Commit 8c061865 authored by Andrey Ignatov's avatar Andrey Ignatov Committed by Daniel Borkmann
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bpf: Document bpf_inspect drgn tool 

It's a follow-up for discussion in [1].

drgn tool bpf_inspect.py was merged to drgn repo in [2]. Document it
in kernel tree to make BPF developers aware that the tool exists and
can help with getting BPF state unavailable via UAPI.

For now it's just one tool but the doc is written in a way that allows
to cover more tools in the future if needed.

Please refer to the doc itself for more details.

The patch was tested by `make htmldocs` and sanity-checking that
resulting html looks good.

v2 -> v3:
  - two sections: "Description" and "Getting started" (Daniel);
  - add examples in "Getting started" section (Daniel);
  - add "Customization" section to show how tool can be customized.

v1 -> v2:
  - better "BPF drgn tools" section (Alexei)

  [1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200228201514.GB51456@rdna-mbp/T/#mefed65e8a98116bd5d07d09a570a3eac46724951
  [2] https://github.com/osandov/drgn/pull/49



Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrey Ignatov <rdna@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200324185135.1431038-1-rdna@fb.com
parent aa5e2af6

Documentation/bpf/drgn.rst

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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: (LGPL-2.1 OR BSD-2-Clause)



==============

BPF drgn tools

==============



drgn scripts is a convenient and easy to use mechanism to retrieve arbitrary

kernel data structures. drgn is not relying on kernel UAPI to read the data.

Instead it's reading directly from ``/proc/kcore`` or vmcore and pretty prints

the data based on DWARF debug information from vmlinux.



This document describes BPF related drgn tools.



See `drgn/tools`_ for all tools available at the moment and `drgn/doc`_ for

more details on drgn itself.



bpf_inspect.py

--------------



Description

===========



`bpf_inspect.py`_ is a tool intended to inspect BPF programs and maps. It can

iterate over all programs and maps in the system and print basic information

about these objects, including id, type and name.



The main use-case `bpf_inspect.py`_ covers is to show BPF programs of types

``BPF_PROG_TYPE_EXT`` and ``BPF_PROG_TYPE_TRACING`` attached to other BPF

programs via ``freplace``/``fentry``/``fexit`` mechanisms, since there is no

user-space API to get this information.



Getting started

===============



List BPF programs (full names are obtained from BTF)::



    % sudo bpf_inspect.py prog

        27: BPF_PROG_TYPE_TRACEPOINT         tracepoint__tcp__tcp_send_reset

      4632: BPF_PROG_TYPE_CGROUP_SOCK_ADDR   tw_ipt_bind

     49464: BPF_PROG_TYPE_RAW_TRACEPOINT     raw_tracepoint__sched_process_exit



List BPF maps::



      % sudo bpf_inspect.py map

        2577: BPF_MAP_TYPE_HASH                tw_ipt_vips

        4050: BPF_MAP_TYPE_STACK_TRACE         stack_traces

        4069: BPF_MAP_TYPE_PERCPU_ARRAY        ned_dctcp_cntr



Find BPF programs attached to BPF program ``test_pkt_access``::



      % sudo bpf_inspect.py p | grep test_pkt_access

         650: BPF_PROG_TYPE_SCHED_CLS          test_pkt_access

         654: BPF_PROG_TYPE_TRACING            test_main                        linked:[650->25: BPF_TRAMP_FEXIT test_pkt_access->test_pkt_access()]

         655: BPF_PROG_TYPE_TRACING            test_subprog1                    linked:[650->29: BPF_TRAMP_FEXIT test_pkt_access->test_pkt_access_subprog1()]

         656: BPF_PROG_TYPE_TRACING            test_subprog2                    linked:[650->31: BPF_TRAMP_FEXIT test_pkt_access->test_pkt_access_subprog2()]

         657: BPF_PROG_TYPE_TRACING            test_subprog3                    linked:[650->21: BPF_TRAMP_FEXIT test_pkt_access->test_pkt_access_subprog3()]

         658: BPF_PROG_TYPE_EXT                new_get_skb_len                  linked:[650->16: BPF_TRAMP_REPLACE test_pkt_access->get_skb_len()]

         659: BPF_PROG_TYPE_EXT                new_get_skb_ifindex              linked:[650->23: BPF_TRAMP_REPLACE test_pkt_access->get_skb_ifindex()]

         660: BPF_PROG_TYPE_EXT                new_get_constant                 linked:[650->19: BPF_TRAMP_REPLACE test_pkt_access->get_constant()]



It can be seen that there is a program ``test_pkt_access``, id 650 and there

are multiple other tracing and ext programs attached to functions in

``test_pkt_access``.



For example the line::



         658: BPF_PROG_TYPE_EXT                new_get_skb_len                  linked:[650->16: BPF_TRAMP_REPLACE test_pkt_access->get_skb_len()]



, means that BPF program id 658, type ``BPF_PROG_TYPE_EXT``, name

``new_get_skb_len`` replaces (``BPF_TRAMP_REPLACE``) function ``get_skb_len()``

that has BTF id 16 in BPF program id 650, name ``test_pkt_access``.



Getting help:



.. code-block:: none



    % sudo bpf_inspect.py

    usage: bpf_inspect.py [-h] {prog,p,map,m} ...



    drgn script to list BPF programs or maps and their properties

    unavailable via kernel API.



