Linux Virtualization - Nov 2013 - [PATCH -tip v3 00/23] kprobes: introduce NOKPROBE_SYMBOL() and general cleaning of kprobe blacklist

masami.hiramatsu.pt wrote:
> [...]  This series also includes a change which prohibits probing on
> the address in .entry.text because the code is used for very
> low-level sensitive interrupt/syscall entries. Probing such code may
> cause unexpected result (actually most of that area is already in
> the kprobe blacklist).  So I've decide to prohibit probing all of
> them. [...]
Does this new blacklist cover enough that the kernel now survives a
broadly wildcarded perf-probe, e.g. over e.g. all of its kallsyms?


- FChE

Hi -
> > Does this new blacklist cover enough that the kernel now survives a 
> > broadly wildcarded perf-probe, e.g. over e.g. all of its kallsyms?
> 
> That's generally the purpose of the annotations - if it doesn't
then
> that's a bug.
AFAIK, no kernel since kprobes was introduced has ever stood up to
that test.  perf probe lacks the wildcarding powers of systemtap, so
one needs to resort to something like:

# cat /proc/kallsyms | grep ' [tT] ' | while read addr type symbol; do
   perf probe $symbol
done

then wait for a few hours for that to finish. Then, or while the loop
is still running, run

# perf record -e 'probe:*' -aR sleep 1

to take a kernel down.


- FChE