From: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
To: Eneshan Karaca <Eneshan-Karaca@yandex.com>
Cc: kees@kernel.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
jack@suse.cz, mhiramat@kernel.org,
mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com, jkoolstra@xs4all.nl,
farid.m.zakaria@gmail.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2] binfmt_misc: add binfmt_misc_select tracepoint
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 16:55:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261110-gefruchtet-singt-allabendlich-ff8653eb8631@brauner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261029185849.8016-1-Eneshan-Karaca@yandex.com>
On Thu, Oct 29, 2026 at 09:58:49PM +0300, Eneshan Karaca wrote:
> From: Eneshan Erdoğan Karaca <BoxStrikesTeam@proton.me>
>
> A binfmt_misc entry can select an interpreter for an exec. With a BPF
> 'B' handler, that selection can be made by a BPF struct_ops program.
> The kernel commits the decision in bprm->interp and bprm->flags, but it
> does not emit an event at the selection point.
>
> Existing observers have to reconstruct the decision from
> /proc/PID/exe, AT_EXECFD, AT_FLAGS, or /proc/PID/maps. These sources
> are mode-dependent: a transparent dispatch still reports the original
> binary in /proc/PID/exe, and a short-lived process can exit before the
> observer reads it. A classic dispatch reports the interpreter, but
> not which handler selected it or which invocation flags were used.
>
> Add a tracepoint after the interpreter and the invocation flags are
> selected. The caller passes the matched entry and the raw flags; the
> trace event resolves the handler name and masks the flags with
> MISC_FMT_INVOCATION_FLAGS. The event reports the binary filename, the
> selected interpreter, the handler name, the invocation flags, and the
> pid.
>
> The tracepoint is observability only; it does not change exec
> behavior.
>
> Assisted-by: LLM
> Signed-off-by: Eneshan Erdoğan Karaca <BoxStrikesTeam@proton.me>
> ---
This is whitespace damaged. So Sashiko can't look at it.
Resend it properly, please.
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