History log of /linux-master/tools/lib/bpf/linker.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# b9551da8 01-Feb-2024 Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>

libbpf: Add missed btf_ext__raw_data() API

Another API that was declared in libbpf.map but actual implementation
was missing. btf_ext__get_raw_data() was intended as a discouraged alias
to consistently-named btf_ext__raw_data(), so make this an actuality.

Fixes: 20eccf29e297 ("libbpf: hide and discourage inconsistently named getters")
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240201172027.604869-5-andrii@kernel.org


# 812d8bf8 18-Dec-2023 Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>

libbpf: Skip DWARF sections in linker sanity check

clang can generate (with -g -Wa,--compress-debug-sections) 4-byte
aligned DWARF sections that declare themselves to be 8-byte aligned in
the section header. Since DWARF sections are dropped during linking
anyway, just skip running the sanity checks on them.

Reported-by: Sergei Trofimovich <slyich@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/ZXcFRJVKbKxtEL5t@nz.home/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20231219110324.8989-1-hi@alyssa.is


# 32fa0583 08-Dec-2023 Sergei Trofimovich <slyich@gmail.com>

libbpf: Add pr_warn() for EINVAL cases in linker_sanity_check_elf

Before the change on `i686-linux` `systemd` build failed as:

$ bpftool gen object src/core/bpf/socket_bind/socket-bind.bpf.o src/core/bpf/socket_bind/socket-bind.bpf.unstripped.o
Error: failed to link 'src/core/bpf/socket_bind/socket-bind.bpf.unstripped.o': Invalid argument (22)

After the change it fails as:

$ bpftool gen object src/core/bpf/socket_bind/socket-bind.bpf.o src/core/bpf/socket_bind/socket-bind.bpf.unstripped.o
libbpf: ELF section #9 has inconsistent alignment addr=8 != d=4 in src/core/bpf/socket_bind/socket-bind.bpf.unstripped.o
Error: failed to link 'src/core/bpf/socket_bind/socket-bind.bpf.unstripped.o': Invalid argument (22)

Now it's slightly easier to figure out what is wrong with an ELF file.

Signed-off-by: Sergei Trofimovich <slyich@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20231208215100.435876-1-slyich@gmail.com


# d08ab82f 27-Mar-2023 Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>

libbpf: Fix double-free when linker processes empty sections

Double-free error in bpf_linker__free() was reported by James Hilliard.
The error is caused by miss-use of realloc() in extend_sec().
The error occurs when two files with empty sections of the same name
are linked:
- when first file is processed:
- extend_sec() calls realloc(dst->raw_data, dst_align_sz)
with dst->raw_data == NULL and dst_align_sz == 0;
- dst->raw_data is set to a special pointer to a memory block of
size zero;
- when second file is processed:
- extend_sec() calls realloc(dst->raw_data, dst_align_sz)
with dst->raw_data == <special pointer> and dst_align_sz == 0;
- realloc() "frees" dst->raw_data special pointer and returns NULL;
- extend_sec() exits with -ENOMEM, and the old dst->raw_data value
is preserved (it is now invalid);
- eventually, bpf_linker__free() attempts to free dst->raw_data again.

This patch fixes the bug by avoiding -ENOMEM exit for dst_align_sz == 0.
The fix was suggested by Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com>.

Reported-by: James Hilliard <james.hilliard1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Tested-by: James Hilliard <james.hilliard1@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CADvTj4o7ZWUikKwNTwFq0O_AaX+46t_+Ca9gvWMYdWdRtTGeHQ@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230328004738.381898-3-eddyz87@gmail.com


# 46721291 01-Mar-2023 Viktor Malik <vmalik@redhat.com>

libbpf: Cleanup linker_append_elf_relos

Clang Static Analyser (scan-build) reports some unused symbols and dead
assignments in the linker_append_elf_relos function. Clean these up.

Signed-off-by: Viktor Malik <vmalik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/c5c8fe9f411b69afada8399d23bb048ef2a70535.1677658777.git.vmalik@redhat.com


# 6ec7d79b 07-Jun-2022 Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>

libbpf: Add enum64 support for bpf linking

Add BTF_KIND_ENUM64 support for bpf linking, which is
very similar to BTF_KIND_ENUM.

Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220607062642.3721494-1-yhs@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>


# 611edf1b 02-Jun-2022 Yuze Chi <chiyuze@google.com>

libbpf: Fix is_pow_of_2

Move the correct definition from linker.c into libbpf_internal.h.

