JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-85303
Add "stack_order" sysfs attribute which holds the order in which a live
patch module was loaded into the system. A user can then determine an
active live patched version of a function.
cat /sys/kernel/livepatch/livepatch_1/stack_order -> 1
means that livepatch_1 is the first live patch applied
cat /sys/kernel/livepatch/livepatch_module/stack_order -> N
means that livepatch_module is the Nth live patch applied
Suggested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Suggested-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Suggested-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Wardenjohn <zhangwarden@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241008014856.3729-2-zhangwarden@gmail.com
[pmladek@suse.com: Updated kernel version and date in the ABI documentation.]
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
(cherry picked from commit 3dae09de406167123449d9ece1f51855d5bac01a)
Signed-off-by: Denis Aleksandrov <daleksan@redhat.com>
JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-85303
Based on the test results of kallsyms_on_each_match_symbol() and
kallsyms_on_each_symbol(), the average performance can be improved by
more than 1500 times.
Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
(cherry picked from commit 9cb37357dfce1b596041ad68a20407c8b4e76635)
Signed-off-by: Denis Aleksandrov <daleksan@redhat.com>
JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-61781
There are situations when it might make sense to combine livepatches
with and without the atomic replace on the same system. For example,
the livepatch without the atomic replace might provide a hotfix
or extra tuning.
Managing livepatches on such systems might be challenging. And the
information which of the installed livepatches do not use the atomic
replace would be useful.
Add new sysfs interface 'replace'. It works as follows:
$ cat /sys/kernel/livepatch/livepatch-non_replace/replace
0
$ cat /sys/kernel/livepatch/livepatch-replace/replace
1
[ commit log improved by Petr ]
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240625151123.2750-2-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
(cherry picked from commit adb68ed26a3e92224e04502c768f1bb03b7c7aeb)
Signed-off-by: Ryan Sullivan <rysulliv@redhat.com>
JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-61781
Let's use sysfs_emit() instead of snprintf().
Suggested-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240625151123.2750-4-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
(cherry picked from commit 920526928089b00be7881c7112a463fe8a63371b)
Signed-off-by: Ryan Sullivan <rysulliv@redhat.com>
JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-61781
The original macros of KLP_* is about the state of the transition.
Rename macros of KLP_* to KLP_TRANSITION_* to fix the confusing
description of klp transition state.
Signed-off-by: Wardenjohn <zhangwarden@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240507050111.38195-2-zhangwarden@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
(cherry picked from commit d927752f287fe10965612541593468ffcfa9231f)
Signed-off-by: Ryan Sullivan <rysulliv@redhat.com>
JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-28063
commit 3703bd54cd37e7875f51ece8df8c85c184e40bba
Author: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
Date: Wed Mar 8 15:38:46 2023 +0800
kallsyms: Delete an unused parameter related to {module_}kallsyms_on_each_symbol()
The parameter 'struct module *' in the hook function associated with
{module_}kallsyms_on_each_symbol() is no longer used. Delete it.
Suggested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Palazzo <vincenzopalazzodev@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Donald Dutile <ddutile@redhat.com>
JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-28063
Conflicts: upstream 73feb8d5fa3b already backported to RHEL9, so that results
in missing hunk for RHEL9 in module.h.
Removed bpf_trace.c hunk since bpf updated closer to upstream
and no longer uses kallsyms function.
commit 07cc2c931e8e1083a31f4c51d2244fe264af63bf
Author: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
Date: Mon Jan 16 11:10:07 2023 +0100
livepatch: Improve the search performance of module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol()
Currently we traverse all symbols of all modules to find the specified
function for the specified module. But in reality, we just need to find
the given module and then traverse all the symbols in it.
Let's add a new parameter 'const char *modname' to function
module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol(), then we can compare the module names
directly in this function and call hook 'fn' after matching. If 'modname'
is NULL, the symbols of all modules are still traversed for compatibility
with other usage cases.
Phase1: mod1-->mod2..(subsequent modules do not need to be compared)
|
Phase2: -->f1-->f2-->f3
Assuming that there are m modules, each module has n symbols on average,
then the time complexity is reduced from O(m * n) to O(m) + O(n).
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230116101009.23694-2-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Donald Dutile <ddutile@redhat.com>
JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-28063
commit b8a94bfb33952bb17fbc65f8903d242a721c533d
Author: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Date: Mon Apr 5 05:03:50 2021 +0200
kallsyms: increase maximum kernel symbol length to 512
Rust symbols can become quite long due to namespacing introduced
by modules, types, traits, generics, etc. For instance,
the following code:
pub mod my_module {
pub struct MyType;
pub struct MyGenericType<T>(T);
pub trait MyTrait {
fn my_method() -> u32;
}
impl MyTrait for MyGenericType<MyType> {
fn my_method() -> u32 {
42
}
}
}
generates a symbol of length 96 when using the upcoming v0 mangling scheme:
_RNvXNtCshGpAVYOtgW1_7example9my_moduleINtB2_13MyGenericTypeNtB2_6MyTypeENtB2_7MyTrait9my_method
At the moment, Rust symbols may reach up to 300 in length.
