Re: [PATCH v2 bpf-next] libbpf: support CO-RE relocations for LDX/ST/STX instructions

[Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>]

On 12/23/19 7:10 PM, Yonghong Song wrote:
> On 12/23/19 10:03 AM, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
>> Clang patch [0] enables emitting relocatable generic ALU/ALU64 instructions
>> (i.e, shifts and arithmetic operations), as well as generic load/store
>> instructions. The former ones are already supported by libbpf as is. This
>> patch adds further support for load/store instructions. Relocatable field
>> offset is encoded in BPF instruction's 16-bit offset section and are adjusted
>> by libbpf based on target kernel BTF.
>>
>> These Clang changes and corresponding libbpf changes allow for more succinct
>> generated BPF code by encoding relocatable field reads as a single
>> ST/LDX/STX instruction. It also enables relocatable access to BPF context.
>> Previously, if context struct (e.g., __sk_buff) was accessed with CO-RE
>> relocations (e.g., due to preserve_access_index attribute), it would be
>> rejected by BPF verifier due to modified context pointer dereference. With
>> Clang patch, such context accesses are both relocatable and have a fixed
>> offset from the point of view of BPF verifier.
>>
>>     [0] https://reviews.llvm.org/D71790
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
> Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>

Applied, thanks!