From: "Rui Qi" <qirui.001@bytedance.com>
To: "Steven Rostedt" <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
"Masami Hiramatsu" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: "Mathieu Desnoyers" <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
"Shuah Khan" <shuah@kernel.org>,
"Heiko Carstens" <hca@linux.ibm.com>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org>,
"Rui Qi" <qirui.001@bytedance.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] selftests/ftrace: Convert ELF entry point to file offset in uprobe test
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2026 16:15:12 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260807081512.2974757-3-qirui.001@bytedance.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260807081512.2974757-1-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, 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, e_entry is an
absolute virtual address that can far exceed the file size. 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, 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 f2048c244526..19430bd5864c 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=`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=`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' "$((ENTRY_DEC - VA_DEC + OFF_DEC))")
+ break
+ fi
+done << EOF
+$(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:[~2026-08-07 8:16 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 ` [PATCH 2/2] selftests/ftrace: Convert ELF entry point to file offset " Rui Qi
2026-08-07 1:47 ` [PATCH 1/2] selftests/ftrace: Force C locale for readelf " 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 ` Rui Qi [this message]
2026-08-07 10:30 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] selftests/ftrace: Convert ELF entry point to file offset in uprobe test Masami Hiramatsu
2026-08-07 10:29 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] selftests/ftrace: Fix add_remove_uprobe robustness Masami Hiramatsu
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