Setting 512 as the maximum seems like a reasonable choice to
keep some headroom.
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Co-developed-by: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>
Co-developed-by: Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@google.com>
Co-developed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Signed-off-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Co-developed-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Donald Dutile <ddutile@redhat.com>
JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-31518
Without the newline character, the log may not be printed immediately
after the error occurs.
Fixes: ca376a9374 ("livepatch: Prevent module-specific KLP rela sections from referencing vmlinux symbols")
Signed-off-by: Zheng Yejian <zhengyejian1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230914072644.4098857-1-zhengyejian1@huawei.com
(cherry picked from commit 67e18e132f0fd738f8c8cac3aa1420312073f795)
Signed-off-by: Ryan Sullivan <rysulliv@redhat.com>
JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-2768
commit 1b47b80e2fa777b37a9486512f4636d7e6aaa353
Author: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Date: Fri Feb 17 03:14:41 2023 +0000
livepatch: Make kobj_type structures constant
Since commit ee6d3dd4ed48 ("driver core: make kobj_type constant.")
the driver core allows the usage of const struct kobj_type.
Take advantage of this to constify the structure definitions to prevent
modification at runtime.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230217-kobj_type-livepatch-v1-1-06ded292e897@weissschuh.net
Signed-off-by: Ryan Sullivan <rysulliv@redhat.com>
JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-2768
commit 0c05e7bd2d017a3a9a0f4e9a19ad4acf1f616f12
Author: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Date: Wed Jan 25 10:54:01 2023 -0800
livepatch,x86: Clear relocation targets on a module removal
Josh reported a bug:
When the object to be patched is a module, and that module is
rmmod'ed and reloaded, it fails to load with:
module: x86/modules: Skipping invalid relocation target, existing value is nonzero for type 2, loc 00000000ba0302e9, val ffffffffa03e293c
livepatch: failed to initialize patch 'livepatch_nfsd' for module 'nfsd' (-8)
livepatch: patch 'livepatch_nfsd' failed for module 'nfsd', refusing to load module 'nfsd'
The livepatch module has a relocation which references a symbol
in the _previous_ loading of nfsd. When apply_relocate_add()
tries to replace the old relocation with a new one, it sees that
the previous one is nonzero and it errors out.
He also proposed three different solutions. We could remove the error
check in apply_relocate_add() introduced by commit eda9cec4c9
("x86/module: Detect and skip invalid relocations"). However the check
is useful for detecting corrupted modules.
We could also deny the patched modules to be removed. If it proved to be
a major drawback for users, we could still implement a different
approach. The solution would also complicate the existing code a lot.
We thus decided to reverse the relocation patching (clear all relocation
targets on x86_64). The solution is not
universal and is too much arch-specific, but it may prove to be simpler
in the end.
Reported-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Originally-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230125185401.279042-2-song@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ryan Sullivan <rysulliv@redhat.com>
JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-1536
Conflicts: Minor fixup due to already having 8df1947c71 ("livepatch:
Replace the fake signal sending with TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL infrastructure")
commit e3ff7c609f39671d1aaff4fb4a8594e14f3e03f8
Author: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Date: Fri Feb 24 08:50:00 2023 -0800
livepatch,sched: Add livepatch task switching to cond_resched()
There have been reports [1][2] of live patches failing to complete
within a reasonable amount of time due to CPU-bound kthreads.
Fix it by patching tasks in cond_resched().
There are four different flavors of cond_resched(), depending on the
kernel configuration. Hook into all of them.
A more elegant solution might be to use a preempt notifier. However,
non-ORC unwinders can't unwind a preempted task reliably.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220507174628.2086373-1-song@kernel.org/
[2] https://lkml.kernel.org/lkml/20230120-vhost-klp-switching-v1-0-7c2b65519c43@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean) <sforshee@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/4ae981466b7814ec221014fc2554b2f86f3fb70b.1677257135.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-257
commit bb26cfd9e77e8dadd4be2ca154017bde9326cd4b
Author: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Date: Fri Sep 2 13:52:07 2022 -0700
livepatch: add sysfs entry "patched" for each klp_object
Add per klp_object sysfs entry "patched". It makes it easier to debug
typos in the module name.
