mainlining shenanigans
3e6fe5ce4d
Perform the same virtual address to file offset translation that libbpf
is doing for executable ELF binaries also for shared libraries.
Currently libbpf is making a simplifying and sometimes wrong assumption
that for shared libraries relative virtual addresses inside ELF are
always equal to file offsets.
Unfortunately, this is not always the case with LLVM's lld linker, which
now by default generates quite more complicated ELF segments layout.
E.g., for liburandom_read.so from selftests/bpf, here's an excerpt from
readelf output listing ELF segments (a.k.a. program headers):
Type Offset VirtAddr PhysAddr FileSiz MemSiz Flg Align
PHDR 0x000040 0x0000000000000040 0x0000000000000040 0x0001f8 0x0001f8 R 0x8
LOAD 0x000000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 0x0005e4 0x0005e4 R 0x1000
LOAD 0x0005f0 0x00000000000015f0 0x00000000000015f0 0x000160 0x000160 R E 0x1000
LOAD 0x000750 0x0000000000002750 0x0000000000002750 0x000210 0x000210 RW 0x1000
LOAD 0x000960 0x0000000000003960 0x0000000000003960 0x000028 0x000029 RW 0x1000
Compare that to what is generated by GNU ld (or LLVM lld's with extra
-znoseparate-code argument which disables this cleverness in the name of
file size reduction):
Type Offset VirtAddr PhysAddr FileSiz MemSiz Flg Align
LOAD 0x000000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 0x000550 0x000550 R 0x1000
LOAD 0x001000 0x0000000000001000 0x0000000000001000 0x000131 0x000131 R E 0x1000
LOAD 0x002000 0x0000000000002000 0x0000000000002000 0x0000ac 0x0000ac R 0x1000
LOAD 0x002dc0 0x0000000000003dc0 0x0000000000003dc0 0x000262 0x000268 RW 0x1000
You can see from the first example above that for executable (Flg == "R E")
PT_LOAD segment (LOAD #2), Offset doesn't match VirtAddr columns.
And it does in the second case (GNU ld output).
This is important because all the addresses, including USDT specs,
operate in a virtual address space, while kernel is expecting file
offsets when performing uprobe attach. So such mismatches have to be
properly taken care of and compensated by libbpf, which is what this
patch is fixing.
Also patch clarifies few function and variable names, as well as updates
comments to reflect this important distinction (virtaddr vs file offset)
and to ephasize that shared libraries are not all that different from
executables in this regard.
This patch also changes selftests/bpf Makefile to force urand_read and
liburand_read.so to be built with Clang and LLVM's lld (and explicitly
request this ELF file size optimization through -znoseparate-code linker
parameter) to validate libbpf logic and ensure regressions don't happen
in the future. I've bundled these selftests changes together with libbpf
changes to keep the above description tied with both libbpf and
selftests changes.
Fixes:
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| certs | ||
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| Documentation | ||
| drivers | ||
| fs | ||
| include | ||
| init | ||
| ipc | ||
| kernel | ||
| lib | ||
| LICENSES | ||
| mm | ||
| net | ||
| samples | ||
| scripts | ||
| security | ||
| sound | ||
| tools | ||
| usr | ||
| virt | ||
| .clang-format | ||
| .cocciconfig | ||
| .get_maintainer.ignore | ||
| .gitattributes | ||
| .gitignore | ||
| .mailmap | ||
| COPYING | ||
| CREDITS | ||
| Kbuild | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| MAINTAINERS | ||
| Makefile | ||
| README | ||
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