Re:

Yonghong Song
2023-05-21T03:59:20Z

On 5/20/23 2:47 AM, Ze Gao wrote:
>
> Hi Jiri,
>
> Would you like to consider to add rcu_is_watching check in
> to solve this from the viewpoint of kprobe_multi_link_prog_run
> itself? And accounting of missed runs can be added as well
> to imporve observability.
>
> Regards,
> Ze
>
>
> -----------------
> From 29fd3cd713e65461325c2703cf5246a6fae5d4fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Ze Gao <zegao@tencent.com>
> Date: Sat, 20 May 2023 17:32:05 +0800
> Subject: [PATCH] bpf: kprobe_multi runs bpf progs only when rcu_is_watching
>
> From the perspective of kprobe_multi_link_prog_run, any traceable
> functions can be attached while bpf progs need specical care and
> ought to be under rcu protection. To solve the likely rcu lockdep
> warns once for good, when (future) functions in idle path were
> attached accidentally, we better paying some cost to check at least
> in kernel-side, and return when rcu is not watching, which helps
> to avoid any unpredictable results.

kprobe_multi/fprobe share the same set of attachments with fentry.
Currently, fentry does not filter with !rcu_is_watching, maybe
because this is an extreme corner case. Not sure whether it is
worthwhile or not.

Maybe if you can give a concrete example (e.g., attachment point)
with current code base to show what the issue you encountered and
it will make it easier to judge whether adding !rcu_is_watching()
is necessary or not.

>
> Signed-off-by: Ze Gao <zegao@tencent.com>
> ---
> kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c b/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c
> index 9a050e36dc6c..3e6ea7274765 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c
> @@ -2622,7 +2622,7 @@ kprobe_multi_link_prog_run(struct bpf_kprobe_multi_link *link,
> struct bpf_run_ctx *old_run_ctx;
> int err;
>
> - if (unlikely(__this_cpu_inc_return(bpf_prog_active) != 1)) {
> + if (unlikely(__this_cpu_inc_return(bpf_prog_active) != 1 || !rcu_is_watching())) {
> err = 0;
> goto out;
> }