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From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf v3] tools/bpftool: fix a bug in bpftool perf
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 11:15:08 -0700
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On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 22:35:48 -0700, Yonghong Song wrote:
> Commit b04df400c302 ("tools/bpftool: add perf subcommand")
> introduced bpftool subcommand perf to query bpf program
> kuprobe and tracepoint attachments.
> 
> The perf subcommand will first test whether bpf subcommand
> BPF_TASK_FD_QUERY is supported in kernel or not. It does it
> by opening a file with argv[0] and feeds the file descriptor
> and current task pid to the kernel for querying.
> 
> Such an approach won't work if the argv[0] cannot be opened
> successfully in the current directory. This is especially
> true when bpftool is accessible through PATH env variable.
> The error below reflects the open failure for file argv[0]
> at home directory.
> 
>   [yhs@localhost ~]$ which bpftool
>   /usr/local/sbin/bpftool
>   [yhs@localhost ~]$ bpftool perf
>   Error: perf_query_support: No such file or directory
> 
> To fix the issue, let us open root directory ("/")
> which exists in every linux system. With the fix, the
> error message will correctly reflect the permission issue.
> 
>   [yhs@localhost ~]$ which bpftool
>   /usr/local/sbin/bpftool
>   [yhs@localhost ~]$ bpftool perf
>   Error: perf_query_support: Operation not permitted
>   HINT: non root or kernel doesn't support TASK_FD_QUERY
> 
> Fixes: b04df400c302 ("tools/bpftool: add perf subcommand")
> Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>

Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>

FWIW :)