Before the 0bc11ed5ab60 commit ("kprobes: Allow kprobes coexist with livepatch"), in a scenario where livepatch and kprobe coexist on the same function entry, the creation of kprobe_event using add_kprobe_event_legacy() will be successful, at the same time as a trace event (e.g. /debugfs/tracing/events/kprobe/XXX) will exist, but perf_event_open() will return an error because both livepatch and kprobe use FTRACE_OPS_FL_IPMODIFY. As follows: 1) add a livepatch $ insmod livepatch-XXX.ko 2) add a kprobe using tracefs API (i.e. add_kprobe_event_legacy) $ echo 'p:mykprobe XXX' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events 3) enable this kprobe (i.e. sys_perf_event_open) This will return an error, -EBUSY. On Andrii Nakryiko's comment, few error paths in bpf_program__attach_kprobe_opts() that should need to call remove_kprobe_event_legacy(). With this patch, whenever an error is returned after add_kprobe_event_legacy() or bpf_program__attach_perf_event_opts(), this ensures that the created kprobe_event is cleaned. Signed-off-by: Chuang Wang <nashuiliang@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jingren Zhou <zhoujingren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c | 19 +++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c index e994797bcd48..8a33a52e01a5 100644 --- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c @@ -9868,10 +9868,11 @@ static int perf_event_kprobe_open_legacy(const char *probe_name, bool retprobe, } type = determine_kprobe_perf_type_legacy(probe_name, retprobe); if (type < 0) { + err = type; pr_warn("failed to determine legacy kprobe event id for '%s+0x%zx': %s\n", kfunc_name, offset, - libbpf_strerror_r(type, errmsg, sizeof(errmsg))); - return type; + libbpf_strerror_r(err, errmsg, sizeof(errmsg))); + goto err_clean_legacy; } attr.size = sizeof(attr); attr.config = type; @@ -9885,9 +9886,14 @@ static int perf_event_kprobe_open_legacy(const char *probe_name, bool retprobe, err = -errno; pr_warn("legacy kprobe perf_event_open() failed: %s\n", libbpf_strerror_r(err, errmsg, sizeof(errmsg))); - return err; + goto err_clean_legacy; } return pfd; + +err_clean_legacy: + /* Clear the newly added legacy kprobe_event */ + remove_kprobe_event_legacy(probe_name, retprobe); + return err; } struct bpf_link * @@ -9944,7 +9950,7 @@ bpf_program__attach_kprobe_opts(const struct bpf_program *prog, prog->name, retprobe ? "kretprobe" : "kprobe", func_name, offset, libbpf_strerror_r(err, errmsg, sizeof(errmsg))); - goto err_out; + goto err_clean_legacy; } if (legacy) { struct bpf_link_perf *perf_link = container_of(link, struct bpf_link_perf, link); @@ -9955,6 +9961,11 @@ bpf_program__attach_kprobe_opts(const struct bpf_program *prog, } return link; + +err_clean_legacy: + if (legacy) + remove_kprobe_event_legacy(legacy_probe, retprobe); + err_out: free(legacy_probe); return libbpf_err_ptr(err); -- 2.34.1