Pull livepatching updates from Petr Mladek:
- Correctly handle kobjects when a livepatch init fails
- Avoid CPU hogging when searching for many livepatched symbols
- Add livepatch API page into documentation
* tag 'livepatching-for-5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/livepatching/livepatching:
livepatch: Avoid CPU hogging with cond_resched
livepatch: Fix missing unlock on error in klp_enable_patch()
livepatch: Fix kobject refcount bug on klp_init_patch_early failure path
Documentation: livepatch: Add livepatch API page
When enabling a klp patch with klp_enable_patch(), klp_init_patch_early()
is invoked to initialize the kobjects for the patch itself, as well as the
'struct klp_object' and 'struct klp_func' objects that comprise it.
However, there are some error paths in klp_enable_patch() where some
kobjects may have been initialized with kobject_init(), but an error code
is still returned due to e.g. a 'struct klp_object' having a NULL funcs
pointer.
In these paths, the initial reference of the kobject of the 'struct
klp_patch' may never be released, along with one or more of its objects and
their functions, as kobject_put() is not invoked on the cleanup path if
klp_init_patch_early() returns an error code.
For example, if an object entry such as the following were added to the
sample livepatch module's klp patch, it would cause the vmlinux klp_object,
and its klp_func which updates 'cmdline_proc_show', to never be released:
static struct klp_object objs[] = {
{
/* name being NULL means vmlinux */
.funcs = funcs,
},
{
/* NULL funcs -- would cause reference leak */
.name = "kvm",
}, { }
};
Without this change, if CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT is enabled, and the sample klp
patch is loaded, the kobjects (the patch, the vmlinux 'struct klp_object',
and its func) are observed as initialized, but never released, in the dmesg
log output. With the change, these kobject references no longer fail to be
released as the error case is properly handled before they are initialized.
Signed-off-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
The livepatch subsystem has several exported functions and objects with
kerneldoc comments. Though the livepatch documentation contains handwritten
descriptions of all of these exported functions, they are currently not
pulled into the docs build using the kernel-doc directive.
In order to allow readers of the documentation to see the full kerneldoc
comments in the generated documentation files, this change adds a new
Documentation/livepatch/api.rst page which contains kernel-doc directives
to link the kerneldoc comments directly in the documentation. With this,
all of the hand-written descriptions of the APIs now cross-reference the
kerneldoc comments on the new Livepatching APIs page, and running
./scripts/find-unused-docs.sh on kernel/livepatch no longer shows any files
as missing documentation.
Note that all of the handwritten API descriptions were left alone with the
exception of Documentation/livepatch/system-state.rst, which was updated to
allow the cross-referencing to work correctly. The file now follows the
cross-referencing formatting guidance specified in
Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst. Furthermore, some comments around
klp_shadow_free_all() were updated to say <_, id> rather than <*, id> to
match the rest of the file, and to prevent the docs build from emitting an
"Inline emphasis start-string without end string" error.
Signed-off-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211221145743.4098360-1-void@manifault.com
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
- kprobes: Restructured stack unwinder to show properly on x86 when a
stack dump happens from a kretprobe callback.
- Fix to bootconfig parsing
- Have tracefs allow owner and group permissions by default (only
denying others). There's been pressure to allow non root to tracefs
in a controlled fashion, and using groups is probably the safest.
- Bootconfig memory managament updates.
- Bootconfig clean up to have the tools directory be less dependent on
changes in the kernel tree.
- Allow perf to be traced by function tracer.
- Rewrite of function graph tracer to be a callback from the function
tracer instead of having its own trampoline (this change will happen
on an arch by arch basis, and currently only x86_64 implements it).
- Allow multiple direct trampolines (bpf hooks to functions) be batched
together in one synchronization.
- Allow histogram triggers to add variables that can perform
calculations against the event's fields.
- Use the linker to determine architecture callbacks from the ftrace
trampoline to allow for proper parameter prototypes and prevent
warnings from the compiler.
- Extend histogram triggers to key off of variables.
- Have trace recursion use bit magic to determine preempt context over
if branches.
- Have trace recursion disable preemption as all use cases do anyway.
- Added testing for verification of tracing utilities.
- Various small clean ups and fixes.
