Re: [PATCH] selftests/ftrace: Select an existing function in kprobe_eventname test

From: Masami Hiramatsu
Date: Tue Jul 09 2019 - 08:44:09 EST


On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 15:22:14 -0400
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 16:10:29 -0300
> Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 03:09:23PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > From: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Running the ftrace selftests on the latest kernel caused the
> > > kprobe_eventname test to fail. It was due to the test that searches for
> > > a function with at "dot" in the name and adding a probe to that.
> > > Unfortunately, for this test, it picked:
> > >
> > > optimize_nops.isra.2.cold.4
> > >
> > > Which happens to be marked as "__init", which means it no longer exists
> > > in the kernel! (kallsyms keeps those function names around for tracing
> > > purposes)

Ouch!

> > >
> > > As only functions that still exist are in the
> > > available_filter_functions file, as they are removed when the functions
> > > are freed at boot or module exit, have the test search for a function
> > > with ".isra." in the name as well as being in the
> > > available_filter_functions (if the file exists).

Hmm, OK. But I think this eventually fixed in kallsyms, by something like
having [GONE] or [__init] flag for such symbols.

> > >
> >
> > This fixes a similar problem for me.
> >
> > Tested-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Masami, can you ack this, and Shuah, can you take it?

Yeah anyway,

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thank you!

>
> Thanks!
>
> -- Steve
>
> >
> > > Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_eventname.tc b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_eventname.tc
> > > index 3fb70e01b1fe..3ff236719b6e 100644
> > > --- a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_eventname.tc
> > > +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_eventname.tc
> > > @@ -24,7 +24,21 @@ test -d events/kprobes2/event2 || exit_failure
> > >
> > > :;: "Add an event on dot function without name" ;:
> > >
> > > -FUNC=`grep -m 10 " [tT] .*\.isra\..*$" /proc/kallsyms | tail -n 1 | cut -f 3 -d " "`
> > > +find_dot_func() {
> > > + if [ ! -f available_filter_functions ]; then
> > > + grep -m 10 " [tT] .*\.isra\..*$" /proc/kallsyms | tail -n 1 | cut -f 3 -d " "
> > > + return;
> > > + fi
> > > +
> > > + grep " [tT] .*\.isra\..*" /proc/kallsyms | cut -f 3 -d " " | while read f; do
> > > + if grep -s $f available_filter_functions; then
> > > + echo $f
> > > + break
> > > + fi
> > > + done
> > > +}
> > > +
> > > +FUNC=`find_dot_func | tail -n 1`
> > > [ "x" != "x$FUNC" ] || exit_unresolved
> > > echo "p $FUNC" > kprobe_events
> > > EVENT=`grep $FUNC kprobe_events | cut -f 1 -d " " | cut -f 2 -d:`
>


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Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>