Fixes: 0087a681fa8c ("libbpf: Automatically fix up BPF_MAP_TYPE_RINGBUF size, if necessary")
Reported-by: Yuze Chi <chiyuze@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuze Chi <chiyuze@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220603055156.2830463-1-irogers@google.com


# 59383537 23-Nov-2021 Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>

libbpf: Fix using invalidated memory in bpf_linker

add_dst_sec() can invalidate bpf_linker's section index making
dst_symtab pointer pointing into unallocated memory. Reinitialize
dst_symtab pointer on each iteration to make sure it's always valid.

Fixes: faf6ed321cf6 ("libbpf: Add BPF static linker APIs")
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211124002325.1737739-7-andrii@kernel.org


# 8cb12556 23-Nov-2021 Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>

libbpf: Fix glob_syms memory leak in bpf_linker

glob_syms array wasn't freed on bpf_link__free(). Fix that.

Fixes: a46349227cd8 ("libbpf: Add linker extern resolution support for functions and global variables")
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211124002325.1737739-6-andrii@kernel.org


# 957d350a 10-Nov-2021 Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>

libbpf: Turn btf_dedup_opts into OPTS-based struct

btf__dedup() and struct btf_dedup_opts were added before we figured out
OPTS mechanism. As such, btf_dedup_opts is non-extensible without
breaking an ABI and potentially crashing user application.

Unfortunately, btf__dedup() and btf_dedup_opts are short and succinct
names that would be great to preserve and use going forward. So we use
___libbpf_override() macro approach, used previously for bpf_prog_load()
API, to define a new btf__dedup() variant that accepts only struct btf *
and struct btf_dedup_opts * arguments, and rename the old btf__dedup()
implementation into btf__dedup_deprecated(). This keeps both source and
binary compatibility with old and new applications.

The biggest problem was struct btf_dedup_opts, which wasn't OPTS-based,
and as such doesn't have `size_t sz;` as a first field. But btf__dedup()
is a pretty rarely used API and I believe that the only currently known
users (besides selftests) are libbpf's own bpf_linker and pahole.
Neither use case actually uses options and just passes NULL. So instead
of doing extra hacks, just rewrite struct btf_dedup_opts into OPTS-based
one, move btf_ext argument into those opts (only bpf_linker needs to
dedup btf_ext, so it's not a typical thing to specify), and drop never
used `dont_resolve_fwds` option (it was never used anywhere, AFAIK, it
makes BTF dedup much less useful and efficient).

Just in case, for old implementation, btf__dedup_deprecated(), detect
non-NULL options and error out with helpful message, to help users
migrate, if there are any user playing with btf__dedup().

The last remaining piece is dedup_table_size, which is another
anachronism from very early days of BTF dedup. Since then it has been
reduced to the only valid value, 1, to request forced hash collisions.
This is only used during testing. So instead introduce a bool flag to
force collisions explicitly.

This patch also adapts selftests to new btf__dedup() and btf_dedup_opts
use to avoid selftests breakage.

[0] Closes: https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf/issues/281

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211111053624.190580-4-andrii@kernel.org


# 92274e24 27-Oct-2021 Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>

libbpf: Use O_CLOEXEC uniformly when opening fds

There are some instances where we don't use O_CLOEXEC when opening an
fd, fix these up. Otherwise, it is possible that a parallel fork causes
these fds to leak into a child process on execve.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211028063501.2239335-6-memxor@gmail.com


# 3930198d 25-Oct-2021 Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>

libbpf: Use __BYTE_ORDER__

Use the compiler-defined __BYTE_ORDER__ instead of the libc-defined
__BYTE_ORDER for consistency.

Signed-off-by: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211026010831.748682-3-iii@linux.ibm.com


# 6a886de0 22-Oct-2021 Hengqi Chen <hengqi.chen@gmail.com>

libbpf: Add btf__type_cnt() and btf__raw_data() APIs

Add btf__type_cnt() and btf__raw_data() APIs and deprecate
btf__get_nr_type() and btf__get_raw_data() since the old APIs
don't follow the libbpf naming convention for getters which
omit 'get' in the name (see [0]). btf__raw_data() is just an
alias to the existing btf__get_raw_data(). btf__type_cnt()
now returns the number of all types of the BTF object
including 'void'.

