From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935208AbeBLNOg (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Feb 2018 08:14:36 -0500 Received: from mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com ([148.163.156.1]:51742 "EHLO mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933655AbeBLNOd (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Feb 2018 08:14:33 -0500 To: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Srikar Dronamraju , "Naveen N. Rao" , ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com, lkml From: Ravi Bangoria Subject: Uprobe: Bug(?) when probing small binaries Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 18:46:06 +0530 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 x-cbid: 18021213-0008-0000-0000-000004CBE7BD X-IBM-AV-DETECTION: SAVI=unused REMOTE=unused XFE=unused x-cbparentid: 18021213-0009-0000-0000-00001E5FA53F Message-Id: X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:,, definitions=2018-02-12_06:,, signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 priorityscore=1501 malwarescore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 spamscore=0 clxscore=1011 lowpriorityscore=0 impostorscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1709140000 definitions=main-1802120171 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Oleg, I'm observing a bug in the uprobe infrastructure. When target binary is quite small, uprobe replaces 'trap' instruction at two different places. Ex, Simple test.c that loops for 100 seconds:     void main()     {         int i = 0;             while (i++ != 100) {             printf("hi: %d", i);             sleep(1);         }     } Add a probe on function main() in test.c   $ perf probe -x ./a.out main     Added new event:       probe_a:main          (on main in /home/ravi/a.out) Start the target program and pause it.   $ gdb --args ./a.out     (gdb) r     main: 1     main: 2     ^C   (gdb) disassemble main        0x000000001000069c <+8>:    mflr    r0     (gdb) x/w 0x1001069c     0x1001069c:    2080899750 Now enable the probe:   # echo 1 > events/probe_a/main/enable Check probed instruction:   (gdb) disassemble main        0x000000001000069c <+8>:    trap *Bug*:   (gdb) x/w 0x1001069c     0x1001069c:  2145386504 In short, when it replaces the probe instruction, it does some corruption in the readonly vma. This seems to be a bug. How did I get the other address 0x1001069c?I found build_map_info() returns these two vmas for the single probe:   10000000-10010000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 67325595   /home/ravi/a.out   10010000-10020000 r--p 00000000 08:05 67325595   /home/ravi/a.out and thusregister_for_each_vmas() calls install_breakpoint() on both of thesevmas with different vaddr. The example is on powerpc but same issue is observed on x86 as well. As, the code is common, it should be reproducible on every architecture. Also, I don't observe this issue for bigger binaries (maybe for those whose vma spans across multiple pages). Thanks, Ravi