This patch fixed two issues with BTF. One is related to
struct/union bitfield encoding and the other is related to
forward type.
Issue #1 and solution:
======================
Current btf encoding of bitfield follows what pahole generates.
For each bitfield, pahole will duplicate the type chain and
put the bitfield size at the final int or enum type.
Since the BTF enum type cannot encode bit size,
pahole workarounds the issue by generating
an int type whenever the enum bit size is not 32.
For example,
-bash-4.4$ cat t.c
typedef int ___int;
enum A { A1, A2, A3 };
struct t {
int a[5];
___int b:4;
volatile enum A c:4;
} g;
-bash-4.4$ gcc -c -O2 -g t.c
The current kernel supports the following BTF encoding:
$ pahole -JV t.o
[1] TYPEDEF ___int type_id=2
[2] INT int size=4 bit_offset=0 nr_bits=32 encoding=SIGNED
[3] ENUM A size=4 vlen=3
A1 val=0
A2 val=1
A3 val=2
[4] STRUCT t size=24 vlen=3
a type_id=5 bits_offset=0
b type_id=9 bits_offset=160
c type_id=11 bits_offset=164
[5] ARRAY (anon) type_id=2 index_type_id=2 nr_elems=5
[6] INT sizetype size=8 bit_offset=0 nr_bits=64 encoding=(none)
[7] VOLATILE (anon) type_id=3
[8] INT int size=1 bit_offset=0 nr_bits=4 encoding=(none)
[9] TYPEDEF ___int type_id=8
[10] INT (anon) size=1 bit_offset=0 nr_bits=4 encoding=SIGNED
[11] VOLATILE (anon) type_id=10
Two issues are in the above:
. by changing enum type to int, we lost the original
type information and this will not be ideal later
when we try to convert BTF to a header file.
. the type duplication for bitfields will cause
BTF bloat. Duplicated types cannot be deduplicated
later if the bitfield size is different.
To fix this issue, this patch implemented a compatible
change for BTF struct type encoding:
. the bit 31 of struct_type->info, previously reserved,
now is used to indicate whether bitfield_size is
encoded in btf_member or not.
. if bit 31 of struct_type->info is set,
btf_member->offset will encode like:
bit 0 - 23: bit offset
bit 24 - 31: bitfield size
if bit 31 is not set, the old behavior is preserved:
bit 0 - 31: bit offset
So if the struct contains a bit field, the maximum bit offset
will be reduced to (2^24 - 1) instead of MAX_UINT. The maximum
bitfield size will be 256 which is enough for today as maximum
bitfield in compiler can be 128 where int128 type is supported.
This kernel patch intends to support the new BTF encoding:
$ pahole -JV t.o
[1] TYPEDEF ___int type_id=2
[2] INT int size=4 bit_offset=0 nr_bits=32 encoding=SIGNED
[3] ENUM A size=4 vlen=3
A1 val=0
A2 val=1
A3 val=2
[4] STRUCT t kind_flag=1 size=24 vlen=3
a type_id=5 bitfield_size=0 bits_offset=0
b type_id=1 bitfield_size=4 bits_offset=160
c type_id=7 bitfield_size=4 bits_offset=164
[5] ARRAY (anon) type_id=2 index_type_id=2 nr_elems=5
[6] INT sizetype size=8 bit_offset=0 nr_bits=64 encoding=(none)
[7] VOLATILE (anon) type_id=3
Issue #2 and solution:
======================
Current forward type in BTF does not specify whether the original
type is struct or union. This will not work for type pretty print
and BTF-to-header-file conversion as struct/union must be specified.
$ cat tt.c
struct t;
union u;
int foo(struct t *t, union u *u) { return 0; }
$ gcc -c -g -O2 tt.c
$ pahole -JV tt.o
[1] INT int size=4 bit_offset=0 nr_bits=32 encoding=SIGNED
[2] FWD t type_id=0
[3] PTR (anon) type_id=2
[4] FWD u type_id=0
[5] PTR (anon) type_id=4
To fix this issue, similar to issue #1, type->info bit 31
is used. If the bit is set, it is union type. Otherwise, it is
a struct type.
$ pahole -JV tt.o
[1] INT int size=4 bit_offset=0 nr_bits=32 encoding=SIGNED
[2] FWD t kind_flag=0 type_id=0
[3] PTR (anon) kind_flag=0 type_id=2
[4] FWD u kind_flag=1 type_id=0
[5] PTR (anon) kind_flag=0 type_id=4
Pahole/LLVM change:
===================
The new kind_flag functionality has been implemented in pahole
and llvm:
https://github.com/yonghong-song/pahole/tree/bitfieldhttps://github.com/yonghong-song/llvm/tree/bitfield
Note that pahole hasn't implemented func/func_proto kind
and .BTF.ext. So to print function signature with bpftool,
the llvm compiler should be used.