[0] Closes: https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf/issues/279

Signed-off-by: Hengqi Chen <hengqi.chen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211022130623.1548429-2-hengqi.chen@gmail.com


# ad23b723 20-Oct-2021 Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>

libbpf: Use Elf64-specific types explicitly for dealing with ELF

Minimize the usage of class-agnostic gelf_xxx() APIs from libelf. These
APIs require copying ELF data structures into local GElf_xxx structs and
have a more cumbersome API. BPF ELF file is defined to be always 64-bit
ELF object, even when intended to be run on 32-bit host architectures,
so there is no need to do class-agnostic conversions everywhere. BPF
static linker implementation within libbpf has been using Elf64-specific
types since initial implementation.

Add two simple helpers, elf_sym_by_idx() and elf_rel_by_idx(), for more
succinct direct access to ELF symbol and relocation records within ELF
data itself and switch all the GElf_xxx usage into Elf64_xxx
equivalents. The only remaining place within libbpf.c that's still using
gelf API is gelf_getclass(), as there doesn't seem to be a direct way to
get underlying ELF bitness.

No functional changes intended.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211021014404.2635234-4-andrii@kernel.org


# bcfd367c 23-Sep-2021 Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>

libbpf: Fix segfault in static linker for objects without BTF

When a BPF object is compiled without BTF info (without -g),
trying to link such objects using bpftool causes a SIGSEGV due to
btf__get_nr_types accessing obj->btf which is NULL. Fix this by
checking for the NULL pointer, and return error.

Reproducer:
$ cat a.bpf.c
extern int foo(void);
int bar(void) { return foo(); }
$ cat b.bpf.c
int foo(void) { return 0; }
$ clang -O2 -target bpf -c a.bpf.c
$ clang -O2 -target bpf -c b.bpf.c
$ bpftool gen obj out a.bpf.o b.bpf.o
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

After fix:
$ bpftool gen obj out a.bpf.o b.bpf.o
libbpf: failed to find BTF info for object 'a.bpf.o'
Error: failed to link 'a.bpf.o': Unknown error -22 (-22)

Fixes: a46349227cd8 (libbpf: Add linker extern resolution support for functions and global variables)
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210924023725.70228-1-memxor@gmail.com


# e9fc3ce9 24-May-2021 Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>

libbpf: Streamline error reporting for high-level APIs

Implement changes to error reporting for high-level libbpf APIs to make them
less surprising and less error-prone to users:
- in all the cases when error happens, errno is set to an appropriate error
value;
- in libbpf 1.0 mode, all pointer-returning APIs return NULL on error and
error code is communicated through errno; this applies both to APIs that
already returned NULL before (so now they communicate more detailed error
codes), as well as for many APIs that used ERR_PTR() macro and encoded
error numbers as fake pointers.
- in legacy (default) mode, those APIs that were returning ERR_PTR(err),
continue doing so, but still set errno.

With these changes, errno can be always used to extract actual error,
regardless of legacy or libbpf 1.0 modes. This is utilized internally in
libbpf in places where libbpf uses it's own high-level APIs.
libbpf_get_error() is adapted to handle both cases completely transparently to
end-users (and is used by libbpf consistently as well).

More context, justification, and discussion can be found in "Libbpf: the road
to v1.0" document ([0]).

[0] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UyjTZuPFWiPFyKk1tV5an11_iaRuec6U-ZESZ54nNTY

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210525035935.1461796-5-andrii@kernel.org


# 9f0c317f 22-May-2021 Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>

libbpf: Add support for new llvm bpf relocations

LLVM patch https://reviews.llvm.org/D102712
narrowed the scope of existing R_BPF_64_64
and R_BPF_64_32 relocations, and added three
new relocations, R_BPF_64_ABS64, R_BPF_64_ABS32
and R_BPF_64_NODYLD32. The main motivation is
to make relocations linker friendly.

