Salvatore Benedetto reported an issue that when doing syscall tracepoint tracing the kernel stack is empty. For example, using the following command line bpftrace -e 'tracepoint:syscalls:sys_enter_read { print("Kernel Stack\n"); print(kstack()); }' bpftrace -e 'tracepoint:syscalls:sys_exit_read { print("Kernel Stack\n"); print(kstack()); }' the output for both commands is === Kernel Stack === Further analysis shows that pt_regs used for bpf syscall tracepoint tracing is from the one constructed during user->kernel transition. The call stack looks like perf_syscall_enter+0x88/0x7c0 trace_sys_enter+0x41/0x80 syscall_trace_enter+0x100/0x160 do_syscall_64+0x38/0xf0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e The ip address stored in pt_regs is from user space hence no kernel stack is printed. To fix the issue, kernel address from pt_regs is required. In kernel repo, there are already a few cases like this. For example, in kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c, several perf_fetch_caller_regs(fake_regs_ptr) instances are used to supply ip address or use ip address to construct call stack. Instead of allocate fake_regs in the stack which may consume a lot of bytes, the function perf_trace_buf_alloc() in perf_syscall_{enter, exit}() is leveraged to create fake_regs, which will be passed to perf_call_bpf_{enter,exit}(). For the above bpftrace script, I got the following output with this patch: for tracepoint:syscalls:sys_enter_read === Kernel Stack syscall_trace_enter+407 syscall_trace_enter+407 do_syscall_64+74 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+75 === and for tracepoint:syscalls:sys_exit_read === Kernel Stack syscall_exit_work+185 syscall_exit_work+185 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+305 do_syscall_64+118 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+75 === Reported-by: Salvatore Benedetto <salvabenedetto@xxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@xxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c b/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c index 9c581d6da843..785733245ead 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c @@ -564,6 +564,7 @@ static int perf_call_bpf_enter(struct trace_event_call *call, struct pt_regs *re BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(param.ent) < sizeof(void *)); /* bpf prog requires 'regs' to be the first member in the ctx (a.k.a. ¶m) */ + perf_fetch_caller_regs(regs); *(struct pt_regs **)¶m = regs; param.syscall_nr = rec->nr; for (i = 0; i < sys_data->nb_args; i++) @@ -575,6 +576,7 @@ static void perf_syscall_enter(void *ignore, struct pt_regs *regs, long id) { struct syscall_metadata *sys_data; struct syscall_trace_enter *rec; + struct pt_regs *fake_regs; struct hlist_head *head; unsigned long args[6]; bool valid_prog_array; @@ -602,7 +604,7 @@ static void perf_syscall_enter(void *ignore, struct pt_regs *regs, long id) size = ALIGN(size + sizeof(u32), sizeof(u64)); size -= sizeof(u32); - rec = perf_trace_buf_alloc(size, NULL, &rctx); + rec = perf_trace_buf_alloc(size, &fake_regs, &rctx); if (!rec) return; @@ -611,7 +613,7 @@ static void perf_syscall_enter(void *ignore, struct pt_regs *regs, long id) memcpy(&rec->args, args, sizeof(unsigned long) * sys_data->nb_args); if ((valid_prog_array && - !perf_call_bpf_enter(sys_data->enter_event, regs, sys_data, rec)) || + !perf_call_bpf_enter(sys_data->enter_event, fake_regs, sys_data, rec)) || hlist_empty(head)) { perf_swevent_put_recursion_context(rctx); return; @@ -666,6 +668,7 @@ static int perf_call_bpf_exit(struct trace_event_call *call, struct pt_regs *reg } __aligned(8) param; /* bpf prog requires 'regs' to be the first member in the ctx (a.k.a. ¶m) */ + perf_fetch_caller_regs(regs); *(struct pt_regs **)¶m = regs; param.syscall_nr = rec->nr; param.ret = rec->ret; @@ -676,6 +679,7 @@ static void perf_syscall_exit(void *ignore, struct pt_regs *regs, long ret) { struct syscall_metadata *sys_data; struct syscall_trace_exit *rec; + struct pt_regs *fake_regs; struct hlist_head *head; bool valid_prog_array; int syscall_nr; @@ -701,7 +705,7 @@ static void perf_syscall_exit(void *ignore, struct pt_regs *regs, long ret) size = ALIGN(sizeof(*rec) + sizeof(u32), sizeof(u64)); size -= sizeof(u32); - rec = perf_trace_buf_alloc(size, NULL, &rctx); + rec = perf_trace_buf_alloc(size, &fake_regs, &rctx); if (!rec) return; @@ -709,7 +713,7 @@ static void perf_syscall_exit(void *ignore, struct pt_regs *regs, long ret) rec->ret = syscall_get_return_value(current, regs); if ((valid_prog_array && - !perf_call_bpf_exit(sys_data->exit_event, regs, rec)) || + !perf_call_bpf_exit(sys_data->exit_event, fake_regs, rec)) || hlist_empty(head)) { perf_swevent_put_recursion_context(rctx); return; -- 2.43.5