Recently as a side-effect of
commit ac053946f5c4 ("compiler.h: introduce TYPEOF_UNQUAL() macro")
issues were observed in deduplication between modules and kernel BTF
such that a large number of kernel types were not deduplicated so
were found in module BTF (task_struct, bpf_prog etc). The root cause
appeared to be a failure to dedup struct types, specifically those
with members that were pointers with __percpu annotations.
The issue in dedup is at the point that we are deduplicating structures,
we have not yet deduplicated reference types like pointers. If multiple
copies of a pointer point at the same (deduplicated) integer as in this
case, we do not see them as identical. Special handling already exists
to deal with structures and arrays, so add pointer handling here too.
Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250429161042.2069678-1-alan.maguire@oracle.com
As shown in [1], it is possible to corrupt a BPF ELF file such that
arbitrary BPF instructions are loaded by libbpf. This can be done by
setting a symbol (BPF program) section offset to a large (unsigned)
number such that <section start + symbol offset> overflows and points
before the section data in the memory.
Consider the situation below where:
- prog_start = sec_start + symbol_offset <-- size_t overflow here
- prog_end = prog_start + prog_size
prog_start sec_start prog_end sec_end
| | | |
v v v v
.....................|################################|............
The report in [1] also provides a corrupted BPF ELF which can be used as
a reproducer:
$ readelf -S crash
Section Headers:
[Nr] Name Type Address Offset
Size EntSize Flags Link Info Align
...
[ 2] uretprobe.mu[...] PROGBITS 0000000000000000 00000040
0000000000000068 0000000000000000 AX 0 0 8
$ readelf -s crash
Symbol table '.symtab' contains 8 entries:
Num: Value Size Type Bind Vis Ndx Name
...
6: ffffffffffffffb8 104 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 2 handle_tp
Here, the handle_tp prog has section offset ffffffffffffffb8, i.e. will
point before the actual memory where section 2 is allocated.
This is also reported by AddressSanitizer:
=================================================================
==1232==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address 0x7c7302fe0000 at pc 0x7fc3046e4b77 bp 0x7ffe64677cd0 sp 0x7ffe64677490
READ of size 104 at 0x7c7302fe0000 thread T0
#0 0x7fc3046e4b76 in memcpy (/lib64/libasan.so.8+0xe4b76)
#1 0x00000040df3e in bpf_object__init_prog /src/libbpf/src/libbpf.c:856
#2 0x00000040df3e in bpf_object__add_programs /src/libbpf/src/libbpf.c:928
#3 0x00000040df3e in bpf_object__elf_collect /src/libbpf/src/libbpf.c:3930
#4 0x00000040df3e in bpf_object_open /src/libbpf/src/libbpf.c:8067
#5 0x00000040f176 in bpf_object__open_file /src/libbpf/src/libbpf.c:8090
#6 0x000000400c16 in main /poc/poc.c:8
#7 0x7fc3043d25b4 in __libc_start_call_main (/lib64/libc.so.6+0x35b4)
#8 0x7fc3043d2667 in __libc_start_main@@GLIBC_2.34 (/lib64/libc.so.6+0x3667)
#9 0x000000400b34 in _start (/poc/poc+0x400b34)
0x7c7302fe0000 is located 64 bytes before 104-byte region [0x7c7302fe0040,0x7c7302fe00a8)
allocated by thread T0 here:
#0 0x7fc3046e716b in malloc (/lib64/libasan.so.8+0xe716b)
#1 0x7fc3045ee600 in __libelf_set_rawdata_wrlock (/lib64/libelf.so.1+0xb600)
#2 0x7fc3045ef018 in __elf_getdata_rdlock (/lib64/libelf.so.1+0xc018)
#3 0x00000040642f in elf_sec_data /src/libbpf/src/libbpf.c:3740
The problem here is that currently, libbpf only checks that the program
end is within the section bounds. There used to be a check
`while (sec_off < sec_sz)` in bpf_object__add_programs, however, it was
removed by commit 6245947c1b3c ("libbpf: Allow gaps in BPF program
sections to support overriden weak functions").
