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authorPaul Buetow <paul@buetow.org>2026-05-02 10:01:15 +0300
committerPaul Buetow <paul@buetow.org>2026-05-02 10:01:15 +0300
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tree42b6d3ccd45f975cc9fa4f282a0813a81a707e0b /docs/tutorial
parent0dc3dc4e0c8367bc8399d3987251015a0e135fd9 (diff)
fix BPF tracepoint context type for RHEL 9 stock kernel
The BPF handler generator emitted struct trace_event_raw_sys_enter/ trace_event_raw_sys_exit (the BTF-blessed aliases). RHEL 9 carries an rt-tree backport that adds preempt_lazy_count to struct trace_entry, which widens those aliases by 8 bytes and shifts args/ret. The actual tracepoint context the kernel hands the program is still syscall_trace_enter / syscall_trace_exit, where the offsets did not move. Programs typed against the wider alias read past max_ctx_offset and the verifier rejects the attach with EACCES. Switching the generator to emit syscall_trace_enter/exit lines up with the real context on RHEL 9 (and is identical on every other distro, since the two structs only diverge there). Same fix bcc shipped in iovisor/bcc#4920 and inspektor-gadget did in inspektor-gadget#2546. Field accesses (ctx->args[N], ctx->ret) are unchanged. Verified end-to-end on Rocky Linux 9.7 stock 5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7 (no kernel-ml needed) and Fedora 6.19. README rewritten accordingly: drops the elrepo kernel-ml step and the trailing 'permission denied' troubleshooting paragraph; adds a historical note explaining why the old workaround existed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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