This patch set reports two issues with captured stack traces.
First issue, fixed in patch #2, deals with fixing up uretprobe trampoline
addresses in captured stack trace. This issue happens when there are pending
return probes, for which kernel hijacks some of the return addresses on user
stacks. The code is matching those special uretprobe trampoline addresses with
the list of pending return probe instances and replaces them with actual
return addresses.
Second issue, which patch #3 is trying to fix with the help of heuristic, is
having to do with capturing user stack traces in entry uprobes. At the very
entrance to user function, frame pointer in rbp register is not yet setup, so
actual caller return address is still pointed to by rsp. Patch is using
a simple heuristic, looking for `push %rbp` instruction, to fetch this extra
direct caller return address, before proceeding to unwind the stack using rbp.
Consider this patch #3 an RFC, if there are better suggestions how this can be
solved, I'd be happy to hear that.
Patch #4 adds tests into BPF selftests, that validate that captured stack
traces at various points is what we expect to get. This patch, while being BPF
selftests, is isolated from any other BPF selftests changes and can go in
through non-BPF tree without the risk of merge conflicts.
Patches are based on latest linux-trace's probes/for-next branch.
Andrii Nakryiko (4):
uprobes: rename get_trampoline_vaddr() and make it global
perf,uprobes: fix user stack traces in the presence of pending
uretprobes
perf,x86: avoid missing caller address in stack traces captured in
uprobe
selftests/bpf: add test validating uprobe/uretprobe stack traces
arch/x86/events/core.c | 20 ++
include/linux/uprobes.h | 3 +
kernel/events/callchain.c | 42 +++-
kernel/events/uprobes.c | 17 +-
.../bpf/prog_tests/uretprobe_stack.c | 185 ++++++++++++++++++
.../selftests/bpf/progs/uretprobe_stack.c | 96 +++++++++
6 files changed, 359 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/uretprobe_stack.c
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/uretprobe_stack.c
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