Add a check for detecting the overflow of `sec_off + prog_sz` to
bpf_object__init_prog to fix this issue.
[1] https://github.com/lmarch2/poc/blob/main/libbpf/libbpf.md
Fixes: 6245947c1b3c ("libbpf: Allow gaps in BPF program sections to support overriden weak functions")
Reported-by: lmarch2 <2524158037@qq.com>
Signed-off-by: Viktor Malik <vmalik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Shung-Hsi Yu <shung-hsi.yu@suse.com>
Link: https://github.com/lmarch2/poc/blob/main/libbpf/libbpf.md
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250415155014.397603-1-vmalik@redhat.com
Introducing new libbpf API getters for BTF.ext func and line info,
namely:
bpf_program__func_info
bpf_program__func_info_cnt
bpf_program__line_info
bpf_program__line_info_cnt
This change enables scenarios, when user needs to load bpf_program
directly using `bpf_prog_load`, instead of higher-level
`bpf_object__load`. Line and func info are required for checking BTF
info in verifier; verification may fail without these fields if, for
example, program calls `bpf_obj_new`.
Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250408234417.452565-2-mykyta.yatsenko5@gmail.com
Since memfd_create() is not consistently available across different
bionic libc implementations, using memfd_create() directly can break
some Android builds:
tools/lib/bpf/linker.c:576:7: error: implicit declaration of function 'memfd_create' [-Werror,-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
576 | fd = memfd_create(filename, 0);
| ^
To fix this, relocate and inline the sys_memfd_create() helper so that
it can be used in "linker.c". Similar issues were previously fixed by
commit 9fa5e1a180aa ("libbpf: Call memfd_create() syscall directly").
Fixes: 6d5e5e5d7ce1 ("libbpf: Extend linker API to support in-memory ELF files")
Signed-off-by: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250330211325.530677-1-cmllamas@google.com
When statically linking symbols can be replaced with those from other
statically linked libraries depending on the link order and the hoped
for "multiple definition" error may not appear. To avoid conflicts it
is good practice to namespace symbols, this change renames errstr to
libbpf_errstr. To avoid churn a #define is used to turn use of
errstr(err) to libbpf_errstr(err).
Fixes: 1633a83bf993 ("libbpf: Introduce errstr() for stringifying errno")
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250320222439.1350187-1-irogers@google.com
Currently BPF_BTF_GET_FD_BY_ID requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN, which does not
allow running it from user namespace. This creates a problem when
freplace program running from user namespace needs to query target
program BTF.
This patch relaxes capable check from CAP_SYS_ADMIN to CAP_BPF and adds
support for BPF token that can be passed in attributes to syscall.
Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250317174039.161275-2-mykyta.yatsenko5@gmail.com
Extend the XDP Tx metadata framework so that user can requests launch time
hardware offload, where the Ethernet device will schedule the packet for
transmission at a pre-determined time called launch time. The value of
launch time is communicated from user space to Ethernet driver via
launch_time field of struct xsk_tx_metadata.
Suggested-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>
Signed-off-by: Song Yoong Siang <yoong.siang.song@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250216093430.957880-2-yoong.siang.song@intel.com
This patch introduces a new callback in tcp_tx_timestamp() to correlate
tcp_sendmsg timestamp with timestamps from other tx timestamping
callbacks (e.g., SND/SW/ACK).
Without this patch, BPF program wouldn't know which timestamps belong
to which flow because of no socket lock protection. This new callback
is inserted in tcp_tx_timestamp() to address this issue because
tcp_tx_timestamp() still owns the same socket lock with
tcp_sendmsg_locked() in the meanwhile tcp_tx_timestamp() initializes
the timestamping related fields for the skb, especially tskey. The
tskey is the bridge to do the correlation.
For TCP, BPF program hooks the beginning of tcp_sendmsg_locked() and
then stores the sendmsg timestamp at the bpf_sk_storage, correlating
this timestamp with its tskey that are later used in other sending
timestamping callbacks.
Signed-off-by: Jason Xing <kerneljasonxing@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250220072940.99994-11-kerneljasonxing@gmail.com
Support the ACK case for bpf timestamping.