* tag 'trace-v5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (101 commits)
tracing/histogram: Fix semicolon.cocci warnings
tracing/histogram: Fix documentation inline emphasis warning
tracing: Increase PERF_MAX_TRACE_SIZE to handle Sentinel1 and docker together
tracing: Show size of requested perf buffer
bootconfig: Initialize ret in xbc_parse_tree()
ftrace: do CPU checking after preemption disabled
ftrace: disable preemption when recursion locked
tracing/histogram: Document expression arithmetic and constants
tracing/histogram: Optimize division by a power of 2
tracing/histogram: Covert expr to const if both operands are constants
tracing/histogram: Simplify handling of .sym-offset in expressions
tracing: Fix operator precedence for hist triggers expression
tracing: Add division and multiplication support for hist triggers
tracing: Add support for creating hist trigger variables from literal
selftests/ftrace: Stop tracing while reading the trace file by default
MAINTAINERS: Update KPROBES and TRACING entries
test_kprobes: Move it from kernel/ to lib/
docs, kprobes: Remove invalid URL and add new reference
samples/kretprobes: Fix return value if register_kretprobe() failed
lib/bootconfig: Fix the xbc_get_info kerneldoc
...
Pull livepatching update from Petr Mladek:
- Use TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL infrastructure instead of the fake signal
* tag 'livepatching-for-5.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/livepatching/livepatching:
livepatch: Replace the fake signal sending with TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL infrastructure
Livepatch sends a fake signal to all remaining blocking tasks of a
running transition after a set period of time. It uses TIF_SIGPENDING
flag for the purpose. Commit 12db8b6900 ("entry: Add support for
TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL") added a generic infrastructure to achieve the same.
Replace our bespoke solution with the generic one.
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Require an explicit call to module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol to look
for symbols in modules instead of the call from kallsyms_on_each_symbol,
and acquire module_mutex inside of module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol instead
of leaving that up to the caller. Note that this slightly changes the
behavior for the livepatch code in that the symbols from vmlinux are not
iterated anymore if objname is set, but that actually is the desired
behavior in this case.
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Allow for a RCU-sched critical section around find_module, following
the lower level find_module_all helper, and switch the two callers
outside of module.c to use such a RCU-sched critical section instead
of module_mutex.
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
When CONFIG_HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS is available, the ftrace call
will be able to set the ip of the calling function. This will improve the
performance of live kernel patching where it does not need all the regs to
be stored just to change the instruction pointer.
If all archs that support live kernel patching also support
HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS, then the architecture specific function
klp_arch_set_pc() could be made generic.
It is possible that an arch can support HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS but
not HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS and then have access to live patching.
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In preparation to have arguments of a function passed to callbacks attached
to functions as default, change the default callback prototype to receive a
struct ftrace_regs as the forth parameter instead of a pt_regs.
For callbacks that set the FL_SAVE_REGS flag in their ftrace_ops flags, they
will now need to get the pt_regs via a ftrace_get_regs() helper call. If
this is called by a callback that their ftrace_ops did not have a
FL_SAVE_REGS flag set, it that helper function will return NULL.
This will allow the ftrace_regs to hold enough just to get the parameters
and stack pointer, but without the worry that callbacks may have a pt_regs
that is not completely filled.
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Fix the following sparse warning:
kernel/livepatch/core.c:748:5: warning: symbol 'klp_apply_object_relocs' was
not declared.
The klp_apply_object_relocs() has only one call site within core.c;
it should be static
Fixes: 7c8e2bdd5f ("livepatch: Apply vmlinux-specific KLP relocations early")
Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Zou <zou_wei@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Now that the livepatch code no longer needs the text_mutex for changing
module permissions, move its usage down to apply_relocate_add().
Note the s390 version of apply_relocate_add() doesn't need to use the
text_mutex because it already uses s390_kernel_write_lock, which
accomplishes the same task.
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
With arch_klp_init_object_loaded() gone, and apply_relocate_add() now
using text_poke(), livepatch no longer needs to use module_disable_ro().
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Prevent module-specific KLP rela sections from referencing vmlinux
symbols. This helps prevent ordering issues with module special section
initializations. Presumably such symbols are exported and normal relas
can be used instead.
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
After the previous patch, vmlinux-specific KLP relocations are now
applied early during KLP module load. This means that .klp.arch
sections are no longer needed for *vmlinux-specific* KLP relocations.
