1. 07 12月, 2017 1 次提交
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      livepatch: force transition to finish · c99a2be7
      Miroslav Benes 提交于
      If a task sleeps in a set of patched functions uninterruptedly, it could
      block the whole transition indefinitely.  Thus it may be useful to clear
      its TIF_PATCH_PENDING to allow the process to finish.
      
      Admin can do that now by writing to force sysfs attribute in livepatch
      sysfs directory. TIF_PATCH_PENDING is then cleared for all tasks and the
      transition can finish successfully.
      
      Important note! Administrator should not use this feature without a
      clearance from a patch distributor. It must be checked that by doing so
      the consistency model guarantees are not violated. Removal (rmmod) of
      patch modules is permanently disabled when the feature is used. It
      cannot be guaranteed there is no task sleeping in such module.
      Signed-off-by: NMiroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
      Acked-by: NJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
      Reviewed-by: NPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
      c99a2be7
  2. 05 12月, 2017 1 次提交
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      livepatch: send a fake signal to all blocking tasks · 43347d56
      Miroslav Benes 提交于
      Live patching consistency model is of LEAVE_PATCHED_SET and
      SWITCH_THREAD. This means that all tasks in the system have to be marked
      one by one as safe to call a new patched function. Safe means when a
      task is not (sleeping) in a set of patched functions. That is, no
      patched function is on the task's stack. Another clearly safe place is
      the boundary between kernel and userspace. The patching waits for all
      tasks to get outside of the patched set or to cross the boundary. The
      transition is completed afterwards.
      
      The problem is that a task can block the transition for quite a long
      time, if not forever. It could sleep in a set of patched functions, for
      example.  Luckily we can force the task to leave the set by sending it a
      fake signal, that is a signal with no data in signal pending structures
      (no handler, no sign of proper signal delivered). Suspend/freezer use
      this to freeze the tasks as well. The task gets TIF_SIGPENDING set and
      is woken up (if it has been sleeping in the kernel before) or kicked by
      rescheduling IPI (if it was running on other CPU). This causes the task
      to go to kernel/userspace boundary where the signal would be handled and
      the task would be marked as safe in terms of live patching.
      
      There are tasks which are not affected by this technique though. The
      fake signal is not sent to kthreads. They should be handled differently.
      They can be woken up so they leave the patched set and their
      TIF_PATCH_PENDING can be cleared thanks to stack checking.
      
      For the sake of completeness, if the task is in TASK_RUNNING state but
      not currently running on some CPU it doesn't get the IPI, but it would
      eventually handle the signal anyway. Second, if the task runs in the
      kernel (in TASK_RUNNING state) it gets the IPI, but the signal is not
      handled on return from the interrupt. It would be handled on return to
      the userspace in the future when the fake signal is sent again. Stack
      checking deals with these cases in a better way.
      
      If the task was sleeping in a syscall it would be woken by our fake
      signal, it would check if TIF_SIGPENDING is set (by calling
      signal_pending() predicate) and return ERESTART* or EINTR. Syscalls with
      ERESTART* return values are restarted in case of the fake signal (see
      do_signal()). EINTR is propagated back to the userspace program. This
      could disturb the program, but...
      
      * each process dealing with signals should react accordingly to EINTR
        return values.
      * syscalls returning EINTR happen to be quite common situation in the
        system even if no fake signal is sent.
      * freezer sends the fake signal and does not deal with EINTR anyhow.
        Thus EINTR values are returned when the system is resumed.
      
      The very safe marking is done in architectures' "entry" on syscall and
      interrupt/exception exit paths, and in a stack checking functions of
      livepatch.  TIF_PATCH_PENDING is cleared and the next
      recalc_sigpending() drops TIF_SIGPENDING. In connection with this, also
      call klp_update_patch_state() before do_signal(), so that
      recalc_sigpending() in dequeue_signal() can clear TIF_PATCH_PENDING
      immediately and thus prevent a double call of do_signal().
      
