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

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Date:   Sat, 9 Jul 2022 09:01:10 +0800
From:   Yixun Lan <dlan@...too.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>,
        Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@...cle.com>,
        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>,
        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}()

Hi Christoph, YongHong

On 00:01 Wed 06 Jul     , Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 11:41:30PM -0700, Yonghong Song wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On 7/5/22 10:00 PM, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > Yixun, the bcc change looks like below:
> 
> No, this is broken.  bcc needs to stop using bpf_probe_read entirely
> for user addresses and unconditionally use bpf_probe_read_user first
> and only fall back to bpf_probe_read if not supported.
I agree with Christoph, there is something in the bcc tools that
need to adjust in order to use new bpf_probe_read_{kernel,user}

Please check the ongoing discussion [0] in the bcc tools if you're
interested in, advice and comments are welcome

[0] https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/pull/4085#issuecomment-1179446738

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Yixun Lan (dlan)
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