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Linus Torvalds
db0457338e Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/livepatching/livepatching
Pull livepatching updates from Jiri Kosina:

 - stacktrace handling improvements from Miroslav benes

 - debug output improvements from Petr Mladek

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/livepatching/livepatching:
  livepatch: Remove duplicate warning about missing reliable stacktrace support
  Revert "livepatch: Remove reliable stacktrace check in klp_try_switch_task()"
  stacktrace: Remove weak version of save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable()
  livepatch: Use static buffer for debugging messages under rq lock
  livepatch: Remove stale kobj_added entries from kernel-doc descriptions
2019-07-11 15:30:05 -07:00
Petr Mladek
ac59a471e9 livepatch: Remove duplicate warning about missing reliable stacktrace support
WARN_ON_ONCE() could not be called safely under rq lock because
of console deadlock issues. Moreover WARN_ON_ONCE() is superfluous in
klp_check_stack(), because stack_trace_save_tsk_reliable() cannot return
-ENOSYS thanks to klp_have_reliable_stack() check in
klp_try_switch_task().

[ mbenes: changelog edited ]
Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
2019-06-20 16:19:13 +02:00
Miroslav Benes
67059d65f7 Revert "livepatch: Remove reliable stacktrace check in klp_try_switch_task()"
This reverts commit 1d98a69e5c. Commit
31adf2308f ("livepatch: Convert error about unsupported reliable
stacktrace into a warning") weakened the enforcement for architectures
to have reliable stack traces support. The system only warns now about
it.

It only makes sense to reintroduce the compile time checking in
klp_try_switch_task() again and bail out early.

Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
2019-06-20 16:08:41 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
6a71398c6a 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()
2019-06-15 07:24:11 -10:00
Josh Poimboeuf
9f255b632b module: Fix livepatch/ftrace module text permissions race
It's possible for livepatch and ftrace to be toggling a module's text
permissions at the same time, resulting in the following panic:

  BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffffffc005b1d9
  #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
  #PF: error_code(0x0003) - permissions violation
  PGD 3ea0c067 P4D 3ea0c067 PUD 3ea0e067 PMD 3cc13067 PTE 3b8a1061
  Oops: 0003 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
  CPU: 1 PID: 453 Comm: insmod Tainted: G           O  K   5.2.0-rc1-a188339ca5 #1
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.12.0-20181126_142135-anatol 04/01/2014
  RIP: 0010:apply_relocate_add+0xbe/0x14c
  Code: fa 0b 74 21 48 83 fa 18 74 38 48 83 fa 0a 75 40 eb 08 48 83 38 00 74 33 eb 53 83 38 00 75 4e 89 08 89 c8 eb 0a 83 38 00 75 43 <89> 08 48 63 c1 48 39 c8 74 2e eb 48 83 38 00 75 32 48 29 c1 89 08
  RSP: 0018:ffffb223c00dbb10 EFLAGS: 00010246
  RAX: ffffffffc005b1d9 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffffff8b200060
  RDX: 000000000000000b RSI: 0000004b0000000b RDI: ffff96bdfcd33000
  RBP: ffffb223c00dbb38 R08: ffffffffc005d040 R09: ffffffffc005c1f0
  R10: ffff96bdfcd33c40 R11: ffff96bdfcd33b80 R12: 0000000000000018
  R13: ffffffffc005c1f0 R14: ffffffffc005e708 R15: ffffffff8b2fbc74
  FS:  00007f5f447beba8(0000) GS:ffff96bdff900000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: ffffffffc005b1d9 CR3: 000000003cedc002 CR4: 0000000000360ea0
  DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
  DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
  Call Trace:
   klp_init_object_loaded+0x10f/0x219
   ? preempt_latency_start+0x21/0x57
   klp_enable_patch+0x662/0x809
   ? virt_to_head_page+0x3a/0x3c
   ? kfree+0x8c/0x126
   patch_init+0x2ed/0x1000 [livepatch_test02]
   ? 0xffffffffc0060000
   do_one_initcall+0x9f/0x1c5
   ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0xc4/0xd4
   ? do_init_module+0x27/0x210
   do_init_module+0x5f/0x210
   load_module+0x1c41/0x2290
   ? fsnotify_path+0x3b/0x42
   ? strstarts+0x2b/0x2b
   ? kernel_read+0x58/0x65
   __do_sys_finit_module+0x9f/0xc3
   ? __do_sys_finit_module+0x9f/0xc3
   __x64_sys_finit_module+0x1a/0x1c
   do_syscall_64+0x52/0x61
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

The above panic occurs when loading two modules at the same time with
ftrace enabled, where at least one of the modules is a livepatch module:

CPU0					CPU1
klp_enable_patch()
  klp_init_object_loaded()
    module_disable_ro()
    					ftrace_module_enable()
					  ftrace_arch_code_modify_post_process()
				    	    set_all_modules_text_ro()
      klp_write_object_relocations()
        apply_relocate_add()
	  *patches read-only code* - BOOM

A similar race exists when toggling ftrace while loading a livepatch
module.

