Building the kernel with CONFIG_BPF_PRELOAD, and by providing a relative
path for the output directory, may fail with the following error:
$ make O=build bindeb-pkg
...
/.../linux/tools/scripts/Makefile.include:5: *** O=build does not exist. Stop.
make[7]: *** [/.../linux/kernel/bpf/preload/Makefile:9: kernel/bpf/preload/libbpf.a] Error 2
make[6]: *** [/.../linux/scripts/Makefile.build:500: kernel/bpf/preload] Error 2
make[5]: *** [/.../linux/scripts/Makefile.build:500: kernel/bpf] Error 2
make[4]: *** [/.../linux/Makefile:1799: kernel] Error 2
make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
In the case above, for the "bindeb-pkg" target, the error is produced by
the "dummy" check in Makefile.include, called from libbpf's Makefile.
This check changes directory to $(PWD) before checking for the existence
of $(O). But at this step we have $(PWD) pointing to "/.../linux/build",
and $(O) pointing to "build". So the Makefile.include tries in fact to
assert the existence of a directory named "/.../linux/build/build",
which does not exist.
Note that the error does not occur for all make targets and
architectures combinations. This was observed on x86 for "bindeb-pkg",
or for a regular build for UML [0].
Here are some details. The root Makefile recursively calls itself once,
after changing directory to $(O). The content for the variable $(PWD) is
preserved across recursive calls to make, so it is unchanged at this
step. For "bindeb-pkg", $(PWD) is eventually updated because the target
writes a new Makefile (as debian/rules) and calls it indirectly through
dpkg-buildpackage. This script does not preserve $(PWD), which is reset
to the current working directory when the target in debian/rules is
called.
Although not investigated, it seems likely that something similar causes
UML to change its value for $(PWD).
Non-trivial fixes could be to remove the use of $(PWD) from the "dummy"
check, or to make sure that $(PWD) and $(O) are preserved or updated to
always play well and form a valid $(PWD)/$(O) path across the different
targets and architectures. Instead, we take a simpler approach and just
update $(O) when calling libbpf's Makefile, so it points to an absolute
path which should always resolve for the "dummy" check run (through
includes) by that Makefile.
David Gow previously posted a slightly different version of this patch
as a RFC [0], two months ago or so.
[0] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201119085022.3606135-1-davidgow@google.com/t/#u
Fixes: d71fa5c976 ("bpf: Add kernel module with user mode driver that populates bpffs.")
Reported-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210126161320.24561-1-quentin@isovalent.com
The Makefile in bpf/preload builds a local copy of libbpf, but does not
properly clean up after itself. This can lead to subsequent compilation
failures, since the feature detection cache is kept around which can lead
subsequent detection to fail.
Fix this by properly setting clean-files, and while we're at it, also add a
.gitignore for the directory to ignore the build artifacts.
Fixes: d71fa5c976 ("bpf: Add kernel module with user mode driver that populates bpffs.")
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200927193005.8459-1-toke@redhat.com
Add kernel module with user mode driver that populates bpffs with
BPF iterators.
$ mount bpffs /my/bpffs/ -t bpf
$ ls -la /my/bpffs/
total 4
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 0 Jul 2 00:27 .
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Jul 2 00:09 ..
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Jul 2 00:27 maps.debug
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Jul 2 00:27 progs.debug
The user mode driver will load BPF Type Formats, create BPF maps, populate BPF
maps, load two BPF programs, attach them to BPF iterators, and finally send two
bpf_link IDs back to the kernel.
The kernel will pin two bpf_links into newly mounted bpffs instance under
names "progs.debug" and "maps.debug". These two files become human readable.
$ cat /my/bpffs/progs.debug
id name attached
11 dump_bpf_map bpf_iter_bpf_map
12 dump_bpf_prog bpf_iter_bpf_prog
27 test_pkt_access
32 test_main test_pkt_access test_pkt_access
33 test_subprog1 test_pkt_access_subprog1 test_pkt_access
34 test_subprog2 test_pkt_access_subprog2 test_pkt_access
35 test_subprog3 test_pkt_access_subprog3 test_pkt_access
36 new_get_skb_len get_skb_len test_pkt_access
37 new_get_skb_ifindex get_skb_ifindex test_pkt_access
38 new_get_constant get_constant test_pkt_access
The BPF program dump_bpf_prog() in iterators.bpf.c is printing this data about
all BPF programs currently loaded in the system. This information is unstable
and will change from kernel to kernel as ".debug" suffix conveys.
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200819042759.51280-4-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
