linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] [BUGFIX] kprobes: Fix "Failed to find blacklist" error on ia64 and ppc64

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Message-ID: <1405394370.17767.7.camel@concordia>
Date:	Tue, 15 Jul 2014 13:19:30 +1000
From:	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>
Cc:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...il.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org, sparse@...isli.org,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org, akataria@...are.com,
	anil.s.keshavamurthy@...el.com,
	"Suzuki K. Poulose" <suzuki@...ibm.com>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	yrl.pp-manager.tt@...achi.com,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Kevin Hao <haokexin@...il.com>,
	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ibm.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, rdunlap@...radead.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	dl9pf@....de, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] [BUGFIX] kprobes: Fix "Failed to find blacklist"
 error on ia64 and ppc64

On Wed, 2014-07-02 at 07:00 +0000, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> On ia64 and ppc64, the function pointer does not point the
> entry address of the function, but the address of function
> discriptor (which contains the entry address and misc
> data.) Since the kprobes passes the function pointer stored
> by NOKPROBE_SYMBOL() to kallsyms_lookup_size_offset() for
> initalizing its blacklist, it fails and reports many errors
> as below.
> 
>   Failed to find blacklist 0001013168300000
>   Failed to find blacklist 0001013000f0a000
>   Failed to find blacklist 000101315f70a000
>   Failed to find blacklist 000101324c80a000
>   Failed to find blacklist 0001013063f0a000
>   Failed to find blacklist 000101327800a000
>   Failed to find blacklist 0001013277f0a000
>   Failed to find blacklist 000101315a70a000
>   Failed to find blacklist 0001013277e0a000
>   Failed to find blacklist 000101305a20a000
>   Failed to find blacklist 0001013277d0a000
>   Failed to find blacklist 00010130bdc0a000
>   Failed to find blacklist 00010130dc20a000
>   Failed to find blacklist 000101309a00a000
>   Failed to find blacklist 0001013277c0a000
>   Failed to find blacklist 0001013277b0a000
>   Failed to find blacklist 0001013277a0a000
>   Failed to find blacklist 000101327790a000
>   Failed to find blacklist 000101303140a000
>   Failed to find blacklist 0001013a3280a000
> 
> To fix this bug, this introduces function_entry() macro to
> retrieve the entry address from the given function pointer,
> and uses for kallsyms_lookup_size_offset() while initializing
> blacklist.
> 
> Changes in v5:
>  - Use arch_deref_entry_point() instead of function_entry().
> 
> Changes in v4:
>  - Add kernel_text_address() check for verifying the address.
>  - Moved on the latest linus tree.
> 
> Changes in v3:
>  - Fix a bug to get blacklist address based on function entry
>    instead of function descriptor. (Suzuki's work, Thanks!)
> 
> Changes in V2:
>  - Use function_entry() macro when lookin up symbols instead
>    of storing it.
>  - Update for the latest -next.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>
> Reported-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...il.com>
> Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>

Tested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au> (for powerpc)

Ben, can you take this in your tree?

cheers


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