Re: [PATCH -tip v4 10/12] x86/kprobes: Push a fake return address at kretprobe_trampoline

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Wed Mar 24 2021 - 20:29:30 EST


On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 08:47:41 +0900
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > I think the REGS and REGS_PARTIAL cases can also be affected by function
> > graph tracing. So should they use the generic unwind_recover_ret_addr()
> > instead of unwind_recover_kretprobe()?
>
> Yes, but I'm not sure this parameter can be applied.
> For example, it passed "state->sp - sizeof(unsigned long)" as where the
> return address stored address. Is that same on ftrace graph too?

Stack traces on the return side of function graph tracer has never
worked. It's on my todo list, because that's one of the requirements to
get right if we every manage to combine kretprobe and function graph
tracers together.

-- Steve