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Date:   Thu, 17 Jun 2021 14:26:08 -0500
From:   Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
To:     Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip v7 09/13] kprobes: Setup instruction pointer in
 __kretprobe_trampoline_handler
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On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 11:31:03AM -0700, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 11:22 AM Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 10:45:41AM -0700, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
> > > > > > > I know I suggested this patch, but I believe it would only be useful in
> > > > > > > combination with the use of UNWIND_HINT_REGS in SAVE_REGS_STRING.  But I
> > > > > > > think that would be tricky to pull off correctly.  Instead, we have
> > > > > > > UNWIND_HINT_FUNC, which is working fine.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > So I'd suggest dropping this patch, as the unwinder isn't actually
> > > > > > > reading regs->ip after all.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > ... and I guess this means patches 6-8 are no longer necessary.
> > > > >
> > > > > OK, I also confirmed that dropping those patche does not make any change
> > > > > on the stacktrace.
> > > > > Let me update the series without those.
> > > >
> > > > Oops, Andrii, can you also test the kernel without this patch?
> > > > (you don't need to drop patch 6-8)
> > >
> > > Hi Masami,
> > >
> > > Dropping this patch and leaving all the other in place breaks stack
> > > traces from kretprobes for BPF. I double checked with and without this
> > > patch. Without this patch we are back to having broken stack traces. I
> > > see either
> > >
> > >   kretprobe_trampoline+0x0
> > >
> > > or
> > >
> > >   ftrace_trampoline+0xc8
> > >   kretprobe_trampoline+0x0

Do the stack traces end there?  Or do they continue normally after that?

-- 
Josh