Fix dereference replacements for pointers to pointers
Currently, the bcc rewriter is unable to track external pointers if there is more than a single level of indirection (e.g., pointer to external pointer). For example, in the following, the rewriter is unable to detect that ptr2 doesn't need a call to bpf_probe_read, only *ptr2 do. int test(struct pt_regs *ctx, struct sock *sk) { struct sock *ptr1; struct sock **ptr2 = &ptr1; *ptr2 = sk; return ((struct sock *)(*ptr2))->sk_daddr; } This commit fixes this issue by tracking the levels of indirections in addition to the variable declarations (identifies each variable). When traversing dereferences, the level of indirections is used to decide whether the base expression is an external pointer. The level of indirections is inherited when a pointer is assigned to a new variable (assignments and function calls).
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