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Re: [PATCH 2/2] perf bpf: Check relocation target section

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On 2016/1/23 1:11, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 09:27:21AM +0000, Wang Nan wrote:
>> Libbpf should check target section before doing relocation to ensure
>> the relocation is correct. If not, a bug in LLVM causes error. See [1].
>> Also, if an incorrect BPF script uses both global variable and
>> map, global variable whould be treated as map and be relocated
>> without error.
>>
>> This patch saves id of map section into obj->efile and compare
>> target section of a relocation symbol against it during relocation.
> ...
>> [1] https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=26243
> ...
>> Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
>>   
>> +		if (sym.st_shndx != maps_shndx) {
>> +			pr_warning("Program '%s' contains non-map related relo data pointing to section %u\n",
>> +				   prog->section_name, sym.st_shndx);
>> +			return -LIBBPF_ERRNO__RELOC;
>> +		}
> May be 'pr_err' instead of 'pr_warning', since such program will fail
> to load by kernel anyway.

Libbpf doesn't issue pr_error even in fatal exception because it doesn't 
define
pr_err at all. It reports error code and let perf deal with error.

Thank you.

>   Looks good otherwise.
> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
>

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[PATCH 2/2] perf bpf: Check relocation target section Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> - 2016-01-22 10:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 2/2] perf bpf: Check relocation target section Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com> - 2016-01-22 18:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/2] perf bpf: Check relocation target section "Wangnan (F)" <wangnan0@huawei.com> - 2016-01-25 03:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 2/2] perf bpf: Check relocation target section "Wangnan (F)" <wangnan0@huawei.com> - 2016-01-25 03:10 +0100

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