Vegard Nossum pointed out two different problems with the error handling
in init_module_from_file():
(a) the idempotent loading code didn't clean up properly in some error
cases, leaving the on-stack 'struct idempotent' element still in
the hash table
(b) failure to read the module file would nonsensically update the
'invalid_kread_bytes' stat counter with the error value
The first error is quite nasty, in that it can then cause subsequent
idempotent loads of that same file to access stale stack contents of the
previous failure. The case may not happen in any normal situation
(explaining all the "Tested-by's on the original change), and requires
admin privileges, but syzkaller triggers random bad behavior as a
result:
BUG: soft lockup in sys_finit_module
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in init_module_from_file
general protection fault in init_module_from_file
INFO: task hung in init_module_from_file
KASAN: out-of-bounds Read in init_module_from_file
KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in init_module_from_file
...
The second error is fairly benign and just leads to nonsensical stats
(and has been around since the debug stats were added).
Vegard also provided a patch for the idempotent loading issue, but I'd
rather re-organize the code and make it more legible using another level
of helper functions than add the usual "goto out" error handling.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230704100852.23452-1-vegard.nossum@oracle.com/
Fixes: 9b9879fc03 ("modules: catch concurrent module loads, treat them as idempotent")
Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Reported-by: Harshit Mogalapalli <harshit.m.mogalapalli@oracle.com>
Reported-by: syzbot+9c2bdc9d24e4a7abe741@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull module updates from Luis Chamberlain:
"The changes queued up for modules are pretty tame, mostly code removal
of moving of code.
Only two minor functional changes are made, the only one which stands
out is Sebastian Andrzej Siewior's simplification of module reference
counting by removing preempt_disable() and that has been tested on
linux-next for well over a month without no regressions.
I'm now, I guess, also a kitchen sink for some kallsyms changes"
[ There was a mis-communication about the concurrent module load changes
that I had expected to come through Luis despite me authoring the
patch. So some of the module updates were left hanging in the email
ether, and I just committed them separately.
It's my bad - I should have made it more clear that I expected my
own patches to come through the module tree too. Now they missed
linux-next, but hopefully that won't cause any issues - Linus ]
* tag 'v6.5-rc1-modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux:
kallsyms: make kallsyms_show_value() as generic function
kallsyms: move kallsyms_show_value() out of kallsyms.c
kallsyms: remove unsed API lookup_symbol_attrs
kallsyms: remove unused arch_get_kallsym() helper
module: Remove preempt_disable() from module reference counting.
This is the new-and-improved attempt at avoiding huge memory load spikes
when the user space boot sequence tries to load hundreds (or even
thousands) of redundant duplicate modules in parallel.
See commit 9828ed3f69 ("module: error out early on concurrent load of
the same module file") for background and an earlier failed attempt that
was reverted.
That earlier attempt just said "concurrently loading the same module is
silly, just open the module file exclusively and return -ETXTBSY if
somebody else is already loading it".
While it is true that concurrent module loads of the same module is
silly, the reason that earlier attempt then failed was that the
concurrently loaded module would often be a prerequisite for another
module.
Thus failing to load the prerequisite would then cause cascading
failures of the other modules, rather than just short-circuiting that
one unnecessary module load.
At the same time, we still really don't want to load the contents of the
same module file hundreds of times, only to then wait for an eventually
successful load, and have everybody else return -EEXIST.
As a result, this takes another approach, and treats concurrent module
loads from the same file as "idempotent" in the inode. So if one module
load is ongoing, we don't start a new one, but instead just wait for the
first one to complete and return the same return value as it did.
So unlike the first attempt, this does not return early: the intent is
not to speed up the boot, but to avoid a thundering herd problem in
allocating memory (both physical and virtual) for a module more than
once.
Also note that this does change behavior: it used to be that when you
had concurrent loads, you'd have one "winner" that would return success,
and everybody else would return -EEXIST.
In contrast, this idempotent logic goes all Oprah on the problem, and
says "You are a winner! And you are a winner! We are ALL winners". But
since there's no possible actual real semantic difference between "you
loaded the module" and "somebody else already loaded the module", this
is more of a feel-good change than an actual honest-to-goodness semantic
change.
Of course, any true Johnny-come-latelies that don't get caught in the
concurrency filter will still return -EEXIST. It's no different from
not even getting a seat at an Oprah taping. That's life.
