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Howard McLauchlan f0a2aa5a2a tracing/uprobe: Add support for overlayfs
uprobes cannot successfully attach to binaries located in a directory
mounted with overlayfs.

To verify, create directories for mounting overlayfs
(upper,lower,work,merge), move some binary into merge/ and use readelf
to obtain some known instruction of the binary. I used /bin/true and the
entry instruction(0x13b0):

	$ mount -t overlay overlay -o lowerdir=lower,upperdir=upper,workdir=work merge
	$ cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
	$ echo 'p:true_entry PATH_TO_MERGE/merge/true:0x13b0' > uprobe_events
	$ echo 1 > events/uprobes/true_entry/enable

This returns 'bash: echo: write error: Input/output error' and dmesg
tells us 'event trace: Could not enable event true_entry'

This change makes create_trace_uprobe() look for the real inode of a
dentry. In the case of normal filesystems, this simplifies to just
returning the inode. In the case of overlayfs(and similar fs) we will
obtain the underlying dentry and corresponding inode, upon which uprobes
can successfully register.

Running the example above with the patch applied, we can see that the
uprobe is enabled and will output to trace as expected.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180410231030.2720-1-hmclauchlan@fb.com

Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Howard McLauchlan <hmclauchlan@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2018-04-11 11:31:06 -04:00
arch Merge branch 'x86/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-03-04 12:12:48 -08:00
block for-linus-20180302 2018-03-02 09:35:36 -08:00
certs certs/blacklist_nohashes.c: fix const confusion in certs blacklist 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
crypto X.509: fix NULL dereference when restricting key with unsupported_sig 2018-02-22 14:38:34 +00:00
Documentation tracing: Add a clock attribute for hist triggers 2018-03-10 16:06:03 -05:00
drivers Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-03-04 11:34:49 -08:00
firmware
fs for-4.16-rc3-tag 2018-03-04 11:04:27 -08:00
include init, tracing: Add initcall trace events 2018-04-06 08:56:54 -04:00
init init: Have initcall_debug still work without CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS 2018-04-07 20:24:40 -04:00
ipc
kernel tracing/uprobe: Add support for overlayfs 2018-04-11 11:31:06 -04:00
lib vsprintf: Do not preprocess non-dereferenced pointers for bprintf (%px and %pK) 2018-04-06 08:56:51 -04:00
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mm mm: don't defer struct page initialization for Xen pv guests 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
net libceph, ceph: avoid memory leak when specifying same option several times 2018-02-26 16:19:30 +01:00
samples - do not build samples when cross compiling (Michal Hocko) 2018-02-27 10:39:29 -08:00
scripts Kbuild fixes for v4.16 2018-03-03 10:37:01 -08:00
security init, tracing: instrument security and console initcall trace events 2018-04-06 08:56:55 -04:00
sound ALSA: x86: Fix potential crash at error path 2018-02-28 08:46:00 +01:00
tools selftests: ftrace: Add inter-event hist triggers testcases 2018-03-10 16:06:05 -05:00
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virt KVM: mmu: Fix overlap between public and private memslots 2018-02-24 01:43:36 +01:00
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README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.