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
[pmladek@suse.com: Updated kernel version when the sysfs file will be introduced]
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220902205208.3117798-2-song@kernel.org
(cherry picked from commit bb26cfd9e77e8dadd4be2ca154017bde9326cd4b)
Signed-off-by: Julia Denham <jdenham@redhat.com>
JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-257
commit 66d8529d0f0423bc0fc249a5620c342c122981fb
Author: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
Date: Tue Aug 30 19:28:55 2022 +0800
livepatch: Add a missing newline character in klp_module_coming()
The error message is not printed immediately because it does not end with
a newline character.
Before:
root@localhost:~# insmod vmlinux.ko
insmod: ERROR: could not insert module vmlinux.ko: Invalid parameters
After:
root@localhost:~# insmod vmlinux.ko
[ 43.982558] livepatch: vmlinux.ko: invalid module name
insmod: ERROR: could not insert module vmlinux.ko: Invalid parameters
Fixes: dcf550e52f ("livepatch: Disallow vmlinux.ko")
Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220830112855.749-1-thunder.leizhen@huawei.com
(cherry picked from commit 66d8529d0f0423bc0fc249a5620c342c122981fb)
Signed-off-by: Julia Denham <jdenham@redhat.com>
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2069362
commit 50a0f3f55e382b313e7cbebdf8ccf1593296e16f
Author: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
Date: Sat Dec 25 10:51:15 2021 +0800
livepatch: Fix missing unlock on error in klp_enable_patch()
Add missing unlock when try_module_get() fails in klp_enable_patch().
Fixes: 5ef3dd20555e8e8 ("livepatch: Fix kobject refcount bug on klp_init_patch_early failure path")
Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
Acked-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211225025115.475348-1-yangyingliang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: C. Erastus Toe <ctoe@redhat.com>
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2069362
commit 5ef3dd20555e8e878ac390a71e658db5fd02845c
Author: David Vernet <void@manifault.com>
Date: Tue Dec 21 07:39:31 2021 -0800
livepatch: Fix kobject refcount bug on klp_init_patch_early failure path
When enabling a klp patch with klp_enable_patch(), klp_init_patch_early()
is invoked to initialize the kobjects for the patch itself, as well as the
'struct klp_object' and 'struct klp_func' objects that comprise it.
However, there are some error paths in klp_enable_patch() where some
kobjects may have been initialized with kobject_init(), but an error code
is still returned due to e.g. a 'struct klp_object' having a NULL funcs
pointer.
In these paths, the initial reference of the kobject of the 'struct
klp_patch' may never be released, along with one or more of its objects and
their functions, as kobject_put() is not invoked on the cleanup path if
klp_init_patch_early() returns an error code.
For example, if an object entry such as the following were added to the
sample livepatch module's klp patch, it would cause the vmlinux klp_object,
and its klp_func which updates 'cmdline_proc_show', to never be released:
static struct klp_object objs[] = {
{
/* name being NULL means vmlinux */
.funcs = funcs,
},
{
/* NULL funcs -- would cause reference leak */
.name = "kvm",
}, { }
};
Without this change, if CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT is enabled, and the sample klp
patch is loaded, the kobjects (the patch, the vmlinux 'struct klp_object',
and its func) are observed as initialized, but never released, in the dmesg
log output. With the change, these kobject references no longer fail to be
released as the error case is properly handled before they are initialized.
Signed-off-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: C. Erastus Toe <ctoe@redhat.com>
Require an explicit call to module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol to look
for symbols in modules instead of the call from kallsyms_on_each_symbol,
and acquire module_mutex inside of module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol instead
of leaving that up to the caller. Note that this slightly changes the
behavior for the livepatch code in that the symbols from vmlinux are not
iterated anymore if objname is set, but that actually is the desired
behavior in this case.
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Allow for a RCU-sched critical section around find_module, following
the lower level find_module_all helper, and switch the two callers
outside of module.c to use such a RCU-sched critical section instead
of module_mutex.
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Fix the following sparse warning:
kernel/livepatch/core.c:748:5: warning: symbol 'klp_apply_object_relocs' was
not declared.
The klp_apply_object_relocs() has only one call site within core.c;
it should be static
Fixes: 7c8e2bdd5f ("livepatch: Apply vmlinux-specific KLP relocations early")
Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Zou <zou_wei@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Now that the livepatch code no longer needs the text_mutex for changing
module permissions, move its usage down to apply_relocate_add().
Note the s390 version of apply_relocate_add() doesn't need to use the
text_mutex because it already uses s390_kernel_write_lock, which
accomplishes the same task.
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
With arch_klp_init_object_loaded() gone, and apply_relocate_add() now
using text_poke(), livepatch no longer needs to use module_disable_ro().
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Prevent module-specific KLP rela sections from referencing vmlinux
symbols. This helps prevent ordering issues with module special section
initializations. Presumably such symbols are exported and normal relas
can be used instead.
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
After the previous patch, vmlinux-specific KLP relocations are now
applied early during KLP module load. This means that .klp.arch
sections are no longer needed for *vmlinux-specific* KLP relocations.