      Note that the fake signal is not sent to stopped/traced tasks. Such task
      prevents the patching to finish till it continues again (is not traced
      anymore).
      
      Last, sending the fake signal is not automatic. It is done only when
      admin requests it by writing 1 to signal sysfs attribute in livepatch
      sysfs directory.
      Signed-off-by: NMiroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
      Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
      Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
      Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
      Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
      Cc: x86@kernel.org
      Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)
      Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
      43347d56
  3. 26 10月, 2017 2 次提交
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      livepatch: __klp_disable_patch() should never be called for disabled patches · 89a9a1c1
      Petr Mladek 提交于
      __klp_disable_patch() should never be called when the patch is not
      enabled. Let's add the same warning that we have in __klp_enable_patch().
      
      This allows to remove the check when calling klp_pre_unpatch_callback().
      It was strange anyway because it repeatedly checked per-patch flag
      for each patched object.
      Signed-off-by: NPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
      Acked-by: NJoe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
      89a9a1c1
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      livepatch: Correctly call klp_post_unpatch_callback() in error paths · 5aaf1ab5
      Petr Mladek 提交于
      The post_unpatch_enabled flag in struct klp_callbacks is set when a
      pre-patch callback successfully executes, indicating that we need to
      call a corresponding post-unpatch callback when the patch is reverted.
      This is true for ordinary patch disable as well as the error paths of
      klp_patch_object() callers.
      
      As currently coded, we inadvertently execute the post-patch callback
      twice in klp_module_coming() when klp_patch_object() fails:
      
        - We explicitly call klp_post_unpatch_callback() for the failed object
        - We call it again for the same object (and all the others) via
          klp_cleanup_module_patches_limited()
      
      We should clear the flag in klp_post_unpatch_callback() to make
      sure that the callback is not called twice. It makes the API
      more safe.
      
      (We could have removed the callback from the former error path as it
      would be covered by the latter call, but I think that is is cleaner to
      clear the post_unpatch_enabled after its invoked. For example, someone
      might later decide to call the callback only when obj->patched flag is
      set.)
      
      There is another mistake in the error path of klp_coming_module() in
      which it skips the post-unpatch callback for the klp_transition_patch.
      However, the pre-patch callback was called even for this patch, so be
      sure to make the corresponding callbacks for all patches.
      
      Finally, I used this opportunity to make klp_pre_patch_callback() more
      readable.
      
      [jkosina@suse.cz: incorporate changelog wording changes proposed by Joe Lawrence]
      Signed-off-by: NPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
      Acked-by: NJoe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
      5aaf1ab5
  4. 19 10月, 2017 1 次提交
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      livepatch: add (un)patch callbacks · 93862e38
      Joe Lawrence 提交于
      Provide livepatch modules a klp_object (un)patching notification
      mechanism.  Pre and post-(un)patch callbacks allow livepatch modules to
      setup or synchronize changes that would be difficult to support in only
      patched-or-unpatched code contexts.
      
      Callbacks can be registered for target module or vmlinux klp_objects,
      but each implementation is klp_object specific.
      
        - Pre-(un)patch callbacks run before any (un)patching transition
          starts.
      
        - Post-(un)patch callbacks run once an object has been (un)patched and
          the klp_patch fully transitioned to its target state.
      
      Example use cases include modification of global data and registration
      of newly available services/handlers.
      
      See Documentation/livepatch/callbacks.txt for details and
      samples/livepatch/ for examples.
      Signed-off-by: NJoe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: NJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: NMiroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
      Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
      93862e38
  5. 11 10月, 2017 1 次提交
  6. 17 4月, 2017 1 次提交
  7. 30 3月, 2017 1 次提交
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      livepatch: Reduce the time of finding module symbols · 72f04b50
      Zhou Chengming 提交于
      It's reported that the time of insmoding a klp.ko for one of our
      out-tree modules is too long.
      