Fix it by ensuring that the livepatch and ftrace code patching
operations -- and their respective permissions changes -- are protected
by the text_mutex.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ab43d56ab909469ac5d2520c5d944ad6d4abd476.1560474114.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com

Reported-by: Johannes Erdfelt <johannes@erdfelt.com>
Fixes: 444d13ff10 ("modules: add ro_after_init support")
Acked-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2019-06-14 17:01:50 -04:00
Petr Mladek
f36e664516 livepatch: Use static buffer for debugging messages under rq lock
The err_buf array uses 128 bytes of stack space.  Move it off the stack
by making it static.  It's safe to use a shared buffer because
klp_try_switch_task() is called under klp_mutex.

Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
2019-06-05 16:35:47 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
1ccea77e2a treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 13
Based on 2 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version this program is distributed in the
  hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even
  the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular
  purpose see the gnu general public license for more details you
  should have received a copy of the gnu general public license along
  with this program if not see http www gnu org licenses

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version this program is distributed in the
  hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even
  the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular
  purpose see the gnu general public license for more details [based]
  [from] [clk] [highbank] [c] you should have received a copy of the
  gnu general public license along with this program if not see http
  www gnu org licenses

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 355 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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>
2019-05-21 11:28:45 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
ec8f24b7fa treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig
Add SPDX license identifiers to all Make/Kconfig files which:

 - Have no license information of any form

These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:

  GPL-2.0-only

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-05-21 10:50:46 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
d2d8b14604 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()
  ...
2019-05-15 16:05:47 -07:00
Jiri Kosina
56e33afd77 livepatch: Remove klp_check_compiler_support()
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>
2019-05-10 17:53:29 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
cf482a49af 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
  ...
2019-05-07 13:01:40 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
573de2a6e8 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/livepatching/livepatching
Pull livepatching updates from Jiri Kosina:

 - livepatching kselftests improvements from Joe Lawrence and Miroslav
   Benes

 - making use of gcc's -flive-patching option when available, from
   Miroslav Benes

 - kobject handling cleanups, from Petr Mladek

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/livepatching/livepatching:
  livepatch: Remove duplicated code for early initialization
  livepatch: Remove custom kobject state handling
  livepatch: Convert error about unsupported reliable stacktrace into a warning
  selftests/livepatch: Add functions.sh to TEST_PROGS_EXTENDED
  kbuild: use -flive-patching when CONFIG_LIVEPATCH is enabled
  selftests/livepatch: use TEST_PROGS for test scripts
2019-05-07 08:56:04 -07:00
Petr Mladek
f68d67cf2f livepatch: Remove duplicated code for early initialization
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>
2019-05-03 21:11:23 +02:00
Petr Mladek
4d141ab341 livepatch: Remove custom kobject state handling
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>
2019-05-03 21:11:22 +02:00
Petr Mladek
31adf2308f livepatch: Convert error about unsupported reliable stacktrace into a warning
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>
2019-04-29 14:46:07 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
25e39e32b0 livepatch: Simplify stack trace retrieval
Replace the indirection through struct stack_trace by using the storage
array based interfaces.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: kasan-dev@googlegroups.com
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190425094803.437950229@linutronix.de
2019-04-29 12:37:56 +02:00
Kimberly Brown
70283454c9 livepatch: Replace klp_ktype_patch's default_attrs with groups
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>
2019-04-25 22:06:11 +02:00
Jiri Kosina
f9d1381456 Merge branch 'for-5.1/atomic-replace' into for-linus
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.
2019-03-05 15:56:59 +01:00
Petr Mladek
a087cdd407 livepatch: Module coming and going callbacks can proceed with all listed 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>
2019-02-06 11:03:14 +01:00
Petr Mladek
ecba29f434 livepatch: Introduce klp_for_each_patch macro
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>
2019-02-06 10:49:30 +01:00
Alice Ferrazzi
375bfca345 livepatch: core: Return EOPNOTSUPP instead of ENOSYS
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>
2019-02-06 10:43:57 +01:00
Miroslav Benes
0b3d52790e livepatch: Remove signal sysfs attribute
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>
2019-01-16 22:09:33 +01:00
Miroslav Benes
cba82dea30 livepatch: Send a fake signal periodically
An administrator may send a fake signal to all remaining blocking tasks
of a running transition by writing to
/sys/kernel/livepatch/<patch>/signal attribute. Let's do it
automatically after 15 seconds. The timeout is chosen deliberately. It
gives the tasks enough time to transition themselves.

Theoretically, sending it once should be more than enough. However,
every task must get outside of a patched function to be successfully
transitioned. It could prove not to be simple and resending could be
helpful in that case.

A new workqueue job could be a cleaner solution to achieve it, but it
could also introduce deadlocks and cause more headaches with
synchronization and cancelling.

[jkosina@suse.cz: removed added newline]
Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2019-01-16 22:09:09 +01:00
Petr Mladek
d67a537209 livepatch: Remove ordering (stacking) of the livepatches
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>
2019-01-11 20:51:24 +01:00
Petr Mladek
d697bad588 livepatch: Remove Nop structures when unused
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>
2019-01-11 20:51:24 +01:00