One might think they're still needed for *module-specific* KLP
relocations. If a to-be-patched module is loaded *after* its
corresponding KLP module is loaded, any corresponding KLP relocations
will be delayed until the to-be-patched module is loaded. If any
special sections (.parainstructions, for example) rely on those
relocations, their initializations (apply_paravirt) need to be done
afterwards. Thus the apparent need for arch_klp_init_object_loaded()
and its corresponding .klp.arch sections -- it allows some of the
special section initializations to be done at a later time.
But... if you look closer, that dependency between the special sections
and the module-specific KLP relocations doesn't actually exist in
reality. Looking at the contents of the .altinstructions and
.parainstructions sections, there's not a realistic scenario in which a
KLP module's .altinstructions or .parainstructions section needs to
access a symbol in a to-be-patched module. It might need to access a
local symbol or even a vmlinux symbol; but not another module's symbol.
When a special section needs to reference a local or vmlinux symbol, a
normal rela can be used instead of a KLP rela.
Since the special section initializations don't actually have any real
dependency on module-specific KLP relocations, .klp.arch and
arch_klp_init_object_loaded() no longer have a reason to exist. So
remove them.
As Peter said much more succinctly:
So the reason for .klp.arch was that .klp.rela.* stuff would overwrite
paravirt instructions. If that happens you're doing it wrong. Those
RELAs are core kernel, not module, and thus should've happened in
.rela.* sections at patch-module loading time.
Reverting this removes the two apply_{paravirt,alternatives}() calls
from the late patching path, and means we don't have to worry about
them when removing module_disable_ro().
[ jpoimboe: Rewrote patch description. Tweaked klp_init_object_loaded()
error path. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
KLP relocations are livepatch-specific relocations which are applied to
a KLP module's text or data. They exist for two reasons:
1) Unexported symbols: replacement functions often need to access
unexported symbols (e.g. static functions), which "normal"
relocations don't allow.
2) Late module patching: this is the ability for a KLP module to
bypass normal module dependencies, such that the KLP module can be
loaded *before* a to-be-patched module. This means that
relocations which need to access symbols in the to-be-patched
module might need to be applied to the KLP module well after it has
been loaded.
Non-late-patched KLP relocations are applied from the KLP module's init
function. That usually works fine, unless the patched code wants to use
alternatives, paravirt patching, jump tables, or some other special
section which needs relocations. Then we run into ordering issues and
crashes.
In order for those special sections to work properly, the KLP
relocations should be applied *before* the special section init code
runs, such as apply_paravirt(), apply_alternatives(), or
jump_label_apply_nops().
You might think the obvious solution would be to move the KLP relocation
initialization earlier, but it's not necessarily that simple. The
problem is the above-mentioned late module patching, for which KLP
relocations can get applied well after the KLP module is loaded.
To "fix" this issue in the past, we created .klp.arch sections:
.klp.arch.{module}..altinstructions
.klp.arch.{module}..parainstructions
Those sections allow KLP late module patching code to call
apply_paravirt() and apply_alternatives() after the module-specific KLP
relocations (.klp.rela.{module}.{section}) have been applied.
But that has a lot of drawbacks, including code complexity, the need for
arch-specific code, and the (per-arch) danger that we missed some
special section -- for example the __jump_table section which is used
for jump labels.
It turns out there's a simpler and more functional approach. There are
two kinds of KLP relocation sections:
1) vmlinux-specific KLP relocation sections
.klp.rela.vmlinux.{sec}
These are relocations (applied to the KLP module) which reference
unexported vmlinux symbols.
2) module-specific KLP relocation sections
.klp.rela.{module}.{sec}:
These are relocations (applied to the KLP module) which reference
unexported or exported module symbols.
Up until now, these have been treated the same. However, they're
inherently different.
Because of late module patching, module-specific KLP relocations can be
applied very late, thus they can create the ordering headaches described
above.
But vmlinux-specific KLP relocations don't have that problem. There's
nothing to prevent them from being applied earlier. So apply them at
the same time as normal relocations, when the KLP module is being
loaded.
This means that for vmlinux-specific KLP relocations, we no longer have
any ordering issues. vmlinux-referencing jump labels, alternatives, and
paravirt patching will work automatically, without the need for the
.klp.arch hacks.
All that said, for module-specific KLP relocations, the ordering
problems still exist and we *do* still need .klp.arch. Or do we? Stay
tuned.
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
This is purely a theoretical issue, but if there were a module named
vmlinux.ko, the livepatch relocation code wouldn't be able to
distinguish between vmlinux-specific and vmlinux.o-specific KLP
relocations.
If CONFIG_LIVEPATCH is enabled, don't allow a module named vmlinux.ko.