      ~ time sudo insmod klp.ko
      real	0m23.799s
      user	0m0.036s
      sys	0m21.256s
      
      Then we found the reason: our out-tree module used a lot of static local
      variables, so klp.ko has a lot of relocation records which reference the
      module. Then for each such entry klp_find_object_symbol() is called to
      resolve it, but this function uses the interface kallsyms_on_each_symbol()
      even for finding module symbols, so will waste a lot of time on walking
      through vmlinux kallsyms table many times.
      
      This patch changes it to use module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol() for modules
      symbols. After we apply this patch, the sys time reduced dramatically.
      
      ~ time sudo insmod klp.ko
      real	0m1.007s
      user	0m0.032s
      sys	0m0.924s
      Signed-off-by: NZhou Chengming <zhouchengming1@huawei.com>
      Acked-by: NJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: NJessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: NMiroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
      Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
      72f04b50
  8. 08 3月, 2017 9 次提交
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      livepatch: make klp_mutex proper part of API · 10517429
      Jiri Kosina 提交于
      klp_mutex is shared between core.c and transition.c, and as such would
      rather be properly located in a header so that we don't have to play
      'extern' games from .c sources.
      
      This also silences sparse warning (wrongly) suggesting that klp_mutex
      should be defined static.
      Acked-by: NMiroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
      Acked-by: NJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
      10517429
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      livepatch: allow removal of a disabled patch · 3ec24776
      Josh Poimboeuf 提交于
      Currently we do not allow patch module to unload since there is no
      method to determine if a task is still running in the patched code.
      
      The consistency model gives us the way because when the unpatching
      finishes we know that all tasks were marked as safe to call an original
      function. Thus every new call to the function calls the original code
      and at the same time no task can be somewhere in the patched code,
      because it had to leave that code to be marked as safe.
      
      We can safely let the patch module go after that.
      
      Completion is used for synchronization between module removal and sysfs
      infrastructure in a similar way to commit 942e4431 ("module: Fix
      mod->mkobj.kobj potentially freed too early").
      
      Note that we still do not allow the removal for immediate model, that is
      no consistency model. The module refcount may increase in this case if
      somebody disables and enables the patch several times. This should not
      cause any harm.
      
      With this change a call to try_module_get() is moved to
      __klp_enable_patch from klp_register_patch to make module reference
      counting symmetric (module_put() is in a patch disable path) and to
      allow to take a new reference to a disabled module when being enabled.
      
      Finally, we need to be very careful about possible races between
      klp_unregister_patch(), kobject_put() functions and operations
      on the related sysfs files.
      
      kobject_put(&patch->kobj) must be called without klp_mutex. Otherwise,
      it might be blocked by enabled_store() that needs the mutex as well.
      In addition, enabled_store() must check if the patch was not
      unregisted in the meantime.
      
      There is no need to do the same for other kobject_put() callsites
      at the moment. Their sysfs operations neither take the lock nor
      they access any data that might be freed in the meantime.
      
      There was an attempt to use kobjects the right way and prevent these
      races by design. But it made the patch definition more complicated
      and opened another can of worms. See
      https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464018848-4303-1-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com
      
      [Thanks to Petr Mladek for improving the commit message.]
      Signed-off-by: NMiroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
      Signed-off-by: NJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
      Reviewed-by: NPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
      Acked-by: NMiroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
      Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
      3ec24776
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      livepatch: change to a per-task consistency model · d83a7cb3
      Josh Poimboeuf 提交于
      Change livepatch to use a basic per-task consistency model.  This is the
      foundation which will eventually enable us to patch those ~10% of
      security patches which change function or data semantics.  This is the
      biggest remaining piece needed to make livepatch more generally useful.
      
      This code stems from the design proposal made by Vojtech [1] in November
      2014.  It's a hybrid of kGraft and kpatch: it uses kGraft's per-task
      consistency and syscall barrier switching combined with kpatch's stack
      trace switching.  There are also a number of fallback options which make
      it quite flexible.
      