This change, unfortunately, breaks libbpf build,
and we will see errors like below:
libbpf: ELF relo #0 in section #6 has unexpected type 2 in
/home/yhs/work/bpf-next/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bpf_tcp_nogpl.o
Error: failed to link
'/home/yhs/work/bpf-next/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bpf_tcp_nogpl.o':
Unknown error -22 (-22)
The new relocation R_BPF_64_ABS64 is generated
and libbpf linker sanity check doesn't understand it.
Relocation section '.rel.struct_ops' at offset 0x1410 contains 1 entries:
Offset Info Type Symbol's Value Symbol's Name
0000000000000018 0000000700000002 R_BPF_64_ABS64 0000000000000000 nogpltcp_init

Look at the selftests/bpf/bpf_tcp_nogpl.c,
void BPF_STRUCT_OPS(nogpltcp_init, struct sock *sk)
{
}

SEC(".struct_ops")
struct tcp_congestion_ops bpf_nogpltcp = {
.init = (void *)nogpltcp_init,
.name = "bpf_nogpltcp",
};
The new llvm relocation scheme categorizes 'nogpltcp_init' reference
as R_BPF_64_ABS64 instead of R_BPF_64_64 which is used to specify
ld_imm64 relocation in the new scheme.

Let us fix the linker sanity checking by including
R_BPF_64_ABS64 and R_BPF_64_ABS32. There is no need to
check R_BPF_64_NODYLD32 which is used for .BTF and .BTF.ext.

Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210522162341.3687617-1-yhs@fb.com


# 247b8634 06-May-2021 Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>

libbpf: Fix ELF symbol visibility update logic

Fix silly bug in updating ELF symbol's visibility.

Fixes: a46349227cd8 ("libbpf: Add linker extern resolution support for functions and global variables")
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210507054119.270888-6-andrii@kernel.org


# fdbf5dde 06-May-2021 Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>

libbpf: Add per-file linker opts

For better future extensibility add per-file linker options. Currently
the set of available options is empty. This changes bpf_linker__add_file()
API, but it's not a breaking change as bpf_linker APIs hasn't been released
yet.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210507054119.270888-3-andrii@kernel.org


# 0a342457 23-Apr-2021 Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>

libbpf: Support extern resolution for BTF-defined maps in .maps section

Add extra logic to handle map externs (only BTF-defined maps are supported for
linking). Re-use the map parsing logic used during bpf_object__open(). Map
externs are currently restricted to always match complete map definition. So
all the specified attributes will be compared (down to pining, map_flags,
numa_node, etc). In the future this restriction might be relaxed with no
backwards compatibility issues. If any attribute is mismatched between extern
and actual map definition, linker will report an error, pointing out which one
mismatches.

The original intent was to allow for extern to specify attributes that matters
(to user) to enforce. E.g., if you specify just key information and omit
value, then any value fits. Similarly, it should have been possible to enforce
map_flags, pinning, and any other possible map attribute. Unfortunately, that
means that multiple externs can be only partially overlapping with each other,
which means linker would need to combine their type definitions to end up with
the most restrictive and fullest map definition. This requires an extra amount
of BTF manipulation which at this time was deemed unnecessary and would
require further extending generic BTF writer APIs. So that is left for future
follow ups, if there will be demand for that. But the idea seems intresting
and useful, so I want to document it here.

Weak definitions are also supported, but are pretty strict as well, just
like externs: all weak map definitions have to match exactly. In the follow up
patches this most probably will be relaxed, with __weak map definitions being
able to differ between each other (with non-weak definition always winning, of
course).

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210423181348.1801389-13-andrii@kernel.org


# a4634922 23-Apr-2021 Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>

libbpf: Add linker extern resolution support for functions and global variables

Add BPF static linker logic to resolve extern variables and functions across
multiple linked together BPF object files.

For that, linker maintains a separate list of struct glob_sym structures,
which keeps track of few pieces of metadata (is it extern or resolved global,
is it a weak symbol, which ELF section it belongs to, etc) and ties together
BTF type info and ELF symbol information and keeps them in sync.

With adding support for extern variables/funcs, it's now possible for some
sections to contain both extern and non-extern definitions. This means that
some sections may start out as ephemeral (if only externs are present and thus
there is not corresponding ELF section), but will be "upgraded" to actual ELF
section as symbols are resolved or new non-extern definitions are appended.

Additional care is taken to not duplicate extern entries in sections like
.kconfig and .ksyms.

Given libbpf requires BTF type to always be present for .kconfig/.ksym
externs, linker extends this requirement to all the externs, even those that
are supposed to be resolved during static linking and which won't be visible
to libbpf. With BTF information always present, static linker will check not
just ELF symbol matches, but entire BTF type signature match as well. That
logic is stricter that BPF CO-RE checks. It probably should be re-used by
.ksym resolution logic in libbpf as well, but that's left for follow up
patches.

