libbpf: Allow to opt-out from creating BPF maps

Add bpf_map__set_autocreate() API that allows user to opt-out from
libbpf automatically creating BPF map during BPF object load.

This is a useful feature when building CO-RE-enabled BPF application
that takes advantage of some new-ish BPF map type (e.g., socket-local
storage) if kernel supports it, but otherwise uses some alternative way
(e.g., extra HASH map). In such case, being able to disable the creation
of a map that kernel doesn't support allows to successfully create and
load BPF object file with all its other maps and programs.

It's still up to user to make sure that no "live" code in any of their BPF
programs are referencing such map instance, which can be achieved by
guarding such code with CO-RE relocation check or by using .rodata
global variables.

If user fails to properly guard such code to turn it into "dead code",
libbpf will helpfully post-process BPF verifier log and will provide
more meaningful error and map name that needs to be guarded properly. As
such, instead of:

  ; value = bpf_map_lookup_elem(&missing_map, &zero);
  4: (85) call unknown#2001000000
  invalid func unknown#2001000000

... user will see:

  ; value = bpf_map_lookup_elem(&missing_map, &zero);
  4: <invalid BPF map reference>
  BPF map 'missing_map' is referenced but wasn't created

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220428041523.4089853-4-andrii@kernel.org

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.map b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.map
index 82f6d62176dd..b5bc84039407 100644
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.map
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.map
@@ -442,10 +442,12 @@ LIBBPF_0.7.0 {
 
 LIBBPF_0.8.0 {
 	global:
+		bpf_map__autocreate;
+		bpf_map__set_autocreate;
 		bpf_object__destroy_subskeleton;
 		bpf_object__open_subskeleton;
+		bpf_program__attach_kprobe_multi_opts;
 		bpf_program__attach_usdt;
 		libbpf_register_prog_handler;
 		libbpf_unregister_prog_handler;
-		bpf_program__attach_kprobe_multi_opts;
 } LIBBPF_0.7.0;