See the long thread on the kernel mailing list about this all, which
includes some numbers for memory use before and after the patch.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230524213620.3509138-1-mcgrof@kernel.org/
Reviewed-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Tested-by: Rudi Heitbaum <rudi@heitbaum..com>
Tested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This will simplify the next step, where we can then key off the inode to
do one idempotent module load.
Let's do the obvious re-organization in one step, and then the new code
in another.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The preempt_disable() section in module_put() was added in commit
e1783a240f ("module: Use this_cpu_xx to dynamically allocate counters")
while the per-CPU counter were switched to another API. The API requires
that during the RMW operation the CPU remained the same.
This counting API was later replaced with atomic_t in commit
2f35c41f58 ("module: Replace module_ref with atomic_t refcnt")
Since this atomic_t replacement there is no need to keep preemption
disabled while the reference counter is modified.
Remove preempt_disable() from module_put(), __module_get() and
try_module_get().
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
The finit_module() system call can create unnecessary virtual memory
pressure for duplicate modules. This is because load_module() can in
the worse case allocate more than twice the size of a module in virtual
memory. This saves at least a full size of the module in wasted vmalloc
space memory by trying to avoid duplicates as soon as we can validate
the module name in the read module structure.
This can only be an issue if a system is getting hammered with userspace
loading modules. There are two ways to load modules typically on systems,
one is the kernel moduile auto-loading (*request_module*() calls in-kernel)
and the other is things like udev. The auto-loading is in-kernel, but that
pings back to userspace to just call modprobe. We already have a way to
restrict the amount of concurrent kernel auto-loads in a given time, however
that still allows multiple requests for the same module to go through
and force two threads in userspace racing to call modprobe for the same
exact module. Even though libkmod which both modprobe and udev does check
if a module is already loaded prior calling finit_module() races are
still possible and this is clearly evident today when you have multiple
CPUs.
To avoid memory pressure for such stupid cases put a stop gap for them.
The *earliest* we can detect duplicates from the modules side of things
is once we have blessed the module name, sadly after the first vmalloc
allocation. We can check for the module being present *before* a secondary
vmalloc() allocation.
There is a linear relationship between wasted virtual memory bytes and
the number of CPU counts. The reason is that udev ends up racing to call
tons of the same modules for each of the CPUs.
We can see the different linear relationships between wasted virtual
memory and CPU count during after boot in the following graph:
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
14GB |-+ + + + + *+ +-|
| **** |
| *** |
| ** |
12GB |-+ ** +-|
| ** |
| ** |
| ** |
| ** |
10GB |-+ ** +-|
| ** |
| ** |
| ** |
8GB |-+ ** +-|
waste | ** ### |
| ** #### |
| ** ####### |
6GB |-+ **** #### +-|
| * #### |
| * #### |
| ***** #### |
4GB |-+ ** #### +-|
| ** #### |
| ** #### |
| ** #### |
2GB |-+ ** ##### +-|
| * #### |
| * #### Before ******* |
| **## + + + + After ####### |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
0 50 100 150 200 250 300
CPUs count
On the y-axis we can see gigabytes of wasted virtual memory during boot
due to duplicate module requests which just end up failing. Trying to
infer the slope this ends up being about ~463 MiB per CPU lost prior
to this patch. After this patch we only loose about ~230 MiB per CPU, for
a total savings of about ~233 MiB per CPU. This is all *just on bootup*!
On a 8vcpu 8 GiB RAM system using kdevops and testing against selftests
kmod.sh -t 0008 I see a saving in the *highest* side of memory
consumption of up to ~ 84 MiB with the Linux kernel selftests kmod
test 0008. With the new stress-ng module test I see a 145 MiB difference
in max memory consumption with 100 ops. The stress-ng module ops tests can be
pretty pathalogical -- it is not realistic, however it was used to
finally successfully reproduce issues which are only reported to happen on
system with over 400 CPUs [0] by just usign 100 ops on a 8vcpu 8 GiB RAM
system. Running out of virtual memory space is no surprise given the
above graph, since at least on x86_64 we're capped at 128 MiB, eventually
we'd hit a series of errors and once can use the above graph to
guestimate when. This of course will vary depending on the features
you have enabled. So for instance, enabling KASAN seems to make this
much worse.
The results with kmod and stress-ng can be observed and visualized below.
The time it takes to run the test is also not affected.
