Re: [BUG] Failed to obtain stack trace via bpf_get_stackid on ARM64 architecture

Alexei Starovoitov
2025-09-20T02:56:32Z

On Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 12:19 AM Feng Yang <yangfeng59949@163.com> wrote:
>
> When I use bpf_program__attach_kprobe_multi_opts to hook a BPF program that contains the bpf_get_stackid function on the arm64 architecture,
> I find that the stack trace cannot be obtained. The trace->nr in __bpf_get_stackid is 0, and the function returns -EFAULT.
>
> For example:
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/kprobe_multi.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/kprobe_multi.c
> index 9e1ca8e34913..844fa88cdc4c 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/kprobe_multi.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/kprobe_multi.c
> @@ -36,6 +36,15 @@ __u64 kretprobe_test6_result = 0;
> __u64 kretprobe_test7_result = 0;
> __u64 kretprobe_test8_result = 0;
>
> +typedef __u64 stack_trace_t[2];
> +
> +struct {
> + __uint(type, BPF_MAP_TYPE_STACK_TRACE);
> + __uint(max_entries, 1024);
> + __type(key, __u32);
> + __type(value, stack_trace_t);
> +} stacks SEC(".maps");
> +
> static void kprobe_multi_check(void *ctx, bool is_return)
> {
> if (bpf_get_current_pid_tgid() >> 32 != pid)
> @@ -100,7 +109,9 @@ int test_kretprobe(struct pt_regs *ctx)
> SEC("kprobe.multi")
> int test_kprobe_manual(struct pt_regs *ctx)
> {
> + int id = bpf_get_stackid(ctx, &stacks, 0);

ftrace_partial_regs() supposed to work on x86 and arm64,
but since multi-kprobe is the only user...
I suspect the arm64 implementation wasn't really tested.
Or maybe there is some other issue.

Masami, Jiri,
thoughts?