linux/tools/lib
Hao Luo 2211c825e7 libbpf: Support weak typed ksyms.
Currently weak typeless ksyms have default value zero, when they don't
exist in the kernel. However, weak typed ksyms are rejected by libbpf
if they can not be resolved. This means that if a bpf object contains
the declaration of a nonexistent weak typed ksym, it will be rejected
even if there is no program that references the symbol.

Nonexistent weak typed ksyms can also default to zero just like
typeless ones. This allows programs that access weak typed ksyms to be
accepted by verifier, if the accesses are guarded. For example,

extern const int bpf_link_fops3 __ksym __weak;

/* then in BPF program */

if (&bpf_link_fops3) {
   /* use bpf_link_fops3 */
}

If actual use of nonexistent typed ksym is not guarded properly,
verifier would see that register is not PTR_TO_BTF_ID and wouldn't
allow to use it for direct memory reads or passing it to BPF helpers.

Signed-off-by: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210812003819.2439037-1-haoluo@google.com
2021-08-13 15:56:28 -07:00
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api tools api fs: Cache cgroupfs mount point 2021-02-17 15:09:08 -03:00
bpf libbpf: Support weak typed ksyms. 2021-08-13 15:56:28 -07:00
lockdep .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
perf libperf: Add tests for perf_evlist__set_leader() 2021-07-09 15:34:41 -03:00
subcmd tools: Avoid comma separated statements 2020-10-02 10:36:36 -06:00
symbol libsymbols kallsyms: Move hex2u64 out of header 2020-05-05 16:35:32 -03:00
traceevent KVM: x86/mmu: Rename "nxe" role bit to "efer_nx" for macro shenanigans 2021-06-24 18:00:41 -04:00
argv_split.c tools lib: Move argv_{split,free} from tools/perf/util/ 2019-07-01 22:50:40 -03:00
bitmap.c tools lib: Adopt bitmap_intersects() operation from the kernel sources 2021-06-30 15:28:00 -03:00
ctype.c tools perf: Move from sane_ctype.h obtained from git to the Linux's original 2019-06-25 21:02:47 -03:00
find_bit.c tools: sync lib/find_bit implementation 2021-05-06 19:24:12 -07:00
hweight.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
rbtree.c tools/: replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones 2020-08-07 11:33:21 -07:00
str_error_r.c objtool, perf: Fix GCC 8 -Wrestrict error 2018-03-19 13:51:54 -03:00
string.c tools lib: Adopt memchr_inv() from kernel 2020-11-27 08:34:52 -03:00
vsprintf.c perf script: Pad DSO name for --call-trace 2019-05-28 18:37:44 -03:00
zalloc.c tools lib: Adopt zalloc()/zfree() from tools/perf 2019-07-09 10:13:26 -03:00