      Patches are applied on a per-task basis, when the task is deemed safe to
      switch over.  When a patch is enabled, livepatch enters into a
      transition state where tasks are converging to the patched state.
      Usually this transition state can complete in a few seconds.  The same
      sequence occurs when a patch is disabled, except the tasks converge from
      the patched state to the unpatched state.
      
      An interrupt handler inherits the patched state of the task it
      interrupts.  The same is true for forked tasks: the child inherits the
      patched state of the parent.
      
      Livepatch uses several complementary approaches to determine when it's
      safe to patch tasks:
      
      1. The first and most effective approach is stack checking of sleeping
         tasks.  If no affected functions are on the stack of a given task,
         the task is patched.  In most cases this will patch most or all of
         the tasks on the first try.  Otherwise it'll keep trying
         periodically.  This option is only available if the architecture has
         reliable stacks (HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE).
      
      2. The second approach, if needed, is kernel exit switching.  A
         task is switched when it returns to user space from a system call, a
         user space IRQ, or a signal.  It's useful in the following cases:
      
         a) Patching I/O-bound user tasks which are sleeping on an affected
            function.  In this case you have to send SIGSTOP and SIGCONT to
            force it to exit the kernel and be patched.
         b) Patching CPU-bound user tasks.  If the task is highly CPU-bound
            then it will get patched the next time it gets interrupted by an
            IRQ.
         c) In the future it could be useful for applying patches for
            architectures which don't yet have HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE.  In
            this case you would have to signal most of the tasks on the
            system.  However this isn't supported yet because there's
            currently no way to patch kthreads without
            HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE.
      
      3. For idle "swapper" tasks, since they don't ever exit the kernel, they
         instead have a klp_update_patch_state() call in the idle loop which
         allows them to be patched before the CPU enters the idle state.
      
         (Note there's not yet such an approach for kthreads.)
      
      All the above approaches may be skipped by setting the 'immediate' flag
      in the 'klp_patch' struct, which will disable per-task consistency and
      patch all tasks immediately.  This can be useful if the patch doesn't
      change any function or data semantics.  Note that, even with this flag
      set, it's possible that some tasks may still be running with an old
      version of the function, until that function returns.
      
      There's also an 'immediate' flag in the 'klp_func' struct which allows
      you to specify that certain functions in the patch can be applied
      without per-task consistency.  This might be useful if you want to patch
      a common function like schedule(), and the function change doesn't need
      consistency but the rest of the patch does.
      
      For architectures which don't have HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE, the user
      must set patch->immediate which causes all tasks to be patched
      immediately.  This option should be used with care, only when the patch
      doesn't change any function or data semantics.
      
      In the future, architectures which don't have HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE
      may be allowed to use per-task consistency if we can come up with
      another way to patch kthreads.
      
      The /sys/kernel/livepatch/<patch>/transition file shows whether a patch
      is in transition.  Only a single patch (the topmost patch on the stack)
      can be in transition at a given time.  A patch can remain in transition
      indefinitely, if any of the tasks are stuck in the initial patch state.
      
      A transition can be reversed and effectively canceled by writing the
      opposite value to the /sys/kernel/livepatch/<patch>/enabled file while
      the transition is in progress.  Then all the tasks will attempt to
      converge back to the original patch state.
      