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
The atomic replace runs pre/post (un)install callbacks only from the new
livepatch. There are several reasons for this:
+ Simplicity: clear ordering of operations, no interactions between
old and new callbacks.
+ Reliability: only new livepatch knows what changes can already be made
by older livepatches and how to take over the state.
+ Testing: the atomic replace can be properly tested only when a newer
livepatch is available. It might be too late to fix unwanted effect
of callbacks from older livepatches.
It might happen that an older change is not enough and the same system
state has to be modified another way. Different changes need to get
distinguished by a version number added to struct klp_state.
The version can also be used to prevent loading incompatible livepatches.
The check is done when the livepatch is enabled. The rules are:
+ Any completely new system state modification is allowed.
+ System state modifications with the same or higher version are allowed
for already modified system states.
+ Cumulative livepatches must handle all system state modifications from
already installed livepatches.
+ Non-cumulative livepatches are allowed to touch already modified
system states.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191030154313.13263-4-pmladek@suse.com
To: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Nicolai Stange <nstange@suse.de>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Pre/post (un)patch callbacks might manipulate the system state. Cumulative
livepatches might need to take over the changes made by the replaced
ones. For this they might need to access some data stored or referenced
by the old livepatches.
Therefore the replaced livepatches have to stay around until post_patch()
callback is called. It is achieved by calling the free functions later.
It is the same location where disabled livepatches have already been
freed.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191030154313.13263-2-pmladek@suse.com
To: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Nicolai Stange <nstange@suse.de>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
klp_module_coming() is called for every module appearing in the system.
It sets obj->mod to a patched module for klp_object obj. Unfortunately
it leaves it set even if an error happens later in the function and the
patched module is not allowed to be loaded.
klp_is_object_loaded() uses obj->mod variable and could currently give a
wrong return value. The bug is probably harmless as of now.
Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
- Out of range read of stack trace output
- Fix for NULL pointer dereference in trace_uprobe_create()
- Fix to a livepatching / ftrace permission race in the module code
- Fix for NULL pointer dereference in free_ftrace_func_mapper()
- A couple of build warning clean ups
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Merge tag 'trace-v5.2-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
- Out of range read of stack trace output
- Fix for NULL pointer dereference in trace_uprobe_create()
- Fix to a livepatching / ftrace permission race in the module code
- Fix for NULL pointer dereference in free_ftrace_func_mapper()
- A couple of build warning clean ups
* tag 'trace-v5.2-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
ftrace: Fix NULL pointer dereference in free_ftrace_func_mapper()
module: Fix livepatch/ftrace module text permissions race
tracing/uprobe: Fix obsolete comment on trace_uprobe_create()
tracing/uprobe: Fix NULL pointer dereference in trace_uprobe_create()
tracing: Make two symbols static
tracing: avoid build warning with HAVE_NOP_MCOUNT
tracing: Fix out-of-range read in trace_stack_print()
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Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Jilayne Lovejoy <opensource@jilayne.com>
Reviewed-by: Steve Winslow <swinslow@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190519154041.837383322@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
- Removing of non-DYNAMIC_FTRACE from 32bit x86
- Removing of mcount support from x86
- Emulating a call from int3 on x86_64, fixes live kernel patching
- Consolidated Tracing Error logs file
Minor updates:
- Removal of klp_check_compiler_support()
- kdb ftrace dumping output changes
- Accessing and creating ftrace instances from inside the kernel
- Clean up of #define if macro
- Introduction of TRACE_EVENT_NOP() to disable trace events based on config
options
And other minor fixes and clean ups
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Merge tag 'trace-v5.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"The major changes in this tracing update includes:
- Removal of non-DYNAMIC_FTRACE from 32bit x86
- Removal of mcount support from x86
- Emulating a call from int3 on x86_64, fixes live kernel patching
- Consolidated Tracing Error logs file
Minor updates:
- Removal of klp_check_compiler_support()
- kdb ftrace dumping output changes
- Accessing and creating ftrace instances from inside the kernel
- Clean up of #define if macro
- Introduction of TRACE_EVENT_NOP() to disable trace events based on
config options
And other minor fixes and clean ups"
* tag 'trace-v5.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (44 commits)
x86: Hide the int3_emulate_call/jmp functions from UML
livepatch: Remove klp_check_compiler_support()
ftrace/x86: Remove mcount support
ftrace/x86_32: Remove support for non DYNAMIC_FTRACE
tracing: Simplify "if" macro code
tracing: Fix documentation about disabling options using trace_options
tracing: Replace kzalloc with kcalloc
tracing: Fix partial reading of trace event's id file
tracing: Allow RCU to run between postponed startup tests
tracing: Fix white space issues in parse_pred() function
tracing: Eliminate const char[] auto variables
ring-buffer: Fix mispelling of Calculate
tracing: probeevent: Fix to make the type of $comm string
tracing: probeevent: Do not accumulate on ret variable
tracing: uprobes: Re-enable $comm support for uprobe events
ftrace/x86_64: Emulate call function while updating in breakpoint handler
x86_64: Allow breakpoints to emulate call instructions
x86_64: Add gap to int3 to allow for call emulation
tracing: kdb: Allow ftdump to skip all but the last few entries
tracing: Add trace_total_entries() / trace_total_entries_cpu()
...