One might think they're still needed for *module-specific* KLP
relocations. If a to-be-patched module is loaded *after* its
corresponding KLP module is loaded, any corresponding KLP relocations
will be delayed until the to-be-patched module is loaded. If any
special sections (.parainstructions, for example) rely on those
relocations, their initializations (apply_paravirt) need to be done
afterwards. Thus the apparent need for arch_klp_init_object_loaded()
and its corresponding .klp.arch sections -- it allows some of the
special section initializations to be done at a later time.
But... if you look closer, that dependency between the special sections
and the module-specific KLP relocations doesn't actually exist in
reality. Looking at the contents of the .altinstructions and
.parainstructions sections, there's not a realistic scenario in which a
KLP module's .altinstructions or .parainstructions section needs to
access a symbol in a to-be-patched module. It might need to access a
local symbol or even a vmlinux symbol; but not another module's symbol.
When a special section needs to reference a local or vmlinux symbol, a
normal rela can be used instead of a KLP rela.
Since the special section initializations don't actually have any real
dependency on module-specific KLP relocations, .klp.arch and
arch_klp_init_object_loaded() no longer have a reason to exist. So
remove them.
As Peter said much more succinctly:
So the reason for .klp.arch was that .klp.rela.* stuff would overwrite
paravirt instructions. If that happens you're doing it wrong. Those
RELAs are core kernel, not module, and thus should've happened in
.rela.* sections at patch-module loading time.
Reverting this removes the two apply_{paravirt,alternatives}() calls
from the late patching path, and means we don't have to worry about
them when removing module_disable_ro().
[ jpoimboe: Rewrote patch description. Tweaked klp_init_object_loaded()
error path. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
KLP relocations are livepatch-specific relocations which are applied to
a KLP module's text or data. They exist for two reasons:
1) Unexported symbols: replacement functions often need to access
unexported symbols (e.g. static functions), which "normal"
relocations don't allow.
2) Late module patching: this is the ability for a KLP module to
bypass normal module dependencies, such that the KLP module can be
loaded *before* a to-be-patched module. This means that
relocations which need to access symbols in the to-be-patched
module might need to be applied to the KLP module well after it has
been loaded.
Non-late-patched KLP relocations are applied from the KLP module's init
function. That usually works fine, unless the patched code wants to use
alternatives, paravirt patching, jump tables, or some other special
section which needs relocations. Then we run into ordering issues and
crashes.
In order for those special sections to work properly, the KLP
relocations should be applied *before* the special section init code
runs, such as apply_paravirt(), apply_alternatives(), or
jump_label_apply_nops().
You might think the obvious solution would be to move the KLP relocation
initialization earlier, but it's not necessarily that simple. The
problem is the above-mentioned late module patching, for which KLP
relocations can get applied well after the KLP module is loaded.
To "fix" this issue in the past, we created .klp.arch sections:
.klp.arch.{module}..altinstructions
.klp.arch.{module}..parainstructions
Those sections allow KLP late module patching code to call
apply_paravirt() and apply_alternatives() after the module-specific KLP
relocations (.klp.rela.{module}.{section}) have been applied.
But that has a lot of drawbacks, including code complexity, the need for
arch-specific code, and the (per-arch) danger that we missed some
special section -- for example the __jump_table section which is used
for jump labels.
It turns out there's a simpler and more functional approach. There are
two kinds of KLP relocation sections:
1) vmlinux-specific KLP relocation sections
.klp.rela.vmlinux.{sec}
These are relocations (applied to the KLP module) which reference
unexported vmlinux symbols.
2) module-specific KLP relocation sections
.klp.rela.{module}.{sec}:
These are relocations (applied to the KLP module) which reference
unexported or exported module symbols.
Up until now, these have been treated the same. However, they're
inherently different.
Because of late module patching, module-specific KLP relocations can be
applied very late, thus they can create the ordering headaches described
above.
But vmlinux-specific KLP relocations don't have that problem. There's
nothing to prevent them from being applied earlier. So apply them at
the same time as normal relocations, when the KLP module is being
loaded.
This means that for vmlinux-specific KLP relocations, we no longer have
any ordering issues. vmlinux-referencing jump labels, alternatives, and
paravirt patching will work automatically, without the need for the
.klp.arch hacks.
All that said, for module-specific KLP relocations, the ordering
problems still exist and we *do* still need .klp.arch. Or do we? Stay
tuned.
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
