Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 5 Aug 2026 17:14:13 +0200 | | From | Oleg Nesterov <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] uprobes: Skip breakpoint installation on non executable vmas |
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On 08/05, Sumanth Korikkar wrote: > > bpftrace -e 'usdt:./testprogs/usdt_semaphore_test:tracetest:testprobe { > printf("%s\n", str(arg1) ); exit(); }'
I am hoping that Andrii and Jiri (cc'ed) can take a look, I know nothing about usdt... And TBH, I don't even know what RELRO is ;)
Let me ask a couple of questions for now.
> expects a semaphore increment of 1, but semaphore gets double incremented > > Test program: > https://github.com/bpftrace/bpftrace/blob/master/tests/testprogs/usdt_semaphore_test.c
Perhaps you can provide the test-case which I could compile on my machine without libbpf-usdt/usdt.h?
And can you explain what the bpftrace cmd above actually does? I mean, where does it put the uprobe? I guess the ref_ctr_offset argument of uprobe_register() refers to USDT_DEFINE_SEMA() in that test-case...
> Reason: .text mapping and RELRO mapping resolve to the same page aligned > file offset 0 > 01000000-01001000 r-xp 00000000 5e:01 usdt_semaphore_test (.text) > 01001000-01002000 r--p 00000000 5e:01 usdt_semaphore_test (RELRO) > 01002000-01003000 rw-p 00001000 5e:01 usdt_semaphore_test (semaphore) > > valid_vma() currently accepts both mappings (which contains executable > text and RELRO mapping) during uprobe registration, since both have > VM_MAYEXEC set. This causes register_for_each_vma() to call > install_breakpoint() twice for the same underlying uprobe offset in the > process. This means, update_ref_ctr() is called twice for the same > process, so a usdt semaphore is incremented from 0 to 2.
So, 2 vmas map the same binary, install_breakpoint() is called twice. But, the 2nd install_breakpoint() -> ... -> uprobe_write() should see that the original insn was already replaced by int3, in this case verify_opcode() returns 0 and uprobe_write() should do nothing.
And, if this uprobe was optimized before the 2nd install_breakpoint(), uprobe_write() won't be called.
Hmm.
> Installing a breakpoint for mapping without VM_EXEC and > updating usdt reference counter in that case is not useful. > > Skip non VM_EXEC mappings in install_breakpoint(). This fixes semaphore > double increment as shown in the above usecase. > > Signed-off-by: Sumanth Korikkar <sumanthk@linux.ibm.com> > --- > kernel/events/uprobes.c | 3 +++ > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c > index 6300b216012c..9e0bbc3cf401 100644 > --- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c > +++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c > @@ -1155,6 +1155,9 @@ static int install_breakpoint(struct uprobe *uprobe, struct vm_area_struct *vma, > bool first_uprobe; > int ret; > > + if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_EXEC)) > + return 0; > +
Well, but then it makes more sense to change valid_vma() to nack the non VM_EXEC mappings ?
Oleg.
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