This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled perf probe: Fix to get correct modname from elf header to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: perf-probe-fix-to-get-correct-modname-from-elf-header.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Fri Aug 4 15:15:01 PDT 2017 From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 00:20:49 +0900 Subject: perf probe: Fix to get correct modname from elf header From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 1f2ed153b916c95a49a1ca9d7107738664224b7f ] Since 'perf probe' supports cross-arch probes, it is possible to analyze different arch kernel image which has different bits-per-long. In that case, it fails to get the module name because it uses the MOD_NAME_OFFSET macro based on the host machine bits-per-long, instead of the target arch bits-per-long. This fixes above issue by changing modname-offset based on the target archs bit width. This is ok because linux kernel uses LP64 model on 64bit arch. E.g. without this (on x86_64, and target module is arm32): $ perf probe -m build-arm/fs/configfs/configfs.ko -D configfs_lookup p:probe/configfs_lookup :configfs_lookup+0 ^-Here is an empty module name. With this fix, you can see correct module name: $ perf probe -m build-arm/fs/configfs/configfs.ko -D configfs_lookup p:probe/configfs_lookup configfs:configfs_lookup+0 Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/148337043836.6752.383495516397005695.stgit@devbox Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/perf/util/probe-event.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) --- a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c @@ -268,21 +268,6 @@ static bool kprobe_warn_out_range(const } /* - * NOTE: - * '.gnu.linkonce.this_module' section of kernel module elf directly - * maps to 'struct module' from linux/module.h. This section contains - * actual module name which will be used by kernel after loading it. - * But, we cannot use 'struct module' here since linux/module.h is not - * exposed to user-space. Offset of 'name' has remained same from long - * time, so hardcoding it here. - */ -#ifdef __LP64__ -#define MOD_NAME_OFFSET 24 -#else -#define MOD_NAME_OFFSET 12 -#endif - -/* * @module can be module name of module file path. In case of path, * inspect elf and find out what is actual module name. * Caller has to free mod_name after using it. @@ -296,6 +281,7 @@ static char *find_module_name(const char Elf_Data *data; Elf_Scn *sec; char *mod_name = NULL; + int name_offset; fd = open(module, O_RDONLY); if (fd < 0) @@ -317,7 +303,21 @@ static char *find_module_name(const char if (!data || !data->d_buf) goto ret_err; - mod_name = strdup((char *)data->d_buf + MOD_NAME_OFFSET); + /* + * NOTE: + * '.gnu.linkonce.this_module' section of kernel module elf directly + * maps to 'struct module' from linux/module.h. This section contains + * actual module name which will be used by kernel after loading it. + * But, we cannot use 'struct module' here since linux/module.h is not + * exposed to user-space. Offset of 'name' has remained same from long + * time, so hardcoding it here. + */ + if (ehdr.e_ident[EI_CLASS] == ELFCLASS32) + name_offset = 12; + else /* expect ELFCLASS64 by default */ + name_offset = 24; + + mod_name = strdup((char *)data->d_buf + name_offset); ret_err: elf_end(elf); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/perf-probe-fix-to-get-correct-modname-from-elf-header.patch