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Andrii Nakryiko 137978f422 libbpf: move global data mmap()'ing into bpf_object__load()
Since BPF skeleton inception libbpf has been doing mmap()'ing of global
data ARRAY maps in bpf_object__load_skeleton() API, which is used by
code generated .skel.h files (i.e., by BPF skeletons only).

This is wrong because if BPF object is loaded through generic
bpf_object__load() API, global data maps won't be re-mmap()'ed after
load step, and memory pointers returned from bpf_map__initial_value()
would be wrong and won't reflect the actual memory shared between BPF
program and user space.

bpf_map__initial_value() return result is rarely used after load, so
this went unnoticed for a really long time, until bpftrace project
attempted to load BPF object through generic bpf_object__load() API and
then used BPF subskeleton instantiated from such bpf_object. It turned
out that .data/.rodata/.bss data updates through such subskeleton was
"blackholed", all because libbpf wouldn't re-mmap() those maps during
bpf_object__load() phase.

Long story short, this step should be done by libbpf regardless of BPF
skeleton usage, right after BPF map is created in the kernel. This patch
moves this functionality into bpf_object__populate_internal_map() to
achieve this. And bpf_object__load_skeleton() is now simple and almost
trivial, only propagating these mmap()'ed pointers into user-supplied
skeleton structs.

We also do trivial adjustments to error reporting inside
bpf_object__populate_internal_map() for consistency with the rest of
libbpf's map-handling code.

Reported-by: Alastair Robertson <ajor@meta.com>
Reported-by: Jonathan Wiepert <jwiepert@meta.com>
Fixes: d66562fba1 ("libbpf: Add BPF object skeleton support")
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241023043908.3834423-3-andrii@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2024-10-23 22:15:09 -07:00
arch Rust fixes for v6.12 2024-10-03 17:15:09 -07:00
block move asm/unaligned.h to linux/unaligned.h 2024-10-02 17:23:23 -04:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
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Documentation Including fixes from ieee802154, bluetooth and netfilter. 2024-10-03 09:44:00 -07:00
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fs fix ufs_rename() braino introduced this cycle 2024-10-03 17:03:18 -07:00
include bpf: Prevent tailcall infinite loop caused by freplace 2024-10-16 09:21:18 -07:00
init cfi: encode cfi normalized integers + kasan/gcov bug in Kconfig 2024-09-26 21:27:27 +02:00
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ipc struct fd layout change (and conversion to accessor helpers) 2024-09-23 09:35:36 -07:00
kernel bpf: Implement bpf_send_signal_task() kfunc 2024-10-21 15:02:49 -07:00
lib vfs-6.12-rc2.fixes.2 2024-10-03 09:22:50 -07:00
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mm mm/bpf: Add bpf_get_kmem_cache() kfunc 2024-10-16 09:21:03 -07:00
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scripts bpf: Allow specifying bpf_fastcall attribute for BPF helpers 2024-10-03 17:47:53 -07:00
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tools libbpf: move global data mmap()'ing into bpf_object__load() 2024-10-23 22:15:09 -07:00
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