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Date:   Thu, 26 May 2022 09:39:49 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@...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>, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ftrace: Add FTRACE_MCOUNT_MAX_OFFSET to avoid adding
 weak function

On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 06:05:53PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@...dmis.org>
> 
> If an unused weak function was traced, it's call to fentry will still
> exist, which gets added into the __mcount_loc table. Ftrace will use
> kallsyms to retrieve the name for each location in __mcount_loc to display
> it in the available_filter_functions and used to enable functions via the
> name matching in set_ftrace_filter/notrace. Enabling these functions do
> nothing but enable an unused call to ftrace_caller. If a traced weak
> function is overridden, the symbol of the function would be used for it,
> which will either created duplicate names, or if the previous function was
> not traced, it would be incorrectly listed in available_filter_functions
> as a function that can be traced.
> 
> This became an issue with BPF[1] as there are tooling that enables the
> direct callers via ftrace but then checks to see if the functions were
> actually enabled. The case of one function that was marked notrace, but
> was followed by an unused weak function that was traced. The unused
> function's call to fentry was added to the __mcount_loc section, and
> kallsyms retrieved the untraced function's symbol as the weak function was
> overridden. Since the untraced function would not get traced, the BPF
> check would detect this and fail.
> 
> The real fix would be to fix kallsyms to not show address of weak
> functions as the function before it. But that would require adding code in
> the build to add function size to kallsyms so that it can know when the
> function ends instead of just using the start of the next known symbol.
> 
> In the mean time, this is a work around. Add a FTRACE_MCOUNT_MAX_OFFSET
> macro that if defined, ftrace will ignore any function that has its call
> to fentry/mcount that has an offset from the symbol that is greater than
> FTRACE_MCOUNT_MAX_OFFSET.
> 
> If CONFIG_HAVE_FENTRY is defined for x86, define FTRACE_MCOUNT_MAX_OFFSET
> to zero, which will have ftrace ignore all locations that are not at the
> start of the function.

^^^ that paragraph is obsolete by your own changes thing below :-)

> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220412094923.0abe90955e5db486b7bca279@kernel.org/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@...dmis.org>
> ---
> Changes since v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220503150410.2d9e88aa@rorschach.local.home/
> 
>  - Changed MAX_OFFSET to 4 on x86 if KERNEL_IBT is enabled
>    (Reminded by Peter Zijlstra)
> 
>  arch/x86/include/asm/ftrace.h | 10 +++++++
>  kernel/trace/ftrace.c         | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  2 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/ftrace.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/ftrace.h
> index 024d9797646e..53675fe2d847 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/ftrace.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/ftrace.h
> @@ -9,6 +9,16 @@
>  # define MCOUNT_ADDR		((unsigned long)(__fentry__))
>  #define MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE	5 /* sizeof mcount call */
>  
> +/* Ignore unused weak functions which will have non zero offsets */
> +#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_FENTRY
> +# ifdef CONFIG_X86_KERNEL_IBT
> +/* endbr64 is 4 bytes in front of the fentry */
> +#  define FTRACE_MCOUNT_MAX_OFFSET	4
> +# else
> +#  define FTRACE_MCOUNT_MAX_OFFSET	0
> +# endif
> +#endif

#define FTRACE_MCOUNT_MAX_OFFSET ENDBR_INSN_SIZE

Should do the same I think, less lines etc..