      [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141107140458.GA21774@suse.czSigned-off-by: NJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: NMiroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
      Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>        # for the scheduler changes
      Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
      d83a7cb3
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      livepatch: store function sizes · f5e547f4
      Josh Poimboeuf 提交于
      For the consistency model we'll need to know the sizes of the old and
      new functions to determine if they're on the stacks of any tasks.
      Signed-off-by: NJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: NMiroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
      Reviewed-by: NPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
      Reviewed-by: NKamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
      f5e547f4
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      livepatch: use kstrtobool() in enabled_store() · 68ae4b2b
      Josh Poimboeuf 提交于
      The sysfs enabled value is a boolean, so kstrtobool() is a better fit
      for parsing the input string since it does the range checking for us.
      Suggested-by: NPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: NMiroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
      Reviewed-by: NPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
      68ae4b2b
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      livepatch: move patching functions into patch.c · c349cdca
      Josh Poimboeuf 提交于
      Move functions related to the actual patching of functions and objects
      into a new patch.c file.
      Signed-off-by: NJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: NMiroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
      Reviewed-by: NPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
      Reviewed-by: NKamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
      c349cdca
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      livepatch: remove unnecessary object loaded check · aa82dc3e
      Josh Poimboeuf 提交于
      klp_patch_object()'s callers already ensure that the object is loaded,
      so its call to klp_is_object_loaded() is unnecessary.
      
      This will also make it possible to move the patching code into a
      separate file.
      Signed-off-by: NJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: NMiroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
      Reviewed-by: NPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
      Reviewed-by: NKamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
      aa82dc3e
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      livepatch: separate enabled and patched states · 0dade9f3
      Josh Poimboeuf 提交于
      Once we have a consistency model, patches and their objects will be
      enabled and disabled at different times.  For example, when a patch is
      disabled, its loaded objects' funcs can remain registered with ftrace
      indefinitely until the unpatching operation is complete and they're no
      longer in use.
      
      It's less confusing if we give them different names: patches can be
      enabled or disabled; objects (and their funcs) can be patched or
      unpatched:
      
      - Enabled means that a patch is logically enabled (but not necessarily
        fully applied).
      
      - Patched means that an object's funcs are registered with ftrace and
        added to the klp_ops func stack.
      
      Also, since these states are binary, represent them with booleans
      instead of ints.
      Signed-off-by: NJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: NMiroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
      Reviewed-by: NPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
      Reviewed-by: NKamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
      0dade9f3
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      livepatch: create temporary klp_update_patch_state() stub · 46c5a011
      Josh Poimboeuf 提交于
      Create temporary stubs for klp_update_patch_state() so we can add
      TIF_PATCH_PENDING to different architectures in separate patches without
      breaking build bisectability.
      Signed-off-by: NJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
      Reviewed-by: NPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
      46c5a011
  9. 26 8月, 2016 1 次提交
  10. 19 8月, 2016 1 次提交
  11. 04 8月, 2016 1 次提交
  12. 30 4月, 2016 1 次提交
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      livepatch: make object/func-walking helpers more robust · f09d9086
      Miroslav Benes 提交于
      Current object-walking helper checks the presence of obj->funcs to
      determine the end of objs array in klp_object structure. This is
      somewhat fragile because one can easily forget about funcs definition
      during livepatch creation. In such a case the livepatch module is
      successfully loaded and all objects after the incorrect one are omitted.
      This is very confusing. Let's make the helper more robust and check also
      for the other external member, name. Thus the helper correctly stops on
      an empty item of the array. We need to have a check for obj->funcs in
      klp_init_object() to make it work.
      
      The same applies to a func-walking helper.
      
      As a benefit we'll check for new_func member definition during the
      livepatch initialization. There is no such check anywhere in the code
      now.
      
      [jkosina@suse.cz: fix shortlog]
      Signed-off-by: NMiroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
      Acked-by: NJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: NJessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
      f09d9086
  13. 14 4月, 2016 1 次提交
  14. 08 4月, 2016 1 次提交
  15. 01 4月, 2016 1 次提交
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      livepatch: reuse module loader code to write relocations · 425595a7
      Jessica Yu 提交于
      Reuse module loader code to write relocations, thereby eliminating the need
      for architecture specific relocation code in livepatch. Specifically, reuse
      the apply_relocate_add() function in the module loader to write relocations
      instead of duplicating functionality in livepatch's arch-dependent
      klp_write_module_reloc() function.
      
