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<title>libbpf: Fix BTF dump of pointer-to-array-of-struct</title>
<updated>2021-03-19T21:14:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jean-Philippe Brucker</name>
<email>jean-philippe@linaro.org</email>
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<published>2021-03-19T11:25:54+00:00</published>
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The vmlinux.h generated from BTF is invalid when building
drivers/phy/ti/phy-gmii-sel.c with clang:

vmlinux.h:61702:27: error: array type has incomplete element type ‘struct reg_field’
61702 |  const struct reg_field (*regfields)[3];
      |                           ^~~~~~~~~

bpftool generates a forward declaration for this struct regfield, which
compilers aren't happy about. Here's a simplified reproducer:

	struct inner {
		int val;
	};
	struct outer {
		struct inner (*ptr_to_array)[2];
	} A;

After build with clang -&gt; bpftool btf dump c -&gt; clang/gcc:
./def-clang.h:11:23: error: array has incomplete element type 'struct inner'
        struct inner (*ptr_to_array)[2];

Member ptr_to_array of struct outer is a pointer to an array of struct
inner. In the DWARF generated by clang, struct outer appears before
struct inner, so when converting BTF of struct outer into C, bpftool
issues a forward declaration to struct inner. With GCC the DWARF info is
reversed so struct inner gets fully defined.

That forward declaration is not sufficient when compilers handle an
array of the struct, even when it's only used through a pointer. Note
that we can trigger the same issue with an intermediate typedef:

	struct inner {
	        int val;
	};
	typedef struct inner inner2_t[2];
	struct outer {
	        inner2_t *ptr_to_array;
	} A;

Becomes:

	struct inner;
	typedef struct inner inner2_t[2];

And causes:

./def-clang.h:10:30: error: array has incomplete element type 'struct inner'
	typedef struct inner inner2_t[2];

To fix this, clear through_ptr whenever we encounter an intermediate
array, to make the inner struct part of a strong link and force full
declaration.

Fixes: 351131b51c7a ("libbpf: add btf_dump API for BTF-to-C conversion")
Signed-off-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker &lt;jean-philippe@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210319112554.794552-2-jean-philippe@linaro.org
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The vmlinux.h generated from BTF is invalid when building
drivers/phy/ti/phy-gmii-sel.c with clang:

vmlinux.h:61702:27: error: array type has incomplete element type ‘struct reg_field’
61702 |  const struct reg_field (*regfields)[3];
      |                           ^~~~~~~~~

bpftool generates a forward declaration for this struct regfield, which
compilers aren't happy about. Here's a simplified reproducer:

	struct inner {
		int val;
	};
	struct outer {
		struct inner (*ptr_to_array)[2];
	} A;

After build with clang -&gt; bpftool btf dump c -&gt; clang/gcc:
./def-clang.h:11:23: error: array has incomplete element type 'struct inner'
        struct inner (*ptr_to_array)[2];

Member ptr_to_array of struct outer is a pointer to an array of struct
inner. In the DWARF generated by clang, struct outer appears before
struct inner, so when converting BTF of struct outer into C, bpftool
issues a forward declaration to struct inner. With GCC the DWARF info is
reversed so struct inner gets fully defined.

That forward declaration is not sufficient when compilers handle an
array of the struct, even when it's only used through a pointer. Note
that we can trigger the same issue with an intermediate typedef:

	struct inner {
	        int val;
	};
	typedef struct inner inner2_t[2];
	struct outer {
	        inner2_t *ptr_to_array;
	} A;

Becomes:

	struct inner;
	typedef struct inner inner2_t[2];

And causes:

./def-clang.h:10:30: error: array has incomplete element type 'struct inner'
	typedef struct inner inner2_t[2];

To fix this, clear through_ptr whenever we encounter an intermediate
array, to make the inner struct part of a strong link and force full
declaration.