The kmod tests 0008:
The gnuplot is set to a range from 400000 KiB (390 Mib) - 580000 (566 Mib)
given the tests peak around that range.
cat kmod.plot
set term dumb
set output fileout
set yrange [400000:580000]
plot filein with linespoints title "Memory usage (KiB)"
Before:
root@kmod ~ # /data/linux-next/tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh -t 0008
root@kmod ~ # free -k -s 1 -c 40 | grep Mem | awk '{print $3}' > log-0008-before.txt ^C
root@kmod ~ # sort -n -r log-0008-before.txt | head -1
528732
So ~516.33 MiB
After:
root@kmod ~ # /data/linux-next/tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh -t 0008
root@kmod ~ # free -k -s 1 -c 40 | grep Mem | awk '{print $3}' > log-0008-after.txt ^C
root@kmod ~ # sort -n -r log-0008-after.txt | head -1
442516
So ~432.14 MiB
That's about 84 ~MiB in savings in the worst case. The graphs:
root@kmod ~ # gnuplot -e "filein='log-0008-before.txt'; fileout='graph-0008-before.txt'" kmod.plot
root@kmod ~ # gnuplot -e "filein='log-0008-after.txt'; fileout='graph-0008-after.txt'" kmod.plot
root@kmod ~ # cat graph-0008-before.txt
580000 +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
| + + + + + + + |
560000 |-+ Memory usage (KiB) ***A***-|
| |
540000 |-+ +-|
| |
| *A *AA*AA*A*AA *A*AA A*A*A *AA*A*AA*A A |
520000 |-+A*A*AA *AA*A *A*AA*A*AA *A*A A *A+-|
|*A |
500000 |-+ +-|
| |
480000 |-+ +-|
| |
460000 |-+ +-|
| |
| |
440000 |-+ +-|
| |
420000 |-+ +-|
| + + + + + + + |
400000 +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
root@kmod ~ # cat graph-0008-after.txt
580000 +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
| + + + + + + + |
560000 |-+ Memory usage (KiB) ***A***-|
| |
540000 |-+ +-|
| |
| |
520000 |-+ +-|
| |
500000 |-+ +-|
| |
480000 |-+ +-|
| |
460000 |-+ +-|
| |
| *A *A*A |
440000 |-+A*A*AA*A A A*A*AA A*A*AA*A*AA*A*AA*A*AA*AA*A*AA*A*AA-|
|*A *A*AA*A |
420000 |-+ +-|
| + + + + + + + |
400000 +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
The stress-ng module tests:
This is used to run the test to try to reproduce the vmap issues
reported by David:
echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/oom_dump_tasks
./stress-ng --module 100 --module-name xfs
Prior to this commit:
root@kmod ~ # free -k -s 1 -c 40 | grep Mem | awk '{print $3}' > baseline-stress-ng.txt
root@kmod ~ # sort -n -r baseline-stress-ng.txt | head -1
5046456
After this commit:
root@kmod ~ # free -k -s 1 -c 40 | grep Mem | awk '{print $3}' > after-stress-ng.txt
root@kmod ~ # sort -n -r after-stress-ng.txt | head -1
4896972
5046456 - 4896972
149484
149484/1024
145.98046875000000000000
So this commit using stress-ng reveals saving about 145 MiB in memory
using 100 ops from stress-ng which reproduced the vmap issue reported.
