[PATCH 5.4 007/134] bpf: Support llvm-objcopy for vmlinux BTF

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Jun 16 2020 - 11:36:31 EST


From: Fangrui Song <maskray@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 90ceddcb495008ac8ba7a3dce297841efcd7d584 upstream.

Simplify gen_btf logic to make it work with llvm-objcopy. The existing
'file format' and 'architecture' parsing logic is brittle and does not
work with llvm-objcopy/llvm-objdump.

'file format' output of llvm-objdump>=11 will match GNU objdump, but
'architecture' (bfdarch) may not.

.BTF in .tmp_vmlinux.btf is non-SHF_ALLOC. Add the SHF_ALLOC flag
because it is part of vmlinux image used for introspection. C code
can reference the section via linker script defined __start_BTF and
__stop_BTF. This fixes a small problem that previous .BTF had the
SHF_WRITE flag (objcopy -I binary -O elf* synthesized .data).

Additionally, `objcopy -I binary` synthesized symbols
_binary__btf_vmlinux_bin_start and _binary__btf_vmlinux_bin_stop (not
used elsewhere) are replaced with more commonplace __start_BTF and
__stop_BTF.

Add 2>/dev/null because GNU objcopy (but not llvm-objcopy) warns
"empty loadable segment detected at vaddr=0xffffffff81000000, is this intentional?"

We use a dd command to change the e_type field in the ELF header from
ET_EXEC to ET_REL so that lld will accept .btf.vmlinux.bin.o. Accepting
ET_EXEC as an input file is an extremely rare GNU ld feature that lld
does not intend to support, because this is error-prone.

The output section description .BTF in include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
avoids potential subtle orphan section placement issues and suppresses
--orphan-handling=warn warnings.

Fixes: df786c9b9476 ("bpf: Force .BTF section start to zero when dumping from vmlinux")
Fixes: cb0cc635c7a9 ("powerpc: Include .BTF section")
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@xxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@xxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (powerpc)
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/871
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200318222746.173648-1-maskray@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Maria Teguiani <teguiani@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 6 ------
include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 22 +++++++++++++++++++---
kernel/bpf/sysfs_btf.c | 11 +++++------
scripts/link-vmlinux.sh | 24 ++++++++++--------------
4 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -326,12 +326,6 @@ SECTIONS
*(.branch_lt)
}

-#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF
- .BTF : AT(ADDR(.BTF) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
- *(.BTF)
- }
-#endif
-
.opd : AT(ADDR(.opd) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
__start_opd = .;
KEEP(*(.opd))
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -496,10 +496,12 @@
__start___modver = .; \
KEEP(*(__modver)) \
__stop___modver = .; \
- . = ALIGN((align)); \
- __end_rodata = .; \
} \
- . = ALIGN((align));
+ \
+ BTF \
+ \
+ . = ALIGN((align)); \
+ __end_rodata = .;

/* RODATA & RO_DATA provided for backward compatibility.
* All archs are supposed to use RO_DATA() */
@@ -589,6 +591,20 @@
}

/*
+ * .BTF
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF
+#define BTF \
+ .BTF : AT(ADDR(.BTF) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \
+ __start_BTF = .; \
+ *(.BTF) \
+ __stop_BTF = .; \
+ }
+#else
+#define BTF
+#endif
+
+/*
* Init task
*/
#define INIT_TASK_DATA_SECTION(align) \
--- a/kernel/bpf/sysfs_btf.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/sysfs_btf.c
@@ -9,15 +9,15 @@
#include <linux/sysfs.h>

/* See scripts/link-vmlinux.sh, gen_btf() func for details */
-extern char __weak _binary__btf_vmlinux_bin_start[];
-extern char __weak _binary__btf_vmlinux_bin_end[];
+extern char __weak __start_BTF[];
+extern char __weak __stop_BTF[];

static ssize_t
btf_vmlinux_read(struct file *file, struct kobject *kobj,
struct bin_attribute *bin_attr,
char *buf, loff_t off, size_t len)
{
- memcpy(buf, _binary__btf_vmlinux_bin_start + off, len);
+ memcpy(buf, __start_BTF + off, len);
return len;
}

@@ -30,15 +30,14 @@ static struct kobject *btf_kobj;

static int __init btf_vmlinux_init(void)
{
- if (!_binary__btf_vmlinux_bin_start)
+ if (!__start_BTF)
return 0;

btf_kobj = kobject_create_and_add("btf", kernel_kobj);
if (!btf_kobj)
return -ENOMEM;

- bin_attr_btf_vmlinux.size = _binary__btf_vmlinux_bin_end -
- _binary__btf_vmlinux_bin_start;
+ bin_attr_btf_vmlinux.size = __stop_BTF - __start_BTF;

return sysfs_create_bin_file(btf_kobj, &bin_attr_btf_vmlinux);
}
--- a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
+++ b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
@@ -113,9 +113,6 @@ vmlinux_link()
gen_btf()
{
local pahole_ver
- local bin_arch
- local bin_format
- local bin_file

if ! [ -x "$(command -v ${PAHOLE})" ]; then
echo >&2 "BTF: ${1}: pahole (${PAHOLE}) is not available"
@@ -133,17 +130,16 @@ gen_btf()
info "BTF" ${2}
LLVM_OBJCOPY=${OBJCOPY} ${PAHOLE} -J ${1}

- # 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}')
- bin_file=.btf.vmlinux.bin
- ${OBJCOPY} --change-section-address .BTF=0 \
- --set-section-flags .BTF=alloc -O binary \
- --only-section=.BTF ${1} $bin_file
- ${OBJCOPY} -I binary -O ${bin_format} -B ${bin_arch} \
- --rename-section .data=.BTF $bin_file ${2}
+ # Create ${2} which contains just .BTF section but no symbols. Add
+ # SHF_ALLOC because .BTF will be part of the vmlinux image. --strip-all
+ # deletes all symbols including __start_BTF and __stop_BTF, which will
+ # be redefined in the linker script. Add 2>/dev/null to suppress GNU
+ # objcopy warnings: "empty loadable segment detected at ..."
+ ${OBJCOPY} --only-section=.BTF --set-section-flags .BTF=alloc,readonly \
+ --strip-all ${1} ${2} 2>/dev/null
+ # Change e_type to ET_REL so that it can be used to link final vmlinux.
+ # Unlike GNU ld, lld does not allow an ET_EXEC input.
+ printf '\1' | dd of=${2} conv=notrunc bs=1 seek=16 status=none
}

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