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Date:   Thu, 20 Jan 2022 14:24:15 -0800
From:   Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>
To:     Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
Cc:     Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
        Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        KP Singh <kpsingh@...omium.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        "Naveen N . Rao" <naveen.n.rao@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@...el.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 0/9] fprobe: Introduce fprobe function entry/exit probe

On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 6:56 AM Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> Hello Jiri,
>
> Here is the 3rd version of fprobe. I added some comments and
> fixed some issues. But I still saw some problems when I add
> your selftest patches.
>
> This series introduces the fprobe, the function entry/exit probe
> with multiple probe point support. This also introduces the rethook
> for hooking function return as same as kretprobe does. This
> abstraction will help us to generalize the fgraph tracer,
> because we can just switch it from rethook in fprobe, depending
> on the kernel configuration.
>
> The patch [1/9] and [7/9] are from Jiri's series[1]. Other libbpf
> patches will not be affected by this change.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220104080943.113249-1-jolsa@kernel.org/T/#u
>
> However, when I applied all other patches on top of this series,
> I saw the "#8 bpf_cookie" test case has been stacked (maybe related
> to the bpf_cookie issue which Andrii and Jiri talked?) And when I
> remove the last selftest patch[2], the selftest stopped at "#112
> raw_tp_test_run".
>
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220104080943.113249-1-jolsa@kernel.org/T/#m242d2b3a3775eeb5baba322424b15901e5e78483
>
> Note that I used tools/testing/selftests/bpf/vmtest.sh to check it.
>
> This added 2 more out-of-tree patches. [8/9] is for adding wildcard
> support to the sample program, [9/9] is a testing patch for replacing
> kretprobe trampoline with rethook.
> According to this work, I noticed that using rethook in kretprobe
> needs 2 steps.
>  1. port the rethook on all architectures which supports kretprobes.
>     (some arch requires CONFIG_KPROBES for rethook)
>  2. replace kretprobe trampoline with rethook for all archs, at once.
>     This must be done by one treewide patch.
>
> Anyway, I'll do the kretprobe update in the next step as another series.
> (This testing patch is just for confirming the rethook is correctly
>  implemented.)
>
> BTW, on the x86, ftrace (with fentry) location address is same as
> symbol address. But on other archs, it will be different (e.g. arm64
> will need 2 instructions to save link-register and call ftrace, the
> 2nd instruction will be the ftrace location.)
> Does libbpf correctly handle it?

libbpf doesn't do anything there. The interface for kprobe is based on
function name and kernel performs name lookups internally to resolve
IP. For fentry it's similar (kernel handles IP resolution), but
instead of function name we specify BTF ID of a function type.

>
> Thank you,
>
> ---
>
> Jiri Olsa (2):
>       ftrace: Add ftrace_set_filter_ips function
>       bpf: Add kprobe link for attaching raw kprobes
>
> Masami Hiramatsu (7):
>       fprobe: Add ftrace based probe APIs
>       rethook: Add a generic return hook
>       rethook: x86: Add rethook x86 implementation
>       fprobe: Add exit_handler support
>       fprobe: Add sample program for fprobe
>       [DO NOT MERGE] Out-of-tree: Support wildcard symbol option to sample
>       [DO NOT MERGE] out-of-tree: kprobes: Use rethook for kretprobe
>
>
>  arch/x86/Kconfig                |    1
>  arch/x86/include/asm/unwind.h   |    8 +
>  arch/x86/kernel/Makefile        |    1
>  arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c  |  106 --------------
>  arch/x86/kernel/rethook.c       |  115 +++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/bpf_types.h       |    1
>  include/linux/fprobe.h          |   84 +++++++++++
>  include/linux/ftrace.h          |    3
>  include/linux/kprobes.h         |   85 +----------
>  include/linux/rethook.h         |   99 +++++++++++++
>  include/linux/sched.h           |    4 -
>  include/uapi/linux/bpf.h        |   12 ++
>  kernel/bpf/syscall.c            |  195 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  kernel/exit.c                   |    3
>  kernel/fork.c                   |    4 -
>  kernel/kallsyms.c               |    1
>  kernel/kprobes.c                |  265 +++++------------------------------
>  kernel/trace/Kconfig            |   22 +++
>  kernel/trace/Makefile           |    2
>  kernel/trace/fprobe.c           |  179 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  kernel/trace/ftrace.c           |   54 ++++++-
>  kernel/trace/rethook.c          |  295 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c     |    4 -
>  kernel/trace/trace_output.c     |    2
>  samples/Kconfig                 |    7 +
>  samples/Makefile                |    1
>  samples/fprobe/Makefile         |    3
>  samples/fprobe/fprobe_example.c |  154 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h  |   12 ++
>  29 files changed, 1283 insertions(+), 439 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/rethook.c
>  create mode 100644 include/linux/fprobe.h
>  create mode 100644 include/linux/rethook.h
>  create mode 100644 kernel/trace/fprobe.c
>  create mode 100644 kernel/trace/rethook.c
>  create mode 100644 samples/fprobe/Makefile
>  create mode 100644 samples/fprobe/fprobe_example.c
>
> --
> Masami Hiramatsu (Linaro) <mhiramat@...nel.org>

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