linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] sched/tracing: append prev

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Date:   Thu, 12 May 2022 01:40:57 +0200
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] sched/tracing: append prev_state to tp args instead

On Wed, May 11 2022 at 18:28, Delyan Kratunov wrote:
> Commit fa2c3254d7cf (sched/tracing: Don't re-read p->state when emitting
> sched_switch event, 2022-01-20) added a new prev_state argument to the
> sched_switch tracepoint, before the prev task_struct pointer.
>
> This reordering of arguments broke BPF programs that use the raw
> tracepoint (e.g. tp_btf programs). The type of the second argument has
> changed and existing programs that assume a task_struct* argument
> (e.g. for bpf_task_storage access) will now fail to verify.
>
> If we instead append the new argument to the end, all existing programs
> would continue to work and can conditionally extract the prev_state
> argument on supported kernel versions.

If we instead? ... would continue to work?

  https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/maintainer-tip.html#changelog
  https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html#submittingpatches

It's not too hard to actually follow documented rules. Something like
this:

  "Undo the reordering and move the new argument last, which ensures
   that all existing programs continue to work."

Hmm?

What's worse is that the changelog is missing a clear statement that
this is a one-time change which cannot be abused to turn tracepoints
into unmodifiable ABI as you stated in:

 https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAEf4BzaEo+dxSRJZHQiXYrj-a3_B-eODZUxGh3HrnPjquMYFXQ@mail.gmail.com

Thanks,

        tglx