Re: [PATCHv2 bpf 3/3] bpf: Force cookies array to follow symbols sorting

[Jiri Olsa <olsajiri@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2022 at 09:10:32PM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 12:56 PM Jiri Olsa <olsajiri@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 07, 2022 at 11:40:47AM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 11:48 AM Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > When user specifies symbols and cookies for kprobe_multi link
> > > > interface it's very likely the cookies will be misplaced and
> > > > returned to wrong functions (via get_attach_cookie helper).
> > > >
> > > > The reason is that to resolve the provided functions we sort
> > > > them before passing them to ftrace_lookup_symbols, but we do
> > > > not do the same sort on the cookie values.
> > > >
> > > > Fixing this by using sort_r function with custom swap callback
> > > > that swaps cookie values as well.
> > > >
> > > > Fixes: 0236fec57a15 ("bpf: Resolve symbols with ftrace_lookup_symbols for kprobe multi link")
> > > > Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
> > >
> > > It looks good, but something in this patch is causing a regression:
> > > ./test_progs -t kprobe_multi
> > > test_kprobe_multi_test:PASS:load_kallsyms 0 nsec
> > > #80/1    kprobe_multi_test/skel_api:OK
> > > #80/2    kprobe_multi_test/link_api_addrs:OK
> > > #80/3    kprobe_multi_test/link_api_syms:OK
> > > #80/4    kprobe_multi_test/attach_api_pattern:OK
> > > #80/5    kprobe_multi_test/attach_api_addrs:OK
> > > #80/6    kprobe_multi_test/attach_api_syms:OK
> > > #80/7    kprobe_multi_test/attach_api_fails:OK
> > > test_bench_attach:PASS:get_syms 0 nsec
> > > test_bench_attach:PASS:kprobe_multi_empty__open_and_load 0 nsec
> > > libbpf: prog 'test_kprobe_empty': failed to attach: No such process
> > > test_bench_attach:FAIL:bpf_program__attach_kprobe_multi_opts
> > > unexpected error: -3
> > > #80/8    kprobe_multi_test/bench_attach:FAIL
> > > #80      kprobe_multi_test:FAIL
> >
> > looks like kallsyms search failed to find some symbol,
> > but I can't reproduce with:
> >
> >   ./vmtest.sh -- ./test_progs -t kprobe_multi
> >
> > can you share .config you used?
> 
> I don't think it's config related.
> Patch 2 is doing:
> 
> - if (!bsearch(&name, args->syms, args->cnt, sizeof(*args->syms), symbols_cmp))
> + sym = bsearch(&name, args->syms, args->cnt, sizeof(*args->syms), symbols_cmp);
> + if (!sym)
> + return 0;
> +
> + idx = sym - args->syms;
> + if (args->addrs[idx])
>   return 0;
> 
>   addr = ftrace_location(addr);
>   if (!addr)
>   return 0;
> 
> - args->addrs[args->found++] = addr;
> + args->addrs[idx] = addr;
> + args->found++;
>   return args->found == args->cnt ? 1 : 0;
> 
> There are plenty of functions with the same name
> in available_filter_functions.
> So
>  if (args->addrs[idx])
>   return 0;
> triggers for a lot of them.
> At the end args->found != args->cnt.

there's code in get_syms (prog_tests/kprobe_multi_test.c)
that filters out duplicates

> 
> Here is trivial debug patch:
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
> index 601ccf1b2f09..c567cf56cb57 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
> @@ -8037,8 +8037,10 @@ static int kallsyms_callback(void *data, const
> char *name,
>                 return 0;
> 
>         idx = sym - args->syms;
> -       if (args->addrs[idx])
> +       if (args->addrs[idx]) {
> +               printk("idx %x name %s\n", idx, name);
>                 return 0;
> +       }
> 
>         addr = ftrace_location(addr);
>         if (!addr)
> @@ -8078,6 +8080,7 @@ int ftrace_lookup_symbols(const char
> **sorted_syms, size_t cnt, unsigned long *a
>         err = kallsyms_on_each_symbol(kallsyms_callback, &args);
>         if (err < 0)
>                 return err;
> +       printk("found %zd cnt %zd\n", args.found, args.cnt);
>         return args.found == args.cnt ? 0 : -ESRCH;
>  }
> 
> [   13.096160] idx a500 name unregister_vclock
> [   13.096930] idx 82fb name pt_regs_offset
> [   13.106969] idx 92be name set_root
> [   13.107290] idx 4414 name event_function
> [   13.112570] idx 7d1d name phy_init
> [   13.114459] idx 7d13 name phy_exit
> [   13.114777] idx ab91 name watchdog
> [   13.115730] found 46921 cnt 47036
> 
> I don't understand how it works for you at all.
> It passes in BPF CI only because we don't run
> kprobe_multi_test/bench_attach there (yet).

reproduced after I updated the tree today.. not sure why I did
not see that before, going to check

jirka