Fixes: 69b693f0ae ("bpf: btf: Introduce BPF Type Format (BTF)")
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
This patch adds BTF_KIND_FUNC and BTF_KIND_FUNC_PROTO
to support the function debug info.
BTF_KIND_FUNC_PROTO must not have a name (i.e. !t->name_off)
and it is followed by >= 0 'struct bpf_param' objects to
describe the function arguments.
The BTF_KIND_FUNC must have a valid name and it must
refer back to a BTF_KIND_FUNC_PROTO.
The above is the conclusion after the discussion between
Edward Cree, Alexei, Daniel, Yonghong and Martin.
By combining BTF_KIND_FUNC and BTF_LIND_FUNC_PROTO,
a complete function signature can be obtained. It will be
used in the later patches to learn the function signature of
a running bpf program.
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
This patch shrinks the BTF_INT_BITS() mask. The current
btf_int_check_meta() ensures the nr_bits of an integer
cannot exceed 64. Hence, it is mostly an uapi cleanup.
The actual btf usage (i.e. seq_show()) is also modified
to use u8 instead of u16. The verification (e.g. btf_int_check_meta())
path stays as is to deal with invalid BTF situation.
Fixes: 69b693f0ae ("bpf: btf: Introduce BPF Type Format (BTF)")
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
This patch does the followings:
1. Limit BTF_MAX_TYPES and BTF_MAX_NAME_OFFSET to 64k. We can
raise it later.
2. Remove the BTF_TYPE_PARENT and BTF_STR_TBL_ELF_ID. They are
currently encoded at the highest bit of a u32.
It is because the current use case does not require supporting
parent type (i.e type_id referring to a type in another BTF file).
It also does not support referring to a string in ELF.
The BTF_TYPE_PARENT and BTF_STR_TBL_ELF_ID checks are replaced
by BTF_TYPE_ID_CHECK and BTF_STR_OFFSET_CHECK which are
defined in btf.c instead of uapi/linux/btf.h.
3. Limit the BTF_INFO_KIND from 5 bits to 4 bits which is enough.
There is unused bits headroom if we ever needed it later.
4. The root bit in BTF_INFO is also removed because it is not
used in the current use case.
5. Remove BTF_INT_VARARGS since func type is not supported now.
The BTF_INT_ENCODING is limited to 4 bits instead of 8 bits.
The above can be added back later because the verifier
ensures the unused bits are zeros.
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
There are currently unused section descriptions in the btf_header. Those
sections are here to support future BTF use cases. For example, the
func section (func_off) is to support function signature (e.g. the BPF
prog function signature).
Instead of spelling out all potential sections up-front in the btf_header.
This patch makes changes to btf_header such that extending it (e.g. adding
a section) is possible later. The unused ones can be removed for now and
they can be added back later.
This patch:
1. adds a hdr_len to the btf_header. It will allow adding
sections (and other info like parent_label and parent_name)
later. The check is similar to the existing bpf_attr.
If a user passes in a longer hdr_len, the kernel
ensures the extra tailing bytes are 0.
2. allows the section order in the BTF object to be
different from its sec_off order in btf_header.
3. each sec_off is followed by a sec_len. It must not have gap or
overlapping among sections.
The string section is ensured to be at the end due to the 4 bytes
alignment requirement of the type section.
The above changes will allow enough flexibility to
add new sections (and other info) to the btf_header later.
This patch also removes an unnecessary !err check
at the end of btf_parse().
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
This patch cleans up btf.h in uapi:
1) Rename "name" to "name_off" to better reflect it is an offset to the
string section instead of a char array.
2) Remove unused value BTF_FLAGS_COMPR and BTF_MAGIC_SWAP
Suggested-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
This patch introduces BPF type Format (BTF).
BTF (BPF Type Format) is the meta data format which describes
the data types of BPF program/map. Hence, it basically focus
on the C programming language which the modern BPF is primary
using. The first use case is to provide a generic pretty print
capability for a BPF map.
BTF has its root from CTF (Compact C-Type format). To simplify
the handling of BTF data, BTF removes the differences between
small and big type/struct-member. Hence, BTF consistently uses u32
instead of supporting both "one u16" and "two u32 (+padding)" in
describing type and struct-member.
It also raises the number of types (and functions) limit
from 0x7fff to 0x7fffffff.
Due to the above changes, the format is not compatible to CTF.
Hence, BTF starts with a new BTF_MAGIC and version number.
This patch does the first verification pass to the BTF. The first
pass checks:
1. meta-data size (e.g. It does not go beyond the total btf's size)
2. name_offset is valid
3. Each BTF_KIND (e.g. int, enum, struct....) does its
own check of its meta-data.
Some other checks, like checking a struct's member is referring
to a valid type, can only be done in the second pass. The second
verification pass will be implemented in the next patch.
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
