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libbpf: Per-symbol visibility for DSO

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Make global symbols in libbpf DSO hidden by default with
-fvisibility=hidden and export symbols that are part of ABI explicitly
with __attribute__((visibility("default"))).

This is common practice that should prevent from accidentally exporting
a symbol, that is not supposed to be a part of ABI what, in turn,
improves both libbpf developer- and user-experiences. See [1] for more
details.

Export control becomes more important since more and more projects use
libbpf.

The patch doesn't export a bunch of netlink related functions since as
agreed in [2] they'll be reworked. That doesn't break bpftool since
bpftool links libbpf statically.

[1] https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/dsohowto.pdf (2.2 Export Control)
[2] https://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg251434.html

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ignatov <rdna@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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Andrey Ignatov
2018-10-15 22:50:34 -07:00
committed by Alexei Starovoitov
parent 421f4292f4
commit ab9e084821
4 changed files with 178 additions and 147 deletions
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@@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ override CFLAGS += $(EXTRA_WARNINGS)
override CFLAGS += -Werror -Wall
override CFLAGS += -fPIC
override CFLAGS += $(INCLUDES)
override CFLAGS += -fvisibility=hidden
ifeq ($(VERBOSE),1)
Q =