    See https://github.com/osandov/drgn/ for more details on drgn.



    optional arguments:

      -h, --help      show this help message and exit



    subcommands:

      {prog,p,map,m}

        prog (p)      list BPF programs

        map (m)       list BPF maps



Customization

=============



The script is intended to be customized by developers to print relevant

information about BPF programs, maps and other objects.



For example, to print ``struct bpf_prog_aux`` for BPF program id 53077:



.. code-block:: none



    % git diff

    diff --git a/tools/bpf_inspect.py b/tools/bpf_inspect.py

    index 650e228..aea2357 100755

    --- a/tools/bpf_inspect.py

    +++ b/tools/bpf_inspect.py

    @@ -112,7 +112,9 @@ def list_bpf_progs(args):

             if linked:

                 linked = f" linked:[{linked}]"



    -        print(f"{id_:>6}: {type_:32} {name:32} {linked}")

    +        if id_ == 53077:

    +            print(f"{id_:>6}: {type_:32} {name:32}")

    +            print(f"{bpf_prog.aux}")





     def list_bpf_maps(args):



It produces the output::



    % sudo bpf_inspect.py p

     53077: BPF_PROG_TYPE_XDP                tw_xdp_policer

    *(struct bpf_prog_aux *)0xffff8893fad4b400 = {

            .refcnt = (atomic64_t){

                    .counter = (long)58,

            },

            .used_map_cnt = (u32)1,

            .max_ctx_offset = (u32)8,

            .max_pkt_offset = (u32)15,

            .max_tp_access = (u32)0,

            .stack_depth = (u32)8,

            .id = (u32)53077,

            .func_cnt = (u32)0,

            .func_idx = (u32)0,

            .attach_btf_id = (u32)0,

            .linked_prog = (struct bpf_prog *)0x0,

            .verifier_zext = (bool)0,

            .offload_requested = (bool)0,

            .attach_btf_trace = (bool)0,

            .func_proto_unreliable = (bool)0,

            .trampoline_prog_type = (enum bpf_tramp_prog_type)BPF_TRAMP_FENTRY,

            .trampoline = (struct bpf_trampoline *)0x0,

            .tramp_hlist = (struct hlist_node){

                    .next = (struct hlist_node *)0x0,

                    .pprev = (struct hlist_node **)0x0,

            },

            .attach_func_proto = (const struct btf_type *)0x0,

            .attach_func_name = (const char *)0x0,

            .func = (struct bpf_prog **)0x0,

            .jit_data = (void *)0x0,

            .poke_tab = (struct bpf_jit_poke_descriptor *)0x0,

            .size_poke_tab = (u32)0,

            .ksym_tnode = (struct latch_tree_node){

                    .node = (struct rb_node [2]){

                            {

                                    .__rb_parent_color = (unsigned long)18446612956263126665,

                                    .rb_right = (struct rb_node *)0x0,

                                    .rb_left = (struct rb_node *)0xffff88a0be3d0088,

                            },

                            {

                                    .__rb_parent_color = (unsigned long)18446612956263126689,

                                    .rb_right = (struct rb_node *)0x0,

                                    .rb_left = (struct rb_node *)0xffff88a0be3d00a0,

                            },

                    },

            },

            .ksym_lnode = (struct list_head){

                    .next = (struct list_head *)0xffff88bf481830b8,

                    .prev = (struct list_head *)0xffff888309f536b8,

            },

            .ops = (const struct bpf_prog_ops *)xdp_prog_ops+0x0 = 0xffffffff820fa350,

            .used_maps = (struct bpf_map **)0xffff889ff795de98,

            .prog = (struct bpf_prog *)0xffffc9000cf2d000,

            .user = (struct user_struct *)root_user+0x0 = 0xffffffff82444820,

            .load_time = (u64)2408348759285319,

            .cgroup_storage = (struct bpf_map *[2]){},

            .name = (char [16])"tw_xdp_policer",

            .security = (void *)0xffff889ff795d548,

            .offload = (struct bpf_prog_offload *)0x0,

            .btf = (struct btf *)0xffff8890ce6d0580,

            .func_info = (struct bpf_func_info *)0xffff889ff795d240,

            .func_info_aux = (struct bpf_func_info_aux *)0xffff889ff795de20,

            .linfo = (struct bpf_line_info *)0xffff888a707afc00,

            .jited_linfo = (void **)0xffff8893fad48600,

            .func_info_cnt = (u32)1,

            .nr_linfo = (u32)37,

            .linfo_idx = (u32)0,

            .num_exentries = (u32)0,

            .extable = (struct exception_table_entry *)0xffffffffa032d950,

            .stats = (struct bpf_prog_stats *)0x603fe3a1f6d0,

            .work = (struct work_struct){

                    .data = (atomic_long_t){

                            .counter = (long)0,

                    },

                    .entry = (struct list_head){

                            .next = (struct list_head *)0x0,

                            .prev = (struct list_head *)0x0,

                    },

                    .func = (work_func_t)0x0,

            },

            .rcu = (struct callback_head){

                    .next = (struct callback_head *)0x0,

                    .func = (void (*)(struct callback_head *))0x0,

            },

    }





.. Links

.. _drgn/doc: https://drgn.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

.. _drgn/tools: https://github.com/osandov/drgn/tree/master/tools

.. _bpf_inspect.py:

   https://github.com/osandov/drgn/blob/master/tools/bpf_inspect.py

Documentation/bpf/index.rst

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   prog_flow_dissector





Testing BPF

===========

Testing and debugging BPF

=========================



.. toctree::

   :maxdepth: 1



   drgn

   s390

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