The motivation behind this helper is to access userspace pt_regs in a
kprobe handler.
uprobe's ctx is the userspace pt_regs. kprobe's ctx is the kernelspace
pt_regs. bpf_task_pt_regs() allows accessing userspace pt_regs in a
kprobe handler. The final case (kernelspace pt_regs in uprobe) is
pretty rare (usermode helper) so I think that can be solved later if
necessary.
More concretely, this helper is useful in doing BPF-based DWARF stack
unwinding. Currently the kernel can only do framepointer based stack
unwinds for userspace code. This is because the DWARF state machines are
too fragile to be computed in kernelspace [0]. The idea behind
DWARF-based stack unwinds w/ BPF is to copy a chunk of the userspace
stack (while in prog context) and send it up to userspace for unwinding
(probably with libunwind) [1]. This would effectively enable profiling
applications with -fomit-frame-pointer using kprobes and uprobes.
[0]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/10/356
[1]: https://github.com/danobi/bpf-dwarf-walk
Signed-off-by: Daniel Xu <dxu@dxuuu.xyz>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/e2718ced2d51ef4268590ab8562962438ab82815.1629772842.git.dxu@dxuuu.xyz
Before this patch, btf_new() was liable to close an arbitrary FD 0 if
BTF parsing failed. This was because:
* btf->fd was initialized to 0 through the calloc()
* btf__free() (in the `done` label) closed any FDs >= 0
* btf->fd is left at 0 if parsing fails
This issue was discovered on a system using libbpf v0.3 (without
BTF_KIND_FLOAT support) but with a kernel that had BTF_KIND_FLOAT types
in BTF. Thus, parsing fails.
While this patch technically doesn't fix any issues b/c upstream libbpf
has BTF_KIND_FLOAT support, it'll help prevent issues in the future if
more BTF types are added. It also allow the fix to be backported to
older libbpf's.
Fixes: 3289959b97ca ("libbpf: Support BTF loading and raw data output in both endianness")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Xu <dxu@dxuuu.xyz>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/5969bb991adedb03c6ae93e051fd2a00d293cf25.1627513670.git.dxu@dxuuu.xyz
Add a selftest to test:
* default bpf_read_branch_records() behavior
* BPF_F_GET_BRANCH_RECORDS_SIZE flag behavior
* error path on non branch record perf events
* using helper to write to stack
* using helper to write to global
On host with hardware counter support:
# ./test_progs -t perf_branches
#27/1 perf_branches_hw:OK
#27/2 perf_branches_no_hw:OK
#27 perf_branches:OK
Summary: 1/2 PASSED, 0 SKIPPED, 0 FAILED
On host without hardware counter support (VM):
# ./test_progs -t perf_branches
#27/1 perf_branches_hw:OK
#27/2 perf_branches_no_hw:OK
#27 perf_branches:OK
Summary: 1/2 PASSED, 1 SKIPPED, 0 FAILED
Also sync tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Xu <dxu@dxuuu.xyz>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200218030432.4600-3-dxu@dxuuu.xyz
Daniel Xu