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2018-05-23bpf: btf: Remove unused bits from uapi/linux/btf.hMartin KaFai Lau1-20/+9
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 Lau1-6/+2
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 Lau1-5/+3
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 Lau1-0/+130
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>