cat kmod.plot
set term dumb
set output fileout
set yrange [4700000:5070000]
plot filein with linespoints title "Memory usage (KiB)"
root@kmod ~ # gnuplot -e "filein='baseline-stress-ng.txt'; fileout='graph-stress-ng-before.txt'" kmod-simple-stress-ng.plot
root@kmod ~ # gnuplot -e "filein='after-stress-ng.txt'; fileout='graph-stress-ng-after.txt'" kmod-simple-stress-ng.plot
root@kmod ~ # cat graph-stress-ng-before.txt
+---------------------------------------------------------------+
5.05e+06 |-+ + A + + + + + + +-|
| * Memory usage (KiB) ***A*** |
| * A |
5e+06 |-+ ** ** +-|
| ** * * A |
4.95e+06 |-+ * * A * A* +-|
| * * A A * * * * A |
| * * * * * * *A * * * A * |
4.9e+06 |-+ * * * A*A * A*AA*A A *A **A **A*A *+-|
| A A*A A * A * * A A * A * ** |
| * ** ** * * * * * * * |
4.85e+06 |-+ A A A ** * * ** *-|
| * * * * ** * |
| * A * * * * |
4.8e+06 |-+ * * * A A-|
| * * * |
4.75e+06 |-+ * * * +-|
| * ** |
| * + + + + + + ** + |
4.7e+06 +---------------------------------------------------------------+
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
root@kmod ~ # cat graph-stress-ng-after.txt
+---------------------------------------------------------------+
5.05e+06 |-+ + + + + + + + +-|
| Memory usage (KiB) ***A*** |
| |
5e+06 |-+ +-|
| |
4.95e+06 |-+ +-|
| |
| |
4.9e+06 |-+ *AA +-|
| A*AA*A*A A A*AA*AA*A*AA*A A A A*A *AA*A*A A A*AA*AA |
| * * ** * * * ** * *** * |
4.85e+06 |-+* *** * * * * *** A * * +-|
| * A * * ** * * A * * |
| * * * * ** * * |
4.8e+06 |-+* * * A * * * +-|
| * * * A * * |
4.75e+06 |-* * * * * +-|
| * * * * * |
| * + * *+ + + + + * *+ |
4.7e+06 +---------------------------------------------------------------+
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
[0] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221013180518.217405-1-david@redhat.com
Reported-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Loading modules with finit_module() can end up using vmalloc(), vmap()
and vmalloc() again, for a total of up to 3 separate allocations in the
worst case for a single module. We always kernel_read*() the module,
that's a vmalloc(). Then vmap() is used for the module decompression,
and if so the last read buffer is freed as we use the now decompressed
module buffer to stuff data into our copy module. The last allocation is
specific to each architectures but pretty much that's generally a series
of vmalloc() calls or a variation of vmalloc to handle ELF sections with
special permissions.
Evaluation with new stress-ng module support [1] with just 100 ops
is proving that you can end up using GiBs of data easily even with all
care we have in the kernel and userspace today in trying to not load modules
which are already loaded. 100 ops seems to resemble the sort of pressure a
system with about 400 CPUs can create on module loading. Although issues
relating to duplicate module requests due to each CPU inucurring a new
module reuest is silly and some of these are being fixed, we currently lack
proper tooling to help diagnose easily what happened, when it happened
and who likely is to blame -- userspace or kernel module autoloading.
Provide an initial set of stats which use debugfs to let us easily scrape
post-boot information about failed loads. This sort of information can
be used on production worklaods to try to optimize *avoiding* redundant
memory pressure using finit_module().
There's a few examples that can be provided:
A 255 vCPU system without the next patch in this series applied:
Startup finished in 19.143s (kernel) + 7.078s (userspace) = 26.221s
graphical.target reached after 6.988s in userspace
And 13.58 GiB of virtual memory space lost due to failed module loading:
root@big ~ # cat /sys/kernel/debug/modules/stats
Mods ever loaded 67
Mods failed on kread 0
Mods failed on decompress 0
Mods failed on becoming 0
Mods failed on load 1411
Total module size 11464704
Total mod text size 4194304
Failed kread bytes 0
Failed decompress bytes 0
Failed becoming bytes 0
Failed kmod bytes 14588526272
Virtual mem wasted bytes 14588526272
Average mod size 171115
Average mod text size 62602
Average fail load bytes 10339140
Duplicate failed modules:
module-name How-many-times Reason
kvm_intel 249 Load
kvm 249 Load
irqbypass 8 Load
crct10dif_pclmul 128 Load
ghash_clmulni_intel 27 Load
sha512_ssse3 50 Load
sha512_generic 200 Load
aesni_intel 249 Load
crypto_simd 41 Load
cryptd 131 Load
evdev 2 Load
serio_raw 1 Load
virtio_pci 3 Load
nvme 3 Load
nvme_core 3 Load
virtio_pci_legacy_dev 3 Load
virtio_pci_modern_dev 3 Load
t10_pi 3 Load
virtio 3 Load
crc32_pclmul 6 Load
crc64_rocksoft 3 Load
crc32c_intel 40 Load
virtio_ring 3 Load
crc64 3 Load
The following screen shot, of a simple 8vcpu 8 GiB KVM guest with the
next patch in this series applied, shows 226.53 MiB are wasted in virtual
memory allocations which due to duplicate module requests during boot.