Add a new sock_ops callback, BPF_SOCK_OPS_TSTAMP_ACK_CB. This
callback will occur at the same timestamping point as the user
space's SCM_TSTAMP_ACK. The BPF program can use it to get the
same SCM_TSTAMP_ACK timestamp without modifying the user-space
application.
This patch extends txstamp_ack to two bits: 1 stands for
SO_TIMESTAMPING mode, 2 bpf extension.
Signed-off-by: Jason Xing <kerneljasonxing@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250220072940.99994-10-kerneljasonxing@gmail.com
Support hw SCM_TSTAMP_SND case for bpf timestamping.
Add a new sock_ops callback, BPF_SOCK_OPS_TSTAMP_SND_HW_CB. This
callback will occur at the same timestamping point as the user
space's hardware SCM_TSTAMP_SND. The BPF program can use it to
get the same SCM_TSTAMP_SND timestamp without modifying the
user-space application.
To avoid increasing the code complexity, replace SKBTX_HW_TSTAMP
with SKBTX_HW_TSTAMP_NOBPF instead of changing numerous callers
from driver side using SKBTX_HW_TSTAMP. The new definition of
SKBTX_HW_TSTAMP means the combination tests of socket timestamping
and bpf timestamping. After this patch, drivers can work under the
bpf timestamping.
Considering some drivers don't assign the skb with hardware
timestamp, this patch does the assignment and then BPF program
can acquire the hwstamp from skb directly.
Signed-off-by: Jason Xing <kerneljasonxing@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250220072940.99994-9-kerneljasonxing@gmail.com
Support sw SCM_TSTAMP_SND case for bpf timestamping.
Add a new sock_ops callback, BPF_SOCK_OPS_TSTAMP_SND_SW_CB. This
callback will occur at the same timestamping point as the user
space's software SCM_TSTAMP_SND. The BPF program can use it to
get the same SCM_TSTAMP_SND timestamp without modifying the
user-space application.
Based on this patch, BPF program will get the software
timestamp when the driver is ready to send the skb. In the
sebsequent patch, the hardware timestamp will be supported.
Signed-off-by: Jason Xing <kerneljasonxing@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250220072940.99994-8-kerneljasonxing@gmail.com
Support SCM_TSTAMP_SCHED case for bpf timestamping.
Add a new sock_ops callback, BPF_SOCK_OPS_TSTAMP_SCHED_CB. This
callback will occur at the same timestamping point as the user
space's SCM_TSTAMP_SCHED. The BPF program can use it to get the
same SCM_TSTAMP_SCHED timestamp without modifying the user-space
application.
A new SKBTX_BPF flag is added to mark skb_shinfo(skb)->tx_flags,
ensuring that the new BPF timestamping and the current user
space's SO_TIMESTAMPING do not interfere with each other.
Signed-off-by: Jason Xing <kerneljasonxing@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250220072940.99994-7-kerneljasonxing@gmail.com
Expose a new per-queue nest attribute, xsk, which will be present for
queues that are being used for AF_XDP. If the queue is not being used for
AF_XDP, the nest will not be present.
In the future, this attribute can be extended to include more data about
XSK as it is needed.
Signed-off-by: Joe Damato <jdamato@fastly.com>
Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250214211255.14194-3-jdamato@fastly.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
The commit 97c79a38cd45 ("perf core: Per event callchain limit")
introduced a per-event term to allow finer tuning of the depth of
callchains to save space.
It should be applied to the branch stack as well. For example, autoFDO
collections require maximum LBR entries. In the meantime, other
system-wide LBR users may only be interested in the latest a few number
of LBRs. A per-event LBR depth would save the perf output buffer.
The patch simply drops the uninterested branches, but HW still collects
the maximum branches. There may be a model-specific optimization that
can reduce the HW depth for some cases to reduce the overhead further.
But it isn't included in the patch set. Because it's not useful for all
cases. For example, ARCH LBR can utilize the PEBS and XSAVE to collect
LBRs. The depth should have less impact on the collecting overhead.
The model-specific optimization may be implemented later separately.
