netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] kretprobe: produce sane stack traces

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Date:   Mon, 12 Nov 2018 21:38:22 +1100
From:   Aleksa Sarai <asarai@...e.de>
To:     Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
Cc:     Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@...har.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@...el.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Brendan Gregg <bgregg@...flix.com>,
        Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] kretprobe: produce sane stack traces

On 2018-11-11, Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org> wrote:
> > > > +		addr = kretprobe_ret_addr(current, addr, stack_addr(regs));
> > > 
> > > But since kretprobe will be an event, which can kick the stackdump.
> > > BTW, from kretprobe, regs->ip should always be the trampoline handler, 
> > > see arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c:772 :-)
> > > So it must be fixed always.
> > 
> > Right, but kretprobe_ret_addr() is returning the *original* return
> > address (and we need to do an (addr == kretprobe_trampoline)). The
> > real problem is that stack_addr(regs) isn't the same as it is during
> > kretprobe setup (but kretprobe_ret_addr() works everywhere else).
> 
> I think stack_addr(regs) should be same when this is called from kretprobe
> handler context. Otherwise, yes, it is not same, but in that case, regs->ip
> is not kretprobe_trampoline too.

I figured it out.

It should be (regs->sp - 1) (just like it is inside the relevant
unwinder function for ORC). I now have a prototype which works under the
frame unwinder[*] -- however under ORC you can only see the top-most
function (the unwinder doesn't see the other function calls). I'm
playing with ORC hints with kretprobe_trampoline to try to improve
things but it's still a bit screwy.


[*]: However, I've noticed that the stack traces between the two traces
	 no longer match. On kprobe you get function_name+1, but on
	 kretprobe you get function_caller+foo. Obviously it's working but
	 the return address results in slightly different stack traces. This
	 means that stack trace aggregation between kprobe and kretprobe
	 won't work anymore -- at least not like it did in my original
	 patch. So I'm really not sure where to go from here.

I can send around another patchset to illustrate the problem if you like
(as well as show how the current unwinding code works).

-- 
Aleksa Sarai
Senior Software Engineer (Containers)
SUSE Linux GmbH
<https://www.cyphar.com/>

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