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authorAlan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>2022-10-24 16:38:29 +0200
committerAndrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>2022-10-26 01:16:14 +0200
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libbpf: Btf dedup identical struct test needs check for nested structs/arrays
When examining module BTF, it is common to see core kernel structures such as sk_buff, net_device duplicated in the module. After adding debug messaging to BTF it turned out that much of the problem was down to the identical struct test failing during deduplication; sometimes the compiler adds identical structs. However it turns out sometimes that type ids of identical struct members can also differ, even when the containing structs are still identical. To take an example, for struct sk_buff, debug messaging revealed that the identical struct matching was failing for the anon struct "headers"; specifically for the first field: __u8 __pkt_type_offset[0]; /* 128 0 */ Looking at the code in BTF deduplication, we have code that guards against the possibility of identical struct definitions, down to type ids, and identical array definitions. However in this case we have a struct which is being defined twice but does not have identical type ids since each duplicate struct has separate type ids for the above array member. A similar problem (though not observed) could occur for struct-in-struct. The solution is to make the "identical struct" test check members not just for matching ids, but to also check if they in turn are identical structs or arrays. The results of doing this are quite dramatic (for some modules at least); I see the number of type ids drop from around 10000 to just over 1000 in one module for example. For testing use latest pahole or apply [1], otherwise dedups can fail for the reasons described there. Also fix return type of btf_dedup_identical_arrays() as suggested by Andrii to match boolean return type used elsewhere. Fixes: efdd3eb8015e ("libbpf: Accommodate DWARF/compiler bug with duplicated structs") Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/1666622309-22289-1-git-send-email-alan.maguire@oracle.com [1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/1666364523-9648-1-git-send-email-alan.maguire
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