Re: [PATCH] perf: allow non-privileged uprobe for user processes

[Song Liu]

> On May 7, 2019, at 4:40 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, May 07, 2019 at 12:43:15AM -0700, Song Liu wrote:
>> diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
>> index abbd4b3b96c2..0508774d82e4 100644
>> --- a/kernel/events/core.c
>> +++ b/kernel/events/core.c
>> @@ -8532,9 +8532,10 @@ static int perf_tp_event_match(struct perf_event *event,
>> 	if (event->hw.state & PERF_HES_STOPPED)
>> 		return 0;
>> 	/*
>> -	 * All tracepoints are from kernel-space.
>> +	 * All tracepoints except uprobes are from kernel-space.
>> 	 */
>> -	if (event->attr.exclude_kernel)
>> +	if (event->attr.exclude_kernel &&
>> +	    ((event->tp_event->flags & TRACE_EVENT_FL_UPROBE) == 0))
> 
> That doesn't make sense; should you not be checking user_mode(regs)
> instead?

Yes! user_mode(regs) is better! V2 coming soon.

Thanks,
Song