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tools/resolve_btfids: Fix sections with wrong alignment

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

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")
Reported-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Cc: Mark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200819092342.259004-1-jolsa@kernel.org

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Jiri Olsa and committed by
Alexei Starovoitov
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tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/main.c
··· 233 233 return btf_id__add(root, id, false); 234 234 } 235 235 236 + /* 237 + * The data of compressed section should be aligned to 4 238 + * (for 32bit) or 8 (for 64 bit) bytes. The binutils ld 239 + * sets sh_addralign to 1, which makes libelf fail with 240 + * misaligned section error during the update: 241 + * FAILED elf_update(WRITE): invalid section alignment 242 + * 243 + * While waiting for ld fix, we fix the compressed sections 244 + * sh_addralign value manualy. 245 + */ 246 + static int compressed_section_fix(Elf *elf, Elf_Scn *scn, GElf_Shdr *sh) 247 + { 248 + int expected = gelf_getclass(elf) == ELFCLASS32 ? 4 : 8; 249 + 250 + if (!(sh->sh_flags & SHF_COMPRESSED)) 251 + return 0; 252 + 253 + if (sh->sh_addralign == expected) 254 + return 0; 255 + 256 + pr_debug2(" - fixing wrong alignment sh_addralign %u, expected %u\n", 257 + sh->sh_addralign, expected); 258 + 259 + sh->sh_addralign = expected; 260 + 261 + if (gelf_update_shdr(scn, sh) == 0) { 262 + printf("FAILED cannot update section header: %s\n", 263 + elf_errmsg(-1)); 264 + return -1; 265 + } 266 + return 0; 267 + } 268 + 236 269 static int elf_collect(struct object *obj) 237 270 { 238 271 Elf_Scn *scn = NULL; ··· 342 309 obj->efile.idlist_shndx = idx; 343 310 obj->efile.idlist_addr = sh.sh_addr; 344 311 } 312 + 313 + if (compressed_section_fix(elf, scn, &sh)) 314 + return -1; 345 315 } 346 316 347 317 return 0;