On 02/09/2018 09:18 AM, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Feb 2018 02:32:27 +0100
> Daniel Borkmann <dan...@iogearbox.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 02/08/2018 12:48 PM, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
>>> While playing with using libbpf for the Suricata project, we had
>>> issues LLVM >= 4.0.1 generating ELF files that could not be loaded
>>> with libbpf (tools/lib/bpf/).
>>>
>>> During the troubleshooting phase, I wrote a test program and improved
>>> the debugging output in libbpf.  I turned this into a selftests
>>> program, and it also serves as a code example for libbpf in itself.
>>>
>>> I discovered that there are at least three ELF load issues with
>>> libbpf.  I left them as TODO comments in (tools/testing/selftests/bpf)
>>> test_libbpf.sh. I've only fixed the load issue with eh_frames, and
>>> other types of relo-section that does not have exec flags.  We can
>>> work on the other issues later.  
>>
>> Applied it to bpf tree, thanks Jesper!
> 
> Thank you for applying this the 'bpf' tree! -- appreciate it!

Btw, if you have a chance to send a small doc update for the
Documentation/bpf/bpf_devel_QA.txt and describe somewhere in
the LLVM section of the doc the discussed issue around
gnu/stubs-32.h with possible workarounds, that would be great.

Thanks,
Daniel

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