Bug 2219192 - bpf-opensnoop fails to run
Summary: bpf-opensnoop fails to run
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Status: ASSIGNED
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Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Classification: Red Hat
Component: bcc
Version: CentOS Stream
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Jerome Marchand
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Reported: 2023-07-02 22:40 UTC by Carlos Rodriguez-Fernandez
Modified: 2023-07-21 13:48 UTC (History)
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Red Hat Issue Tracker RHELPLAN-161388 0 None None None 2023-07-02 22:41:34 UTC

Description Carlos Rodriguez-Fernandez 2023-07-02 22:40:20 UTC
Description of problem:


bpf-opensnoop fails to run.

```
bpf-opensnoop -d 1
libbpf: prog 'tracepoint__syscalls__sys_exit_open': failed to create BPF link for perf_event FD 15: -13 (Permission denied)
libbpf: prog 'tracepoint__syscalls__sys_exit_open': failed to attach to tracepoint 'syscalls/sys_exit_open': Permission denied
libbpf: prog 'tracepoint__syscalls__sys_exit_open': failed to auto-attach: -13
failed to attach BPF programs
```

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Name         : libbpf-tools
Version      : 0.26.0
Release      : 3.el9

How reproducible:

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download Centos Stream 9 QCOW2 and run it
2. run dnf install libbpf-tools
3. run bpf-opensnoop -d 1

Actual results:

```
libbpf: prog 'tracepoint__syscalls__sys_exit_open': failed to create BPF link for perf_event FD 15: -13 (Permission denied)
libbpf: prog 'tracepoint__syscalls__sys_exit_open': failed to attach to tracepoint 'syscalls/sys_exit_open': Permission denied
libbpf: prog 'tracepoint__syscalls__sys_exit_open': failed to auto-attach: -13
failed to attach BPF programs
```

Expected results:
It doesn't error but works as intended

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jerome Marchand 2023-07-21 13:48:38 UTC
This is a known issue upstream:
https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/issues/4638

Functions that bcc relied on were inlined. The proper fix is to add tracepoint to the kernel.


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