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Author SHA1 Message Date
Josh Poimboeuf
5ea376a47a Merge pull request #181 from spartacus06/interface-refactor
refactor core <-> patch interface
2014-05-12 15:43:26 -05:00
Seth Jennings
e5f17c6b9a fix incompatible pointer type warning
Fixes the following warning:

kpatch-patch-hook.c:71:2: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]
  __ATTR(enabled, 0644, patch_enabled_show, patch_enabled_store);
  ^

Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
2014-05-12 15:20:09 -05:00
Seth Jennings
681a6e80b9 refactor core <-> patch interface
Make kpatch_funs truly internal by:
Defining it in core.c
Adding a struct kpatch_internal, declared in kpatch.h and defined in
 core.c, that contains per patch module internal data.
Adding an "internal" field to struct kpatch_modules.
Allocating internal and funcs data in core.c, not in the patch module,
 since the patch module has no knowledge of kpatch_func anymore.
Adding a "patch" field to kpatch_func that points directly to the
 kpatch_patch provided by the module (rather than a field-by-field copy)

Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
2014-05-12 14:58:29 -05:00
Josh Poimboeuf
65810a47d0 kpatch replace
Allow the user to atomically replace all existing modules with a new
"kpatch replace" command.  This provides a safe way to do atomic
upgrades for cumulative patch module updates.
2014-05-02 15:35:00 -05:00
Josh Poimboeuf
b7a2862f90 safe kpatch unload
Currently the patch module calls kpatch_unregister in the patch module
exit path.  If the activeness safety check fails in kpatch_unregister,
it's too late for the patch module to stop exiting, so all it can do is
panic.

Prevent this scenario by requiring the user to disable the patch module
via sysfs before allowing the module to be unloaded.  The sysfs write
will fail if the activeness safety check fails.  An rmmod will fail if
the patch is still enabled.

Also add support for this new unloading model in "kpatch unload".
2014-04-25 23:05:26 -05:00
Josh Poimboeuf
f3f39c0587 fix activeness safety check when unpatching
When unpatching, the activeness safety logic should check for the new
function on the stack, not the old one.

Fixes #64.
2014-04-23 14:37:35 -05:00
Josh Poimboeuf
2984b53d21 kmod: add new kpatch_module struct
Put funcs, num_funcs, and mod in their own struct called kpatch_module.
This allows us to keep patch module specific variables in one place (and
we'll have more of these variables soon).
2014-04-23 14:36:15 -05:00
Josh Poimboeuf
ff28767295 kmod: error handling cleanup
Cleanup the error handling a little bit and make the flow a little
clearer.
2014-04-23 14:36:15 -05:00
Josh Poimboeuf
ff44a0af26 core/kmod: use kmalloc instead of kzalloc
There's no need to zero out the kpatch funcs array.  The addr fields are
initialized by the patch module, the mod field is intialized by the core
module, and the node struct doesn't need to be initialized because its
fields are overwritten by hash_add.
2014-03-18 16:57:51 -05:00
Josh Poimboeuf
bfad3b1880 kmod/core: update API and use hash table
My apologies for the size of this commit.  I combined these two features
(updating API and using a hash table) into a single commit because their
implementations are tightly coupled and I didn't want to have to add
support for the old kpatch_funcs array with the new API just for the
sake of splitting up the commit :-)

- Update the core module API to get a more clear separation between core
  module and patch module.  This is cleaner and will help our case for
  getting the core module merged upstream into the kernel.
- Convert the old kpatch_funcs array into a hash table.  This is so much
  nicer performance-wise and everything-else-wise than that ugly old
  array.
- Do the incremental patching in stop machine.  This ensures that the
  funcs hash is up to date and we don't miss anything.
- Disable preemption in the ftrace handler when accessing the func hash.
  That way we don't get conflicts with the stop_machine handler updating
  the hash.
2014-03-18 13:34:15 -05:00
Josh Poimboeuf
b81e2d607b kmod/core: print module load/unload messages
Print the loading/unloading messages after they have successfully
completed.  Using the KERN_NOTICE log level which corresponds to a
"normal but significant condition."
2014-03-14 20:23:12 -05:00
Josh Poimboeuf
330a08dd0d add GPLv2 headers to source files 2014-03-04 21:34:19 -06:00
Josh Poimboeuf
8085d0402b build and install core module with make
Build and install the kpatch core module with make and make install,
rather than building it every time with kpatch build.

The only downside to this approach is that the user has to make and make
install kpatch every time they get a new kernel.  But this is only
temporary, until the kpatch module is delivered in an RPM.
2014-02-18 07:44:33 -06:00
Josh Poimboeuf
4f27b9ae31 functional reorganization
Organize the files functionally:
- kmod/core: core kmod source
- kmod/patch: patch kmod source
- kpatch: kpatch script
- kpatch-build: kpatch build script and supporting tools
- contrib: distro-related files
2014-02-13 11:00:06 -06:00