The only purpose of klp_check_compiler_support() is to make sure that we
are not using ftrace on x86 via mcount (because that's executed only after
prologue has already happened, and that's too late for livepatching
purposes).
Now that mcount is not supported by ftrace any more, there is no need for
klp_check_compiler_support() either.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/nycvar.YFH.7.76.1905102346100.17054@cbobk.fhfr.pm
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Here is the "big" set of driver core patches for 5.2-rc1
There are a number of ACPI patches in here as well, as Rafael said they
should go through this tree due to the driver core changes they
required. They have all been acked by the ACPI developers.
There are also a number of small subsystem-specific changes in here, due
to some changes to the kobject core code. Those too have all been acked
by the various subsystem maintainers.
As for content, it's pretty boring outside of the ACPI changes:
- spdx cleanups
- kobject documentation updates
- default attribute groups for kobjects
- other minor kobject/driver core fixes
All have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'driver-core-5.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core
Pull driver core/kobject updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the "big" set of driver core patches for 5.2-rc1
There are a number of ACPI patches in here as well, as Rafael said
they should go through this tree due to the driver core changes they
required. They have all been acked by the ACPI developers.
There are also a number of small subsystem-specific changes in here,
due to some changes to the kobject core code. Those too have all been
acked by the various subsystem maintainers.
As for content, it's pretty boring outside of the ACPI changes:
- spdx cleanups
- kobject documentation updates
- default attribute groups for kobjects
- other minor kobject/driver core fixes
All have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues"
* tag 'driver-core-5.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (47 commits)
kobject: clean up the kobject add documentation a bit more
kobject: Fix kernel-doc comment first line
kobject: Remove docstring reference to kset
firmware_loader: Fix a typo ("syfs" -> "sysfs")
kobject: fix dereference before null check on kobj
Revert "driver core: platform: Fix the usage of platform device name(pdev->name)"
init/config: Do not select BUILD_BIN2C for IKCONFIG
Provide in-kernel headers to make extending kernel easier
kobject: Improve doc clarity kobject_init_and_add()
kobject: Improve docs for kobject_add/del
driver core: platform: Fix the usage of platform device name(pdev->name)
livepatch: Replace klp_ktype_patch's default_attrs with groups
cpufreq: schedutil: Replace default_attrs field with groups
padata: Replace padata_attr_type default_attrs field with groups
irqdesc: Replace irq_kobj_type's default_attrs field with groups
net-sysfs: Replace ktype default_attrs field with groups
block: Replace all ktype default_attrs with groups
samples/kobject: Replace foo_ktype's default_attrs field with groups
kobject: Add support for default attribute groups to kobj_type
driver core: Postpone DMA tear-down until after devres release for probe failure
...
kobject_init() call added one more operation that has to be
done when doing the early initialization of both static and
dynamic livepatch structures.
It would have been easier when the early initialization code
was not duplicated. Let's deduplicate it for future generations
of livepatching hackers.
The patch does not change the existing behavior.
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
kobject_init() always succeeds and sets the reference count to 1.
It allows to always free the structures via kobject_put() and
the related release callback.
Note that the custom kobject state handling was used only
because we did not know that kobject_put() can and actually
should get called even when kobject_init_and_add() fails.
The patch should not change the existing behavior.
Suggested-by: "Tobin C. Harding" <tobin@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
The commit d0807da78e ("livepatch: Remove immediate feature") caused
that any livepatch was refused when reliable stacktraces were not supported
on the given architecture.
The limitation is too strong. User space processes are safely migrated
even when entering or leaving the kernel. Kthreads transition would
need to get forced. But it is safe when:
+ The livepatch does not change the semantic of the code.
+ Callbacks do not depend on a safely finished transition.
Suggested-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
The kobj_type default_attrs field is being replaced by the
default_groups field. Replace klp_ktype_patch's default_attrs field
with default_groups and use the ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS macro to create
klp_patch_groups.
This patch was tested by loading the livepatch-sample module and
verifying that the sysfs files for the attributes in the default groups
were created.
Signed-off-by: Kimberly Brown <kimbrownkd@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The atomic replace allows to create cumulative patches. They are useful when
you maintain many livepatches and want to remove one that is lower on the
stack. In addition it is very useful when more patches touch the same function
and there are dependencies between them.
