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[bpf,v1,3/3] libbpf: fix native endian assumption when parsing BTF

Message ID 90f81508ecc57bc0da318e0fe0f45cfe49b17ea7.1600417359.git.Tony.Ambardar@gmail.com
State New
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Series [bpf,v1,1/3] bpf: fix sysfs export of empty BTF section | expand

Commit Message

Tony Ambardar Sept. 20, 2020, 5:01 a.m. UTC
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(+)

Comments

John Fastabend Sept. 21, 2020, 3:46 p.m. UTC | #1
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>
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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;