bpf: btf: fix struct/union/fwd types with kind_flag
This patch fixed two issues with BTF. One is related to struct/union bitfield encoding and the other is related to forward type. Issue #1 and solution: ====================== Current btf encoding of bitfield follows what pahole generates. For each bitfield, pahole will duplicate the type chain and put the bitfield size at the final int or enum type. Since the BTF enum type cannot encode bit size, pahole workarounds the issue by generating an int type whenever the enum bit size is not 32. For example, -bash-4.4$ cat t.c typedef int ___int; enum A { A1, A2, A3 }; struct t { int a[5]; ___int b:4; volatile enum A c:4; } g; -bash-4.4$ gcc -c -O2 -g t.c The current kernel supports the following BTF encoding: $ pahole -JV t.o [1] TYPEDEF ___int type_id=2 [2] INT int size=4 bit_offset=0 nr_bits=32 encoding=SIGNED [3] ENUM A size=4 vlen=3 A1 val=0 A2 val=1 A3 val=2 [4] STRUCT t size=24 vlen=3 a type_id=5 bits_offset=0 b type_id=9 bits_offset=160 c type_id=11 bits_offset=164 [5] ARRAY (anon) type_id=2 index_type_id=2 nr_elems=5 [6] INT sizetype size=8 bit_offset=0 nr_bits=64 encoding=(none) [7] VOLATILE (anon) type_id=3 [8] INT int size=1 bit_offset=0 nr_bits=4 encoding=(none) [9] TYPEDEF ___int type_id=8 [10] INT (anon) size=1 bit_offset=0 nr_bits=4 encoding=SIGNED [11] VOLATILE (anon) type_id=10 Two issues are in the above: . by changing enum type to int, we lost the original type information and this will not be ideal later when we try to convert BTF to a header file. . the type duplication for bitfields will cause BTF bloat. Duplicated types cannot be deduplicated later if the bitfield size is different. To fix this issue, this patch implemented a compatible change for BTF struct type encoding: . the bit 31 of struct_type->info, previously reserved, now is used to indicate whether bitfield_size is encoded in btf_member or not. . if bit 31 of struct_type->info is set, btf_member->offset will encode like: bit 0 - 23: bit offset bit 24 - 31: bitfield size if bit 31 is not set, the old behavior is preserved: bit 0 - 31: bit offset So if the struct contains a bit field, the maximum bit offset will be reduced to (2^24 - 1) instead of MAX_UINT. The maximum bitfield size will be 256 which is enough for today as maximum bitfield in compiler can be 128 where int128 type is supported. This kernel patch intends to support the new BTF encoding: $ pahole -JV t.o [1] TYPEDEF ___int type_id=2 [2] INT int size=4 bit_offset=0 nr_bits=32 encoding=SIGNED [3] ENUM A size=4 vlen=3 A1 val=0 A2 val=1 A3 val=2 [4] STRUCT t kind_flag=1 size=24 vlen=3 a type_id=5 bitfield_size=0 bits_offset=0 b type_id=1 bitfield_size=4 bits_offset=160 c type_id=7 bitfield_size=4 bits_offset=164 [5] ARRAY (anon) type_id=2 index_type_id=2 nr_elems=5 [6] INT sizetype size=8 bit_offset=0 nr_bits=64 encoding=(none) [7] VOLATILE (anon) type_id=3 Issue #2 and solution: ====================== Current forward type in BTF does not specify whether the original type is struct or union. This will not work for type pretty print and BTF-to-header-file conversion as struct/union must be specified. $ cat tt.c struct t; union u; int foo(struct t *t, union u *u) { return 0; } $ gcc -c -g -O2 tt.c $ pahole -JV tt.o [1] INT int size=4 bit_offset=0 nr_bits=32 encoding=SIGNED [2] FWD t type_id=0 [3] PTR (anon) type_id=2 [4] FWD u type_id=0 [5] PTR (anon) type_id=4 To fix this issue, similar to issue #1, type->info bit 31 is used. If the bit is set, it is union type. Otherwise, it is a struct type. $ pahole -JV tt.o [1] INT int size=4 bit_offset=0 nr_bits=32 encoding=SIGNED [2] FWD t kind_flag=0 type_id=0 [3] PTR (anon) kind_flag=0 type_id=2 [4] FWD u kind_flag=1 type_id=0 [5] PTR (anon) kind_flag=0 type_id=4 Pahole/LLVM change: =================== The new kind_flag functionality has been implemented in pahole and llvm: https://github.com/yonghong-song/pahole/tree/bitfield https://github.com/yonghong-song/llvm/tree/bitfield Note that pahole hasn't implemented func/func_proto kind and .BTF.ext. So to print function signature with bpftool, the llvm compiler should be used. Fixes: 69b693f0 ("bpf: btf: Introduce BPF Type Format (BTF)") Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
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