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Re: [PATCH bpf] bpf: Support llvm-objcopy and llvm-objdump for vmlinux BTF

From: Andrii Nakryiko <hidden>
Date: 2020-03-17 03:10:47
Also in: bpf

On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 6:17 PM Fangrui Song [off-list ref] wrote:
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Simplify gen_btf logic to make it work with llvm-objcopy and
llvm-objdump.  We just need to retain one section .BTF. To do so, we can
use a simple objcopy --only-section=.BTF instead of jumping all the
hoops via an architecture-less binary file.

We use a dd comment to change the e_type field in the ELF header from
ET_EXEC to ET_REL so that .btf.vmlinux.bin.o will be accepted by lld.

Fixes: df786c9b9476 ("bpf: Force .BTF section start to zero when dumping from vmlinux")
Cc: Stanislav Fomichev <redacted>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <redacted>
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/871
Signed-off-by: Fangrui Song <redacted>
---
 scripts/link-vmlinux.sh | 13 ++-----------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
index dd484e92752e..84be8d7c361d 100755
--- a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
+++ b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
@@ -120,18 +120,9 @@ gen_btf()

        info "BTF" ${2}
        vmlinux_link ${1}
-       LLVM_OBJCOPY=${OBJCOPY} ${PAHOLE} -J ${1}
Is it really tested? Seems like you just dropped .BTF generation step
completely...
-       # dump .BTF section into raw binary file to link with final vmlinux
-       bin_arch=$(LANG=C ${OBJDUMP} -f ${1} | grep architecture | \
-               cut -d, -f1 | cut -d' ' -f2)
-       bin_format=$(LANG=C ${OBJDUMP} -f ${1} | grep 'file format' | \
-               awk '{print $4}')
-       ${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}
+       # Extract .BTF section, change e_type to ET_REL, to link with final vmlinux
+       ${OBJCOPY} --only-section=.BTF ${1} ${2} && printf '\1' | dd of=${2} conv=notrunc bs=1 seek=16
 }

 # Create ${2} .o file with all symbols from the ${1} object file
--
2.25.1.481.gfbce0eb801-goog
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