Fixes: 351131b51c7a ("libbpf: add btf_dump API for BTF-to-C conversion")
Signed-off-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker &lt;jean-philippe@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210319112554.794552-2-jean-philippe@linaro.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>libbpf: Make btf_dump work with modifiable BTF</title>
<updated>2020-09-30T19:30:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
<email>andriin@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-29T23:28:40+00:00</published>
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Ensure that btf_dump can accommodate new BTF types being appended to BTF
instance after struct btf_dump was created. This came up during attemp to
use btf_dump for raw type dumping in selftests, but given changes are not
excessive, it's good to not have any gotchas in API usage, so I decided to
support such use case in general.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200929232843.1249318-2-andriin@fb.com
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Ensure that btf_dump can accommodate new BTF types being appended to BTF
instance after struct btf_dump was created. This came up during attemp to
use btf_dump for raw type dumping in selftests, but given changes are not
excessive, it's good to not have any gotchas in API usage, so I decided to
support such use case in general.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200929232843.1249318-2-andriin@fb.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>libbpf: Extract generic string hashing function for reuse</title>
<updated>2020-09-29T00:27:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
<email>andriin@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-26T01:13:52+00:00</published>
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Calculating a hash of zero-terminated string is a common need when using
hashmap, so extract it for reuse.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: John Fastabend &lt;john.fastabend@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200926011357.2366158-5-andriin@fb.com
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Calculating a hash of zero-terminated string is a common need when using
hashmap, so extract it for reuse.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: John Fastabend &lt;john.fastabend@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200926011357.2366158-5-andriin@fb.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next</title>
<updated>2020-09-01T20:22:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-01T20:05:08+00:00</published>
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Daniel Borkmann says:

====================
pull-request: bpf-next 2020-09-01

The following pull-request contains BPF updates for your *net-next* tree.

There are two small conflicts when pulling, resolve as follows:

1) Merge conflict in tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c between 88a82120282b ("libbpf: Factor
   out common ELF operations and improve logging") in bpf-next and 1e891e513e16
   ("libbpf: Fix map index used in error message") in net-next. Resolve by taking
   the hunk in bpf-next:

        [...]
        scn = elf_sec_by_idx(obj, obj-&gt;efile.btf_maps_shndx);
        data = elf_sec_data(obj, scn);
        if (!scn || !data) {
                pr_warn("elf: failed to get %s map definitions for %s\n",
                        MAPS_ELF_SEC, obj-&gt;path);
                return -EINVAL;
        }
        [...]

2) Merge conflict in drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/xsk/rx.c between
   9647c57b11e5 ("xsk: i40e: ice: ixgbe: mlx5: Test for dma_need_sync earlier for
   better performance") in bpf-next and e20f0dbf204f ("net/mlx5e: RX, Add a prefetch
   command for small L1_CACHE_BYTES") in net-next. Resolve the two locations by retaining
   net_prefetch() and taking xsk_buff_dma_sync_for_cpu() from bpf-next. Should look like:

        [...]
        xdp_set_data_meta_invalid(xdp);
        xsk_buff_dma_sync_for_cpu(xdp, rq-&gt;xsk_pool);
        net_prefetch(xdp-&gt;data);
        [...]

We've added 133 non-merge commits during the last 14 day(s) which contain
a total of 246 files changed, 13832 insertions(+), 3105 deletions(-).

The main changes are:

1) Initial support for sleepable BPF programs along with bpf_copy_from_user() helper
   for tracing to reliably access user memory, from Alexei Starovoitov.

2) Add BPF infra for writing and parsing TCP header options, from Martin KaFai Lau.

3) bpf_d_path() helper for returning full path for given 'struct path', from Jiri Olsa.

4) AF_XDP support for shared umems between devices and queues, from Magnus Karlsson.

5) Initial prep work for full BPF-to-BPF call support in libbpf, from Andrii Nakryiko.

6) Generalize bpf_sk_storage map &amp; add local storage for inodes, from KP Singh.

7) Implement sockmap/hash updates from BPF context, from Lorenz Bauer.

8) BPF xor verification for scalar types &amp; add BPF link iterator, from Yonghong Song.

9) Use target's prog type for BPF_PROG_TYPE_EXT prog verification, from Udip Pant.

10) Rework BPF tracing samples to use libbpf loader, from Daniel T. Lee.

11) Fix xdpsock sample to really cycle through all buffers, from Weqaar Janjua.

12) Improve type safety for tun/veth XDP frame handling, from Maciej Żenczykowski.

