On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 7:13 AM Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 21 May 2024 18:38:43 -0700
> Andrii Nakryiko <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > When kernel has pending uretprobes installed, it hijacks original user
> > function return address on the stack with a uretprobe trampoline
> > address. There could be multiple such pending uretprobes (either on
> > different user functions or on the same recursive one) at any given
> > time within the same task.
> >
> > This approach interferes with the user stack trace capture logic, which
> > would report suprising addresses (like 0x7fffffffe000) that correspond
> > to a special "[uprobes]" section that kernel installs in the target
> > process address space for uretprobe trampoline code, while logically it
> > should be an address somewhere within the calling function of another
> > traced user function.
> >
> > This is easy to correct for, though. Uprobes subsystem keeps track of
> > pending uretprobes and records original return addresses. This patch is
> > using this to do a post-processing step and restore each trampoline
> > address entries with correct original return address. This is done only
> > if there are pending uretprobes for current task.
> >
> > This is a similar approach to what fprobe/kretprobe infrastructure is
> > doing when capturing kernel stack traces in the presence of pending
> > return probes.
> >
>
> This looks good to me because this trampoline information is only
> managed in uprobes. And it should be provided when unwinding user
> stack.
>
> Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <[email protected]>
>
> Thank you!

Great, thanks for reviewing, Masami!

Would you take this fix through your tree, or where should it be routed to?

>
> > Reported-by: Riham Selim <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  kernel/events/callchain.c | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> >  kernel/events/uprobes.c   |  9 ++++++++
> >  2 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >

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