      In order to accomplish this, livepatch modules manage their own relocation
      sections (marked with the SHF_RELA_LIVEPATCH section flag) and
      livepatch-specific symbols (marked with SHN_LIVEPATCH symbol section
      index). To apply livepatch relocation sections, livepatch symbols
      referenced by relocs are resolved and then apply_relocate_add() is called
      to apply those relocations.
      
      In addition, remove x86 livepatch relocation code and the s390
      klp_write_module_reloc() function stub. They are no longer needed since
      relocation work has been offloaded to module loader.
      
      Lastly, mark the module as a livepatch module so that the module loader
      canappropriately identify and initialize it.
      Signed-off-by: NJessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com>
      Reviewed-by: NMiroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
      Acked-by: NJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>   # for s390 changes
      Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
      425595a7
  16. 17 3月, 2016 1 次提交
  17. 10 3月, 2016 1 次提交
  18. 05 12月, 2015 1 次提交
  19. 04 12月, 2015 3 次提交
    • C
      livepatch: function,sympos scheme in livepatch sysfs directory · 444f9e99
      Chris J Arges 提交于
      The following directory structure will allow for cases when the same
      function name exists in a single object.
      	/sys/kernel/livepatch/<patch>/<object>/<function,sympos>
      
      The sympos number corresponds to the nth occurrence of the symbol name in
      kallsyms for the patched object.
      
      An example of patching multiple symbols can be found here:
      	https://github.com/dynup/kpatch/issues/493Signed-off-by: NChris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com>
      Reviewed-by: NPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
      Acked-by: NJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
      444f9e99
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      livepatch: add sympos as disambiguator field to klp_reloc · 064c89df
      Chris J Arges 提交于
      In cases of duplicate symbols, sympos will be used to disambiguate instead
      of val. By default sympos will be 0, and patching will only succeed if
      the symbol is unique. Specifying a positive value will ensure that
      occurrence of the symbol in kallsyms for the patched object will be used
      for patching if it is valid. For external relocations sympos is not
      supported.
      
      Remove klp_verify_callback, klp_verify_args and klp_verify_vmlinux_symbol
      as they are no longer used.
      
      From the klp_reloc structure remove val, as it can be refactored as a
      local variable in klp_write_object_relocations.
      Signed-off-by: NChris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com>
      Reviewed-by: NPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
      Acked-by: NJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
      064c89df
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      livepatch: add old_sympos as disambiguator field to klp_func · b2b018ef
      Chris J Arges 提交于
      Currently, patching objects with duplicate symbol names fail because the
      creation of the sysfs function directory collides with the previous
      attempt. Appending old_addr to the function name is problematic as it
      reveals the address of the function being patch to a normal user. Using
      the symbol's occurrence in kallsyms to postfix the function name in the
      sysfs directory solves the issue of having consistent unique names and
      ensuring that the address is not exposed to a normal user.
      
      In addition, using the symbol position as the user's method to disambiguate
      symbols instead of addr allows for disambiguating symbols in modules as
      well for both function addresses and for relocs. This also simplifies much
      of the code. Special handling for kASLR is no longer needed and can be
      removed. The klp_find_verify_func_addr function can be replaced by
      klp_find_object_symbol, and klp_verify_vmlinux_symbol and its callback can
      be removed completely.
      
      In cases of duplicate symbols, old_sympos will be used to disambiguate
      instead of old_addr. By default old_sympos will be 0, and patching will
      only succeed if the symbol is unique. Specifying a positive value will
      ensure that occurrence of the symbol in kallsyms for the patched object
      will be used for patching if it is valid.
      
      In addition, make old_addr an internal structure field not to be specified
      by the user. Finally, remove klp_find_verify_func_addr as it can be
      replaced by klp_find_object_symbol directly.
      