13) Various smaller cleanups and improvements all over the place.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Daniel Borkmann says:

====================
pull-request: bpf-next 2020-09-01

The following pull-request contains BPF updates for your *net-next* tree.

There are two small conflicts when pulling, resolve as follows:

1) Merge conflict in tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c between 88a82120282b ("libbpf: Factor
   out common ELF operations and improve logging") in bpf-next and 1e891e513e16
   ("libbpf: Fix map index used in error message") in net-next. Resolve by taking
   the hunk in bpf-next:

        [...]
        scn = elf_sec_by_idx(obj, obj-&gt;efile.btf_maps_shndx);
        data = elf_sec_data(obj, scn);
        if (!scn || !data) {
                pr_warn("elf: failed to get %s map definitions for %s\n",
                        MAPS_ELF_SEC, obj-&gt;path);
                return -EINVAL;
        }
        [...]

2) Merge conflict in drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/xsk/rx.c between
   9647c57b11e5 ("xsk: i40e: ice: ixgbe: mlx5: Test for dma_need_sync earlier for
   better performance") in bpf-next and e20f0dbf204f ("net/mlx5e: RX, Add a prefetch
   command for small L1_CACHE_BYTES") in net-next. Resolve the two locations by retaining
   net_prefetch() and taking xsk_buff_dma_sync_for_cpu() from bpf-next. Should look like:

        [...]
        xdp_set_data_meta_invalid(xdp);
        xsk_buff_dma_sync_for_cpu(xdp, rq-&gt;xsk_pool);
        net_prefetch(xdp-&gt;data);
        [...]

We've added 133 non-merge commits during the last 14 day(s) which contain
a total of 246 files changed, 13832 insertions(+), 3105 deletions(-).

The main changes are:

1) Initial support for sleepable BPF programs along with bpf_copy_from_user() helper
   for tracing to reliably access user memory, from Alexei Starovoitov.

2) Add BPF infra for writing and parsing TCP header options, from Martin KaFai Lau.

3) bpf_d_path() helper for returning full path for given 'struct path', from Jiri Olsa.

4) AF_XDP support for shared umems between devices and queues, from Magnus Karlsson.

5) Initial prep work for full BPF-to-BPF call support in libbpf, from Andrii Nakryiko.

6) Generalize bpf_sk_storage map &amp; add local storage for inodes, from KP Singh.

7) Implement sockmap/hash updates from BPF context, from Lorenz Bauer.

8) BPF xor verification for scalar types &amp; add BPF link iterator, from Yonghong Song.

9) Use target's prog type for BPF_PROG_TYPE_EXT prog verification, from Udip Pant.

10) Rework BPF tracing samples to use libbpf loader, from Daniel T. Lee.

11) Fix xdpsock sample to really cycle through all buffers, from Weqaar Janjua.

12) Improve type safety for tun/veth XDP frame handling, from Maciej Żenczykowski.

13) Various smaller cleanups and improvements all over the place.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>libbpf: Centralize poisoning and poison reallocarray()</title>
<updated>2020-08-19T01:38:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
<email>andriin@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-19T01:36:06+00:00</published>
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Most of libbpf source files already include libbpf_internal.h, so it's a good
place to centralize identifier poisoning. So move kernel integer type
poisoning there. And also add reallocarray to a poison list to prevent
accidental use of it. libbpf_reallocarray() should be used universally
instead.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200819013607.3607269-4-andriin@fb.com
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Most of libbpf source files already include libbpf_internal.h, so it's a good
place to centralize identifier poisoning. So move kernel integer type
poisoning there. And also add reallocarray to a poison list to prevent
accidental use of it. libbpf_reallocarray() should be used universally
instead.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200819013607.3607269-4-andriin@fb.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>libbpf: Remove any use of reallocarray() in libbpf</title>
<updated>2020-08-19T01:38:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
<email>andriin@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-19T01:36:04+00:00</published>
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Re-implement glibc's reallocarray() for libbpf internal-only use.
reallocarray(), unfortunately, is not available in all versions of glibc, so
requires extra feature detection and using reallocarray() stub from
&lt;tools/libc_compat.h&gt; and COMPAT_NEED_REALLOCARRAY. All this complicates build
of libbpf unnecessarily and is just a maintenance burden. Instead, it's
trivial to implement libbpf-specific internal version and use it throughout
libbpf.

