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2018-05-23bpf: btf: Remove unused bits from uapi/linux/btf.hMartin KaFai Lau
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>
2018-05-23bpf: btf: Change how section is supported in btf_headerMartin KaFai Lau
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>
2018-04-23bpf: btf: Clean up btf.h in uapiMartin KaFai Lau
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>
2018-04-19bpf: btf: Introduce BPF Type Format (BTF)Martin KaFai Lau
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>