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From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
To: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>,
	dwarves@vger.kernel.org, acme@kernel.org
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH dwarves] btf_encoder: ignore zero-sized ELF symbols
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 07:19:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9633d29b-887c-46ec-b131-adda8f69d722@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201021155220.1737964-1-andrii@kernel.org>

On 21. 10. 20, 17:52, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
> It's legal for ELF symbol to have size 0, if it's size is unknown or
> unspecified. Instead of erroring out, just ignore such symbols, as they can't
> be a valid per-CPU variable anyways.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>

Tested-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>

> ---
>   btf_encoder.c | 12 ++++--------
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/btf_encoder.c b/btf_encoder.c
> index 2a6455be4c52..2af1fe447834 100644
> --- a/btf_encoder.c
> +++ b/btf_encoder.c
> @@ -287,6 +287,10 @@ static int find_all_percpu_vars(struct btf_elf *btfe)
>   		if (!addr)
>   			continue;
>   
> +		size = elf_sym__size(&sym);
> +		if (!size)
> +			continue; /* ignore zero-sized symbols */
> +
>   		sym_name = elf_sym__name(&sym, btfe->symtab);
>   		if (!btf_name_valid(sym_name)) {
>   			dump_invalid_symbol("Found symbol of invalid name when encoding btf",
> @@ -295,14 +299,6 @@ static int find_all_percpu_vars(struct btf_elf *btfe)
>   				continue;
>   			return -1;
>   		}
> -		size = elf_sym__size(&sym);
> -		if (!size) {
> -			dump_invalid_symbol("Found symbol of zero size when encoding btf",
> -					    sym_name, btf_elf__verbose, btf_elf__force);
> -			if (btf_elf__force)
> -				continue;
> -			return -1;
> -		}
>   
>   		if (btf_elf__verbose)
>   			printf("Found per-CPU symbol '%s' at address 0x%lx\n", sym_name, addr);
> 


-- 
js
suse labs

  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-22  5:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-21 15:52 [PATCH dwarves] btf_encoder: ignore zero-sized ELF symbols Andrii Nakryiko
2020-10-22  5:19 ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
2020-10-23 16:37   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

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