While trying to figure out why fentry_fexit selftest doesn't pass for me
(old pahole, broken BTF), I found out that my latest patch can break vmlinux
.BTF generation. objcopy preserves section start when doing --only-section,
so there is a chance (depending on where pahole inserts .BTF section) to
have leading empty zeroes. Let's explicitly force section offset to zero.
Before:
$ objcopy --set-section-flags .BTF=alloc -O binary \
--only-section=.BTF vmlinux .btf.vmlinux.bin
$ xxd .btf.vmlinux.bin | head -n1
00000000: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................
After:
$ objcopy --change-section-address .BTF=0 \
--set-section-flags .BTF=alloc -O binary \
--only-section=.BTF vmlinux .btf.vmlinux.bin
$ xxd .btf.vmlinux.bin | head -n1
00000000: 9feb 0100 1800 0000 0000 0000 80e1 1c00 ................
^BTF magic
As part of this change, I'm also dropping '2>/dev/null' from objcopy
invocation to be able to catch possible other issues (objcopy doesn't
produce any warnings for me anymore, it did before with --dump-section).
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@xxxxxx>
Fixes: da5fb18225b4 ("bpf: Support pre-2.25-binutils objcopy for vmlinux BTF")
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/link-vmlinux.sh | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
index 2998ddb323e3..436379940356 100755
--- a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
+++ b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
@@ -127,8 +127,9 @@ gen_btf()
cut -d, -f1 | cut -d' ' -f2)
bin_format=$(LANG=C ${OBJDUMP} -f ${1} | grep 'file format' | \
awk '{print $4}')
- ${OBJCOPY} --set-section-flags .BTF=alloc -O binary \
- --only-section=.BTF ${1} .btf.vmlinux.bin 2>/dev/null
+ ${OBJCOPY} --change-section-address .BTF=0 \
+ --set-section-flags .BTF=alloc -O binary \
+ --only-section=.BTF ${1} .btf.vmlinux.bin
${OBJCOPY} -I binary -O ${bin_format} -B ${bin_arch} \
--rename-section .data=.BTF .btf.vmlinux.bin ${2}
}
--
2.24.0.432.g9d3f5f5b63-goog
