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From: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
To: Tony Ambardar <tony.ambardar@gmail.com>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Tony Ambardar <Tony.Ambardar@gmail.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: RE: [PATCH bpf v1 3/3] libbpf: fix native endian assumption when parsing BTF
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 08:46:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5f68caed36dab_17370208e9@john-XPS-13-9370.notmuch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <90f81508ecc57bc0da318e0fe0f45cfe49b17ea7.1600417359.git.Tony.Ambardar@gmail.com>

Tony Ambardar wrote:
> Code in btf__parse_raw() fails to detect raw BTF of non-native endianness
> and assumes it must be ELF data, which then fails to parse as ELF and
> yields a misleading error message:
> 
>   root:/# bpftool btf dump file /sys/kernel/btf/vmlinux
>   libbpf: failed to get EHDR from /sys/kernel/btf/vmlinux
> 
> For example, this could occur after cross-compiling a BTF-enabled kernel
> for a target with non-native endianness, which is currently unsupported.
> 
> Check for correct endianness and emit a clearer error message:
> 
>   root:/# bpftool btf dump file /sys/kernel/btf/vmlinux
>   libbpf: non-native BTF endianness is not supported
> 
> Fixes: 94a1fedd63ed ("libbpf: Add btf__parse_raw() and generic btf__parse() APIs")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tony Ambardar <Tony.Ambardar@gmail.com>
> ---
>  tools/lib/bpf/btf.c | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/btf.c b/tools/lib/bpf/btf.c
> index 7dfca7016aaa..6bdbc389b493 100644
> --- a/tools/lib/bpf/btf.c
> +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/btf.c
> @@ -659,6 +659,12 @@ struct btf *btf__parse_raw(const char *path)
>  		err = -EIO;
>  		goto err_out;
>  	}
> +	if (magic == __bswap_16(BTF_MAGIC)) {
> +		/* non-native endian raw BTF */
> +		pr_warn("non-native BTF endianness is not supported\n");
> +		err = -LIBBPF_ERRNO__ENDIAN;
> +		goto err_out;
> +	}
>  	if (magic != BTF_MAGIC) {
>  		/* definitely not a raw BTF */
>  		err = -EPROTO;
> -- 
> 2.25.1
> 

Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-21 15:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-20  5:01 [PATCH bpf v1 0/3] fix BTF usage on embedded systems Tony Ambardar
2020-09-20  5:01 ` [PATCH bpf v1 1/3] bpf: fix sysfs export of empty BTF section Tony Ambardar
2020-09-21 15:44   ` John Fastabend
2020-09-21 19:21   ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-09-20  5:01 ` [PATCH bpf v1 2/3] bpf: prevent .BTF section elimination Tony Ambardar
2020-09-21 15:45   ` John Fastabend
2020-09-20  5:01 ` [PATCH bpf v1 3/3] libbpf: fix native endian assumption when parsing BTF Tony Ambardar
2020-09-21 15:46   ` John Fastabend [this message]
2020-09-21 19:24 ` [PATCH bpf v1 0/3] fix BTF usage on embedded systems Andrii Nakryiko
2020-09-21 20:52 ` Daniel Borkmann

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