From: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@xxxxxxxxxx> commit df786c9b947639aedbc7bb44b5dae2a7824af360 upstream. 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). Fixes: da5fb18225b4 ("bpf: Support pre-2.25-binutils objcopy for vmlinux BTF") Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@xxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191127225759.39923-1-sdf@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/link-vmlinux.sh | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- 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} }