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bpf: Relax tracing prog recursive attach rules
Currently, it's not allowed to attach an fentry/fexit prog to another one fentry/fexit. At the same time it's not uncommon to see a tracing program with lots of logic in use, and the attachment limitation prevents usage of fentry/fexit for performance analysis (e.g. with "bpftool prog profile" command) in this case. An example could be falcosecurity libs project that uses tp_btf tracing programs. Following the corresponding discussion [1], the reason for that is to avoid tracing progs call cycles without introducing more complex solutions. But currently it seems impossible to load and attach tracing programs in a way that will form such a cycle. The limitation is coming from the fact that attach_prog_fd is specified at the prog load (thus making it impossible to attach to a program loaded after it in this way), as well as tracing progs not implementing link_detach. Replace "no same type" requirement with verification that no more than one level of attachment nesting is allowed. In this way only one fentry/fexit program could be attached to another fentry/fexit to cover profiling use case, and still no cycle could be formed. To implement, add a new field into bpf_prog_aux to track nested attachment for tracing programs. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191108064039.2041889-16-ast@kernel.org/ Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <olsajiri@gmail.com> Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Dmitrii Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240103190559.14750-2-9erthalion6@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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