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    tracing/uprobe: Add support for overlayfs · f0a2aa5a
    Howard McLauchlan 提交于
    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.comReviewed-by: NJosef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
    Reviewed-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
    Reviewed-by: NSrikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: NHoward McLauchlan <hmclauchlan@fb.com>
    Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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