Re: [PATCH v4 4/8] uprobes: travers uprobe's consumer list locklessly under SRCU protection

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 08/30, Jiri Olsa wrote:
>
> with this change the probe will not get removed in the attached test,
> it'll get 2 hits, without this change just 1 hit

Thanks again for pointing out the subtle change in behaviour, but could
you add more details for me? ;)

I was going to read the test below today, but no. As I said many times
I know nothing about bpf, I simply can't understand what this test-case
actually do in kernel-space.

According to git grep, the only in kernel user of UPROBE_HANDLER_REMOVE
is uprobe_perf_func(), but if it returns UPROBE_HANDLER_REMOVE then
consumer->filter == uprobe_perf_filter() should return false?

So could you explay how/why exactly this changes affects your test-case?


But perhaps it uses bpf_uprobe_multi_link_attach() and ->handler is
uprobe_multi_link_handler() ? But uprobe_prog_run() returns zero if
current->mm != link->task->mm.

OTOH, otherwise it returns the error code from bpf_prog_run() and this looks
confusing to me. I have no idea what prog->bpf_func(ctx, insnsi) can return
in this case, but note the WARN(rc & ~UPROBE_HANDLER_MASK) in handler_chain...

Hmm... looking at your test-case again,

> +SEC("uprobe.multi//proc/self/exe:uprobe_multi_func_1")
> +int uprobe(struct pt_regs *ctx)
> +{
> +	test++;
> +	return 1;
> +}

So may be this (compiled to ebpf) is what prog->bpf_func() actually executes?
If yes, everything is clear. And this "proves" that the patch makes the current
API less flexible, as I mentioned in my reply to Andrii.

If I got it right, I'd suggest to add a comment into this code to explain
that we return UPROBE_HANDLER_REMOVE after the 1st hit, for git-grep.

Oleg.