It's also a feature some of the distros are using already to distribute
their patches.
Livepatches can no longer get enabled and disabled repeatedly.
The list klp_patches contains only enabled patches and eventually
the patch in transition.
The module coming and going callbacks do no longer need to check
for these state. They have to proceed with all listed patches.
Suggested-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
There are already macros to iterate over struct klp_func and klp_object.
Add also klp_for_each_patch(). But make it internal because also
klp_patches list is internal.
Suggested-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
As a result of an unsupported operation is better to use EOPNOTSUPP
as error code.
ENOSYS is only used for 'invalid syscall nr' and nothing else.
Signed-off-by: Alice Ferrazzi <alice.ferrazzi@miraclelinux.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
The fake signal is send automatically now. We can rely on it completely
and remove the sysfs attribute.
Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
The atomic replace and cumulative patches were introduced as a more secure
way to handle dependent patches. They simplify the logic:
+ Any new cumulative patch is supposed to take over shadow variables
and changes made by callbacks from previous livepatches.
+ All replaced patches are discarded and the modules can be unloaded.
As a result, there is only one scenario when a cumulative livepatch
gets disabled.
The different handling of "normal" and cumulative patches might cause
confusion. It would make sense to keep only one mode. On the other hand,
it would be rude to enforce using the cumulative livepatches even for
trivial and independent (hot) fixes.
However, the stack of patches is not really necessary any longer.
The patch ordering was never clearly visible via the sysfs interface.
Also the "normal" patches need a lot of caution anyway.
Note that the list of enabled patches is still necessary but the ordering
is not longer enforced.
Otherwise, the code is ready to disable livepatches in an random order.
Namely, klp_check_stack_func() always looks for the function from
the livepatch that is being disabled. klp_func structures are just
removed from the related func_stack. Finally, the ftrace handlers
is removed only when the func_stack becomes empty.
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Replaced patches are removed from the stack when the transition is
finished. It means that Nop structures will never be needed again
and can be removed. Why should we care?
+ Nop structures give the impression that the function is patched
even though the ftrace handler has no effect.
+ Ftrace handlers do not come for free. They cause slowdown that might
be visible in some workloads. The ftrace-related slowdown might
actually be the reason why the function is no longer patched in
the new cumulative patch. One would expect that cumulative patch
would help solve these problems as well.
+ Cumulative patches are supposed to replace any earlier version of
the patch. The amount of NOPs depends on which version was replaced.
This multiplies the amount of scenarios that might happen.
One might say that NOPs are innocent. But there are even optimized
NOP instructions for different processors, for example, see
arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c. And klp_ftrace_handler() is much
more complicated.
+ It sounds natural to clean up a mess that is no longer needed.
It could only be worse if we do not do it.
This patch allows to unpatch and free the dynamic structures independently
when the transition finishes.
The free part is a bit tricky because kobject free callbacks are called
asynchronously. We could not wait for them easily. Fortunately, we do
not have to. Any further access can be avoided by removing them from
the dynamic lists.
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Sometimes we would like to revert a particular fix. Currently, this
is not easy because we want to keep all other fixes active and we
could revert only the last applied patch.
One solution would be to apply new patch that implemented all
the reverted functions like in the original code. It would work
as expected but there will be unnecessary redirections. In addition,
it would also require knowing which functions need to be reverted at
build time.
Another problem is when there are many patches that touch the same
functions. There might be dependencies between patches that are
not enforced on the kernel side. Also it might be pretty hard to
actually prepare the patch and ensure compatibility with the other
patches.
Atomic replace && cumulative patches:
A better solution would be to create cumulative patch and say that
it replaces all older ones.
This patch adds a new "replace" flag to struct klp_patch. When it is
enabled, a set of 'nop' klp_func will be dynamically created for all
functions that are already being patched but that will no longer be
modified by the new patch. They are used as a new target during
the patch transition.
The idea is to handle Nops' structures like the static ones. When
the dynamic structures are allocated, we initialize all values that
are normally statically defined.
The only exception is "new_func" in struct klp_func. It has to point
to the original function and the address is known only when the object
(module) is loaded. Note that we really need to set it. The address is
used, for example, in klp_check_stack_func().
Nevertheless we still need to distinguish the dynamically allocated
structures in some operations. For this, we add "nop" flag into
struct klp_func and "dynamic" flag into struct klp_object. They
need special handling in the following situations:
+ The structures are added into the lists of objects and functions
immediately. In fact, the lists were created for this purpose.
+ The address of the original function is known only when the patched
object (module) is loaded. Therefore it is copied later in
klp_init_object_loaded().
+ The ftrace handler must not set PC to func->new_func. It would cause
infinite loop because the address points back to the beginning of
the original function.
+ The various free() functions must free the structure itself.
