On Fri, 18 Aug 2023 20:13:43 +0200
Francis Laniel [off-list ref] wrote:

Hi.

Le vendredi 18 août 2023, 17:41:41 CEST Steven Rostedt a écrit :

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On Fri, 18 Aug 2023 21:37:05 +0900

Masami Hiramatsu (Google) [off-list ref] wrote:  

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That's why perf probe uses the offset from '_text'. Normal KASLR will just
moves all symbols. (Finer one will move all symbols randomely)
This should not need to access /proc/kallsyms but vmlinux or SystemMap.  

We could just pass in: "_text+offset" too.  

So, the idea would be to change the existing create_local_trace_kprobe() and 
above functions to indicate the user's offset is to be used against _text and 
not address?

No, not to modify that function, but if you know the offset from _text (via
the vmlinux), you can easily calculate it for that function.

I mentioned having a way to pass in the vmlinux debug info address and
subtract the kaslr_offset from it. But that's actually unnecessary. If you
have the address of the function you want, and the address of _text, both
from the debug info of vmlinux, you can simply pass in "_text+offset", and
then use kallsyms to give you _text, and add the offset to give you the
address for create_local_trace_kprobe().

-- Steve