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-rw-r--r--tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c34
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
index af405c38aadc..27695bf31250 100644
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
@@ -5006,6 +5006,24 @@ bpf_object__create_maps(struct bpf_object *obj)
for (i = 0; i < obj->nr_maps; i++) {
map = &obj->maps[i];
+ /* To support old kernels, we skip creating global data maps
+ * (.rodata, .data, .kconfig, etc); later on, during program
+ * loading, if we detect that at least one of the to-be-loaded
+ * programs is referencing any global data map, we'll error
+ * out with program name and relocation index logged.
+ * This approach allows to accommodate Clang emitting
+ * unnecessary .rodata.str1.1 sections for string literals,
+ * but also it allows to have CO-RE applications that use
+ * global variables in some of BPF programs, but not others.
+ * If those global variable-using programs are not loaded at
+ * runtime due to bpf_program__set_autoload(prog, false),
+ * bpf_object loading will succeed just fine even on old
+ * kernels.
+ */
+ if (bpf_map__is_internal(map) &&
+ !kernel_supports(obj, FEAT_GLOBAL_DATA))
+ continue;
+
retried = false;
retry:
if (map->pin_path) {
@@ -5605,6 +5623,14 @@ bpf_object__relocate_data(struct bpf_object *obj, struct bpf_program *prog)
insn[0].src_reg = BPF_PSEUDO_MAP_IDX_VALUE;
insn[0].imm = relo->map_idx;
} else {
+ const struct bpf_map *map = &obj->maps[relo->map_idx];
+
+ if (bpf_map__is_internal(map) &&
+ !kernel_supports(obj, FEAT_GLOBAL_DATA)) {
+ pr_warn("prog '%s': relo #%d: kernel doesn't support global data\n",
+ prog->name, i);
+ return -ENOTSUP;
+ }
insn[0].src_reg = BPF_PSEUDO_MAP_VALUE;
insn[0].imm = obj->maps[relo->map_idx].fd;
}
@@ -6139,6 +6165,8 @@ bpf_object__relocate(struct bpf_object *obj, const char *targ_btf_path)
*/
if (prog_is_subprog(obj, prog))
continue;
+ if (!prog->load)
+ continue;
err = bpf_object__relocate_calls(obj, prog);
if (err) {
@@ -6152,6 +6180,8 @@ bpf_object__relocate(struct bpf_object *obj, const char *targ_btf_path)
prog = &obj->programs[i];
if (prog_is_subprog(obj, prog))
continue;
+ if (!prog->load)
+ continue;
err = bpf_object__relocate_data(obj, prog);
if (err) {
pr_warn("prog '%s': failed to relocate data references: %d\n",
@@ -6939,10 +6969,6 @@ static int bpf_object__sanitize_maps(struct bpf_object *obj)
bpf_object__for_each_map(m, obj) {
if (!bpf_map__is_internal(m))
continue;
- if (!kernel_supports(obj, FEAT_GLOBAL_DATA)) {
- pr_warn("kernel doesn't support global data\n");
- return -ENOTSUP;
- }
if (!kernel_supports(obj, FEAT_ARRAY_MMAP))
m->def.map_flags ^= BPF_F_MMAPABLE;
}