On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 13:47:07 +0000
"Jon Medhurst (Tixy)" <t...@linaro.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-02-14 at 10:32 +0000, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) wrote:
> > On Tue, 2017-02-14 at 00:05 +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> > > This is arm port of commit 737480a0d525 ("kprobes/x86:
> > > Fix the return address of multiple kretprobes").
> > >
> > > Fix the return address of subsequent kretprobes when multiple
> > > kretprobes are set on the same function.
> > >
> > > For example:
> > >
> > > # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
> > > # echo "r:event1 sys_symlink" > kprobe_events
> > > # echo "r:event2 sys_symlink" >> kprobe_events
> > > # echo 1 > events/kprobes/enable
> > > # ln -s /tmp/foo /tmp/bar
> > >
> > > (without this patch)
> > >
> > > # cat trace | grep -v ^#
> > > ln-82 [000] dn.2 68.446525: event1:
> > > (kretprobe_trampoline+0x0/0x18 <- SyS_symlink)
> > > ln-82 [000] dn.2 68.447831: event2:
> > > (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x1c <- SyS_symlink)
> > >
> > > (with this patch)
> > >
> > > # cat trace | grep -v ^#
> > > ln-81 [000] dn.1 39.463469: event1:
> > > (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x1c <- SyS_symlink)
> > > ln-81 [000] dn.1 39.464701: event2:
> > > (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x1c <- SyS_symlink)
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhira...@kernel.org>
> > > Cc: KUMANO Syuhei <kumano.p...@gmail.com>
> > > ---
> >
> > I don't fully understand this function, but I've checked that the ARM
> > version now matches the x86 version (apart from the x86 specific
> > register fixup and some comments). So, FWIW
> >
> > Acked-by: Jon Medhurst <t...@linaro.org>
> >
> > I ran the before and after test case in the commit log on ARM and
> > verified the result is correct. I also tried running the ARM kprobe
> > tests with these 3 fixes but the tests fail. However, they also fail
> > without any of these changes, so I'll investigate that further...
>
> Bisecting the issue led me back to Linux 4.5 and commit 25362dc496ed
> ("ARM: 8501/1: mm: flip priority of CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA")
>
> This sets CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA to be enabled by default. If I disable
> that on 4.10-rc4, with the three patches in this series, then the ARM
> kprobes tests pass OK.
>
> I'll stick the DEBUG_RODATA issue on my todo list (it's been around for
> a year, so can probably wait a little longer).
Hmm, I'm running arm kernel on qemu, which maybe the reason why
the test case passed in my environment, since my kconfig also sets
CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA=y.
BTW, would you see that any kprobe_events didn't work with
CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA=y? (what the failure messages were?)
Thank you,
>
> --
> Tixy
>
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Masami Hiramatsu <mhira...@kernel.org>