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250310181536.3645382-1-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Introduce BPF instructions with load-acquire and store-release
semantics, as discussed in [1]. Define 2 new flags:
#define BPF_LOAD_ACQ 0x100
#define BPF_STORE_REL 0x110
A "load-acquire" is a BPF_STX | BPF_ATOMIC instruction with the 'imm'
field set to BPF_LOAD_ACQ (0x100).
Similarly, a "store-release" is a BPF_STX | BPF_ATOMIC instruction with
the 'imm' field set to BPF_STORE_REL (0x110).
Unlike existing atomic read-modify-write operations that only support
BPF_W (32-bit) and BPF_DW (64-bit) size modifiers, load-acquires and
store-releases also support BPF_B (8-bit) and BPF_H (16-bit). As an
exception, however, 64-bit load-acquires/store-releases are not
supported on 32-bit architectures (to fix a build error reported by the
kernel test robot).
An 8- or 16-bit load-acquire zero-extends the value before writing it to
a 32-bit register, just like ARM64 instruction LDARH and friends.
Similar to existing atomic read-modify-write operations, misaligned
load-acquires/store-releases are not allowed (even if
BPF_F_ANY_ALIGNMENT is set).
As an example, consider the following 64-bit load-acquire BPF
instruction (assuming little-endian):
db 10 00 00 00 01 00 00 r0 = load_acquire((u64 *)(r1 + 0x0))
opcode (0xdb): BPF_ATOMIC | BPF_DW | BPF_STX
imm (0x00000100): BPF_LOAD_ACQ
Similarly, a 16-bit BPF store-release:
cb 21 00 00 10 01 00 00 store_release((u16 *)(r1 + 0x0), w2)
opcode (0xcb): BPF_ATOMIC | BPF_H | BPF_STX
imm (0x00000110): BPF_STORE_REL
In arch/{arm64,s390,x86}/net/bpf_jit_comp.c, have
bpf_jit_supports_insn(..., /*in_arena=*/true) return false for the new
instructions, until the corresponding JIT compiler supports them in
arena.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240729183246.4110549-1-yepeilin@google.com/
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a217f46f0e445fbd573a1a024be5c6bf1d5fe716.1741049567.git.yepeilin@google.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>
Introduce bpf_object__prepare API: additional intermediate preparation
step that performs ELF processing, relocations, prepares final state of
BPF program instructions (accessible with bpf_program__insns()), creates
and (potentially) pins maps, and stops short of loading BPF programs.
We anticipate few use cases for this API, such as:
* Use prepare to initialize bpf_token, without loading freplace
programs, unlocking possibility to lookup BTF of other programs.
* Execute prepare to obtain finalized BPF program instructions without
loading programs, enabling tools like veristat to process one program at
a time, without incurring cost of ELF parsing and processing.
Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250303135752.158343-4-mykyta.yatsenko5@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>
Currently for bpf progs in a cgroup hierarchy, the effective prog array
is computed from bottom cgroup to upper cgroups (post-ordering). For
example, the following cgroup hierarchy
root cgroup: p1, p2
subcgroup: p3, p4
have BPF_F_ALLOW_MULTI for both cgroup levels.
The effective cgroup array ordering looks like
p3 p4 p1 p2
and at run time, progs will execute based on that order.
But in some cases, it is desirable to have root prog executes earlier than
children progs (pre-ordering). For example,
- prog p1 intends to collect original pkt dest addresses.
- prog p3 will modify original pkt dest addresses to a proxy address for
security reason.
The end result is that prog p1 gets proxy address which is not what it
wants. Putting p1 to every child cgroup is not desirable either as it
will duplicate itself in many child cgroups. And this is exactly a use case
we are encountering in Meta.
To fix this issue, let us introduce a flag BPF_F_PREORDER. If the flag
is specified at attachment time, the prog has higher priority and the
ordering with that flag will be from top to bottom (pre-ordering).
For example, in the above example,
root cgroup: p1, p2
subcgroup: p3, p4
Let us say p2 and p4 are marked with BPF_F_PREORDER. The final
effective array ordering will be
p2 p4 p3 p1
Suggested-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250224230116.283071-1-yonghong.song@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>
In `set_kcfg_value_str`, an untrusted string is accessed with the assumption
that it will be at least two characters long due to the presence of checks for
opening and closing quotes. But the check for the closing quote
(value[len - 1] != '"') misses the fact that it could be checking the opening
quote itself in case of an invalid input that consists of just the opening
quote.
