bpf, libbpf: handle old kernels more graceful wrt global data sections
Andrii reported a corner case where e.g. global static data is present in the BPF ELF file in form of .data/.bss/.rodata section, but without any relocations to it. Such programs could be loaded before commit d859900c ("bpf, libbpf: support global data/bss/rodata sections"), whereas afterwards if kernel lacks support then loading would fail. Add a probing mechanism which skips setting up libbpf internal maps in case of missing kernel support. In presence of relocation entries, we abort the load attempt. Fixes: d859900c ("bpf, libbpf: support global data/bss/rodata sections") Reported-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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