Add feature gating for the arena globals relocation introduced in
commit c1f61171d44b. The commit depends on a previous commit in the
same patchset that is absent from older kernels
(12a1fe6e12db "bpf/verifier: Do not limit maximum direct offset into arena map").
Without this commit, arena globals relocation with arenas >= 512MiB
fails to load and breaks libbpf's backwards compatibility.
Introduce a libbpf feature to check whether the running kernel allows for
full range ldimm64 offset, and only relocate arena globals if it does.
Fixes: c1f61171d44b ("libbpf: Move arena globals to the end of the arena")
Signed-off-by: Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260210184532.255475-1-emil@etsalapatis.com
Arena globals are currently placed at the beginning of the arena
by libbpf. This is convenient, but prevents users from reserving
guard pages in the beginning of the arena to identify NULL pointer
dereferences. Adjust the load logic to place the globals at the
end of the arena instead.
Also modify bpftool to set the arena pointer in the program's BPF
skeleton to point to the globals. Users now call bpf_map__initial_value()
to find the beginning of the arena mapping and use the arena pointer
in the skeleton to determine which part of the mapping holds the
arena globals and which part is free.
Suggested-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-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/bpf/20251216173325.98465-5-emil@etsalapatis.com
The symbols' relocation offsets in BPF are stored in an int field,
but cannot actually be negative. When in the next patch libbpf relocates
globals to the end of the arena, it is also possible to have valid
offsets > 2GiB that are used to calculate the final relo offsets.
Avoid accidentally interpreting large offsets as negative by turning
the sym_off field unsigned.
Signed-off-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/bpf/20251216173325.98465-4-emil@etsalapatis.com
Emil Tsalapatis