deprecation of directive `//go:linkname`

[Florian Lehner]

Describe the bug

This package makes use of the directive //go:linkname:

ebpf/internal/auxv.go

Lines 20 to 21 in 79b6759

 //go:linkname runtime_getAuxv runtime.getAuxv 
 func runtime_getAuxv() []uintptr 

With go.dev/issue/67401 an initiative was started to limited this directive. cilium/ebpf is already named as user of the runtime.getAuxv.

I'm not sure if there will be an exception for the use of runtime.getAuxv. Therefore an alternative approach should be investigated.

How to reproduce

The use of //go:linkname was introduced with fbff7db.

[Lorenz Bauer]

I think it's really funny that x/sys/cpu gets to poke into the runtime just fine but we get put into the hall of shame xD Matter of fact is that auxv is useful on unix platforms, and the Go runtime doesn't give us access to it. Using the linkname is a lot better than the cruft we had before.

I'd be happy to migrate to some exported function if one existed (maybe via x/sys/unix?)

[Lorenz Bauer]

@florianl are you interested in opening an upstream proposal for this?

[Florian Lehner]

Proposal was created with golang/go#68089. Follow up in golang/go#67839.