It also shows an average module memory size of 167.10 KiB and an an
average module .text + .init.text size of 61.13 KiB. The end shows all
modules which were detected as duplicate requests and whether or not
they failed early after just the first kernel_read*() call or late after
we've already allocated the private space for the module in
layout_and_allocate(). A system with module decompression would reveal
more wasted virtual memory space.
We should put effort now into identifying the source of these duplicate
module requests and trimming these down as much possible. Larger systems
will obviously show much more wasted virtual memory allocations.
root@kmod ~ # cat /sys/kernel/debug/modules/stats
Mods ever loaded 67
Mods failed on kread 0
Mods failed on decompress 0
Mods failed on becoming 83
Mods failed on load 16
Total module size 11464704
Total mod text size 4194304
Failed kread bytes 0
Failed decompress bytes 0
Failed becoming bytes 228959096
Failed kmod bytes 8578080
Virtual mem wasted bytes 237537176
Average mod size 171115
Average mod text size 62602
Avg fail becoming bytes 2758544
Average fail load bytes 536130
Duplicate failed modules:
module-name How-many-times Reason
kvm_intel 7 Becoming
kvm 7 Becoming
irqbypass 6 Becoming & Load
crct10dif_pclmul 7 Becoming & Load
ghash_clmulni_intel 7 Becoming & Load
sha512_ssse3 6 Becoming & Load
sha512_generic 7 Becoming & Load
aesni_intel 7 Becoming
crypto_simd 7 Becoming & Load
cryptd 3 Becoming & Load
evdev 1 Becoming
serio_raw 1 Becoming
nvme 3 Becoming
nvme_core 3 Becoming
t10_pi 3 Becoming
virtio_pci 3 Becoming
crc32_pclmul 6 Becoming & Load
crc64_rocksoft 3 Becoming
crc32c_intel 3 Becoming
virtio_pci_modern_dev 2 Becoming
virtio_pci_legacy_dev 1 Becoming
crc64 2 Becoming
virtio 2 Becoming
virtio_ring 2 Becoming
[0] https://github.com/ColinIanKing/stress-ng.git
[1] echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/oom_dump_tasks
./stress-ng --module 100 --module-name xfs
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
The patient module check inside add_unformed_module() is large
enough as we need it. It is a bit hard to read too, so just
move it to a helper and do the inverse checks first to help
shift the code and make it easier to read. The new helper then
is module_patient_check_exists().
To make this work we need to mvoe the finished_loading() up,
we do that without making any functional changes to that routine.
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Commit ac3b432839 ("module: replace module_layout with module_memory")
reworked the way to handle memory allocations to make it clearer. But it
lost in translation how we handled kmemleak_ignore() or kmemleak_not_leak()
for different ELF sections.
Fix this and clarify the comments a bit more. Contrary to the old way
of using kmemleak_ignore() for init.* ELF sections we stick now only to
kmemleak_not_leak() as per suggestion by Catalin Marinas so to avoid
any false positives and simplify the code.
Fixes: ac3b432839 ("module: replace module_layout with module_memory")
Reported-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
already_uses() is unnecessarily chatty.
`modprobe i915` yields 491 messages like:
[ 64.108744] i915 uses drm!
This is a normal situation, and isn't worth all the log entries.
NOTE: I've preserved the "does not use %s" messages, which happens
less often, but does happen. Its not clear to me what it tells a
reader, or what info might improve the pr_debug's utility.
[ 6847.584999] main:already_uses:569: amdgpu does not use ttm!
[ 6847.585001] main:add_module_usage:584: Allocating new usage for amdgpu.
[ 6847.585014] main:already_uses:569: amdgpu does not use drm!
[ 6847.585016] main:add_module_usage:584: Allocating new usage for amdgpu.
[ 6847.585024] main:already_uses:569: amdgpu does not use drm_display_helper!
[ 6847.585025] main:add_module_usage:584: Allocating new usage for amdgpu.
[ 6847.585084] main:already_uses:569: amdgpu does not use drm_kms_helper!
[ 6847.585086] main:add_module_usage:584: Allocating new usage for amdgpu.
[ 6847.585175] main:already_uses:569: amdgpu does not use drm_buddy!
[ 6847.585176] main:add_module_usage:584: Allocating new usage for amdgpu.
[ 6847.585202] main:already_uses:569: amdgpu does not use i2c_algo_bit!
[ 6847.585204] main:add_module_usage:584: Allocating new usage for amdgpu.
