Re: [PATCH iproute2] libbpf: fix attach of prog with multiple sections

On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 12:55 AM Hangbin Liu [off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 09:51:50PM -0700, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:

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This is still problematic, because one section can have multiple BPF
programs. I.e., it's possible two define two or more XDP BPF programs
all with SEC("xdp") and libbpf works just fine with that. I suggest
moving users to specify the program name (i.e., C function name
representing the BPF program). All the xdp_mycustom_suffix namings are

I just propose an implementation as you suggested.

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a hack and will be rejected by libbpf 1.0, so it would be great to get
a head start on fixing this early on.

Thanks for bringing this up. Currently, there is no way to specify a
function name with "tc exec bpf" (only a section name via the "sec" arg). So
probably, we should just add another arg to specify the function name.

How about add a "prog" arg to load specified program name and mark
"sec" as not recommended? To keep backwards compatibility we just load the
first program in the section.

Why not error out if there is more than one program with the same
section name? if there is just one (and thus section name is still
unique) -- then proceed. It seems much less confusing, IMO.

If you and others think it's OK to only support one program each section.
I do no object.

I'm not sure we are on the same page. I'll try to summarize what I
understood and you guys can decide for yourself what you want to do.

So I like your idea of introducing "prog" arg that will expect BPF
program name (i.e., C function name). In that case the name is always
unique. For existing "sec" arg, for backwards compatibility, I'd keep
it working, but when "sec" is used I'd check that the match is unique
(i.e., there is only one BPF program within the specified section). If
not and there are more than one matching BPF programs, that's a hard
error, because otherwise you essentially randomly pick one BPF program
out of a few.

Thanks
Hangbin