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Commit efdd3eb8 authored by Andrii Nakryiko's avatar Andrii Nakryiko Committed by Daniel Borkmann
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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: default avatarJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211117194114.347675-1-andrii@kernel.org
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