Re: [RFC PATCH v1 1/1] tracing/kprobe: Add multi-probe support for 'perf_kprobe' PMU

[Song Liu]

On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 6:16 PM Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 18 Aug 2023 14:20:33 -0400
> Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > On Fri, 18 Aug 2023 20:13:43 +0200
> > Francis Laniel <flaniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > > Le vendredi 18 août 2023, 17:41:41 CEST Steven Rostedt a écrit :
> > > > On Fri, 18 Aug 2023 21:37:05 +0900
> > > >
> > > > Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > That's why perf probe uses the offset from '_text'. Normal KASLR will just
> > > > > moves all symbols. (Finer one will move all symbols randomely)
> > > > > This should not need to access /proc/kallsyms but vmlinux or SystemMap.
> > > >
> > > > We could just pass in: "_text+offset" too.
> > >
> > > So, the idea would be to change the existing create_local_trace_kprobe() and
> > > above functions to indicate the user's offset is to be used against _text and
> > > not address?
> >
> > No, not to modify that function, but if you know the offset from _text (via
> > the vmlinux), you can easily calculate it for that function.
>
> Note that the kprobe-event PMU interface itself allows you to specify
> FUNC+OFFSET style;
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20171206224518.3598254-5-songliubraving@xxxxxx/
>
> perf_event_attr::kprobe_func = "_text";
> perf_event_attr::probe_offset = OFFSET;
>
> Then, it should be able to specify the correct one. Of course you can use
> other unique symbols around the target symbol.

Trying to catch up with the thread.

Besides the CAP_* issue, we can do this with

perf_event_attr::kprobe_func = NULL;
perf_event_attr::kprobe_addr = address;

Then for the CAP_*, I think we should give CAP_PERFMON access to
/proc/kallsyms. Would this work?

Thanks,
Song