From: "Rui Qi" <qirui.001@bytedance.com>
To: "Steven Rostedt" <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
"Masami Hiramatsu" <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
"Mathieu Desnoyers" <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
"Shuah Khan" <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: "Heiko Carstens" <hca@linux.ibm.com>,
<linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Rui Qi" <qirui.001@bytedance.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] selftests/ftrace: Convert ELF entry point to file offset in uprobe test
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2026 16:31:01 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260806083101.2651025-2-qirui.001@bytedance.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260806083101.2651025-1-qirui.001@bytedance.com>
The add_remove_uprobe test uses "readelf -h" to obtain the ELF entry
point (e_entry) and passes it directly as the offset to uprobe_events.
However, uprobe_events expects a file offset, not a virtual address.
For PIE binaries (ET_DYN), the virtual address happens to equal the file
offset because the first LOAD segment has p_vaddr == p_offset, so the
test works by coincidence. But for non-PIE executables (ET_EXEC),
e_entry is an absolute virtual address (e.g. 0x406ad0) that far exceeds
the file size (e.g. 0x7be60). When the probe is enabled, uprobe_register()
checks offset > i_size_read(inode) and rejects it with -EINVAL.
Fix this by converting the virtual address to a file offset using the
ELF program headers: scan readelf -lW output for the LOAD segment
containing the entry point, then compute file_offset = e_entry -
p_vaddr + p_offset. For PIE binaries the result is unchanged; for
non-PIE binaries the offset is correctly translated.
The conversion uses only POSIX shell primitives (printf, arithmetic
expansion) with no dependency on gawk or perl.
Fixes: dc4b165855f2 ("selftests/ftrace: Use readelf to find entry point in uprobe test")
Signed-off-by: Rui Qi <qirui.001@bytedance.com>
---
.../test.d/dynevent/add_remove_uprobe.tc | 27 +++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/dynevent/add_remove_uprobe.tc b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/dynevent/add_remove_uprobe.tc
index f33a863be68b..9207fd817aae 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/dynevent/add_remove_uprobe.tc
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/dynevent/add_remove_uprobe.tc
@@ -12,9 +12,32 @@ echo 0 > events/enable
echo > dynamic_events
REALBIN=`readlink -f /bin/sh`
-ENTRYPOINT=`LC_ALL=C readelf -h ${REALBIN} | grep Entry | sed -e 's/[^0]*//'`
-echo "p:myevent ${REALBIN}:${ENTRYPOINT}" >> uprobe_events
+# Get the entry point virtual address from ELF header
+ENTRY=`LC_ALL=C readelf -hW ${REALBIN} | grep "Entry point" | awk '{print $NF}'`
+
+# Convert virtual address to file offset: find the LOAD segment containing
+# the entry point, then compute file_offset = e_entry - p_vaddr + p_offset.
+# For PIE binaries this is a no-op (vaddr == file offset), but for non-PIE
+# executables the virtual address is much larger than the file size and
+# must be converted, otherwise uprobe_register() rejects it with -EINVAL.
+ENTRY_DEC=$(printf '%d' "$ENTRY")
+OFFSET=$ENTRY
+while IFS= read -r line; do
+ set -- $line
+ [ "$1" = "LOAD" ] || continue
+ VA_DEC=$(printf '%d' "$3")
+ OFF_DEC=$(printf '%d' "$2")
+ FSZ_DEC=$(printf '%d' "$5")
+ if [ "$ENTRY_DEC" -ge "$VA_DEC" ] && [ "$ENTRY_DEC" -lt "$((VA_DEC + FSZ_DEC))" ]; then
+ OFFSET=$(printf '0x%x' "$((ENTRY_DEC - VA_DEC + OFF_DEC))")
+ break
+ fi
+done << EOF
+$(LC_ALL=C readelf -lW ${REALBIN} | grep LOAD)
+EOF
+
+echo "p:myevent ${REALBIN}:${OFFSET}" >> uprobe_events
grep -q myevent uprobe_events
test -d events/uprobes/myevent
--
2.20.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-06 8:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-06 8:31 [PATCH 1/2] selftests/ftrace: Force C locale for readelf in uprobe test Rui Qi
2026-08-06 8:31 ` Rui Qi [this message]
2026-08-07 1:47 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2026-08-07 8:01 ` Rui Qi
2026-08-07 8:15 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] selftests/ftrace: Fix add_remove_uprobe robustness Rui Qi
2026-08-07 8:15 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] selftests/ftrace: Force C locale in ftracetest Rui Qi
2026-08-07 8:15 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] selftests/ftrace: Convert ELF entry point to file offset in uprobe test Rui Qi
2026-08-07 10:30 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2026-08-07 10:29 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] selftests/ftrace: Fix add_remove_uprobe robustness Masami Hiramatsu
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