Re: [PATCH v5 0/3] tracing: kprobes: Prohibit probing on notrace functions

From: Francis Deslauriers
Date: Mon Jul 30 2018 - 12:06:32 EST


Hi Masami,
I just tested the patch-set and it still prevents the crash I was witnessing.
You can add my tested-by.
Tested-by: Francis Deslauriers <francis.deslauriers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thank you for pushing this forward!
Francis
Le lun. 30 juill. 2018, Ã 06 h 20, Masami Hiramatsu
<mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> a Ãcrit :
>
> Hi,
>
> This is the 5th version of the series to prohibit kprobe
> on notrace functions.
>
> This fixes a build error when CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER=y but
> DYNAMIC_FTRACE=n. Finally I decided to recover the approach
> in the 1st version, made it depends on CONFIG_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE=y.
> It is the simplest and enough to prohibiting kernel crash.
>
> So, in summary, if CONFIG_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE=y (which depends
> on CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE=y, so ftrace_location_range must be
> there) && CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENTS_ON_NOTRACE=n (default),
> kprobe events can not be defined on notrace function.
> Otherwides (means CONFIG_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE=n or
> CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENTS_ON_NOTRACE=y), we can put kprobe events
> on notrace functions.
>
> Francis, I dropped your tested-by because I got many kbuild
> errors and fixed it. If you can, could you test it again?
>
> Thank you,
>
> ---
>
> Francis Deslauriers (1):
> selftest/ftrace: Move kprobe selftest function to separate compile unit
>
> Masami Hiramatsu (2):
> tracing: kprobes: Prohibit probing on notrace function
> selftests/ftrace: Fix kprobe string testcase to not probe notrace function
>
>
> kernel/trace/Kconfig | 20 +++++++
> kernel/trace/Makefile | 5 ++
> kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c | 59 +++++++++++++-------
> kernel/trace/trace_kprobe_selftest.c | 10 +++
> kernel/trace/trace_kprobe_selftest.h | 7 ++
> .../ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_args_string.tc | 30 ++++------
> .../selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/probepoint.tc | 2 -
> 7 files changed, 94 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 kernel/trace/trace_kprobe_selftest.c
> create mode 100644 kernel/trace/trace_kprobe_selftest.h
>
> --
> Masami Hiramatsu (Linaro) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>



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Francis Deslauriers
Software developer
EfficiOS inc.