[ 6847.585249] main:already_uses:569: amdgpu does not use gpu_sched!
[ 6847.585250] main:add_module_usage:584: Allocating new usage for amdgpu.
[ 6847.585314] main:already_uses:569: amdgpu does not use video!
[ 6847.585315] main:add_module_usage:584: Allocating new usage for amdgpu.
[ 6847.585409] main:already_uses:569: amdgpu does not use iommu_v2!
[ 6847.585410] main:add_module_usage:584: Allocating new usage for amdgpu.
[ 6847.585816] main:already_uses:569: amdgpu does not use drm_ttm_helper!
[ 6847.585818] main:add_module_usage:584: Allocating new usage for amdgpu.
[ 6848.762268] dyndbg: add-module: amdgpu.2533 sites
no functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
move_module() pr_debug's "Final section addresses for $modname".
Add section addresses to the message, for anyone looking at these.
no functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
The pr_debug("Absolute symbol" ..) reports value, (which is usually
0), but not the name, which is more informative. So add it.
no functional changes
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
layout_sections() and move_module() each issue ~50 messages for each
module loaded. Add mod-name into their 2 header lines, to help the
reader find his module.
no functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
The setup_load_info() was actually had ELF validation checks of its
own. To later cache useful variables as an secondary step just means
looping again over the ELF sections we just validated. We can simply
keep tabs of the key sections of interest as we validate the module
ELF section in one swoop, so do that and merge the two routines
together.
Expand a bit on the documentation / intent / goals.
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
The symbol and strings section validation currently happen in
setup_load_info() but since they are also doing validity checks
move this to elf_validity_check().
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
The integrity of the struct module we load is important, and although
our ELF validator already checks that the module section must match
struct module, add a stop-gap check before we memcpy() the final minted
module. This also makes those inspecting the code what the goal is.
While at it, clarify the goal behind updating the sh_addr address.
The current comment is pretty misleading.
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
The ELF ".gnu.linkonce.this_module" section is special, it is what we
use to construct the struct module __this_module, which THIS_MODULE
points to. When userspace loads a module we always deal first with a
copy of the userspace buffer, and twiddle with the userspace copy's
version of the struct module. Eventually we allocate memory to do a
memcpy() of that struct module, under the assumption that the module
size is right. But we have no validity checks against the size or
the requirements for the section.
Add some validity checks for the special module section early and while
at it, cache the module section index early, so we don't have to do that
later.
While at it, just move over the assigment of the info->mod to make the
code clearer. The validity checker also adds an explicit size check to
ensure the module section size matches the kernel's run time size for
sizeof(struct module). This should prevent sloppy loads of modules
which are built today *without* actually increasing the size of
the struct module. A developer today can for example expand the size
of struct module, rebuild a directoroy 'make fs/xfs/' for example and
then try to insmode the driver there. That module would in effect have
an incorrect size. This new size check would put a stop gap against such
mistakes.
This also makes the entire goal of ".gnu.linkonce.this_module" pretty
clear. Before this patch verification of the goal / intent required some
Indian Jones whips, torches and cleaning up big old spider webs.
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Converge on a compromise: so long as we have a module hit our linked
list of modules we taint. That is, the module was about to become live.
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
It is silly to have taints spread out all over, we can just compromise
and add them if the module ever hit our linked list. Our sanity checkers
should just prevent crappy drivers / bogus ELF modules / etc and kconfig
options should be enough to let you *not* load things you don't want.
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
check_modinfo() actually does two things:
a) sanity checks, some of which are fatal, and so we
prevent the user from completing trying to load a module
b) taints the kernel
The taints are pretty heavy handed because we're tainting the kernel
*before* we ever even get to load the module into the modules linked
list. That is, it it can fail for other reasons later as we review the
module's structure.
But this commit makes no functional changes, it just makes the intent
clearer and splits the code up where needed to make that happen.
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
The work to taint the kernel due to a module should be split
up eventually. To aid with this, split up the tainting on
check_modinfo_livepatch().
This let's us bring more early checks together which do return
a value, and makes changes easier to read later where we stuff
all the work to do the taints in one single routine.
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
The set_license() routine would seem to a reader to do some sort of
setting, but it does not. It just adds a taint if the license is
not set or proprietary.
This makes what the code is doing clearer, so much we can remove
the comment about it.
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
