Re: [PATCH v2 bpf 03/11] bpftool: use a local bpf_perf_event_value to fix accessing its fields

From: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2023 14:02:44 -0700

On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 12:39:04AM +0000, Alexander Lobakin wrote:

quoted

Fix the following error when building bpftool:

  CLANG   profiler.bpf.o
  CLANG   pid_iter.bpf.o
skeleton/profiler.bpf.c:18:21: error: invalid application of 'sizeof' to an incomplete type 'struct bpf_perf_event_value'
        __uint(value_size, sizeof(struct bpf_perf_event_value));
                           ^     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
tools/bpf/bpftool/bootstrap/libbpf/include/bpf/bpf_helpers.h:13:39: note: expanded from macro '__uint'
tools/bpf/bpftool/bootstrap/libbpf/include/bpf/bpf_helper_defs.h:7:8: note: forward declaration of 'struct bpf_perf_event_value'
struct bpf_perf_event_value;
       ^

struct bpf_perf_event_value is being used in the kernel only when
CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS is enabled, so it misses a BTF entry then.
Define struct bpf_perf_event_value___local with the
`preserve_access_index` attribute inside the pid_iter BPF prog to
allow compiling on any configs. It is a full mirror of a UAPI
structure, so is compatible both with and w/o CO-RE.
bpf_perf_event_read_value() requires a pointer of the original type,
so a cast is needed.

Hi Alexander,
What's the status of this series? I wasn't able to find a v3 on lore.

Hi,

Sorry, I haven't been working on my private/home kernel projects for
quite a long. As Quentin mentioned, he took some patches from the series
into his own set. I'd support that one rather than mine.

We received a report that OpenMandriva is carrying around this patch.
https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1805.

+ Tomasz

Tomasz, do you have more info which particular configs can reproduce
this issue? Is this patch still necessary?

quoted

Fixes: 47c09d6a9f67 ("bpftool: Introduce "prog profile" command")
Suggested-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <redacted>

Thanks,
Olek