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* [PATCH v2] kbuild: Fix changing ELF file type for output of gen_btf for big endian
@ 2024-02-13  2:05 Nathan Chancellor
  2024-02-13  2:15 ` Masahiro Yamada
                   ` (3 more replies)
  0 siblings, 4 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Nathan Chancellor @ 2024-02-13  2:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: masahiroy
  Cc: nicolas, ndesaulniers, morbo, justinstitt, keescook, maskray,
	linux-kbuild, bpf, llvm, patches, stable, Nathan Chancellor

Commit 90ceddcb4950 ("bpf: Support llvm-objcopy for vmlinux BTF")
changed the ELF type of .btf.vmlinux.bin.o to ET_REL via dd, which works
fine for little endian platforms:

   00000000  7f 45 4c 46 02 01 01 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |.ELF............|
  -00000010  03 00 b7 00 01 00 00 00  00 00 00 80 00 80 ff ff  |................|
  +00000010  01 00 b7 00 01 00 00 00  00 00 00 80 00 80 ff ff  |................|

However, for big endian platforms, it changes the wrong byte, resulting
in an invalid ELF file type, which ld.lld rejects:

   00000000  7f 45 4c 46 02 02 01 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |.ELF............|
  -00000010  00 03 00 16 00 00 00 01  00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00  |................|
  +00000010  01 03 00 16 00 00 00 01  00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00  |................|

  Type:                              <unknown>: 103

  ld.lld: error: .btf.vmlinux.bin.o: unknown file type

Fix this by updating the entire 16-bit e_type field rather than just a
single byte, so that everything works correctly for all platforms and
linkers.

   00000000  7f 45 4c 46 02 02 01 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |.ELF............|
  -00000010  00 03 00 16 00 00 00 01  00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00  |................|
  +00000010  00 01 00 16 00 00 00 01  00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00  |................|

  Type:                              REL (Relocatable file)

While in the area, update the comment to mention that binutils 2.35+
matches LLD's behavior of rejecting an ET_EXEC input, which occurred
after the comment was added.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 90ceddcb4950 ("bpf: Support llvm-objcopy for vmlinux BTF")
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/75643
Suggested-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
---
Changes in v2:
- Rather than change the seek value for dd, update the entire e_type
  field (Masahiro). Due to this change, I did not carry forward the
  tags of v1.
- Slightly update commit message to remove mention of ET_EXEC, which
  does not match the dump (Masahiro).
- Update comment to mention binutils 2.35+ has the same behavior as LLD
  (Fangrui).
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240208-fix-elf-type-btf-vmlinux-bin-o-big-endian-v1-1-cb3112491edc@kernel.org
---
 scripts/link-vmlinux.sh | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
index a432b171be82..7862a8101747 100755
--- a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
+++ b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
@@ -135,8 +135,13 @@ gen_btf()
 	${OBJCOPY} --only-section=.BTF --set-section-flags .BTF=alloc,readonly \
 		--strip-all ${1} ${2} 2>/dev/null
 	# Change e_type to ET_REL so that it can be used to link final vmlinux.
-	# Unlike GNU ld, lld does not allow an ET_EXEC input.
-	printf '\1' | dd of=${2} conv=notrunc bs=1 seek=16 status=none
+	# GNU ld 2.35+ and lld do not allow an ET_EXEC input.
+	if is_enabled CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN; then
+		et_rel='\0\1'
+	else
+		et_rel='\1\0'
+	fi
+	printf "${et_rel}" | dd of=${2} conv=notrunc bs=1 seek=16 status=none
 }
 
 # Create ${2} .S file with all symbols from the ${1} object file

---
base-commit: 54be6c6c5ae8e0d93a6c4641cb7528eb0b6ba478
change-id: 20240208-fix-elf-type-btf-vmlinux-bin-o-big-endian-dbc55a1e1296

Best regards,
-- 
Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>


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