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Subjectuprobes: bug in comm/string output?
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Hi,

I've been playing around with uprobes today and found the following weird
behaviour/output when using more than one string argument (or using the $comm
argument). This was run on a v4.20 mainline build on Ubuntu 18.04.

root@ubuntu1810:~# uname -a
Linux ubuntu1810 4.20.0-042000-generic #201812232030 SMP Mon Dec 24 01:32:58 UTC
2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I'm trying to track calls to dlopen so I'm looking up the correct offset in
libdl.so:

root@ubuntu1810:/sys/kernel/debug/tracing# readelf -s
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl-2.28.so | grep dlopen
34: 00000000000012a0 133 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 14 dlopen@@GLIBC_2.2.5

Then I'm creating a uprobe with two prints of $comm and two prints of the first
argument to dlopen, and enable that probe. The '/root/test' program only does a
dlopen("libc.so.6", RTLD_LAZY) in main().

root@ubuntu1810:/sys/kernel/debug/tracing# echo 'p:dlopen
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl-2.28.so:0x12a0 $comm $comm +0(%di):string
+0(%di):string' > uprobe_events
root@ubuntu1810:/sys/kernel/debug/tracing# echo 1 > events/uprobes/dlopen/enable
root@ubuntu1810:/sys/kernel/debug/tracing# /root/test

The trace output looks like this:

root@ubuntu1810:/sys/kernel/debug/tracing# cat trace
# tracer: nop
#
# _-----=> irqs-off
# / _----=> need-resched
# | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
# || / _--=> preempt-depth
# ||| / delay
# TASK-PID CPU# |||| TIMESTAMP FUNCTION
# | | | |||| | |
test-1617 [000] d... 1237.959168: dlopen: (0x7fbd5272e2a0)
arg1=(fault) arg2=(fault) arg3="libc.so.6libc.so.6" arg4="libc.so.6"

That's very weird for two reasons:
- fetching $comm seems to fail with an invalid pointer
- arg3 contains the text twice (if I add another print of the argument, arg3
will contain the wanted string three times, arg4 two times and the last argument
will contain it once).

On the "standard" kernel shipped with Ubuntu 18.04 (4.18) printing $comm works
but also "accumulates" (in lack of a better word) the later string arguments in
the earlier output arguments, so for the probe above arg1 would be
"testtestlibc.so.6libc.so.6", arg2 would be "testlibc.so.6libc.so.6" and
arg3/arg4 will be the same as in the output above.

Is there anything in the documentation why multiple string outputs might not
work with uprobes? Am I installing the uprobe wrong? Or is this a bug?

I found that the kprobe selftest at
tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_args_string.tc contains a
similar situation for kprobes (it prints the parameter two times) which works
fine on the same system.

Regards,

Andreas

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