linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] tracing/x86: Update syscall trace events to handle new x86 syscall func names

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Tue, 17 Apr 2018 14:29:40 -0300
From:   Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        Dominik Brodowski <linux@...inikbrodowski.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] tracing/x86: Update syscall trace events to handle
 new x86 syscall func names

Em Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 01:07:02PM -0400, Steven Rostedt escreveu:
> From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@...dmis.org>
> 
> Arnaldo noticed that the latest kernel is missing the syscall event system
> directory in x86. I bisected it down to d5a00528b58c ("syscalls/core,
> syscalls/x86: Rename struct pt_regs-based sys_*() to __x64_sys_*()").
> 
> The system call trace events are special, as there is only one trace event
> for all system calls (the raw_syscalls). But a macro that wraps the system
> calls creates meta data for them that copies the name to find the system
> call that maps to the system call table (the number). At boot up, it does a
> kallsyms lookup for this mapping. If it does not find a function, then that
> system call is ignored.
> 
> Because the x86 system calls had "__x64_" appended to the "sys" for the
> names, they do not match the default compare algorithm. As this was a
> problem for power pc, the algorithm can be overwritten by the architecture.
> The solution is to have x86 have its own algorithm to do the compare and
> this brings back the system call trace events.
> 
> Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
> Fixes: d5a00528b58c ("syscalls/core, syscalls/x86: Rename struct pt_regs-based sys_*() to __x64_sys_*()")
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@...dmis.org>

Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>

Again on x86_64, the number of files in
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/syscalls/ is the same, all my perf
related tests pass.

Now to the next seemingly kernel related test failure, unrelated to
this:

 4: Read samples using the mmap interface                 : FAILED!

- Arnaldo