[PATCH 2/4] selftest/bpf: Fixing powerpc JIT disassembly failure

adubey
2026-02-24T20:36:45Z

Ensure that the trampoline stubs JITed at the tail of the
epilogue do not expose the dummy trampoline address stored
in the last 8 bytes (for both 64-bit and 32-bit PowerPC)
to the disassembly flow. Prevent the disassembler from
ingesting this memory address, as it may occasionally decode
into a seemingly valid but incorrect instruction. Fix this
issue by truncating the last 8 bytes from JITed buffers
before supplying them for disassembly.

Signed-off-by: Abhishek Dubey <adubey@linux.ibm.com>
---
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/jit_disasm_helpers.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/jit_disasm_helpers.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/jit_disasm_helpers.c
index febd6b12e372..cadddeaa6ed7 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/jit_disasm_helpers.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/jit_disasm_helpers.c
@@ -170,9 +170,11 @@ int get_jited_program_text(int fd, char *text, size_t text_sz)
struct bpf_prog_info info = {};
__u32 info_len = sizeof(info);
__u32 jited_funcs, len, pc;
+ __u32 trunc_len = 0;
__u32 *func_lens = NULL;
FILE *text_out = NULL;
uint8_t *image = NULL;
+ char *triple = NULL;
int i, err = 0;

if (!llvm_initialized) {
@@ -216,9 +218,18 @@ int get_jited_program_text(int fd, char *text, size_t text_sz)
if (!ASSERT_OK(err, "bpf_prog_get_info_by_fd #2"))
goto out;

+ /*
+ * last 8 bytes contains dummy_trampoline address in JIT
+ * output for 64-bit and 32-bit powerpc, which can't
+ * disassemble a to valid instruction.
+ */
+ triple = LLVMGetDefaultTargetTriple();
+ if (strstr(triple, "powerpc"))
+ trunc_len = 8;
+
for (pc = 0, i = 0; i < jited_funcs; ++i) {
fprintf(text_out, "func #%d:\n", i);
- disasm_one_func(text_out, image + pc, func_lens[i]);
+ disasm_one_func(text_out, image + pc, func_lens[i] - trunc_len);
fprintf(text_out, "\n");
pc += func_lens[i];
}
--
2.52.0