Which is what this patch does, along with converting some realloc() uses that
should really have been reallocarray() in the first place.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200819013607.3607269-2-andriin@fb.com
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Re-implement glibc's reallocarray() for libbpf internal-only use.
reallocarray(), unfortunately, is not available in all versions of glibc, so
requires extra feature detection and using reallocarray() stub from
&lt;tools/libc_compat.h&gt; and COMPAT_NEED_REALLOCARRAY. All this complicates build
of libbpf unnecessarily and is just a maintenance burden. Instead, it's
trivial to implement libbpf-specific internal version and use it throughout
libbpf.

Which is what this patch does, along with converting some realloc() uses that
should really have been reallocarray() in the first place.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200819013607.3607269-2-andriin@fb.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>libbpf: Fix build on ppc64le architecture</title>
<updated>2020-08-18T17:02:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
<email>andriin@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-18T16:44:56+00:00</published>
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On ppc64le we get the following warning:

  In file included from btf_dump.c:16:0:
  btf_dump.c: In function ‘btf_dump_emit_struct_def’:
  ../include/linux/kernel.h:20:17: error: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast [-Werror]
    (void) (&amp;_max1 == &amp;_max2);  \
                   ^
  btf_dump.c:882:11: note: in expansion of macro ‘max’
      m_sz = max(0LL, btf__resolve_size(d-&gt;btf, m-&gt;type));
             ^~~

Fix by explicitly casting to __s64, which is a return type from
btf__resolve_size().

Fixes: 702eddc77a90 ("libbpf: Handle GCC built-in types for Arm NEON")
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200818164456.1181661-1-andriin@fb.com
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On ppc64le we get the following warning:

  In file included from btf_dump.c:16:0:
  btf_dump.c: In function ‘btf_dump_emit_struct_def’:
  ../include/linux/kernel.h:20:17: error: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast [-Werror]
    (void) (&amp;_max1 == &amp;_max2);  \
                   ^
  btf_dump.c:882:11: note: in expansion of macro ‘max’
      m_sz = max(0LL, btf__resolve_size(d-&gt;btf, m-&gt;type));
             ^~~

Fix by explicitly casting to __s64, which is a return type from
btf__resolve_size().

Fixes: 702eddc77a90 ("libbpf: Handle GCC built-in types for Arm NEON")
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200818164456.1181661-1-andriin@fb.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>libbpf: Handle BTF pointer sizes more carefully</title>
<updated>2020-08-13T23:45:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
<email>andriin@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-13T20:49:40+00:00</published>
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With libbpf and BTF it is pretty common to have libbpf built for one
architecture, while BTF information was generated for a different architecture
(typically, but not always, BPF). In such case, the size of a pointer might
differ betweem architectures. libbpf previously was always making an
assumption that pointer size for BTF is the same as native architecture
pointer size, but that breaks for cases where libbpf is built as 32-bit
library, while BTF is for 64-bit architecture.

To solve this, add heuristic to determine pointer size by searching for `long`
or `unsigned long` integer type and using its size as a pointer size. Also,
allow to override the pointer size with a new API btf__set_pointer_size(), for
cases where application knows which pointer size should be used. User
application can check what libbpf "guessed" by looking at the result of
btf__pointer_size(). If it's not 0, then libbpf successfully determined a
pointer size, otherwise native arch pointer size will be used.

For cases where BTF is parsed from ELF file, use ELF's class (32-bit or
64-bit) to determine pointer size.

Fixes: 8a138aed4a80 ("bpf: btf: Add BTF support to libbpf")
Fixes: 351131b51c7a ("libbpf: add btf_dump API for BTF-to-C conversion")
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200813204945.1020225-5-andriin@fb.com
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With libbpf and BTF it is pretty common to have libbpf built for one
architecture, while BTF information was generated for a different architecture
(typically, but not always, BPF). In such case, the size of a pointer might
differ betweem architectures. libbpf previously was always making an
assumption that pointer size for BTF is the same as native architecture
pointer size, but that breaks for cases where libbpf is built as 32-bit
library, while BTF is for 64-bit architecture.

