On Android, APKs (android packages; zip packages with somewhat
prescriptive contents) are first class citizens in the system: the
shared objects contained in them don't exist in unpacked form on the
file system. Rather, they are mmaped directly from within the archive
and the archive is also what the kernel is aware of.
For users that complicates the process of attaching a uprobe to a
function contained in a shared object in one such APK: they'd have to
find the byte offset of said function from the beginning of the archive.
That is cumbersome to do manually and can be fragile, because various
changes could invalidate said offset.
That is why for uprobes inside ELF files (not inside an APK), commit
d112c9ce249b ("libbpf: Support function name-based attach uprobes") added
support for attaching to symbols by name. On Android, that mechanism
currently does not work, because this logic is not APK aware.
This patch set introduces first class support for attaching uprobes to
functions inside ELF objects contained in APKs via function names. We
add support for recognizing the following syntax for a binary path:
<archive>!/<binary-in-archive>
(e.g., /system/app/test-app.apk!/lib/arm64-v8a/libc++.so)
This syntax is common in the Android eco system and used by tools such
as simpleperf. It is also what is being proposed for bcc [0].
If the user provides such a binary path, we find <binary-in-archive>
(lib/arm64-v8a/libc++.so in the example) inside of <archive>
(/system/app/test-app.apk). We perform the regular ELF offset search
inside the binary and add that to the offset within the archive itself,
to retrieve the offset at which to attach the uprobe.
[0] https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/pull/4440
Daniel Müller (3):
libbpf: Implement basic zip archive parsing support
libbpf: Introduce elf_find_func_offset_from_file() function
libbpf: Add support for attaching uprobes to shared objects in APKs
tools/lib/bpf/Build | 2 +-
tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c | 142 ++++++++++++++----
tools/lib/bpf/zip.c | 326 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
tools/lib/bpf/zip.h | 47 ++++++
4 files changed, 489 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 tools/lib/bpf/zip.c
create mode 100644 tools/lib/bpf/zip.h
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