0.2.0 (Released April 28th, 2026)
====================================

These are some of the highlights of drgn 0.2.0. See the `GitHub release
<https://github.com/osandov/drgn/releases/tag/v0.2.0>`_ for the full release
notes, including more improvements and bug fixes.

.. highlight:: pycon
.. program:: drgn

Debugging QEMU Over QMP
-----------------------

drgn can now debug QEMU guests over the `QEMU Machine Protocol (QMP)
<https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/QMP>`_. This is typically slower than
running drgn inside of the virtual machine, but it has a few benefits:

* It requires less setup and fewer resources in the VM itself.
* It can be used when the VM is hung or in a bad state.

To use this, run QEMU with ``-qmp unix:/path/to/sock,server=on,wait=off -device vmcoreinfo``,
then run drgn with :option:`--qemu`:

.. code-block:: console

    $ drgn --qemu /path/to/qmp.sock --kernel-directory /path/to/kernel
    ...
    >>> prog["UTS_RELEASE"]
    (const char [24])"7.0.1"
    >>> for task in for_each_task():
    ...     print(task.comm)
    ...

The programmatic equivalent is :meth:`drgn.Program.set_qemu_qmp()`.

(You can also use a TCP socket or omit the vmcoreinfo device, but then you will
need to provide the vmcoreinfo to drgn manually.)

Sysfs Helpers
-------------

Muskan Goyal contributed several helpers for working with :manpage:`sysfs(5)`.

:func:`~drgn.helpers.linux.sysfs.sysfs_lookup_node()` finds the ``struct
kernfs_node *`` for a given sysfs path::

    >>> sysfs_lookup_node("/sys/block/nvme0n1")
    *(struct kernfs_node *)0xffff8f554b396110 = {...}

:func:`~drgn.helpers.linux.sysfs.sysfs_lookup_kobject()` similarly finds the
``struct kobject *``::

    >>> sysfs_lookup_kobject("/sys/block/nvme0n1")
    *(struct kobject *)0xffff8f554e85eb10 = {...}

:func:`~drgn.helpers.linux.sysfs.sysfs_lookup()` finds a more specific
structure if possible, like a ``struct device *``::

    >>> sysfs_lookup("/sys/block/nvme0n1")
    *(struct device *)0xffff8f554e85eb10 = {...}

:func:`~drgn.helpers.linux.sysfs.sysfs_listdir()` lists the contents of a sysfs
directory::

    >>> sysfs_listdir("/sys/block/nvme0n1")
    [b'uevent', b'ext_range', ...]

:func:`~drgn.helpers.linux.sysfs.kobject_path()` gets the canonical sysfs path
of a ``struct kobject *``::

    >>> kobject_path(sysfs_lookup_kobject("/sys/block/nvme0n1"))
    b'/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.0/0000:04:00.0/nvme/nvme0/nvme0n1'

Calling Multiple Functions with Kmodify
---------------------------------------

:func:`drgn.helpers.experimental.kmodify.call_functions()` was added. It calls
multiple functions in the kernel at once much more efficiently than separate
:func:`~drgn.helpers.experimental.kmodify.call_function()` calls by inserting a
single kernel module for all of the calls. This is useful for tasks like
cleaning up after reference leaks::

    >>> leaked_namespaces
    [Object(prog, 'struct net *', value=0xffff8f568869af80), ...]
    >>> call_functions([("netns_put", ns) for ns in leaked_namespaces])

Linux 7.1 Support
-----------------

This release contains several updates to handle changes in Linux 7.1.

A change to the ORC unwinder format used for x86-64 in Linux 7.1 broke stack
unwinding. This error is fixed in this release::

    >>> stack_trace(1)
      ...
    Exception: unrecognized .orc_header

A change in Linux 7.1 broke
:func:`~drgn.helpers.linux.slab.slab_cache_for_each_allocated_object()`,
:func:`~drgn.helpers.linux.slab.slab_cache_usage()`, and
:func:`~drgn.helpers.linux.slab.slab_object_info()`. This error is fixed in
this release::

    >>> slab_cache_usage(prog["mnt_cache"])
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      ...
    AttributeError: 'struct kmem_cache' has no member 'node'

A change in Linux 7.1 broke :func:`~drgn.helpers.linux.mm.PageCompound()`,
:func:`~drgn.helpers.linux.mm.PageHead()`,
:func:`~drgn.helpers.linux.mm.PageTail()`, and
:func:`~drgn.helpers.linux.mm.compound_head()`. This error is fixed in this
release::

    >>> compound_head(page)
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      ...
    AttributeError: 'struct page' has no member 'compound_head'

A change in Linux 7.1 made :func:`~drgn.helpers.linux.net.is_pp_page()` always
return false.

A change in Linux 7.1 broke :func:`~drgn.helpers.linux.fs.inode_path()` and
:func:`~drgn.helpers.linux.fs.inode_paths()`. This error is fixed in this
release::

    >>> inode_path(inode)
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      ...
    LookupError: 'struct dentry' has no member 'd_u'