Add ETW probe support

[stevemk14ebr]

The PID and FBT probe types can't be supported until the signing requirements of the dtrace system/kernel extensions is changed by microsoft - as they use the windows hypervisor which doesn't boot when SB and DSE are set to off. The ETW probe type however doesn't rely on the hypervisor and should be implementable. If someone wants to perform that research, lets chat here.

[kirbyUK]

Hi, I saw your talk and thought this was a really cool idea. I've made a start on the ETW probes over at https://github.com/kirbyUK/STrace, though I haven't managed to get a callback yet. I'm looking at it when I have time.

[stevemk14ebr]

That's really awesome! Thanks for taking that on. In addition to the ETW probes, there's support in dtrace to have log events published via ETW, evaluating if the current log system in strace should be switched to an ETW based one would be really neat. There is quite a bit of overhead from writing to the output file in the current design.

There's an example dtrace script that shows this functionality in the dtrace repo.

[kirbyUK]

Sorry for being slow to update on this, I've been very busy recently. I just wanted to let you know that as of my just-pushed commit, my branch can now load ETW plugin DLLs and get callbacks from them, so it effectively works end-to-end!

[stevemk14ebr]

That's amazing, great work, thank you! Do you feel comfortable opening a PR with where it's at right now, or do you plan to keep working on it?

Also, have you played with the generation of events too? https://github.com/microsoft/DTrace-on-Windows/blob/6eddceb71a3214620e4438ed94be47620b12616f/samples/windows/etw/AddNewETWEvent.d#L34

[stevemk14ebr]

Reopened so that any additional work to access event data, or publish events, as mentioned in the closing PR, can be tracked!

[stevemk14ebr]

TODO:

• decode ETW events when we're the consumer

  STrace/C/EtwCallbackPlugin/dllmain.cpp

  Line 39 in eae3072

  LOG_INFO("Received event ID %d\r\n", EventHeader->EventDescriptor.Id);

• port the log implementation to produce ETW events instead https://github.com/mandiant/STrace/blob/main/C/STrace/Logger.cpp via https://github.com/mandiant/STrace/tree/main/C/AddNewEtwEventPlugin

[ArkaprabhaChakraborty]

Hi wanna contribute to this feature. I need some guidance though as I don't know where to begin.