libbpf: Accommodate DWARF/compiler bug with duplicated structs
According to [0], compilers sometimes might produce duplicate DWARF definitions for exactly the same struct/union within the same compilation unit (CU). We've had similar issues with identical arrays and handled them with a similar workaround in 6b6e6b1d ("libbpf: Accomodate DWARF/compiler bug with duplicated identical arrays"). Do the same for struct/union by ensuring that two structs/unions are exactly the same, down to the integer values of field referenced type IDs. Solving this more generically (allowing referenced types to be equivalent, but using different type IDs, all within a single CU) requires a huge complexity increase to handle many-to-many mappings between canonidal and candidate type graphs. Before we invest in that, let's see if this approach handles all the instances of this issue in practice. Thankfully it's pretty rare, it seems. [0] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/YXr2NFlJTAhHdZqq@krava/ Reported-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211117194114.347675-1-andrii@kernel.org
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