netdev - [PATCH bpf-next 2/4] libbpf: ignore incompatible types with matching name during CO-RE relocation

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Date:   Fri, 13 Mar 2020 00:54:39 -0700
From:   Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@...com>
To:     <bpf@...r.kernel.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <ast@...com>,
        <daniel@...earbox.net>
CC:     <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>, <kernel-team@...com>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@...com>
Subject: [PATCH bpf-next 2/4] libbpf: ignore incompatible types with matching name during CO-RE relocation

When finding target type candidates, ignore forward declarations, functions,
and other named types of incompatible kind. Not doing this can cause false
errors.  See [0] for one such case (due to struct pt_regs forward
declaration).

  [0] https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/pull/2806#issuecomment-598543645

Fixes: ddc7c3042614 ("libbpf: implement BPF CO-RE offset relocation algorithm")
Reported-by: Wenbo Zhang <ethercflow@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@...com>
---
 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 1a787a2faf58..085e41f9b68e 100644
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
@@ -3873,6 +3873,10 @@ static struct ids_vec *bpf_core_find_cands(const struct btf *local_btf,
 		if (str_is_empty(targ_name))
 			continue;
 
+		t = skip_mods_and_typedefs(targ_btf, i, NULL);
+		if (!btf_is_composite(t) && !btf_is_array(t))
+			continue;
+
 		targ_essent_len = bpf_core_essential_name_len(targ_name);
 		if (targ_essent_len != local_essent_len)
 			continue;
-- 
2.17.1