Kyle Huey
100bff2381
The regressing commit is new in 6.10. It assumed that anytime event->prog
is set bpf_overflow_handler() should be invoked to execute the attached bpf
program. This assumption is false for tracing events, and as a result the
regressing commit broke bpftrace by invoking the bpf handler with garbage
inputs on overflow.
Prior to the regression the overflow handlers formed a chain (of length 0,
1, or 2) and perf_event_set_bpf_handler() (the !tracing case) added
bpf_overflow_handler() to that chain, while perf_event_attach_bpf_prog()
(the tracing case) did not. Both set event->prog. The chain of overflow
handlers was replaced by a single overflow handler slot and a fixed call to
bpf_overflow_handler() when appropriate. This modifies the condition there
to check event->prog->type == BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT, restoring the
previous behavior and fixing bpftrace.
Signed-off-by: Kyle Huey <khuey@kylehuey.com>
Suggested-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Joe Damato <jdamato@fastly.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZpFfocvyF3KHaSzF@LQ3V64L9R2/
Fixes: f11f10bfa1 ("perf/bpf: Call BPF handler directly, not through overflow machinery")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: Joe Damato <jdamato@fastly.com> # bpftrace
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240813151727.28797-1-jdamato@fastly.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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