Error loading ebpf file

[melardev]

Describe the bug
ebpf processor NullPointerException when loading a solana program file, solana is based on eBPF, there is an IDA extension for this, but Ghidra it fails

To Reproduce

# dump the Banana Gun program
solana program dump BANANAjs7FJiPQqJTGFzkZJndT9o7UmKiYYGaJz6frGu banana_gun_router.so

Open it in Ghidra:

Cannot invoke "ghidra.app.util.bin.format.elf.ElfSectionHeader.getNameAsString()" because the return value of "ghidra.app.util.bin.format.elf.ElfRelocationTable.getSectionToBeRelocated()" is null
java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "ghidra.app.util.bin.format.elf.ElfSectionHeader.getNameAsString()" because the return value of "ghidra.app.util.bin.format.elf.ElfRelocationTable.getSectionToBeRelocated()" is null
	at ghidra.app.util.bin.format.elf.relocation.eBPF_ElfRelocationHandler.relocate(eBPF_ElfRelocationHandler.java:50)
	at ghidra.app.util.bin.format.elf.relocation.ElfRelocationContext.processRelocation(ElfRelocationContext.java:112)
	at ghidra.app.util.opinion.ElfProgramBuilder.processRelocationTableEntries(ElfProgramBuilder.java:1048)
	at ghidra.app.util.opinion.ElfProgramBuilder.processRelocationTable(ElfProgramBuilder.java:950)
	at ghidra.app.util.opinion.ElfProgramBuilder.processRelocations(ElfProgramBuilder.java:885)
	at ghidra.app.util.opinion.ElfProgramBuilder.load(ElfProgramBuilder.java:171)
	at ghidra.app.util.opinion.ElfProgramBuilder.loadElf(ElfProgramBuilder.java:108)
	at ghidra.app.util.opinion.ElfLoader.load(ElfLoader.java:147)
	at ghidra.app.util.opinion.AbstractLibrarySupportLoader.doLoad(AbstractLibrarySupportLoader.java:811)
	at ghidra.app.util.opinion.AbstractLibrarySupportLoader.loadProgram(AbstractLibrarySupportLoader.java:100)
	at ghidra.app.util.opinion.AbstractProgramLoader.load(AbstractProgramLoader.java:131)
	at ghidra.plugin.importer.ImporterUtilities.importSingleFile(ImporterUtilities.java:388)
	at ghidra.plugin.importer.ImporterDialog.lambda$okCallback$7(ImporterDialog.java:347)
	at ghidra.util.task.TaskBuilder$TaskBuilderTask.run(TaskBuilder.java:306)
	at ghidra.util.task.Task.monitoredRun(Task.java:134)
	at ghidra.util.task.TaskRunner.lambda$startTaskThread$0(TaskRunner.java:106)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1144)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:642)
	at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1623)

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Build Date: 2023-Aug-29 1442 EDT
Ghidra Version: 10.3.3
Java Home: /usr/lib/jvm/jdk-20
JVM Version: Oracle Corporation 20
OS: Linux 6.8.0-57-generic amd64

Expected behavior
Load the program successfully

Screenshots

Environment (please complete the following information):

• OS: Linux Ubuntu
• Java Version: JDK 24
• Ghidra Version: 10.3.3
• Ghidra Origin: Github official release .zip file

[ghidra1]

I certainly suggest updating your Ghidra version. There were substantial changes affecting eBPF import with Ghidra 11.2. This fix will be in either 11.3.3, if released, or 11.4.