      Support for symbol position disambiguation for relocations is added in the
      next patch in this series.
      Signed-off-by: NChris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com>
      Reviewed-by: NPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
      Acked-by: NJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
      b2b018ef
  20. 12 11月, 2015 1 次提交
  21. 15 7月, 2015 1 次提交
  22. 03 6月, 2015 1 次提交
  23. 25 5月, 2015 1 次提交
  24. 20 5月, 2015 2 次提交
  25. 18 5月, 2015 1 次提交
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      livepatch: Prevent patch inconsistencies if the coming module notifier fails · 36e505c1
      Minfei Huang 提交于
      The previous patches can be applied, once the corresponding module is
      loaded. In general, the patch will do relocation (if necessary) and
      obtain/verify function address before we start to enable patch.
      
      There are three different situations in which the coming module notifier
      can fail:
      
      1) relocations are not applied for some reason. In this case kallsyms
      for module symbol is not called at all. The patch is not applied to the
      module. If the user disable and enable patch again, there is possible
      bug in klp_enable_func. If the user specified func->old_addr for some
      function in the module (and he shouldn't do that, but nevertheless) our
      warning would not catch it, ftrace will reject to register the handler
      because of wrong address or will register the handler for wrong address.
      
      2) relocations are applied successfully, but kallsyms lookup fails. In
      this case func->old_addr can be correct for all previous lookups, 0 for
      current failed one, and "unspecified" for the rest. If we undergo the
      same scenario as in 1, the behaviour differs for three cases, but the
      patch is not enabled anyway.
      
      3) the object is initialized, but klp_enable_object fails in the
      notifier due to possible ftrace error. Since it is improbable that
      ftrace would heal itself in the future, we would get those errors
      everytime the patch is enabled.
      
      In order to fix above situations, we can make obj->mod to NULL, if the
      coming modified notifier fails.
      Signed-off-by: NMinfei Huang <mnfhuang@gmail.com>
      Acked-by: NJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
      Reviewed-by: NMiroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
      Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
      36e505c1
  26. 12 5月, 2015 1 次提交
  27. 29 4月, 2015 1 次提交
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      livepatch: x86: make kASLR logic more accurate · 5d4351ba
      Jiri Kosina 提交于
      We give up old_addr hint from the coming patch module in cases when kernel load
      base has been randomized (as in such case, the coming module has no idea about
      the exact randomization offset).
      
      We are currently too pessimistic, and give up immediately as soon as
      CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set; this doesn't however directly imply that the
      load base has actually been randomized. There are config options that
      disable kASLR (such as hibernation), user could have disabled kaslr on
      kernel command-line, etc.
      
      The loader propagates the information whether kernel has been randomized
      through bootparams. This allows us to have the condition more accurate.
      
      On top of that, it seems unnecessary to give up old_addr hints even if
      randomization is active. The relocation offset can be computed using
      kaslr_ofsset(), and therefore old_addr can be adjusted accordingly.
      Acked-by: NJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
      5d4351ba
  28. 17 3月, 2015 1 次提交
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      livepatch: Fix subtle race with coming and going modules · 8cb2c2dc
      Petr Mladek 提交于
      There is a notifier that handles live patches for coming and going modules.
      It takes klp_mutex lock to avoid races with coming and going patches but
      it does not keep the lock all the time. Therefore the following races are
      possible:
      
        1. The notifier is called sometime in STATE_MODULE_COMING. The module
           is visible by find_module() in this state all the time. It means that
           new patch can be registered and enabled even before the notifier is
           called. It might create wrong order of stacked patches, see below
           for an example.
      
         2. New patch could still see the module in the GOING state even after
            the notifier has been called. It will try to initialize the related
            object structures but the module could disappear at any time. There
            will stay mess in the structures. It might even cause an invalid
            memory access.
      
      This patch solves the problem by adding a boolean variable into struct module.
      The value is true after the coming and before the going handler is called.
      New patches need to be applied when the value is true and they need to ignore
      the module when the value is false.
      
      Note that we need to know state of all modules on the system. The races are
      related to new patches. Therefore we do not know what modules will get
      patched.
      
      Also note that we could not simply ignore going modules. The code from the
      module could be called even in the GOING state until mod->exit() finishes.
      If we start supporting patches with semantic changes between function
      calls, we need to apply new patches to any still usable code.
      See below for an example.
      
