Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next] tools/resolve_btfids: Fix sections with wrong alignment

From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2020 19:02:53 +0200

On Wed, 19 Aug 2020 11:23:42 +0200 Jiri Olsa <[email-masked]> wrote:

> The data of compressed section should be aligned to 4
> (for 32bit) or 8 (for 64 bit) bytes.
> 
> The binutils ld sets sh_addralign to 1, which makes libelf
> fail with misaligned section error during the update as
> reported by Jesper:
> 
>    FAILED elf_update(WRITE): invalid section alignment
> 
> While waiting for ld fix, we can fix compressed sections
> sh_addralign value manually.
> 
> Adding warning in -vv mode when the fix is triggered:
> 
>   $ ./tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/resolve_btfids -vv vmlinux
>   ...
>   section(36) .comment, size 44, link 0, flags 30, type=1
>   section(37) .debug_aranges, size 45684, link 0, flags 800, type=1
>    - fixing wrong alignment sh_addralign 16, expected 8
>   section(38) .debug_info, size 129104957, link 0, flags 800, type=1
>    - fixing wrong alignment sh_addralign 1, expected 8
>   section(39) .debug_abbrev, size 1152583, link 0, flags 800, type=1
>    - fixing wrong alignment sh_addralign 1, expected 8
>   section(40) .debug_line, size 7374522, link 0, flags 800, type=1
>    - fixing wrong alignment sh_addralign 1, expected 8
>   section(41) .debug_frame, size 702463, link 0, flags 800, type=1
>   section(42) .debug_str, size 1017571, link 0, flags 830, type=1
>    - fixing wrong alignment sh_addralign 1, expected 8
>   section(43) .debug_loc, size 3019453, link 0, flags 800, type=1
>    - fixing wrong alignment sh_addralign 1, expected 8
>   section(44) .debug_ranges, size 1744583, link 0, flags 800, type=1
>    - fixing wrong alignment sh_addralign 16, expected 8
>   section(45) .symtab, size 2955888, link 46, flags 0, type=2
>   section(46) .strtab, size 2613072, link 0, flags 0, type=3
>   ...
>   update ok for vmlinux

I also works for me:

[...]
section(37) .debug_aranges, size 45684, link 0, flags 800, type=1
 - fixing wrong alignment sh_addralign 16, expected 8
section(38) .debug_info, size 129098181, link 0, flags 800, type=1
 - fixing wrong alignment sh_addralign 1, expected 8
section(39) .debug_abbrev, size 1152583, link 0, flags 800, type=1
 - fixing wrong alignment sh_addralign 1, expected 8
section(40) .debug_line, size 7374522, link 0, flags 800, type=1
 - fixing wrong alignment sh_addralign 1, expected 8
section(41) .debug_frame, size 702463, link 0, flags 800, type=1
section(42) .debug_str, size 1017606, link 0, flags 830, type=1
 - fixing wrong alignment sh_addralign 1, expected 8
section(43) .debug_loc, size 3019453, link 0, flags 800, type=1
 - fixing wrong alignment sh_addralign 1, expected 8
section(44) .debug_ranges, size 1744583, link 0, flags 800, type=1
 - fixing wrong alignment sh_addralign 16, expected 8
section(45) .symtab, size 2955888, link 46, flags 0, type=2
section(46) .strtab, size 2613072, link 0, flags 0, type=3
section(47) .shstrtab, size 525, link 0, flags 0, type=3
[...]
update ok for vmlinux.err.bak

> 
> Another workaround is to disable compressed debug info data
> CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED kernel option.
> 
> Fixes: fbbb68de80a4 ("bpf: Add resolve_btfids tool to resolve BTF IDs in ELF object")
> Cc: Mark Wielaard <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Nick Clifton <[email-masked]>
> Reported-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email-masked]>
> ---

Thanks for fixing this!

Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <[email-masked]>

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Best regards,
  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
  LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer