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Rusty Russell
ad6561dffa module: trim exception table on init free.
It's theoretically possible that there are exception table entries
which point into the (freed) init text of modules.  These could cause
future problems if other modules get loaded into that memory and cause
an exception as we'd see the wrong fixup.  The only case I know of is
kvm-intel.ko (when CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=n).

Amerigo fixed this long-standing FIXME in the x86 version, but this
patch is more general.

This implements trim_init_extable(); most archs are simple since they
use the standard lib/extable.c sort code.  Alpha and IA64 use relative
addresses in their fixups, so thier trimming is a slight variation.

Sparc32 is unique; it doesn't seem to define ARCH_HAS_SORT_EXTABLE,
yet it defines its own sort_extable() which overrides the one in lib.
It doesn't sort, so we have to mark deleted entries instead of
actually trimming them.

Inspired-by: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
2009-06-12 21:47:04 +09:30
Linus Torvalds
512626a04e Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6:
  kmemleak: Add the corresponding MAINTAINERS entry
  kmemleak: Simple testing module for kmemleak
  kmemleak: Enable the building of the memory leak detector
  kmemleak: Remove some of the kmemleak false positives
  kmemleak: Add modules support
  kmemleak: Add kmemleak_alloc callback from alloc_large_system_hash
  kmemleak: Add the vmalloc memory allocation/freeing hooks
  kmemleak: Add the slub memory allocation/freeing hooks
  kmemleak: Add the slob memory allocation/freeing hooks
  kmemleak: Add the slab memory allocation/freeing hooks
  kmemleak: Add documentation on the memory leak detector
  kmemleak: Add the base support

Manual conflict resolution (with the slab/earlyboot changes) in:
	drivers/char/vt.c
	init/main.c
	mm/slab.c
2009-06-11 14:15:57 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
3296ca27f5 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: (44 commits)
  nommu: Provide mmap_min_addr definition.
  TOMOYO: Add description of lists and structures.
  TOMOYO: Remove unused field.
  integrity: ima audit dentry_open failure
  TOMOYO: Remove unused parameter.
  security: use mmap_min_addr indepedently of security models
  TOMOYO: Simplify policy reader.
  TOMOYO: Remove redundant markers.
  SELinux: define audit permissions for audit tree netlink messages
  TOMOYO: Remove unused mutex.
  tomoyo: avoid get+put of task_struct
  smack: Remove redundant initialization.
  integrity: nfsd imbalance bug fix
  rootplug: Remove redundant initialization.
  smack: do not beyond ARRAY_SIZE of data
  integrity: move ima_counts_get
  integrity: path_check update
  IMA: Add __init notation to ima functions
  IMA: Minimal IMA policy and boot param for TCB IMA policy
  selinux: remove obsolete read buffer limit from sel_read_bool
  ...
2009-06-11 10:01:41 -07:00
Catalin Marinas
4f2294b6dc kmemleak: Add modules support
This patch handles the kmemleak operations needed for modules loading so
that memory allocations from inside a module are properly tracked.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-06-11 17:03:31 +01:00
James Morris
d254117099 Merge branch 'master' into next 2009-05-08 17:56:47 +10:00
Steven Rostedt
93eb677d74 ftrace: use module notifier for function tracer
The hooks in the module code for the function tracer must be called
before any of that module code runs. The function tracer hooks
modify the module (replacing calls to mcount to nops). If the code
is executed while the change occurs, then the CPU can take a GPF.

To handle the above with a bit of paranoia, I originally implemented
the hooks as calls directly from the module code.

After examining the notifier calls, it looks as though the start up
notify is called before any of the module's code is executed. This makes
the use of the notify safe with ftrace.

Only the startup notify is required to be "safe". The shutdown simply
removes the entries from the ftrace function list, and does not modify
any code.

This change has another benefit. It removes a issue with a reverse dependency
in the mutexes of ftrace_lock and module_mutex.

[ Impact: fix lock dependency bug, cleanup ]

Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-17 16:59:15 +02:00
Stephen Rothwell
19e4529ee7 modules: Fix up build when CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=n.
Commit 3d43321b70 ("modules: sysctl to
block module loading") introduces a modules_disabled variable that is
only defined if CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD is enabled, despite being used in
other places. This moves it up and fixes up the build.

  CC      kernel/module.o
kernel/module.c: In function 'sys_init_module':
kernel/module.c:2401: error: 'modules_disabled' undeclared (first use in this function)
kernel/module.c:2401: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
kernel/module.c:2401: error: for each function it appears in.)
make[1]: *** [kernel/module.o] Error 1
make: *** [kernel/module.o] Error 2

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-04-15 08:17:31 +10:00
Steven Rostedt
6d723736e4 tracing/events: add support for modules to TRACE_EVENT
Impact: allow modules to add TRACE_EVENTS on load

This patch adds the final hooks to allow modules to use the TRACE_EVENT
macro. A notifier and a data structure are used to link the TRACE_EVENTs
defined in the module to connect them with the ftrace event tracing system.

It also adds the necessary automated clean ups to the trace events when a
module is removed.

Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-14 12:58:03 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
d6de2c80e9 async: Fix module loading async-work regression
Several drivers use asynchronous work to do device discovery, and we
synchronize with them in the compiled-in case before we actually try to
mount root filesystems etc.

However, when compiled as modules, that synchronization is missing - the
module loading completes, but the driver hasn't actually finished
probing for devices, and that means that any user mode that expects to
use the devices after the 'insmod' is now potentially broken.

We already saw one case of a similar issue in the ACPI battery code,
where the kernel itself expected the module to be all done, and unmapped
the init memory - but the async device discovery was still running.
That got hacked around by just removing the "__init" (see commit
5d38258ec0 "ACPI battery: fix async boot
oops"), but the real fix is to just make the module loading wait for all
async work to be completed.

It will slow down module loading, but since common devices should be
built in anyway, and since the bug is really annoying and hard to handle
from user space (and caused several S3 resume regressions), the simple
fix to wait is the right one.

This fixes at least

	http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13063

but probably a few other bugzilla entries too (12936, for example), and
is confirmed to fix Rafael's storage driver breakage after resume bug
report (no bugzilla entry).

We should also be able to now revert that ACPI battery fix.

Reported-and-tested-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@suse.com>
Tested-by: Heinz Diehl <htd@fancy-poultry.org>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-11 12:44:49 -07:00
Rusty Russell
2e45e77787 Revert "module: remove the SHF_ALLOC flag on the __versions section."
This reverts commit 9cb610d8e3.

This was an impressively stupid patch.  Firstly, we reset the SHF_ALLOC
flag lower down in the same function, so the patch was useless.  Even
better, find_sec() ignores sections with SHF_ALLOC not set, so
it breaks CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y with CONFIG_MODULE_FORCE_LOAD=n, which
refuses to load the module since it can't find the __versions section.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-04-07 17:12:43 +09:30
Linus Torvalds
714f83d5d9 Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (413 commits)
  tracing, net: fix net tree and tracing tree merge interaction
  tracing, powerpc: fix powerpc tree and tracing tree interaction
  ring-buffer: do not remove reader page from list on ring buffer free
  function-graph: allow unregistering twice
  trace: make argument 'mem' of trace_seq_putmem() const
  tracing: add missing 'extern' keywords to trace_output.h
  tracing: provide trace_seq_reserve()
  blktrace: print out BLK_TN_MESSAGE properly
  blktrace: extract duplidate code
  blktrace: fix memory leak when freeing struct blk_io_trace
  blktrace: fix blk_probes_ref chaos
  blktrace: make classic output more classic
  blktrace: fix off-by-one bug
  blktrace: fix the original blktrace
  blktrace: fix a race when creating blk_tree_root in debugfs
  blktrace: fix timestamp in binary output
  tracing, Text Edit Lock: cleanup
  tracing: filter fix for TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT events
  ftrace: Using FTRACE_WARN_ON() to check "freed record" in ftrace_release()
  x86: kretprobe-booster interrupt emulation code fix
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in
 arch/parisc/include/asm/ftrace.h
 include/linux/memory.h
 kernel/extable.c
 kernel/module.c
2009-04-05 11:04:19 -07:00
Kees Cook
3d43321b70 modules: sysctl to block module loading
Implement a sysctl file that disables module-loading system-wide since
there is no longer a viable way to remove CAP_SYS_MODULE after the system
bounding capability set was removed in 2.6.25.

Value can only be set to "1", and is tested only if standard capability
checks allow CAP_SYS_MODULE.  Given existing /dev/mem protections, this
should allow administrators a one-way method to block module loading
after initial boot-time module loading has finished.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-04-03 11:47:11 +11:00
Ingo Molnar
8302294f43 Merge branch 'tracing/core-v2' into tracing-for-linus
Conflicts:
	include/linux/slub_def.h
	lib/Kconfig.debug
	mm/slob.c
	mm/slub.c
2009-04-02 00:49:02 +02:00
Rusty Russell
49502677e1 module: use strstarts()
Impact: minor cleanup.

I'm not going to neaten anyone else's code, but I'm happy to clean up
my own.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-31 13:05:37 +10:30
Rusty Russell
e91defa26c module: don't use stop_machine on module load
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> discovered that boot times are slowed
by about half a second because all the stop_machine_create() calls,
and he only probes about 40 modules (I have 125 loaded on this laptop).

We only do stop_machine_create() so we can unlink the module if
something goes wrong, but it's overkill (and buggy anyway: if
stop_machine_create() fails we still call stop_machine_destroy()).

Since we are only protecting against kallsyms (esp. oops) walking the
list, synchronize_sched() is sufficient (synchronize_rcu() is probably
sufficient, but we're not in a hurry).

Kay says of this patch:
	... no module takes more than 40 millisecs to link now, most of
	them are between 3 and 8 millisecs.

	That looks very different to the numbers without this patch
	and the otherwise same setup, where we get heavy noise in the
	traces and many delays of up to 200 millisecs until linking,
	most of them taking 30+ millisecs.

Tested-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-31 13:05:35 +10:30
Rusty Russell
8c8ef42aee module: include other structures in module version check
With CONFIG_MODVERSIONS, we version 'struct module' using a dummy
export, but other things matter too:

1) 'struct modversion_info' determines the layout of the __versions section,
2) 'struct kernel_param' determines the layout of the __params section,
3) 'struct kernel_symbol' determines __ksymtab*.
4) 'struct marker' determines __markers.
5) 'struct tracepoint' determines __tracepoints.

So we rename 'struct_module' to 'module_layout' and include these in
the signature.  Now it's general we can add others later on without
confusion.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-31 13:05:34 +10:30
Rusty Russell
9cb610d8e3 module: remove the SHF_ALLOC flag on the __versions section.
Impact: reduce kernel memory usage

This patch just takes off the SHF_ALLOC flag on __versions so we don't
keep them around after module load.

This saves about 7% of module memory if CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y.

Cc: Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-31 13:05:34 +10:30
Rusty Russell
c6e665c8f0 module: clarify the force-loading taint message.
Impact: Message cleanup

Two of three callers of try_to_force_load() are not because of a
missing version, so change the messages:

Old:
	<modname>: no version for "magic" found: kernel tainted.
New:
	<modname>: bad vermagic: kernel tainted.

Old:
	<modname>: no version for "nocrc" found: kernel tainted.
New:
	<modname>: no versions for exported symbols: kernel tainted.

Old:
	<modname>: no version for "<symname>" found: kernel tainted.
New:
	<modname>: <symname>: kernel tainted.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-31 13:05:33 +10:30
Tim Abbott
c6b3780191 module: Export symbols needed for Ksplice
Impact: Expose some module.c symbols

Ksplice uses several functions from module.c in order to resolve
symbols and implement dependency handling.  Calling these functions
requires holding module_mutex, so it is exported.

(This is just the module part of a bigger add-exports patch from Tim).

Cc: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
Cc: Jeff Arnold <jbarnold@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-31 13:05:33 +10:30
Anders Kaseorg
75a66614db Ksplice: Add functions for walking kallsyms symbols
Impact: New API

kallsyms_lookup_name only returns the first match that it finds.  Ksplice
needs information about all symbols with a given name in order to correctly
resolve local symbols.

kallsyms_on_each_symbol provides a generic mechanism for iterating over the
kallsyms table.

Cc: Jeff Arnold <jbarnold@mit.edu>
Cc: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-31 13:05:32 +10:30
Rusty Russell
a6e6abd575 module: remove module_text_address()
Impact: Replace and remove risky (non-EXPORTed) API

module_text_address() returns a pointer to the module, which given locking
improvements in module.c, is useless except to test for NULL:

1) If the module can't go away, use __module_text_address.
2) Otherwise, just use is_module_text_address().

Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-31 13:05:32 +10:30
Rusty Russell
e610499e26 module: __module_address
Impact: New API, cleanup

ksplice wants to know the bounds of a module, not just the module text.

It makes sense to have __module_address.  We then implement
is_module_address and __module_text_address in terms of this (and
change is_module_text_address() to bool while we're at it).

Also, add proper kerneldoc for them all.

Cc: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
Cc: Jeff Arnold <jbarnold@mit.edu>
Cc: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-31 13:05:31 +10:30
Tim Abbott
414fd31b25 module: Make find_symbol return a struct kernel_symbol
Impact: Cleanup, internal API change

Ksplice needs access to the kernel_symbol structure in order to support
modifications to the exported symbol table.

Cc: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
Cc: Jeff Arnold <jbarnold@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (bugfix and style)
2009-03-31 13:05:31 +10:30
Américo Wang
b10153fe31 kernel/module.c: fix an unused goto label
Impact: cleanup

Label 'free_init' is only used when defined(CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD) &&
defined(CONFIG_SMP), so move it inside to shut up gcc.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-31 13:05:30 +10:30
Rusty Russell
e180a6b775 param: fix charp parameters set via sysfs
Impact: fix crash on reading from /sys/module/.../ieee80211_default_rc_algo

The module_param type "charp" simply sets a char * pointer in the
module to the parameter in the commandline string: this is why we keep
the (mangled) module command line around.  But when set via sysfs (as
about 11 charp parameters can be) this memory is freed on the way
out of the write().  Future reads hit random mem.

So we kstrdup instead: we have to check we're not in early commandline
parsing, and we have to note when we've used it so we can reliably
kfree the parameter when it's next overwritten, and also on module
unload.

(Thanks to Randy Dunlap for CONFIG_SYSFS=n fixes)

Reported-by: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
Diagnosed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Christof Schmitt <christof.schmitt@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-31 13:05:30 +10:30