load ebpf program failed: BPF program is too large. Processed 1000001 insn

[clxsh]

Hi team,
I'm encountering a program loading error with the latest ebpf-profiler on the 5.4.143 kernel, whereas the issue is not present in the 5.4.250 kernel. I've traced the problem to the pull request, after which each DEBUG_PRINT call seems to expand into more than 20 instructions.

ERRO[0045] BPF program is too large. Processed 1000001 insn
ERRO[0045] processed 1000001 insns (limit 1000000) max_states_per_insn 99 total_states 59623 peak_states 3386 mark_read 201
ERRO[0045] Failed to start agent controller: failed to load eBPF tracer: failed to load eBPF code: failed to load perf eBPF programs: failed to load perf_unwind_native

The kernel I use is an internal version, but I reproduce it on ubuntu 20.04 with linux-image-5.4.0-26-generic kernel.
Thanks!

[florianl]

Thanks for the report. The CI runs per kernel tests on every change and so there is also a test on Integration tests (v5.4.276 amd64).

These are the number of BPF instructions per program:

kprobe/unwind_dotnet has 7584 instructions
perf_event/unwind_dotnet has 7584 instructions
kprobe/go_labels has 679 instructions
perf_event/go_labels has 679 instructions
kprobe/unwind_hotspot has 7615 instructions
perf_event/unwind_hotspot has 7615 instructions
tracepoint/integration/sched_switch has 1247 instructions
kprobe/unwind_stop has 1662 instructions
perf_event/unwind_stop has 1662 instructions
kprobe/unwind_native has 7014 instructions
perf_event/native_tracer_entry has 1222 instructions
perf_event/unwind_native has 7014 instructions
kprobe/dummy has 6 instructions
kprobe/finish_task_switch has 1275 instructions
tracepoint/sched/sched_switch has 65 instructions
kprobe/unwind_perl has 7404 instructions
perf_event/unwind_perl has 7404 instructions
kprobe/unwind_php has 6934 instructions
perf_event/unwind_php has 6934 instructions
kprobe/unwind_python has 5949 instructions
perf_event/unwind_python has 5949 instructions
kprobe/unwind_ruby has 5104 instructions
perf_event/unwind_ruby has 5104 instructions
tracepoint/sched/sched_process_free has 283 instructions
tracepoint/syscalls/sys_enter_bpf has 45 instructions
raw_tracepoint/sys_enter has 56 instructions
kprobe/unwind_v8 has 7860 instructions
perf_event/unwind_v8 has 7860 instructions

But none of these programs exceeds even 10k instructions.
It might be a kernel configuration, that is triggering this issue. Can you compare your kernel config, with the ones (here and here) we use for our CI tests.

[christos68k]

This is a verifier failure, we should add one of the reported failing kernels to our CI.

[clxsh]

@florianl I concat the ci config to ci.config, and copy from ubuntu /boot/boot/config-5.4.0-26-generic to config-5.4.0-26-generic. Then use the diffconfig script to compare them. The output is as follows.

$ python2 diffconfig ci.config config-5.4.0-26-generic > diff.out
$ grep BPF diff.out
-BPF_LIRC_MODE2 y
-BPF_LSM y
-BPF_PRELOAD y
-NET_SCH_BPF y
+BPFILTER_UMH m
+BPF_EVENTS y
+BPF_KPROBE_OVERRIDE y
+HAVE_EBPF_JIT y
+IPV6_SEG6_BPF y
+LWTUNNEL_BPF y
+NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_BPF m
+NET_ACT_BPF m
+NET_CLS_BPF m
+TEST_BPF m

config-5.4.0-26-generic.txt