netdev - Re: [PATCH] RISC-V/bpf: Enable bpf_probe

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Date:   Tue, 5 Jul 2022 22:00:42 -0700
From:   Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@...cle.com>
Cc:     Yixun Lan <dlan@...too.org>, Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        KP Singh <kpsingh@...nel.org>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RISC-V/bpf: Enable bpf_probe_read{, str}()

On Sun, Jul 3, 2022 at 10:53 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jul 03, 2022 at 09:09:24PM +0800, Yixun Lan wrote:
> > Enable this option to fix a bcc error in RISC-V platform
> >
> > And, the error shows as follows:
>
> These should not be enabled on new platforms.  Use the proper helpers
> to probe kernel vs user pointers instead.

riscv existed as of [0], so I'd argue it is a proper bug fix, as
corresponding select ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE should
have been added back then.

But I also agree that BCC tools should be updated to use proper
bpf_probe_read_{kernel,user}[_str()] helpers, please contribute such
fixes to BCC tools and BCC itself as well. Cc'ed Alan as his ksnoop in
libbpf-tools seems to be using bpf_probe_read() as well and needs to
be fixed.

  [0] 0ebeea8ca8a4 ("bpf: Restrict bpf_probe_read{, str}() only to
archs where they work")