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Commit d7a25270 authored by Andrii Nakryiko's avatar Andrii Nakryiko Committed by Daniel Borkmann
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libbpf: Improve handling of failed CO-RE relocations



Previously, if libbpf failed to resolve CO-RE relocation for some
instructions, it would either return error immediately, or, if
.relaxed_core_relocs option was set, would replace relocatable offset/imm part
of an instruction with a bogus value (-1). Neither approach is good, because
there are many possible scenarios where relocation is expected to fail (e.g.,
when some field knowingly can be missing on specific kernel versions). On the
other hand, replacing offset with invalid one can hide programmer errors, if
this relocation failue wasn't anticipated.

This patch deprecates .relaxed_core_relocs option and changes the approach to
always replacing instruction, for which relocation failed, with invalid BPF
helper call instruction. For cases where this is expected, BPF program should
already ensure that that instruction is unreachable, in which case this
invalid instruction is going to be silently ignored. But if instruction wasn't
guarded, BPF program will be rejected at verification step with verifier log
pointing precisely to the place in assembly where the problem is.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: default avatarMartin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200124053837.2434679-1-andriin@fb.com
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