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| -rw-r--r-- | tools/bpf/bpftool/gen.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/bpf/bpftool/gen.c b/tools/bpf/bpftool/gen.c index db80e836816e..f61184653633 100644 --- a/tools/bpf/bpftool/gen.c +++ b/tools/bpf/bpftool/gen.c @@ -143,6 +143,20 @@ static int codegen_datasec_def(struct bpf_object *obj, var_name, align); return -EINVAL; } + /* Assume 32-bit architectures when generating data section + * struct memory layout. Given bpftool can't know which target + * host architecture it's emitting skeleton for, we need to be + * conservative and assume 32-bit one to ensure enough padding + * bytes are generated for pointer and long types. This will + * still work correctly for 64-bit architectures, because in + * the worst case we'll generate unnecessary padding field, + * which on 64-bit architectures is not strictly necessary and + * would be handled by natural 8-byte alignment. But it still + * will be a correct memory layout, based on recorded offsets + * in BTF. + */ + if (align > 4) + align = 4; align_off = (off + align - 1) / align * align; if (align_off != need_off) { |