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authorJordan Rome <jordalgo@meta.com>2023-11-08 14:23:34 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2024-01-26 02:27:24 +0300
commit799a914e483a23f7826d230b09e0b1164d282b60 (patch)
tree6b976cb9e99a57e75b17aa0fb60964fa9d2b0260 /tools/include/uapi
parent1959a560ac4e09ab6d7e44340e29d41c370c22c2 (diff)
downloadlinux-799a914e483a23f7826d230b09e0b1164d282b60.tar.xz
bpf: Add crosstask check to __bpf_get_stack
[ Upstream commit b8e3a87a627b575896e448021e5c2f8a3bc19931 ] Currently get_perf_callchain only supports user stack walking for the current task. Passing the correct *crosstask* param will return 0 frames if the task passed to __bpf_get_stack isn't the current one instead of a single incorrect frame/address. This change passes the correct *crosstask* param but also does a preemptive check in __bpf_get_stack if the task is current and returns -EOPNOTSUPP if it is not. This issue was found using bpf_get_task_stack inside a BPF iterator ("iter/task"), which iterates over all tasks. bpf_get_task_stack works fine for fetching kernel stacks but because get_perf_callchain relies on the caller to know if the requested *task* is the current one (via *crosstask*) it was failing in a confusing way. It might be possible to get user stacks for all tasks utilizing something like access_process_vm but that requires the bpf program calling bpf_get_task_stack to be sleepable and would therefore be a breaking change. Fixes: fa28dcb82a38 ("bpf: Introduce helper bpf_get_task_stack()") Signed-off-by: Jordan Rome <jordalgo@meta.com> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20231108112334.3433136-1-jordalgo@meta.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/include/uapi')
-rw-r--r--tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h b/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
index 92dbe89dafbf..201dc77ebbd7 100644
--- a/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
+++ b/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
@@ -4353,6 +4353,8 @@ union bpf_attr {
* long bpf_get_task_stack(struct task_struct *task, void *buf, u32 size, u64 flags)
* Description
* Return a user or a kernel stack in bpf program provided buffer.
+ * Note: the user stack will only be populated if the *task* is
+ * the current task; all other tasks will return -EOPNOTSUPP.
* To achieve this, the helper needs *task*, which is a valid
* pointer to **struct task_struct**. To store the stacktrace, the
* bpf program provides *buf* with a nonnegative *size*.
@@ -4364,6 +4366,7 @@ union bpf_attr {
*
* **BPF_F_USER_STACK**
* Collect a user space stack instead of a kernel stack.
+ * The *task* must be the current task.
* **BPF_F_USER_BUILD_ID**
* Collect buildid+offset instead of ips for user stack,
* only valid if **BPF_F_USER_STACK** is also specified.