When passing '-d' to kpatch-build, it prints out some useful information
and keeps the related files around in ~/.kpatch/tmp. However, it also
passes '-d' to create-diff-object, which spits out way too much
information, drowning out all the other useful messages printed by
kpatch-build.
In my experience, the create-diff-object debug info is overkill for
debugging most issues, so disable it. The flag can still be used when
running create-diff-object manually.
GCC with KASAN instrumentation creates section ".rodata" with some static strings (i.e. some of them go to ".rodata.str1.1" for release build).
This change makes possible to build patch and check if it fixes issue found with KASAN, such as CVE-2016-9555.
The UTS_UBUNTU_RELEASE_ABI symbol is in utsrelease.h as installed by
linux-headers-`uname -r`. However when building a module with kpatch-build
utsrelease.h gets regenerated and doesn't include the ABI variable. This
patch just adds the additional define based on the input ARCHVERSION.
Give a slightly better error message for the dup file+symbol issue.
It's still cryptic but it's good enough to at least give us kpatch
developers a better idea about what went wrong. This would have helped
diagnose issue #633 much more quickly.
On RHEL 7 based kernels, copy_user_64.o misuses the .fixup section by
placing a normal function in it. That confuses create-diff-object.
Work around it by just skipping the file altogether, which is fine to do
because it's an assembly file which should never change anyway.
Fixes#625.
For newer kernels, some new objects have been added to the 'head-y'
build target. These objects aren't directly traceable to vmlinux so
they have to be added manually.
Fixes#626.
When building the patched version of the kernel, vmlinux has to be
linked with the '--warn-unresolved-symbols' linker flag. Otherwise the
link will fail if the patch uses kpatch-specific symbols like
kpatch_shadow_alloc() and friends.
As of upstream Linux commit b36fad65d61f ("kbuild: Initialize exported
variables"), LDFLAGS_vmlinux= no longer works from the command line,
resulting in '--warn-unresolved-symbols' no longer getting set.
Instead we can use kpatch-gcc to pass the flag to the linker.
Fixes#627.
When pruning entries from the fixup table, update the offsets in
.rela__ex_table otherwise the relas might point to the wrong fixup entry
or even out of the .fixup section.
Fixes#615.
Signed-off-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>
If $SRCDIR was a git repo, we leave the repo with a dirty index even after
reversing the patch during cleanup. This gets picked up by
scripts/setlocalversion and consequently subsequent kpatch-builds using the
same $SRCDIR end up with a '+' sign appended to the version string. Fix
this by properly refreshing the index during cleanup.
Source RPMs for recent Fedora kernels have a '.git' subdirectory, which
causes '+' to be appended to the module version magic, causing the
module to fail to load:
kpatch_readdir: version magic '4.8.6-201.fc24.x86_64+ SMP mod_unload ' should be '4.8.6-201.fc24.x86_64 SMP mod_unload '
Add a switch to kpatch-build that provides an opt-out to the cleanup
portion of the script. This can be handy when debugging $TEMPDIR or
$RPMTOPDIR contents, as well as inspecting the patched source code
itself.
The user's environment might have TEMPDIR exported. If so, then kpatch-build
dies with a bogus "invalid ancestor" error. If you turn those bogus errors into
warnings, then the script goes on to incorrectly put into the generated .ko file
every single function that was compiled in the *original* kernel build, thereby
producing an immense .ko file with more than 64k sections that the linux kernel
cannot load. This fix makes sure that TEMPDIR is unexported on the build of the
original kernel. Actually, this fix uses a separate KPATCH_GCC_TEMPDIR variable,
so that if the kernel build is interrupted, the cleanup function in the kpatch-kbuild
script will still have TEMPDIR set correctly.
Signed-off-by: Martin Carroll <martin.carroll@alcatel-lucent.com>
This fixes the detection of WARN_ON_ONCE, WARN_ONCE, and WARN_TAINT_ONCE
on Linux 4.6 and newer.
The signature for those macros changed with upstream Linux commit
dfbf2897d004 ("bug: set warn variable before calling WARN()").
Fixes#602.
Since is_bundleable() is only called once by kpatch_create_symbol_list(),
and no other kpatch-build tool will need to call this function, we can
simply make it static and local to kpatch-elf.c
Introduce a common kpatch elf api by moving all functions and struct
declarations related to manipulating kpatch_elf objects from
create-diff-object to kpatch-elf.{h,c}. Move logging macros to a separate
file log.h, and have kpatch-elf.h include it. These changes will generalize
the kpatch-elf and logging api and make it available to other kpatch-build
tools.
Including the .altinstr_replacement section by itself and without
.altinstructions doesn't make sense, as it only serves as a memory area to
hold replacement instructions to be copied over when alternatives are
applied. Don't include .altinstr_replacement unconditionally and only
include it when .altinstructions is also marked as included.
While the officially supported distributions all have
CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL enabled, this is not true for some other
distributions.
This option is necessary when kpatch-build retrieves the
SPECIAL_VARS using readelf command.
Signed-off-by: Quey-Liang Kao <s101062801@m101.nthu.edu.tw>
kpatch-build currently requires Module.symvers for the Kpatch core
module unconditionally and fails if it is not found. This does not allow
using kpatch-build to prepare livepatch-based patches.
This patch fixes the problem.
Signed-off-by: Evgenii Shatokhin <eshatokhin@virtuozzo.com>
Process the patch name correctly that only concern the fuffix with
.patch or .diff. Otherwise if the patch name is not end with .patch
or .diff but has it as substring, the fuffix will be removed
unreasonably.
Signed-off-by: Li Bin <huawei.libin@huawei.com>
Support patching objects that have duplicated function names. This feature was
introduced upstream in Linux v4.5.
This patch appends the symbol position to the symbol structure when
lookup_local_symbol is called. This pos variable is then used when creating the
funcs and dynrelas sections. Finally, incorporate sympos into the livepatch
patch hook only if the kernel version is greater than v4.5. In other cases the
older format is used.
Fixes: #493
Signed-off-by: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com>
The uncorrelation logic is incomplete. For bundled symbols, in addition
to uncorrelating the sections, it should also uncorrelate the section
symbols and any rela sections.
Similarly the correlation logic needs to correlate section symbols. (It
already correlates rela sections.)
If a kernel SRPM is used to get the kernel sources, the target kernel
version is determined from the name of the SRPM.
One cannot obtain the target kernel version this way if the source tree
is used instead of an SRPM, so let us extract that information from
vmlinux.
Signed-off-by: Evgenii Shatokhin <eshatokhin@odin.com>
This fix is an addition to 9fedd0d283 "kpatch-build: fix
gcc_version_check".
On some systems, the GCC version stored in vmlinux may have the
following format:
(GNU) 4.8.3 20140911 (Red Hat 4.8.3-9)
while GCC returns
(GCC) 4.8.3 20140911 (Red Hat 4.8.3-9)
As a result, binary patches cannot be built, although the compiler is
the same.
gcc_version_check() now takes this into account.
Signed-off-by: Evgenii Shatokhin <eshatokhin@odin.com>
Deal with a special case where gcc needs a pointer to the address at the end of
a data section.
This is usually used with a compare instruction to determine when to end a
loop. The code doesn't actually dereference the pointer so this is "normal"
and we just replace the section reference with a reference to the last symbol
in the section.
Note that this only catches the issue when it happens at the end of a section.
It can also happen in the middle of a section. In that case, the wrong symbol
will be associated with the reference. But that's ok because:
1) This situation only occurs when gcc is trying to get the address of the
symbol, not the contents of its data; and
2) Because kpatch doesn't allow data sections to change, &(var1+sizeof(var1))
will always be the same as &var2.
Fixes: #553
Refine the static local variable handling again. This builds on a
previous patch by Zhou Chengming.
This fixes the following bugs reported by Zhou:
1. xxx.123 ---> xxx.123 (previous correlation by coincidence)
xxx.256 ---> xxx.256 (previous correlation by coincidence)
But real xxx.123 ---> xxx.256
In this case, the code doesn't work. Because when find patched_sym for
xxx.123, the xxx.256 in patched_object hasn't been de-correlated.
2. old-object | new-object
func1 | func1
xxx.123 | xxx.123 (inline)
func2 | func2
xxx.256 | xxx.256
xxx.123 | xxx.123 (inline)
When find patched_sym for xxx.123, first find xxx.123 in func1 of new-object,
But then find xxx.256 in func2 of new-object.
So I think should not iterate the base-sections, when find one, just go out to next symbol.
Both of these problems can be fixed by splitting the code up into
multiple passes:
1. uncorrelate all static locals
2. correlate all static locals
3. ensure each static local is referenced by all the same sections in
both objects
4. print warning on any new static locals
Fixes: #545
Before this patch, kpatch_build dependends on bash version >4.0
that support declare -A. This patch remove this dependency by
replacing dict(declare -A) with array.
Signed-off-by: Li Bin <huawei.libin@huawei.com>
When find kobj, it should use 'cat changed_objs' to get the changed
objects, in order to process the following object format:
a/b/c/../../object.o. If using patched dir to get changed object,
the object will be a/object.o, but it is a/b/c/../../object.o in
*.cmd file.
This patch also fix the find_parent_obj that change the format
'a/b/c/../../object.o' to 'a/object.o' in deep find, otherwise
it will fail with "two parent matches for *.o".
Signed-off-by: Li Bin <huawei.libin@huawei.com>
