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Re: [suricata PATCH 1/3] suricata/ebpf: take clang -target bpf include issue of stdint.h into account

From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hidden>
Date: 2018-02-08 08:42:56

On Thu, 08 Feb 2018 00:52:09 +0100 Eric Leblond [off-list ref] wrote:
Hi,

On Wed, 2018-02-07 at 23:21 +0100, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
quoted
From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <redacted>

This patch prepares code before enabling the clang -target bpf.

The clang compiler does not like #include <stdint.h> when
using '-target bpf' it will fail with:

 fatal error: 'gnu/stubs-32.h' file not found  
...
quoted
This can be worked around by installing the 32-bit version of
glibc-devel.i686 on your distribution.

But the BPF programs does not really need to include stdint.h,
if converting:
  uint64_t -> __u64
  uint32_t -> __u32
  uint16_t -> __u16
  uint8_t  -> __u8

This patch does this type syntax conversion.  
There is an issue for system like Debian because they don't have a
asm/types.h in the include path if the architecture is not defined
which is the case due to target bpf. This results in:

clang-5.0 -Wall -Iinclude -O2 \
	-D__KERNEL__ -D__ASM_SYSREG_H \
	-target bpf -S -emit-llvm vlan_filter.c -o vlan_filter.ll
In file included from vlan_filter.c:19:
In file included from include/linux/bpf.h:11:
/usr/include/linux/types.h:5:10: fatal error: 'asm/types.h' file not
found
#include <asm/types.h>
         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.
Makefile:523: recipe for target 'vlan_filter.bpf' failed

To go into details, the Debian package providing the 'asm/typs.h'
include is the the headers or linux-libc-dev. But this package comes
with a flavor and thus we have a prefix: 
 linux-libc-dev:amd64: /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/asm/types.h
Oh, the joy of distro choices.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
"Fun" part here is that if you build a debian package of the via make
in Linux tree then the linux-libc-dev package is correct.

So I propose the following patch that fixes the issue for me:
diff --git a/ebpf/Makefile.am b/ebpf/Makefile.am
index 89a3304e9..712b05343 100644
--- a/ebpf/Makefile.am
+++ b/ebpf/Makefile.am
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ all: $(BPF_TARGETS)
 $(BPF_TARGETS): %.bpf: %.c
 #      From C-code to LLVM-IR format suffix .ll (clang -S -emit-llvm)
        ${CLANG} -Wall $(BPF_CFLAGS) -O2 \
+               -I/usr/include/$(host_cpu)-$(host_os)/ \
Cool solution. These variables originate from configure/automake.

Would it be more technical correct to use(?): $(build_cpu)-$(build_os)

I verified that the variables are the same (notice 'make -p' trick):

$ make -p | egrep '_os'
build_os = linux-gnu
host_os = linux-gnu

$ make -p | egrep '_cpu'
host_cpu = x86_64
build_cpu = x86_64


                -D__KERNEL__ -D__ASM_SYSREG_H \
                -target bpf -S -emit-llvm $< -o ${@:.bpf=.ll}
 #      From LLVM-IR to BPF-bytecode in ELF-obj file

Let me know if it is ok for you.
I'm fine with this fix.

I wonder if we should check other distros?

-- 
Best regards,
  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
  LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer
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