To solve this, add heuristic to determine pointer size by searching for `long`
or `unsigned long` integer type and using its size as a pointer size. Also,
allow to override the pointer size with a new API btf__set_pointer_size(), for
cases where application knows which pointer size should be used. User
application can check what libbpf "guessed" by looking at the result of
btf__pointer_size(). If it's not 0, then libbpf successfully determined a
pointer size, otherwise native arch pointer size will be used.

For cases where BTF is parsed from ELF file, use ELF's class (32-bit or
64-bit) to determine pointer size.

Fixes: 8a138aed4a80 ("bpf: btf: Add BTF support to libbpf")
Fixes: 351131b51c7a ("libbpf: add btf_dump API for BTF-to-C conversion")
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200813204945.1020225-5-andriin@fb.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>libbpf: Handle GCC built-in types for Arm NEON</title>
<updated>2020-08-13T01:11:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jean-Philippe Brucker</name>
<email>jean-philippe@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-12T14:39:10+00:00</published>
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When building Arm NEON (SIMD) code from lib/raid6/neon.uc, GCC emits
DWARF information using a base type "__Poly8_t", which is internal to
GCC and not recognized by Clang. This causes build failures when
building with Clang a vmlinux.h generated from an arm64 kernel that was
built with GCC.

	vmlinux.h:47284:9: error: unknown type name '__Poly8_t'
	typedef __Poly8_t poly8x16_t[16];
	        ^~~~~~~~~

The polyX_t types are defined as unsigned integers in the "Arm C
Language Extension" document (101028_Q220_00_en). Emit typedefs based on
standard integer types for the GCC internal types, similar to those
emitted by Clang.

Including linux/kernel.h to use ARRAY_SIZE() incidentally redefined
max(), causing a build bug due to different types, hence the seemingly
unrelated change.

Reported-by: Jakov Petrina &lt;jakov.petrina@sartura.hr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker &lt;jean-philippe@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200812143909.3293280-1-jean-philippe@linaro.org
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When building Arm NEON (SIMD) code from lib/raid6/neon.uc, GCC emits
DWARF information using a base type "__Poly8_t", which is internal to
GCC and not recognized by Clang. This causes build failures when
building with Clang a vmlinux.h generated from an arm64 kernel that was
built with GCC.

	vmlinux.h:47284:9: error: unknown type name '__Poly8_t'
	typedef __Poly8_t poly8x16_t[16];
	        ^~~~~~~~~

The polyX_t types are defined as unsigned integers in the "Arm C
Language Extension" document (101028_Q220_00_en). Emit typedefs based on
standard integer types for the GCC internal types, similar to those
emitted by Clang.

Including linux/kernel.h to use ARRAY_SIZE() incidentally redefined
max(), causing a build bug due to different types, hence the seemingly
unrelated change.

Reported-by: Jakov Petrina &lt;jakov.petrina@sartura.hr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker &lt;jean-philippe@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200812143909.3293280-1-jean-philippe@linaro.org
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>libbpf: Make destructors more robust by handling ERR_PTR(err) cases</title>
<updated>2020-07-30T22:53:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
<email>andriin@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-29T23:21:48+00:00</published>
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Most of libbpf "constructors" on failure return ERR_PTR(err) result encoded as
a pointer. It's a common mistake to eventually pass such malformed pointers
into xxx__destroy()/xxx__free() "destructors". So instead of fixing up
clean up code in selftests and user programs, handle such error pointers in
destructors themselves. This works beautifully for NULL pointers passed to
destructors, so might as well just work for error pointers.

Suggested-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200729232148.896125-1-andriin@fb.com
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Most of libbpf "constructors" on failure return ERR_PTR(err) result encoded as
a pointer. It's a common mistake to eventually pass such malformed pointers
into xxx__destroy()/xxx__free() "destructors". So instead of fixing up
clean up code in selftests and user programs, handle such error pointers in
destructors themselves. This works beautifully for NULL pointers passed to
destructors, so might as well just work for error pointers.

Suggested-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200729232148.896125-1-andriin@fb.com
</pre>
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