To make it unnecessary to rewrite ELF symbols and minimize BTF type
rewriting/removal, ELF symbols that correspond to externs initially will be
updated in place once they are resolved. Similarly for BTF type info, VAR/FUNC
and var_secinfo's (sec_vars in struct bpf_linker) are staying stable, but
types they point to might get replaced when extern is resolved. This might
leave some left-over types (even though we try to minimize this for common
cases of having extern funcs with not argument names vs concrete function with
names properly specified). That can be addresses later with a generic BTF
garbage collection. That's left for a follow up as well.

Given BTF type appending phase is separate from ELF symbol
appending/resolution, special struct glob_sym->underlying_btf_id variable is
used to communicate resolution and rewrite decisions. 0 means
underlying_btf_id needs to be appended (it's not yet in final linker->btf), <0
values are used for temporary storage of source BTF type ID (not yet
rewritten), so -glob_sym->underlying_btf_id is BTF type id in obj-btf. But by
the end of linker_append_btf() phase, that underlying_btf_id will be remapped
and will always be > 0. This is the uglies part of the whole process, but
keeps the other parts much simpler due to stability of sec_var and VAR/FUNC
types, as well as ELF symbol, so please keep that in mind while reviewing.

BTF-defined maps require some extra custom logic and is addressed separate in
the next patch, so that to keep this one smaller and easier to review.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210423181348.1801389-12-andrii@kernel.org


# 83a15727 23-Apr-2021 Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>

libbpf: Tighten BTF type ID rewriting with error checking

It should never fail, but if it does, it's better to know about this rather
than end up with nonsensical type IDs.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210423181348.1801389-11-andrii@kernel.org


# 386b1d24 23-Apr-2021 Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>

libbpf: Extend sanity checking ELF symbols with externs validation

Add logic to validate extern symbols, plus some other minor extra checks, like
ELF symbol #0 validation, general symbol visibility and binding validations.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210423181348.1801389-10-andrii@kernel.org


# 42869d28 23-Apr-2021 Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>

libbpf: Make few internal helpers available outside of libbpf.c

Make skip_mods_and_typedefs(), btf_kind_str(), and btf_func_linkage() helpers
available outside of libbpf.c, to be used by static linker code.

Also do few cleanups (error code fixes, comment clean up, etc) that don't
deserve their own commit.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210423181348.1801389-9-andrii@kernel.org


# beaa3711 23-Apr-2021 Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>

libbpf: Factor out symtab and relos sanity checks

Factor out logic for sanity checking SHT_SYMTAB and SHT_REL sections into
separate sections. They are already quite extensive and are suffering from too
deep indentation. Subsequent changes will extend SYMTAB sanity checking
further, so it's better to factor each into a separate function.

No functional changes are intended.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210423181348.1801389-8-andrii@kernel.org


# f07669df 01-Apr-2021 Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>

libbpf: Remove redundant semi-colon

Remove redundant semi-colon in finalize_btf_ext().

Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210402012634.1965453-1-yangyingliang@huawei.com


# 05d81703 26-Mar-2021 Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>

libbpf: Fix memory leak when emitting final btf_ext

Free temporary allocated memory used to construct finalized .BTF.ext data.
Found by Coverity static analysis on libbpf's Github repo.

Fixes: 8fd27bf69b86 ("libbpf: Add BPF static linker BTF and BTF.ext support")
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210327042502.969745-1-andrii@kernel.org


# 36e79851 25-Mar-2021 Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>

libbpf: Preserve empty DATASEC BTFs during static linking

Ensure that BPF static linker preserves all DATASEC BTF types, even if some of
them might not have any variable information at all. This may happen if the
compiler promotes local initialized variable contents into .rodata section and
there are no global or static functions in the program.

For example,

$ cat t.c
struct t { char a; char b; char c; };
void bar(struct t*);
void find() {
struct t tmp = {1, 2, 3};
bar(&tmp);
}

$ clang -target bpf -O2 -g -S t.c
.long 104 # BTF_KIND_DATASEC(id = 8)
.long 251658240 # 0xf000000
.long 0

.ascii ".rodata" # string offset=104

$ clang -target bpf -O2 -g -c t.c
$ readelf -S t.o | grep data
[ 4] .rodata PROGBITS 0000000000000000 00000090

Fixes: 8fd27bf69b86 ("libbpf: Add BPF static linker BTF and BTF.ext support")
Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210326043036.3081011-1-andrii@kernel.org


# 78b226d4 19-Mar-2021 Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>

libbpf: Skip BTF fixup if object file has no BTF

Skip BTF fixup step when input object file is missing BTF altogether.

