Re: [PATCH bpf-next] libbpf: add support for new llvm bpf relocations

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On Sat, May 22, 2021 at 9:23 AM Yonghong Song <yhs@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> LLVM patch https://reviews.llvm.org/D102712
> narrowed the scope of existing R_BPF_64_64
> and R_BPF_64_32 relocations, and added three
> new relocations, R_BPF_64_ABS64, R_BPF_64_ABS32
> and R_BPF_64_NODYLD32. The main motivation is
> to make relocations linker friendly.
>
> This change, unfortunately, breaks libbpf build,
> and we will see errors like below:
>   libbpf: ELF relo #0 in section #6 has unexpected type 2 in
>      /home/yhs/work/bpf-next/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bpf_tcp_nogpl.o
>   Error: failed to link
>      '/home/yhs/work/bpf-next/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bpf_tcp_nogpl.o':
>      Unknown error -22 (-22)
> The new relocation R_BPF_64_ABS64 is generated
> and libbpf linker sanity check doesn't understand it.
> Relocation section '.rel.struct_ops' at offset 0x1410 contains 1 entries:
>     Offset             Info             Type               Symbol's Value  Symbol's Name
> 0000000000000018  0000000700000002 R_BPF_64_ABS64         0000000000000000 nogpltcp_init
>
> Look at the selftests/bpf/bpf_tcp_nogpl.c,
>   void BPF_STRUCT_OPS(nogpltcp_init, struct sock *sk)
>   {
>   }
>
>   SEC(".struct_ops")
>   struct tcp_congestion_ops bpf_nogpltcp = {
>           .init           = (void *)nogpltcp_init,
>           .name           = "bpf_nogpltcp",
>   };
> The new llvm relocation scheme categorizes 'nogpltcp_init' reference
> as R_BPF_64_ABS64 instead of R_BPF_64_64 which is used to specify
> ld_imm64 relocation in the new scheme.
>
> Let us fix the linker sanity checking by including
> R_BPF_64_ABS64 and R_BPF_64_ABS32. There is no need to
> check R_BPF_64_NODYLD32 which is used for .BTF and .BTF.ext.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@xxxxxx>
> ---

LGTM. Is there a chance that those relocations will get renamed or
expanded before LLVM diff lands? Or it's safe to apply now and LLVM
side won't change much?

>  tools/lib/bpf/libbpf_internal.h | 6 ++++++
>  tools/lib/bpf/linker.c          | 3 ++-
>  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf_internal.h b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf_internal.h
> index 55d9b4dca64f..e2db08573bf0 100644
> --- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf_internal.h
> +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf_internal.h
> @@ -28,6 +28,12 @@
>  #ifndef R_BPF_64_64
>  #define R_BPF_64_64 1
>  #endif
> +#ifndef R_BPF_64_ABS64
> +#define R_BPF_64_ABS64 2
> +#endif
> +#ifndef R_BPF_64_ABS32
> +#define R_BPF_64_ABS32 3
> +#endif
>  #ifndef R_BPF_64_32
>  #define R_BPF_64_32 10
>  #endif
> diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/linker.c b/tools/lib/bpf/linker.c
> index b594a88620ce..1dca41a24f75 100644
> --- a/tools/lib/bpf/linker.c
> +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/linker.c
> @@ -892,7 +892,8 @@ static int linker_sanity_check_elf_relos(struct src_obj *obj, struct src_sec *se
>                 size_t sym_idx = ELF64_R_SYM(relo->r_info);
>                 size_t sym_type = ELF64_R_TYPE(relo->r_info);
>
> -               if (sym_type != R_BPF_64_64 && sym_type != R_BPF_64_32) {
> +               if (sym_type != R_BPF_64_64 && sym_type != R_BPF_64_32 &&
> +                   sym_type != R_BPF_64_ABS64 && sym_type != R_BPF_64_ABS32) {
>                         pr_warn("ELF relo #%d in section #%zu has unexpected type %zu in %s\n",
>                                 i, sec->sec_idx, sym_type, obj->filename);
>                         return -EINVAL;
> --
> 2.30.2
>



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