Re: [PATCH 2/2] perf bpf: Check relocation target section

From: Alexei Starovoitov
Date: Fri Jan 22 2016 - 12:11:10 EST


On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 09:27:21AM +0000, Wang Nan wrote:
> Libbpf should check target section before doing relocation to ensure
> the relocation is correct. If not, a bug in LLVM causes error. See [1].
> Also, if an incorrect BPF script uses both global variable and
> map, global variable whould be treated as map and be relocated
> without error.
>
> This patch saves id of map section into obj->efile and compare
> target section of a relocation symbol against it during relocation.
...
> [1] https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=26243
...
> Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> + if (sym.st_shndx != maps_shndx) {
> + pr_warning("Program '%s' contains non-map related relo data pointing to section %u\n",
> + prog->section_name, sym.st_shndx);
> + return -LIBBPF_ERRNO__RELOC;
> + }

May be 'pr_err' instead of 'pr_warning', since such program will fail
to load by kernel anyway. Looks good otherwise.
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx>