tools/bpftool: Generate data section struct with conservative alignment

The comment in the code describes this in good details. Generate such a memory
layout that would work both on 32-bit and 64-bit architectures for user-space.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/[email protected]

Author: anakryiko

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) {