On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 04:40:14PM -0800, Howard McLauchlan wrote: > uprobes cannot successfully attach to binaries located in a directory > mounted with overlayfs. > > To verify, create directories for mounting overlayfs > (upper,lower,work,merge), move some binary into merge/ and use readelf > to obtain some known instruction of the binary. I used /bin/true and the > entry instruction(0x13b0): > > $ mount -t overlay overlay -o > lowerdir=lower,upperdir=upper,workdir=work merge > $ cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing > $ echo 'p:true_entry PATH_TO_MERGE/merge/true:0x13b0' > uprobe_events > $ echo 1 > events/uprobes/true_entry/enable > > This returns 'bash: echo: write error: Input/output error' and dmesg > tells us 'event trace: Could not enable event true_entry' > > This change makes create_trace_uprobe() look for the real inode of a > dentry. In the case of normal filesystems, this simplifies to just > returning the inode. In the case of overlayfs(and similar fs) we will > obtain the underlying dentry and corresponding inode, upon which uprobes > can successfully register. > > Running the example above with the patch applied, we can see that the > uprobe is enabled and will output to trace as expected. > > Signed-off-by: Howard McLauchlan <hmclauch...@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <jba...@fb.com> Thanks, Josef
