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scripts/sorttable: Zero out weak functions in mcount_loc table
When a function is annotated as "weak" and is overridden, the code is not
removed. If it is traced, the fentry/mcount location in the weak function
will be referenced by the "__mcount_loc" section. This will then be added
to the available_filter_functions list. Since only the address of the
functions are listed, to find the name to show, a search of kallsyms is
used.
Since kallsyms will return the function by simply finding the function
that the address is after but before the next function, an address of a
weak function will show up as the function before it. This is because
kallsyms does not save names of weak functions. This has caused issues in
the past, as now the traced weak function will be listed in
available_filter_functions with the name of the function before it.
At best, this will cause the previous function's name to be listed twice.
At worse, if the previous function was marked notrace, it will now show up
as a function that can be traced. Note that it only shows up that it can
be traced but will not be if enabled, which causes confusion.
https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
The commit b39181f ("ftrace: Add FTRACE_MCOUNT_MAX_OFFSET to avoid
adding weak function") was a workaround to this by checking the function
address before printing its name. If the address was too far from the
function given by the name then instead of printing the name it would
print: __ftrace_invalid_address___<invalid-offset>
The real issue is that these invalid addresses are listed in the ftrace
table look up which available_filter_functions is derived from. A place
holder must be listed in that file because set_ftrace_filter may take a
series of indexes into that file instead of names to be able to do O(1)
lookups to enable filtering (many tools use this method).
Even if kallsyms saved the size of the function, it does not remove the
need of having these place holders. The real solution is to not add a weak
function into the ftrace table in the first place.
To solve this, the sorttable.c code that sorts the mcount regions during
the build is modified to take a "nm -S vmlinux" input, sort it, and any
function listed in the mcount_loc section that is not within a boundary of
the function list given by nm is considered a weak function and is zeroed
out.
Note, this does not mean they will remain zero when booting as KASLR
will still shift those addresses. To handle this, the entries in the
mcount_loc section will be ignored if they are zero or match the
kaslr_offset() value.
Before:
~# grep __ftrace_invalid_address___ /sys/kernel/tracing/available_filter_functions | wc -l
551
After:
~# grep __ftrace_invalid_address___ /sys/kernel/tracing/available_filter_functions | wc -l
0
Cc: bpf <[email protected]>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <[email protected]>
Cc: Nicolas Schier <[email protected]>
Cc: Zheng Yejian <[email protected]>
Cc: Martin Kelly <[email protected]>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <[email protected]>
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