The _rs variable is used for printk ratelimiting, similar to __warned,
which makes it a logical candidate to be "special": don't correlate it,
yet don't mark a function as changed just because it references it.
When patching a kernel module, if we can't find a needed dynrela symbol,
we currently assume it's exported. However, it's also possible that
it's provided by another .o in the patch module. Add support for that.
Fixes#445.
Currently unbundled section references are only replaced if the start of
the symbol is referenced. It's also useful to support replacement of
references which point to inside the symbol.
Improve the static local variable correlation logic, for the case where
a static local is used by multiple functions. For each usage of the
variable, look for a corresponding usage in the base object. If we find
at least one matching usage, consider it a twin.
Fixes an issue where attempting to call the shadow functions from a
module results in modpost failures:
ERROR: "kpatch_shadow_get" [net/mac80211/mac80211.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "kpatch_shadow_alloc" [net/mac80211/mac80211.ko] undefined!
LDFLAGS_MODULE is apparently not really needed.
The "descriptor" static local variables and their containing __verbose
section are used for dynamic debug printks. They should be considered
as special static local variable symbols because they have the same
requirements: they should never be correlated and they should only be
included if referenced by an included function.
Restore aio_max_nr to its original value when unloading.
Also move the location of the patch hunk to be not at the end of the
file. Otherwise we hit a weird combinediff bug which results in the
diff's context being removed.
The fixup_group_size() function assumes that all .fixup rela groups end
with a jmpq instruction. That assumption turns out to be false when you
take into account the ____kvm_handle_fault_on_reboot() macro which is
used by kvm.
This is a new, more reliable method. It turns out that each .fixup
group is referenced by the __ex_table section. The new algorithm goes
through the __ex_table relas to figure out the size of each .fixup
group.
Also the .fixup section is now processed before __ex_table, because it
needs to access the original __ex_table relas before the unused ones
have been stripped.
Fixes the following error:
ERROR: vmx.o: fixup_group_size: 1554: can't find jump instruction in .fixup section
Fix the mangled function strcmp so that it compares all of the string
except for the numbered parts. foo.isra.35 should match foo.isra.1, but
not foo.isra.35.part.36.
Fixes#352.
It's possible for a static local variable's data section to have
a relocation which refers to the variable symbol itself. Fix the logic
which searches for the user of a static local variable by only looking
in text sections (i.e. functions).
Fixes#411.
Add support for the __key and __warned "special" static local variables.
I'm calling them that for lack of a better term, analagous to the
kernel's special sections that we have to deal with.
__warned: Used by WARN_ONCE et al as an indicator as to whether a
message has already been printed. I think it makes sense (and is much
easier) to reset this counter for a given function when replacing the
function, since the user may expect the new function to warn again.
__key: Used by lockdep as an identifier for a given lock initialization
code path (see http://lwn.net/Articles/185666/ for more info). I think
it makes sense (and is much easier) to create a new key for a given
function when replacing the function, because the locking semantics may
have changed, so it makes sense for lockdep to use a new key to validate
the new locking behavior.
So for both __warned and __key static variables, the new version of the
variable should be used when referenced by an included function.
Made the following changes to support these special variables:
- Ignore their suffixes when comparing them in rela_equal, so that gcc
renaming them will not result in a function being marked as changed
just because it referenced a renamed static local
- Don't ever correlate them, so that their new versions will be included
if a changed or new function uses their corresponding symbols
Fixes#402.
This adds support for shadow variables, which allow you to add new
"shadow" fields to existing data structures.
To allow patches to call the shadow functions in the core module, I had
to add a funky hack to use --warn-unresolved-symbols when linking, which
allows the patched vmlinux to link with the missing symbols. I also
added greps to the log file to ensure that only unresolved symbols to
kpatch_shadow_* are allowed. We can remove this hack once the core
module gets moved into the kernel tree.
Fixes#314.
The purpose of this test script is to determine if create-diff-object
can properly recognize object file equivalence when passed the same file
for both the original and patched objects. This verifies that
create-diff-object is correctly parsing, correlating, and comparing the
different elements of the object file. In practice, a situation similar
to the test case occurs when a commonly included header file changes,
causing Make to rebuild many objects that have no functional change.
Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
gcc renames static local variables by appending a period and a number.
For example, __key could be renamed to __key.31452. Unfortunately this
number can arbitrarily change. Try to rename the patched version of the
symbol to match the base version and then correlate them.
Fixes#313.
The printks in the integration tests aren't very useful and annoyingly
fill up the dmesg buffer. Remove them by making them contingent on
unlikely conditions.
A simple kernel module for testing basic kernel module patching.
Just run doit.sh from test/testmod.
Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
The current approach of trying to include the tracepoint-related
sections doesn't work at all. The new tracepoints don't show up in
"perf list".
And also, with one patch (issue #219) I've seen a panic in
jump_label_del_module(). I suspect it's because the kernel is confused
by dynamic relocations' changing of the jump table after it was
registered with the jump table code.
I think the best approach for now is to just always exclude these
sections. It should be harmless, with the only consequence being that
tracepoints and jump labels can't be enabled in patched functions (which
is already the case with the current code anyway).
Fixes#221.
Combine all the patch modules into a single kpatch-COMBINED.ko for a
much quicker test which still gives 95% or so of the coverage compared
to the full test suite. Use "make quick" for use this new option.
The inventory based testing for create-diff-object was introduced at a
time when create-diff-object only needed the two object files to operate.
Now, it requires vmlinux as well. This makes the inventory testing (a
unit testing framework for create-diff-object) obsolete and difficult to
update in it's current form.
This commit removes the inventory test framework.
Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
One of the tests is now failing:
ERROR: smp-locks-section: kpatch replace failed
I suspect the issue is the vmlinux mismatch problem. Fix for that
coming soon.
