[PATCH] bpftool: un-const bpf_func_info to fix it for llvm 17 and newer

From: Ivan Babrou
Date: Mon May 20 2024 - 18:56:52 EST


LLVM 17 started treating const structs as constants:

* https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/0b2d5b967d98

Combined with pointer laundering via ptr_to_u64, which takes a const ptr,
but in reality treats the underlying memory as mutable, this makes clang
always pass zero to btf__type_by_id, which breaks full name resolution.

Disassembly before (LLVM 16) and after (LLVM 17):

- 8b 75 cc mov -0x34(%rbp),%esi
- e8 47 8d 02 00 call 3f5b0 <btf__type_by_id>
+ 31 f6 xor %esi,%esi
+ e8 a9 8c 02 00 call 3f510 <btf__type_by_id>

It's a bigger project to fix this properly (and a question whether LLVM
itself should detect this), but for right now let's just fix bpftool.

For more information, see this thread in bpf mailing list:

* https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CABWYdi0ymezpYsQsPv7qzpx2fWuTkoD1-wG1eT-9x-TSREFrQg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/

Fixes: b662000aff84 ("bpftool: Adding support for BTF program names")
Signed-off-by: Ivan Babrou <ivan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/bpf/bpftool/common.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/bpf/bpftool/common.c b/tools/bpf/bpftool/common.c
index cc6e6aae2447..6d8bbc3ec603 100644
--- a/tools/bpf/bpftool/common.c
+++ b/tools/bpf/bpftool/common.c
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ void get_prog_full_name(const struct bpf_prog_info *prog_info, int prog_fd,
{
const char *prog_name = prog_info->name;
const struct btf_type *func_type;
- const struct bpf_func_info finfo = {};
+ struct bpf_func_info finfo = {};
struct bpf_prog_info info = {};
__u32 info_len = sizeof(info);
struct btf *prog_btf = NULL;
--
2.44.0