[PATCH] libbpf: fix readelf output parsing on powerpc with recent binutils

Aurelien Jarno aurelien at aurel32.net
Mon Dec 2 06:57:28 AEDT 2019


On powerpc with recent versions of binutils, readelf outputs an extra
field when dumping the symbols of an object file. For example:

    35: 0000000000000838    96 FUNC    LOCAL  DEFAULT [<localentry>: 8]     1 btf_is_struct

The extra "[<localentry>: 8]" prevents the GLOBAL_SYM_COUNT variable to
be computed correctly and causes the checkabi target to fail.

Fix that by looking for the symbol name in the last field instead of the
8th one. This way it should also cope with future extra fields.

Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien at aurel32.net>
---
 tools/lib/bpf/Makefile | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/Makefile b/tools/lib/bpf/Makefile
index 99425d0be6ff..333900cf3f4f 100644
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/Makefile
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/Makefile
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ TAGS_PROG := $(if $(shell which etags 2>/dev/null),etags,ctags)
 
 GLOBAL_SYM_COUNT = $(shell readelf -s --wide $(BPF_IN_SHARED) | \
 			   cut -d "@" -f1 | sed 's/_v[0-9]_[0-9]_[0-9].*//' | \
-			   awk '/GLOBAL/ && /DEFAULT/ && !/UND/ {print $$8}' | \
+			   awk '/GLOBAL/ && /DEFAULT/ && !/UND/ {print $$NF}' | \
 			   sort -u | wc -l)
 VERSIONED_SYM_COUNT = $(shell readelf -s --wide $(OUTPUT)libbpf.so | \
 			      grep -Eo '[^ ]+ at LIBBPF_' | cut -d@ -f1 | sort -u | wc -l)
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ check_abi: $(OUTPUT)libbpf.so
 		     "versioned in $(VERSION_SCRIPT)." >&2;		 \
 		readelf -s --wide $(OUTPUT)libbpf-in.o |		 \
 		    cut -d "@" -f1 | sed 's/_v[0-9]_[0-9]_[0-9].*//' |	 \
-		    awk '/GLOBAL/ && /DEFAULT/ && !/UND/ {print $$8}'|   \
+		    awk '/GLOBAL/ && /DEFAULT/ && !/UND/ {print $$NF}'|  \
 		    sort -u > $(OUTPUT)libbpf_global_syms.tmp;		 \
 		readelf -s --wide $(OUTPUT)libbpf.so |			 \
 		    grep -Eo '[^ ]+ at LIBBPF_' | cut -d@ -f1 |		 \
-- 
2.24.0



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