From: Lorenz Bauer <lmb@cloudflare.com>
To: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Cc: bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>, Networking <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Kernel Team <kernel-team@fb.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 4/5] selftests/bpf: fix field existence CO-RE reloc tests
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 09:12:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACAyw9_RqR9m8zBTTO+qKzs9K86sthbHRjGH2m0yyE7zvNFYSg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210423233058.3386115-5-andrii@kernel.org>
On Sat, 24 Apr 2021 at 00:36, Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> Negative field existence cases for have a broken assumption that FIELD_EXISTS
> CO-RE relo will fail for fields that match the name but have incompatible type
> signature. That's not how CO-RE relocations generally behave. Types and fields
> that match by name but not by expected type are treated as non-matching
> candidates and are skipped. Error later is reported if no matching candidate
> was found. That's what happens for most relocations, but existence relocations
> (FIELD_EXISTS and TYPE_EXISTS) are more permissive and they are designed to
> return 0 or 1, depending if a match is found. This allows to handle
> name-conflicting but incompatible types in BPF code easily. Combined with
> ___flavor suffixes, it's possible to handle pretty much any structural type
> changes in kernel within the compiled once BPF source code.
>
> So, long story short, negative field existence test cases are invalid in their
> assumptions, so this patch reworks them into a single consolidated positive
> case that doesn't match any of the fields.
>
> Fixes: c7566a69695c ("selftests/bpf: Add field existence CO-RE relocs tests")
> Reported-by: Lorenz Bauer <lmb@cloudflare.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Lorenz Bauer <lmb@cloudflare.com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-26 8:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-23 23:30 [PATCH bpf-next 0/5] CO-RE relocation selftests fixes Andrii Nakryiko
2021-04-23 23:30 ` [PATCH bpf-next 1/5] selftests/bpf: add remaining ASSERT_xxx() variants Andrii Nakryiko
2021-04-26 8:05 ` Lorenz Bauer
2021-04-26 15:50 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2021-04-26 15:59 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2021-04-26 16:15 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2021-04-26 16:44 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2021-04-23 23:30 ` [PATCH bpf-next 2/5] libbpf: support BTF_KIND_FLOAT during type compatibility checks in CO-RE Andrii Nakryiko
2021-04-26 8:07 ` Lorenz Bauer
2021-04-23 23:30 ` [PATCH bpf-next 3/5] selftests/bpf: fix BPF_CORE_READ_BITFIELD() macro Andrii Nakryiko
2021-04-26 8:10 ` Lorenz Bauer
2021-04-23 23:30 ` [PATCH bpf-next 4/5] selftests/bpf: fix field existence CO-RE reloc tests Andrii Nakryiko
2021-04-26 8:12 ` Lorenz Bauer [this message]
2021-04-23 23:30 ` [PATCH bpf-next 5/5] selftests/bpf: fix core_reloc test runner Andrii Nakryiko
2021-04-26 8:16 ` Lorenz Bauer
2021-04-26 15:55 ` Andrii Nakryiko
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