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Message-ID: <CAP-5=fWh+_be34JpaLYFTHwHOp67ttQh3TtWEjZ-JyKRdSwHpg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 3 Oct 2023 18:04:22 -0700
From:   Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
To:     Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>
Cc:     Quentin Monnet <quentin@...valent.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@...ux.dev>,
        Song Liu <song@...nel.org>,
        Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@...ux.dev>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        KP Singh <kpsingh@...nel.org>,
        Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...gle.com>,
        Hao Luo <haoluo@...gle.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        bpf@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] bpftool: Align output skeleton ELF code

On Tue, Oct 3, 2023 at 5:20 PM Andrii Nakryiko
<andrii.nakryiko@...il.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 3, 2023 at 12:15 PM Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com> wrote:
> >
> > libbpf accesses the ELF data requiring at least 8 byte alignment,
> > however, the data is generated into a C string that doesn't guarantee
> > alignment. Fix this by assigning to an aligned char array. Use sizeof
> > on the array, less one for the \0 terminator, rather than generating a
> > constant.
> >
> > Fixes: a6cc6b34b93e ("bpftool: Provide a helper method for accessing skeleton's embedded ELF data")
> > Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@...cle.com>
> > ---
>
> See CI failures ([0]). You messed up tabs somewhere.
>
>   [0] https://github.com/kernel-patches/bpf/actions/runs/6397510833/job/17365616392?pr=5756

Thanks, I messed up (also) somewhere else in patch 2/2 as I broke some
Google code. Working on a v3.

Ian

>
> >  tools/bpf/bpftool/gen.c | 15 +++++++++------
> >  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/bpf/bpftool/gen.c b/tools/bpf/bpftool/gen.c
> > index 2883660d6b67..b8ebcee9bc56 100644
> > --- a/tools/bpf/bpftool/gen.c
> > +++ b/tools/bpf/bpftool/gen.c
> > @@ -1209,7 +1209,7 @@ static int do_skeleton(int argc, char **argv)
> >         codegen("\
> >                 \n\
> >                                                                             \n\
> > -                       s->data = (void *)%2$s__elf_bytes(&s->data_sz);     \n\
> > +                       s->data = (void *)%1$s__elf_bytes(&s->data_sz);     \n\
> >                                                                             \n\
> >                         obj->skeleton = s;                                  \n\
> >                         return 0;                                           \n\
> > @@ -1218,12 +1218,12 @@ static int do_skeleton(int argc, char **argv)
> >                         return err;                                         \n\
> >                 }                                                           \n\
> >                                                                             \n\
> > -               static inline const void *%2$s__elf_bytes(size_t *sz)       \n\
> > +               static inline const void *%1$s__elf_bytes(size_t *sz)       \n\
> >                 {                                                           \n\
> > -                       *sz = %1$d;                                         \n\
> > -                       return (const void *)\"\\                           \n\
> > -               "
> > -               , file_sz, obj_name);
> > +                       static const char data[] __attribute__((__aligned__(8))) = \"\\\n\
> > +               ",
> > +               obj_name
> > +       );
> >
> >         /* embed contents of BPF object file */
> >         print_hex(obj_data, file_sz);
> > @@ -1231,6 +1231,9 @@ static int do_skeleton(int argc, char **argv)
> >         codegen("\
> >                 \n\
> >                 \";                                                         \n\
> > +                                                                           \n\
> > +                       *sz = sizeof(data) - 1;                             \n\
> > +                       return (const void *)data;                          \n\
> >                 }                                                           \n\
> >                                                                             \n\
> >                 #ifdef __cplusplus                                          \n\
> > --
> > 2.42.0.582.g8ccd20d70d-goog
> >