernel will reject a datasec
with zero vlen and zero size. For example, for the below code,
int sys_enter(void *ctx)
{
int fmt[6] = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6};
int dst[6];
bpf_probe_read(dst, sizeof(dst), fmt);
return 0;
}
We got the below btf (bpftool btf dump ./test.o):
[1] PTR '(anon)' type_id=0
[2] FUNC_PROTO '(anon)' ret_type_id=3 vlen=1
'ctx' type_id=1
[3] INT 'int' size=4 bits_offset=0 nr_bits=32 encoding=SIGNED
[4] FUNC 'sys_enter' type_id=2 linkage=global
[5] INT 'char' size=1 bits_offset=0 nr_bits=8 encoding=SIGNED
[6] ARRAY '(anon)' type_id=5 index_type_id=7 nr_elems=4
[7] INT '__ARRAY_SIZE_TYPE__' size=4 bits_offset=0 nr_bits=32 encoding=(none)
[8] VAR '_license' type_id=6, linkage=global-alloc
[9] DATASEC '.rodata' size=0 vlen=0
[10] DATASEC 'license' size=0 vlen=1
type_id=8 offset=0 size=4
When loading the ./test.o to the kernel with bpftool,
we see the following error:
libbpf: Error loading BTF: Invalid argument(22)
libbpf: magic: 0xeb9f
...
[6] ARRAY (anon) type_id=5 index_type_id=7 nr_elems=4
[7] INT __ARRAY_SIZE_TYPE__ size=4 bits_offset=0 nr_bits=32 encoding=(none)
[8] VAR _license type_id=6 linkage=1
[9] DATASEC .rodata size=24 vlen=0 vlen == 0
libbpf: Error loading .BTF into kernel: -22. BTF is optional, ignoring.
Basically, libbpf changed .rodata datasec size to 24 since elf .rodata
section size is 24. The kernel then rejected the BTF since vlen = 0.
Note that the above kernel verifier failure can be worked around with
changing local variable "fmt" to a static or global, optionally const, variable.
This patch permits a datasec with vlen = 0 in kernel.
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210119153519.3901963-1-yhs@fb.com
Remove the requirement of a strictly exact string section contents. This used
to be true when string deduplication was done through sorting, but with string
dedup done through hash table, it's no longer true. So relax test harness to
relax strings checks and, consequently, type checks, which now don't have to
have exactly the same string offsets.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201105043402.2530976-3-andrii@kernel.org
Merge 183 tests from test_btf into test_progs framework to be exercised
regularly. All the test_btf tests that were moved are modeled as proper
sub-tests in test_progs framework for ease of debugging and reporting.
No functional or behavioral changes were intended, I tried to preserve
original behavior as much as possible. E.g., `test_progs -v` will activate
"always_log" flag to emit BTF validation log.
The only difference is in reducing the max_entries limit for pretty-printing
tests from (128 * 1024) to just 128 to reduce tests running time without
reducing the coverage.
Example test run:
$ sudo ./test_progs -n 8
...
#8 btf:OK
Summary: 1/183 PASSED, 0 SKIPPED, 0 FAILED
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200916004819.3767489-1-andriin@fb.com
Yonghong Song