Re: [PATCH 5.4 106/453] libbpf: Fix BTF data layout checks and allow empty BTF

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Dec 29 2020 - 04:43:57 EST


On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 06:09:25PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 11:47:44AM -0800, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 7:49 AM Naresh Kamboju
> > <naresh.kamboju@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Perf build failed on stable-rc 5.4 branch due to this patch.
> > >
> > > On Mon, 28 Dec 2020 at 19:15, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > > <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > From: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >
> > > > [ Upstream commit d8123624506cd62730c9cd9c7672c698e462703d ]
> > > >
> > > > Make data section layout checks stricter, disallowing overlap of types and
> > > > strings data.
> > > >
> > > > Additionally, allow BTFs with no type data. There is nothing inherently wrong
> > > > with having BTF with no types (put potentially with some strings). This could
> > > > be a situation with kernel module BTFs, if module doesn't introduce any new
> > > > type information.
> > > >
> > > > Also fix invalid offset alignment check for btf->hdr->type_off.
> > > >
> > > > Fixes: 8a138aed4a80 ("bpf: btf: Add BTF support to libbpf")
> > > > Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201105043402.2530976-8-andrii@xxxxxxxxxx
> > > > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > > tools/lib/bpf/btf.c | 16 ++++++----------
> > > > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/btf.c b/tools/lib/bpf/btf.c
> > > > index d606a358480da..3380aadb74655 100644
> > > > --- a/tools/lib/bpf/btf.c
> > > > +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/btf.c
> > > > @@ -100,22 +100,18 @@ static int btf_parse_hdr(struct btf *btf)
> > > > return -EINVAL;
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > > - if (meta_left < hdr->type_off) {
> > > > - pr_debug("Invalid BTF type section offset:%u\n", hdr->type_off);
> > > > + if (meta_left < hdr->str_off + hdr->str_len) {
> > > > + pr_debug("Invalid BTF total size:%u\n", btf->raw_size);
> > >
> > > In file included from btf.c:17:0:
> > > btf.c: In function 'btf_parse_hdr':
> > > btf.c:104:48: error: 'struct btf' has no member named 'raw_size'; did
> > > you mean 'data_size'?
> > > pr_debug("Invalid BTF total size:%u\n", btf->raw_size);
> > > ^
> > > libbpf_internal.h:59:40: note: in definition of macro '__pr'
> > > libbpf_print(level, "libbpf: " fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__); \
> > > ^~~~~~~~~~~
> > > btf.c:104:3: note: in expansion of macro 'pr_debug'
> > > pr_debug("Invalid BTF total size:%u\n", btf->raw_size);
> > > ^~~~~~~~
> > >
> >
> > This patch fixes the bug introduced back in 8a138aed4a80 ("bpf: btf:
> > Add BTF support to libbpf"), but a bunch of other refactorings
> > happened since then, adding/renaming struct btf internals. The fix
> > here is not that critical, so it's probably best to just drop this
> > patch from the stable, if possible. Would it be ok, Greg?
>
> I'll drop it, thanks.

Thanks for dropping this and doing the other fixups. I'll go push out
some -rc2 releases soon...

greg k-h