Note that other ways to detect the dynamic structures are not considered
safe. For example, even the statically defined struct klp_object might
include empty funcs array. It might be there just to run some callbacks.
Also note that the safe iterator must be used in the free() functions.
Otherwise already freed structures might get accessed.
Special callbacks handling:
The callbacks from the replaced patches are _not_ called by intention.
It would be pretty hard to define a reasonable semantic and implement it.
It might even be counter-productive. The new patch is cumulative. It is
supposed to include most of the changes from older patches. In most cases,
it will not want to call pre_unpatch() post_unpatch() callbacks from
the replaced patches. It would disable/break things for no good reasons.
Also it should be easier to handle various scenarios in a single script
in the new patch than think about interactions caused by running many
scripts from older patches. Not to say that the old scripts even would
not expect to be called in this situation.
Removing replaced patches:
One nice effect of the cumulative patches is that the code from the
older patches is no longer used. Therefore the replaced patches can
be removed. It has several advantages:
+ Nops' structs will no longer be necessary and might be removed.
This would save memory, restore performance (no ftrace handler),
allow clear view on what is really patched.
+ Disabling the patch will cause using the original code everywhere.
Therefore the livepatch callbacks could handle only one scenario.
Note that the complication is already complex enough when the patch
gets enabled. It is currently solved by calling callbacks only from
the new cumulative patch.
+ The state is clean in both the sysfs interface and lsmod. The modules
with the replaced livepatches might even get removed from the system.
Some people actually expected this behavior from the beginning. After all
a cumulative patch is supposed to "completely" replace an existing one.
It is like when a new version of an application replaces an older one.
This patch does the first step. It removes the replaced patches from
the list of patches. It is safe. The consistency model ensures that
they are no longer used. By other words, each process works only with
the structures from klp_transition_patch.
The removal is done by a special function. It combines actions done by
__disable_patch() and klp_complete_transition(). But it is a fast
track without all the transaction-related stuff.
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
[pmladek@suse.com: Split, reuse existing code, simplified]
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Currently klp_patch contains a pointer to a statically allocated array of
struct klp_object and struct klp_objects contains a pointer to a statically
allocated array of klp_func. In order to allow for the dynamic allocation
of objects and functions, link klp_patch, klp_object, and klp_func together
via linked lists. This allows us to more easily allocate new objects and
functions, while having the iterator be a simple linked list walk.
The static structures are added to the lists early. It allows to add
the dynamically allocated objects before klp_init_object() and
klp_init_func() calls. Therefore it reduces the further changes
to the code.
This patch does not change the existing behavior.
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
[pmladek@suse.com: Initialize lists before init calls]
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
The possibility to re-enable a registered patch was useful for immediate
patches where the livepatch module had to stay until the system reboot.
The improved consistency model allows to achieve the same result by
unloading and loading the livepatch module again.
Also we are going to add a feature called atomic replace. It will allow
to create a patch that would replace all already registered patches.
The aim is to handle dependent patches more securely. It will obsolete
the stack of patches that helped to handle the dependencies so far.
Then it might be unclear when a cumulative patch re-enabling is safe.
It would be complicated to support the many modes. Instead we could
actually make the API and code easier to understand.
Therefore, remove the two step public API. All the checks and init calls
are moved from klp_register_patch() to klp_enabled_patch(). Also the patch
is automatically freed, including the sysfs interface when the transition
to the disabled state is completed.
As a result, there is never a disabled patch on the top of the stack.
Therefore we do not need to check the stack in __klp_enable_patch().
And we could simplify the check in __klp_disable_patch().
Also the API and logic is much easier. It is enough to call
klp_enable_patch() in module_init() call. The patch can be disabled
by writing '0' into /sys/kernel/livepatch/<patch>/enabled. Then the module
can be removed once the transition finishes and sysfs interface is freed.
The only problem is how to free the structures and kobjects safely.
The operation is triggered from the sysfs interface. We could not put
the related kobject from there because it would cause lock inversion
between klp_mutex and kernfs locks, see kn->count lockdep map.
Therefore, offload the free task to a workqueue. It is perfectly fine:
+ The patch can no longer be used in the livepatch operations.
+ The module could not be removed until the free operation finishes
and module_put() is called.
+ The operation is asynchronous already when the first
klp_try_complete_transition() fails and another call
is queued with a delay.
Suggested-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Denis Aleksandrov
Ryan Sullivan
Donald Dutile
Jan Stancek
Phil Auld
Julia Denham
C. Erastus Toe
Christoph Hellwig
Samuel Zou
Josh Poimboeuf
Peter Zijlstra
Petr Mladek
Miroslav Benes
Linus Torvalds
Thomas Gleixner
Jiri Kosina
Kimberly Brown
Alice Ferrazzi
Jason Baron