Re: pahole generates invalid BTF for code compiled with recent clang

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Em Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 05:22:59PM +0100, Lorenz Bauer escreveu:
> On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 at 17:07, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Em Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 12:05:50PM +0100, Lorenz Bauer escreveu:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > If pahole -J is used on an ELF that has BTF info from clang, it
> > > produces an invalid
> > > output. This is because pahole rewrites the .BTF section (which
> > > includes a new string
> > > table) but it doesn't touch .BTF.ext at all.
> >
> > > To demonstrate, on a recent check out of bpf-next:
> > >     $ cp connect4_prog.o connect4_pahole.o
> > >     $ pahole -J connect4_pahole.o
> > >     $ llvm-objcopy-10 --dump-section .BTF=pahole-btf.bin
> > > --dump-section .BTF.ext=pahole-btf-ext.bin connect4_pahole.o
> > >     $ llvm-objcopy-10 --dump-section .BTF=btf.bin --dump-section
> > > .BTF.ext=btf-ext.bin connect4_prog.o
> > >     $ sha1sum *.bin
> > >     1b5c7407dd9fd13f969931d32f6b864849e66a68  btf.bin
> > >     4c43efcc86d3cd908ddc77c15fc4a35af38d842b  btf-ext.bin
> > >     2a60767a3a037de66a8d963110601769fa0f198e  pahole-btf.bin
> > >     4c43efcc86d3cd908ddc77c15fc4a35af38d842b  pahole-btf-ext.bin
> > >
> > > This problem crops up when compiling old kernels like 4.19 which have
> > > an extra pahole
> > > build step with clang-10.

> > > I think a possible fix is to strip .BTF.ext if .BTF is rewritten.
> >
> > Agreed.

> > Longer term pahole needs to generate the .BTF.ext from DWARF, but then,
> > if clang is generating it already, why use pahole -J?
 
> Beats me, but then sometimes you don't have control over the workflow, see
> my v4.19 kernel example.
 
> > Does clang do deduplication for multi-object binaries?

> > Also its nice to see that the BTF generated ends up with the same
> > sha1sum, cool :-)
 
> Unfortunately it's the .BTF.ext section that has the same sha1, because
> pahole doesn't touch it ;(

My bad... I guess I saw what I wanted to see... ;-\

- Arnaldo



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