When BPF program defines uninitialized global variable, it's put into a special COMMON section. Libbpf will reject such programs, but will provide very unhelpful message with garbage-looking section index. This patch detects special section cases and gives more explicit error message. Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@xxxxxx> --- tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c | 14 +++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c index 794dd5064ae8..5f9e7eedb134 100644 --- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c @@ -1760,15 +1760,23 @@ bpf_program__collect_reloc(struct bpf_program *prog, GElf_Shdr *shdr, (long long) sym.st_value, sym.st_name, name); shdr_idx = sym.st_shndx; + insn_idx = rel.r_offset / sizeof(struct bpf_insn); + pr_debug("relocation: insn_idx=%u, shdr_idx=%u\n", + insn_idx, shdr_idx); + + if (shdr_idx >= SHN_LORESERVE) { + pr_warning("relocation: not yet supported relo for non-static global \'%s\' variable " + "in special section (0x%x) found in insns[%d].code 0x%x\n", + name, shdr_idx, insn_idx, + insns[insn_idx].code); + return -LIBBPF_ERRNO__RELOC; + } if (!bpf_object__relo_in_known_section(obj, shdr_idx)) { pr_warning("Program '%s' contains unrecognized relo data pointing to section %u\n", prog->section_name, shdr_idx); return -LIBBPF_ERRNO__RELOC; } - insn_idx = rel.r_offset / sizeof(struct bpf_insn); - pr_debug("relocation: insn_idx=%u\n", insn_idx); - if (insns[insn_idx].code == (BPF_JMP | BPF_CALL)) { if (insns[insn_idx].src_reg != BPF_PSEUDO_CALL) { pr_warning("incorrect bpf_call opcode\n"); -- 2.17.1