This patch set refactors libbpf feature probing to be done lazily on as-needed
basis, instead of proactively testing all possible features libbpf knows
about. This allows to scale such detections and mitigations better, without
issuing unnecessary syscalls on each bpf_object__load() call. It's also now
memoized globally, instead of per-bpf_object.
Building on that, libbpf will now detect availability of
bpf_probe_read_kernel() helper (which means also -user and -str variants), and
will sanitize BPF program code by replacing such references to generic
variants (bpf_probe_read[_str]()). This allows to migrate all BPF programs
into proper -kernel/-user probing helpers, without the fear of breaking them
for old kernels.
With that, update BPF_CORE_READ() and related macros to use
bpf_probe_read_kernel(), as it doesn't make much sense to do CO-RE relocations
against user-space types. And the only class of cases in which BPF program
might read kernel type from user-space are UAPI data structures which by
definition are fixed in their memory layout and don't need relocating. This is
exemplified by test_vmlinux test, which is fixed as part of this patch set as
well. BPF_CORE_READ() is useful for chainingg bpf_probe_read_{kernel,user}()
calls together even without relocation, so we might add user-space variants,
if there is a need.
While at making libbpf more useful for older kernels, also improve handling of
a complete lack of BTF support in kernel by not even attempting to load BTF
info into kernel. This eliminates annoying warning about lack of BTF support
in the kernel and map creation retry without BTF. If user is using features
that require kernel BTF support, it will still fail, of course.
Andrii Nakryiko (7):
libbpf: disable -Wswitch-enum compiler warning
libbpf: make kernel feature probing lazy
libbpf: factor out common logic of testing and closing FD
libbpf: sanitize BPF program code for
bpf_probe_read_{kernel,user}[_str]
selftests/bpf: fix test_vmlinux test to use bpf_probe_read_user()
libbpf: switch tracing and CO-RE helper macros to
bpf_probe_read_kernel()
libbpf: detect minimal BTF support and skip BTF loading, if missing
tools/lib/bpf/Makefile | 2 +-
tools/lib/bpf/bpf_core_read.h | 40 ++-
tools/lib/bpf/bpf_tracing.h | 4 +-
tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c | 319 +++++++++++-------
.../selftests/bpf/progs/test_vmlinux.c | 12 +-
5 files changed, 240 insertions(+), 137 deletions(-)
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