      Finally note that the patch solves only the situation when a new patch is
      registered. There are no such problems when the patch is being removed.
      It does not matter who disable the patch first, whether the normal
      disable_patch() or the module notifier. There is nothing to do
      once the patch is disabled.
      
      Alternative solutions:
      ======================
      
      + reject new patches when a patched module is coming or going; this is ugly
      
      + wait with adding new patch until the module leaves the COMING and GOING
        states; this might be dangerous and complicated; we would need to release
        kgr_lock in the middle of the patch registration to avoid a deadlock
        with the coming and going handlers; also we might need a waitqueue for
        each module which seems to be even bigger overhead than the boolean
      
      + stop modules from entering COMING and GOING states; wait until modules
        leave these states when they are already there; looks complicated; we would
        need to ignore the module that asked to stop the others to avoid a deadlock;
        also it is unclear what to do when two modules asked to stop others and
        both are in COMING state (situation when two new patches are applied)
      
      + always register/enable new patches and fix up the potential mess (registered
        patches order) in klp_module_init(); this is nasty and prone to regressions
        in the future development
      
      + add another MODULE_STATE where the kallsyms are visible but the module is not
        used yet; this looks too complex; the module states are checked on "many"
        locations
      
      Example of patch stacking breakage:
      ===================================
      
      The notifier could _not_ _simply_ ignore already initialized module objects.
      For example, let's have three patches (P1, P2, P3) for functions a() and b()
      where a() is from vmcore and b() is from a module M. Something like:
      
      	a()	b()
      P1	a1()	b1()
      P2	a2()	b2()
      P3	a3()	b3(3)
      
      If you load the module M after all patches are registered and enabled.
      The ftrace ops for function a() and b() has listed the functions in this
      order:
      
      	ops_a->func_stack -> list(a3,a2,a1)
      	ops_b->func_stack -> list(b3,b2,b1)
      
      , so the pointer to b3() is the first and will be used.
      
      Then you might have the following scenario. Let's start with state when patches
      P1 and P2 are registered and enabled but the module M is not loaded. Then ftrace
      ops for b() does not exist. Then we get into the following race:
      
      CPU0					CPU1
      
      load_module(M)
      
        complete_formation()
      
        mod->state = MODULE_STATE_COMING;
        mutex_unlock(&module_mutex);
      
      					klp_register_patch(P3);
      					klp_enable_patch(P3);
      
      					# STATE 1
      
        klp_module_notify(M)
          klp_module_notify_coming(P1);
          klp_module_notify_coming(P2);
          klp_module_notify_coming(P3);
      
      					# STATE 2
      
      The ftrace ops for a() and b() then looks:
      
        STATE1:
      
      	ops_a->func_stack -> list(a3,a2,a1);
      	ops_b->func_stack -> list(b3);
      
        STATE2:
      	ops_a->func_stack -> list(a3,a2,a1);
      	ops_b->func_stack -> list(b2,b1,b3);
      
      therefore, b2() is used for the module but a3() is used for vmcore
      because they were the last added.
      
      Example of the race with going modules:
      =======================================
      
      CPU0					CPU1
      
      delete_module()  #SYSCALL
      
         try_stop_module()
           mod->state = MODULE_STATE_GOING;
      
         mutex_unlock(&module_mutex);
      
      					klp_register_patch()
      					klp_enable_patch()
      
      					#save place to switch universe
      
      					b()     # from module that is going
      					  a()   # from core (patched)
      
         mod->exit();
      
      Note that the function b() can be called until we call mod->exit().
      
      If we do not apply patch against b() because it is in MODULE_STATE_GOING,
      it will call patched a() with modified semantic and things might get wrong.
      
      [jpoimboe@redhat.com: use one boolean instead of two]
      Signed-off-by: NPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
      Acked-by: NJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
      8cb2c2dc