From 19bfcdf9498aa968ea293417fbbc39e523527ca8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2024 20:05:44 +0100 Subject: bpf: Relax tracing prog recursive attach rules Currently, it's not allowed to attach an fentry/fexit prog to another one fentry/fexit. At the same time it's not uncommon to see a tracing program with lots of logic in use, and the attachment limitation prevents usage of fentry/fexit for performance analysis (e.g. with "bpftool prog profile" command) in this case. An example could be falcosecurity libs project that uses tp_btf tracing programs. Following the corresponding discussion [1], the reason for that is to avoid tracing progs call cycles without introducing more complex solutions. But currently it seems impossible to load and attach tracing programs in a way that will form such a cycle. The limitation is coming from the fact that attach_prog_fd is specified at the prog load (thus making it impossible to attach to a program loaded after it in this way), as well as tracing progs not implementing link_detach. Replace "no same type" requirement with verification that no more than one level of attachment nesting is allowed. In this way only one fentry/fexit program could be attached to another fentry/fexit to cover profiling use case, and still no cycle could be formed. To implement, add a new field into bpf_prog_aux to track nested attachment for tracing programs. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191108064039.2041889-16-ast@kernel.org/ Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Acked-by: Song Liu Signed-off-by: Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240103190559.14750-2-9erthalion6@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov --- include/linux/bpf.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/bpf.h b/include/linux/bpf.h index 7671530d6e4e..e30100597d0a 100644 --- a/include/linux/bpf.h +++ b/include/linux/bpf.h @@ -1449,6 +1449,7 @@ struct bpf_prog_aux { bool dev_bound; /* Program is bound to the netdev. */ bool offload_requested; /* Program is bound and offloaded to the netdev. */ bool attach_btf_trace; /* true if attaching to BTF-enabled raw tp */ + bool attach_tracing_prog; /* true if tracing another tracing program */ bool func_proto_unreliable; bool sleepable; bool tail_call_reachable; -- cgit v1.2.3