The integration test suite was intermittently giving the following
error:
[192685.907072] kpatch: write to 0xffffffffa082bffe failed for symbol call_netdevice_notifiers_info
The error was caused by a write across a page boundary without first
making the second page read/write.
Right now, if there is a failure in patch_make_dynrelas_list(),
patch_free_objects() is called twice; once in the error section of
patch_make_dynrelas_list() and again in the err_objects section of
patch_init().
This fixes this and cleans up the error handling a bit.
Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
When patching module A, if one of the new function's relas reference a
symbol in module B, we currently just leave it as a normal rela. But if
module B hasn't been loaded yet, the patch module will fail to load due
to the rela's reference to an undefined symbol.
The fix is to convert these relas to dynrelas, which can be resolved
later in the module notifier when A is loaded.
Also added support for the R_X86_64_NONE relocation type, needed for
dynrelas which reference __fentry__.
The recent module patching code has exposed some problems with our data
structures. We currently patch the funcs and dynrelas individually,
which is kind of scary now that different objects can be patched at
different times. Instead it's cleaner and safer to group them by
patched object.
This patch implements per-object patching and relocations by refactoring
the interfaces:
- Completely separate the create-diff-object <-> patch module interface
from the patch module <-> core module interface. create-diff-object
will include "kpatch-patch.h" but not "kpatch.h". Thus,
create-diff-object has no knowledge about the core module's
interfaces, and the core module has no knowledge about the patch
module's special sections.
- Newly added kpatch-patch.h defines the format of the patch module
special sections. It's used by create-diff-object to create the
special sections and used by the patch module to read them.
- kpatch.h still defines the core module interfaces. Each kpatch_module
has a list of kpatch_objects for each module object to be patched.
Each kpatch_object has a list of kpatch_funcs and a list of
kpatch_dynrelas. The patch module creates these lists when populating
kpatch_module.
This way of structuring the data allows us to patch funcs and dynrelas
on a per patched object basis, which will allow us to catch more error
scenarios and make the code easier to manage going forward. It also
allows the use of much more common code between kpatch_register() and
kpatch_module_notify().
This allows a patch module to contain patched functions for modules
which haven't been loaded yet. If/when the module is loaded later, it
will be patched from the module notifier function.
In the replace case, stop calling module_put on a patch module before
we're potentially done with it.
This will also be needed for future module patching if we want to
properly replace a patch module which only patches a future loaded
module (that's a mouthful).
Fixes#165.
Create a list of registered patch modules, which will be used in the
module notifier to patch future loaded modules. It will also be used to
fix the kpatch replace race condition where it calls module_put too
early.
The kpatch_internal struct is a good idea, in that it documents which
parts of kpatch_module shouldn't be used by the patch module. But it
creates extra code and will require more extra code if we want to keep a
list of kpmods, which is needed to create a module notifier for module
patching of future loaded modules.
Embedding the private data directly in the public struct allows the code
to be simpler: no extra kmallocs/kfrees, no need to store pointers
between the public and private structs. I think the simpler code is
worth the tradeoff (exposing implementation detail). Kernel code
usually doesn't bother with hiding a internal struct data from other
kernel code anyway. For example, see ftrace_ops or struct kprobe.
The private fields are documented with a "private" comment.
Move all the ftrace filtering and registering logic into a couple of new
helper functions. Change kpatch_num_registered to kpatch_num_patched,
which now tracks the number of patched functions rather than the number
of patch modules.
This simplifies the code a bit and will also prevent a future loaded
module scenario where ftrace_ops can be registered with an empty filter,
resulting in _all_ kernel functions getting registered with ftrace.
Use single quotes when printing the name of a patch module, rather than
double quotes. This is more consistent with other printk messages, and
looks better too!
If kpatch_ftrace_add_func fails, num_funcs will be one less than what it
needs to be for kpatch_put_modules to work properly. Instead give it
the full array size, and it can figure out which modules to put based on
whether func->mod is nonzero.
This commit adds support for patching modules. If a patch or dynrela is
determined to be for a kernel module, the old_offset/src is not used and
the symbol location is looked up using kallsyms. The module being
patched is also references to keep if from disappearing from underneath
us.
This commit introduces early and limited support. The kernel module to
be patched must already be loaded or the patch module will not apply.
Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
This commit adds module patching support to create-diff-object by:
1) generalizing the vmlinux CLI parameter
2) adding the kernel object name to each patch and dynrela
3) adding slightly different logic for vmlinux/module in the dynrela
creation
Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
Make old addresses relative to the start address of the relocatable
kernel or module.
This commit has no functional effect; it just prepares the code for
future acceptance of the module patching support.
Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
Ensure that dynrela destination addresses are within the patch module's
memory.
Also, use the module address ranges to check whether set_memory_rw() is
needed.
The -fdata-sections gcc flag doesn't work with objects in the
.data..percpu section. Any function which uses a percpu variable
references this section, causing the section to get incorrectly included
in the patch module.
Manually convert these section references to object symbol references so
that the needed symbol can be found in vmlinux.
Also, the core module symbol verification code will fail when looking up
a percpu variable, because sprint_symbol doesn't think a percpu address
is a valid kernel address. So rewrite the symbol verification code to
use kallsyms_on_each_symbol() instead. It's not ideal performance-wise:
it seems to cost about 1ms per symbol lookup. I think that's acceptable
for now. In the future we may want to try to get a better upstream
kallsyms interface.
This feature is implemented as:
```
[root@localhost kpatch]# insmod ./kpatch-meminfo.ko
[root@localhost kpatch]# ls /sys/kernel/kpatch/patches/kpatch_meminfo/functions/meminfo_proc_show/
new_addr old_addr
[root@localhost kpatch]# cat /sys/kernel/kpatch/patches/kpatch_meminfo/functions/meminfo_proc_show/new_addr
0xffffffffa05211e0
[root@localhost kpatch]# cat /sys/kernel/kpatch/patches/kpatch_meminfo/functions/meminfo_proc_show/old_addr
0xffffffff8125d0e0
```
The patch module init function will allocate and init kpatch_func_obj with
customized kobj_type func_ktype. The attribute new_addr and old_addr of
kpatch_func_obj is attached to this func_ktype, so that these files could
be created by kobject_add automatically.
Signed-off-by: Jincheng Miao <jincheng.miao@gmail.com>
This commit introduces functionality to verify the location of symbols
used in both the patch and dynrelas sections. It adds significant
protection from mismatches between the base and running kernels.
Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
This adds dynamic linking support for the patch modules. It is the
first step toward supporting patching module code and relocatable
kernels.
Rela entries that reference non-included local and non-exported global
symbols are converted to "dynrelas". These dynrelas are relocations
that are done by the core module, not the kernel module linker. This
allows the core module to apply offsets to the base addresses found
in the base vmlinux or module.
Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
Conflicts:
kpatch-build/kpatch-build
We merged PR #186 a little too hastily. It seg faults with the new
parainstructions-section.patch in the integration test suite. Reverting
it for now until we get it figured out.
This reverts commit e1177e3a03.
This reverts commit 880e271841.
This reverts commit 2de5f6cbfb.
This reverts commit 38b7ac74ad.
This reverts commit 108cd9f95e.
This adds dynamic linking support for the patch modules. It is the
first step toward supporting patching module code and relocatable
kernels.
Rela entries that reference non-included local and non-exported global
symbols are converted to "dynrelas". These dynrelas are relocations
that are done by the core module, not the kernel module linker. This
allows the core module to apply offsets to the base addresses found
in the base vmlinux or module.
Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
