Commit e306e2c1 authored by Daniel Borkmann's avatar Daniel Borkmann Committed by David S. Miller
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filter: add minimal BPF JIT image disassembler

This is a minimal stand-alone user space helper, that allows for debugging or
verification of emitted BPF JIT images. This is in particular useful for
emitted opcode debugging, since minor bugs in the JIT compiler can be fatal.
The disassembler is architecture generic and uses libopcodes and libbfd.

How to get to the disassembly, example:

  1) `echo 2 > /proc/sys/net/core/bpf_jit_enable`
  2) Load a BPF filter (e.g. `tcpdump -p -n -s 0 -i eth1 host 192.168.20.0/24`)
  3) Run e.g. `bpf_jit_disasm -o` to disassemble the most recent JIT code output

`bpf_jit_disasm -o` will display the related opcodes to a particular instruction
as well. Example for x86_64:

$ ./bpf_jit_disasm
94 bytes emitted from JIT compiler (pass:3, flen:9)
ffffffffa0356000 + <x>:
   0:	push   %rbp
   1:	mov    %rsp,%rbp
   4:	sub    $0x60,%rsp
   8:	mov    %rbx,-0x8(%rbp)
   c:	mov    0x68(%rdi),%r9d
  10:	sub    0x6c(%rdi),%r9d
  14:	mov    0xe0(%rdi),%r8
  1b:	mov    $0xc,%esi
  20:	cal...
parent b34870fc
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