The GNU assembler generates an empty .bss section. This is a well
established behavior in GAS that happens in all supported targets.
The LLVM assembler doesn't generate an empty .bss section.
bpftool chokes on the empty .bss section.
Additionally in bpf_object__elf_collect the sec_desc->data is not
initialized when a section is not recognized. In this case, this
happens with .comment.
So we must check that sec_desc->data is initialized before checking
if the size is 0.
Signed-off-by: James Hilliard <james.hilliard1@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
index 50d41815f431..77e3797cf75a 100644
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
@@ -1642,6 +1642,10 @@ static int bpf_object__init_global_data_maps(struct bpf_object *obj)
for (sec_idx = 1; sec_idx < obj->efile.sec_cnt; sec_idx++) {
sec_desc = &obj->efile.secs[sec_idx];
+ /* Skip recognized sections with size 0. */
+ if (sec_desc->data && sec_desc->data->d_size == 0)
+ continue;
+
switch (sec_desc->sec_type) {
case SEC_DATA:
sec_name = elf_sec_name(obj, elf_sec_by_idx(obj, sec_idx));
--
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