libbpf: Resolve symbol conflicts at the same offset for uprobe
authorHengqi Chen <hengqi.chen@gmail.com>
Mon, 18 Sep 2023 02:48:11 +0000 (02:48 +0000)
committerAndrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Fri, 22 Sep 2023 21:18:55 +0000 (14:18 -0700)
commit7257cee65269a066c242f4863b456275cb0218b5
tree484f916a06dc8d01592fc35de4002e757c6ff601
parentac0691c75ab78cd240630c184ffbf09433de2d2e
libbpf: Resolve symbol conflicts at the same offset for uprobe

Dynamic symbols in shared library may have the same name, for example:

    $ nm -D /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 | grep rwlock_wrlock
    000000000009b1a0 T __pthread_rwlock_wrlock@GLIBC_2.2.5
    000000000009b1a0 T pthread_rwlock_wrlock@@GLIBC_2.34
    000000000009b1a0 T pthread_rwlock_wrlock@GLIBC_2.2.5

    $ readelf -W --dyn-syms /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 | grep rwlock_wrlock
     706: 000000000009b1a0   878 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT   15 __pthread_rwlock_wrlock@GLIBC_2.2.5
    2568: 000000000009b1a0   878 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT   15 pthread_rwlock_wrlock@@GLIBC_2.34
    2571: 000000000009b1a0   878 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT   15 pthread_rwlock_wrlock@GLIBC_2.2.5

Currently, users can't attach a uprobe to pthread_rwlock_wrlock because
there are two symbols named pthread_rwlock_wrlock and both are global
bind. And libbpf considers it as a conflict.

Since both of them are at the same offset we could accept one of them
harmlessly. Note that we already does this in elf_resolve_syms_offsets.

Signed-off-by: Hengqi Chen <hengqi.chen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230918024813.237475-2-hengqi.chen@gmail.com
tools/lib/bpf/elf.c