This commit adds an explicit check to make sure the string is at least two
characters long.
Signed-off-by: Nandakumar Edamana <nandakumar@nandakumar.co.in>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250221210110.3182084-1-nandakumar@nandakumar.co.in
Signed-off-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>
Fix theoretical NULL dereference in linker when resolving *extern*
STT_SECTION symbol against not-yet-existing ELF section. Not sure if
it's possible in practice for valid ELF object files (this would require
embedded assembly manipulations, at which point BTF will be missing),
but fix the s/dst_sym/dst_sec/ typo guarding this condition anyways.
Fixes: faf6ed321cf6 ("libbpf: Add BPF static linker APIs")
Fixes: a46349227cd8 ("libbpf: Add linker extern resolution support for functions and global variables")
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250220002821.834400-1-andrii@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>
Libbpf has a somewhat obscure feature of automatically adjusting the
"size" of LDX/STX/ST instruction (memory store and load instructions),
based on originally recorded access size (u8, u16, u32, or u64) and the
actual size of the field on target kernel. This is meant to facilitate
using BPF CO-RE on 32-bit architectures (pointers are always 64-bit in
BPF, but host kernel's BTF will have it as 32-bit type), as well as
generally supporting safe type changes (unsigned integer type changes
can be transparently "relocated").
One issue that surfaced only now, 5 years after this logic was
implemented, is how this all works when dealing with fields that are
arrays. This isn't all that easy and straightforward to hit (see
selftests that reproduce this condition), but one of sched_ext BPF
programs did hit it with innocent looking loop.
Long story short, libbpf used to calculate entire array size, instead of
making sure to only calculate array's element size. But it's the element
that is loaded by LDX/STX/ST instructions (1, 2, 4, or 8 bytes), so
that's what libbpf should check. This patch adjusts the logic for
arrays and fixed the issue.
Reported-by: Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250207014809.1573841-1-andrii@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>
Add the following functions to libbpf API:
* btf__add_type_attr()
* btf__add_decl_attr()
These functions allow to add to BTF the type tags and decl tags with
info->kflag set to 1. The kflag indicates that the tag directly
encodes an __attribute__ and not a normal tag.
See Documentation/bpf/btf.rst changes in the subsequent patch for
details on the semantics.
Suggested-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250130201239.1429648-2-ihor.solodrai@linux.dev
Allow the user to configure needed_{head,tail}room for both netkit
devices. The idea is similar to 163e529200af ("veth: implement
ndo_set_rx_headroom") with the difference that the two parameters
can be specified upon device creation. By default the current behavior
stays as is which is needed_{head,tail}room is 0.
In case of Cilium, for example, the netkit devices are not enslaved
into a bridge or openvswitch device (rather, BPF-based redirection
is used out of tcx), and as such these parameters are not propagated
into the Pod's netns via peer device.
Given Cilium can run in vxlan/geneve tunneling mode (needed_headroom)
and/or be used in combination with WireGuard (needed_{head,tail}room),
allow the Cilium CNI plugin to specify these two upon netkit device
creation.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20241220234658.490686-1-daniel@iogearbox.net
Signed-off-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>
run-on-arch-action is simply a wrapper around docker. There is no
value in using it in libbpf, as it is not complicated to run
non-native arch docker images directly on github-hosted runners.
Docker relies on qemu-user-static installed on the system to emulate
different architectures.
Recently there were various reports about multi-arch docker builds
failing with seemingly random issues, and it appears to boil down to
qemu [1]. I stumbled on this problem while updating s390x runners [2]
for BPF CI, and setting up more recent version of qemu helped.
This change addresses recent build failures on s390x and ppc64le.
[1] https://github.com/docker/setup-qemu-action/issues/188
[2] https://github.com/kernel-patches/runner/pull/69
[3] https://docs.docker.com/build/buildkit/#getting-started
Signed-off-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>
