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authorStanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com>2019-11-27 14:57:59 -0800
committerDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>2019-11-29 10:18:57 +0100
commitdf786c9b947639aedbc7bb44b5dae2a7824af360 (patch)
treec47ad5f82c960333514486f3b0b3572ffae569f5 /scripts
parentce27709b8162e5c501bc54292b8bf6bdecc4bbd4 (diff)
downloadlinux-df786c9b947639aedbc7bb44b5dae2a7824af360.tar.gz
bpf: Force .BTF section start to zero when dumping from vmlinux
While trying to figure out why fentry_fexit selftest doesn't pass for me
(old pahole, broken BTF), I found out that my latest patch can break vmlinux
.BTF generation. objcopy preserves section start when doing --only-section,
so there is a chance (depending on where pahole inserts .BTF section) to
have leading empty zeroes. Let's explicitly force section offset to zero.

Before:

$ objcopy --set-section-flags .BTF=alloc -O binary \
	--only-section=.BTF vmlinux .btf.vmlinux.bin
$ xxd .btf.vmlinux.bin | head -n1
00000000: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................

After:

$ objcopy --change-section-address .BTF=0 \
	--set-section-flags .BTF=alloc -O binary \
	--only-section=.BTF vmlinux .btf.vmlinux.bin
$ xxd .btf.vmlinux.bin | head -n1
00000000: 9feb 0100 1800 0000 0000 0000 80e1 1c00  ................
          ^BTF magic

As part of this change, I'm also dropping '2>/dev/null' from objcopy
invocation to be able to catch possible other issues (objcopy doesn't
produce any warnings for me anymore, it did before with --dump-section).

Fixes: da5fb18225b4 ("bpf: Support pre-2.25-binutils objcopy for vmlinux BTF")
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191127225759.39923-1-sdf@google.com
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/link-vmlinux.sh5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
index 2998ddb323e3..436379940356 100755
--- a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
+++ b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
@@ -127,8 +127,9 @@ gen_btf()
 		cut -d, -f1 | cut -d' ' -f2)
 	bin_format=$(LANG=C ${OBJDUMP} -f ${1} | grep 'file format' | \
 		awk '{print $4}')
-	${OBJCOPY} --set-section-flags .BTF=alloc -O binary \
-		--only-section=.BTF ${1} .btf.vmlinux.bin 2>/dev/null
+	${OBJCOPY} --change-section-address .BTF=0 \
+		--set-section-flags .BTF=alloc -O binary \
+		--only-section=.BTF ${1} .btf.vmlinux.bin
 	${OBJCOPY} -I binary -O ${bin_format} -B ${bin_arch} \
 		--rename-section .data=.BTF .btf.vmlinux.bin ${2}
 }