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From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com>
To: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
	Networking <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>,
	Kernel Team <Kernel-team@fb.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 04/10] libbpf: auto-detect btf_id of raw_tracepoint
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2019 02:26:58 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0ea6bf09-12ca-e23a-0535-abc62ee7e914@fb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEf4BzZxHyBoX9stW7uapZ06xd26N_zZcghytkQAUM1ss5sN6A@mail.gmail.com>

On 10/7/19 4:41 PM, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 10:04 PM Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>> For raw tracepoint program types libbpf will try to find
>> btf_id of raw tracepoint in vmlinux's BTF.
>> It's a responsiblity of bpf program author to annotate the program
>> with SEC("raw_tracepoint/name") where "name" is a valid raw tracepoint.
> 
> As an aside, I've been thinking about allowing to specify "raw_tp/"
> and "tp/" in section name as an "alias" for "raw_tracepoint/" and
> "tracepoint/", respectively. Any objections?

make sense.

>> If "name" is indeed a valid raw tracepoint then in-kernel BTF
>> will have "btf_trace_##name" typedef that points to function
>> prototype of that raw tracepoint. BTF description captures
>> exact argument the kernel C code is passing into raw tracepoint.
>> The kernel verifier will check the types while loading bpf program.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
>> ---
>>   tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
>>   1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
>> index e0276520171b..0e6f7b41c521 100644
>> --- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
>> +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
>> @@ -4591,6 +4591,22 @@ int libbpf_prog_type_by_name(const char *name, enum bpf_prog_type *prog_type,
>>                          continue;
>>                  *prog_type = section_names[i].prog_type;
>>                  *expected_attach_type = section_names[i].expected_attach_type;
>> +               if (*prog_type == BPF_PROG_TYPE_RAW_TRACEPOINT) {
>> +                       struct btf *btf = bpf_core_find_kernel_btf();
>> +                       char raw_tp_btf_name[128] = "btf_trace_";
>> +                       int ret;
>> +
>> +                       if (IS_ERR(btf))
>> +                               /* lack of kernel BTF is not a failure */
>> +                               return 0;
>> +                       /* append "btf_trace_" prefix per kernel convention */
>> +                       strcpy(raw_tp_btf_name + sizeof("btf_trace_") - 1,
>> +                              name + section_names[i].len);
> 
> buffer overflow here? use strncat() instead?

128 is ksym_name and due to tp construction with other prefixes,
I think, it cannot overflow, but that's a good nit. Fixed it.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-09  2:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-05  5:03 [PATCH bpf-next 00/10] bpf: revolutionize bpf tracing Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-05  5:03 ` [PATCH bpf-next 01/10] bpf: add typecast to raw_tracepoints to help BTF generation Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-05 18:40   ` Andrii Nakryiko
2019-10-06  3:58   ` John Fastabend
2019-10-05  5:03 ` [PATCH bpf-next 02/10] bpf: add typecast to bpf helpers " Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-05 18:41   ` Andrii Nakryiko
2019-10-06  4:00   ` John Fastabend
2019-10-05  5:03 ` [PATCH bpf-next 03/10] bpf: process in-kernel BTF Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-06  6:36   ` Andrii Nakryiko
2019-10-06 23:49     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-07  0:20       ` Andrii Nakryiko
2019-10-09 20:51   ` Martin Lau
2019-10-10  3:43     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-05  5:03 ` [PATCH bpf-next 04/10] libbpf: auto-detect btf_id of raw_tracepoint Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-07 23:41   ` Andrii Nakryiko
2019-10-09  2:26     ` Alexei Starovoitov [this message]
2019-10-05  5:03 ` [PATCH bpf-next 05/10] bpf: implement accurate raw_tp context access via BTF Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-07 16:32   ` Alan Maguire
2019-10-09  3:59     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-08  0:35   ` Andrii Nakryiko
2019-10-09  3:30     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-09  4:01       ` Andrii Nakryiko
2019-10-09  5:10         ` Andrii Nakryiko
2019-10-10  3:54           ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-05  5:03 ` [PATCH bpf-next 06/10] bpf: add support for BTF pointers to interpreter Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-08  3:08   ` Andrii Nakryiko
2019-10-05  5:03 ` [PATCH bpf-next 07/10] bpf: add support for BTF pointers to x86 JIT Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-05  6:03   ` Eric Dumazet
2019-10-09 17:38   ` Andrii Nakryiko
2019-10-09 17:46     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-05  5:03 ` [PATCH bpf-next 08/10] bpf: check types of arguments passed into helpers Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-09 18:01   ` Andrii Nakryiko
2019-10-09 19:58     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-05  5:03 ` [PATCH bpf-next 09/10] bpf: disallow bpf_probe_read[_str] helpers Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-09  5:29   ` Andrii Nakryiko
2019-10-09 19:38     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-05  5:03 ` [PATCH bpf-next 10/10] selftests/bpf: add kfree_skb raw_tp test Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-09  5:36   ` Andrii Nakryiko
2019-10-09 17:37     ` Alexei Starovoitov

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