Fixes: 8fd27bf69b86 ("libbpf: Add BPF static linker BTF and BTF.ext support")
Reported-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210319205909.1748642-3-andrii@kernel.org


# 8fd27bf6 18-Mar-2021 Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>

libbpf: Add BPF static linker BTF and BTF.ext support

Add .BTF and .BTF.ext static linking logic.

When multiple BPF object files are linked together, their respective .BTF and
.BTF.ext sections are merged together. BTF types are not just concatenated,
but also deduplicated. .BTF.ext data is grouped by type (func info, line info,
core_relos) and target section names, and then all the records are
concatenated together, preserving their relative order. All the BTF type ID
references and string offsets are updated as necessary, to take into account
possibly deduplicated strings and types.

BTF DATASEC types are handled specially. Their respective var_secinfos are
accumulated separately in special per-section data and then final DATASEC
types are emitted at the very end during bpf_linker__finalize() operation,
just before emitting final ELF output file.

BTF data can also provide "section annotations" for some extern variables.
Such concept is missing in ELF, but BTF will have DATASEC types for such
special extern datasections (e.g., .kconfig, .ksyms). Such sections are called
"ephemeral" internally. Internally linker will keep metadata for each such
section, collecting variables information, but those sections won't be emitted
into the final ELF file.

Also, given LLVM/Clang during compilation emits BTF DATASECS that are
incomplete, missing section size and variable offsets for static variables,
BPF static linker will initially fix up such DATASECs, using ELF symbols data.
The final DATASECs will preserve section sizes and all variable offsets. This
is handled correctly by libbpf already, so won't cause any new issues. On the
other hand, it's actually a nice property to have a complete BTF data without
runtime adjustments done during bpf_object__open() by libbpf. In that sense,
BPF static linker is also a BTF normalizer.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210318194036.3521577-8-andrii@kernel.org


# faf6ed32 18-Mar-2021 Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>

libbpf: Add BPF static linker APIs

Introduce BPF static linker APIs to libbpf. BPF static linker allows to
perform static linking of multiple BPF object files into a single combined
resulting object file, preserving all the BPF programs, maps, global
variables, etc.

Data sections (.bss, .data, .rodata, .maps, maps, etc) with the same name are
concatenated together. Similarly, code sections are also concatenated. All the
symbols and ELF relocations are also concatenated in their respective ELF
sections and are adjusted accordingly to the new object file layout.

Static variables and functions are handled correctly as well, adjusting BPF
instructions offsets to reflect new variable/function offset within the
combined ELF section. Such relocations are referencing STT_SECTION symbols and
that stays intact.

Data sections in different files can have different alignment requirements, so
that is taken care of as well, adjusting sizes and offsets as necessary to
satisfy both old and new alignment requirements.

DWARF data sections are stripped out, currently. As well as LLLVM_ADDRSIG
section, which is ignored by libbpf in bpf_object__open() anyways. So, in
a way, BPF static linker is an analogue to `llvm-strip -g`, which is a pretty
nice property, especially if resulting .o file is then used to generate BPF
skeleton.

Original string sections are ignored and instead we construct our own set of
unique strings using libbpf-internal `struct strset` API.

To reduce the size of the patch, all the .BTF and .BTF.ext processing was
moved into a separate patch.

The high-level API consists of just 4 functions:
- bpf_linker__new() creates an instance of BPF static linker. It accepts
output filename and (currently empty) options struct;
- bpf_linker__add_file() takes input filename and appends it to the already
processed ELF data; it can be called multiple times, one for each BPF
ELF object file that needs to be linked in;
- bpf_linker__finalize() needs to be called to dump final ELF contents into
the output file, specified when bpf_linker was created; after
bpf_linker__finalize() is called, no more bpf_linker__add_file() and
bpf_linker__finalize() calls are allowed, they will return error;
- regardless of whether bpf_linker__finalize() was called or not,
bpf_linker__free() will free up all the used resources.

Currently, BPF static linker doesn't resolve cross-object file references
(extern variables and/or functions). This will be added in the follow up patch
set.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210318194036.3521577-7-andrii@kernel.org