tools: bpftool: attempt to mount tracefs if required for tracelog cmd

As a follow-up to commit 30da46b5dc3a ("tools: bpftool: add a command to
dump the trace pipe"), attempt to mount the tracefs virtual file system
if it is not detected on the system before trying to dump content of the
tracing pipe on an invocation of "bpftool prog tracelog".

Usually, tracefs in automatically mounted by debugfs when the user tries
to access it (e.g. "ls /sys/kernel/debug/tracing" mounts the tracefs).
So if we failed to find it, it is probably that debugfs is not here
either. Therefore, we just attempt a single mount, at a location that
does not involve debugfs: /sys/kernel/tracing.

Suggested-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com>
Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/tools/bpf/bpftool/tracelog.c b/tools/bpf/bpftool/tracelog.c
index 1fa8e513f590..2dc36dfa0896 100644
--- a/tools/bpf/bpftool/tracelog.c
+++ b/tools/bpf/bpftool/tracelog.c
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ find_tracefs_mnt_single(unsigned long magic, char *mnt, const char *mntpt)
 	return true;
 }
 
-static bool find_tracefs_pipe(char *mnt)
+static bool get_tracefs_pipe(char *mnt)
 {
 	static const char * const known_mnts[] = {
 		"/sys/kernel/debug/tracing",
@@ -88,7 +88,17 @@ static bool find_tracefs_pipe(char *mnt)
 	fclose(fp);
 
 	/* The string from fscanf() might be truncated, check mnt is valid */
-	if (!found || validate_tracefs_mnt(mnt, TRACEFS_MAGIC))
+	if (found && validate_tracefs_mnt(mnt, TRACEFS_MAGIC))
+		goto exit_found;
+
+	p_info("could not find tracefs, attempting to mount it now");
+	/* Most of the time, tracefs is automatically mounted by debugfs at
+	 * /sys/kernel/debug/tracing when we try to access it. If we could not
+	 * find it, it is likely that debugfs is not mounted. Let's give one
+	 * attempt at mounting just tracefs at /sys/kernel/tracing.
+	 */
+	strcpy(mnt, known_mnts[1]);
+	if (mount_tracefs(mnt))
 		return false;
 
 exit_found:
@@ -115,17 +125,13 @@ int do_tracelog(int argc, char **argv)
 		.sa_handler = exit_tracelog
 	};
 	char trace_pipe[PATH_MAX];
-	bool found_trace_pipe;
 	size_t buff_len = 0;
 
 	if (json_output)
 		jsonw_start_array(json_wtr);
 
-	found_trace_pipe = find_tracefs_pipe(trace_pipe);
-	if (!found_trace_pipe) {
-		p_err("could not find trace pipe, tracefs not mounted?");
+	if (!get_tracefs_pipe(trace_pipe))
 		return -1;
-	}
 
 	trace_pipe_fd = fopen(trace_pipe, "r");
 	if (!trace_pipe_fd) {