Or, to be exact, with addend values which cannot be represented by
a signed int variable.
This only applies to the old KPatch core.
Commit 15067fcd "kmod/core: apply dynrela addend for R_X86_64_64" fixed
calculation of the values for R_X86_64_64 dynrelas. This revealed
another issue, similar to https://github.com/dynup/kpatch/issues/1064.
Dynrelas are stored as 'struct kpatch_patch_dynrela' instances in the
patch module but both the patch module and kpatch.ko use
'struct kpatch_dynrela' to work with the dynrelas. 'addend' has type
'long' in kpatch_patch_dynrela but 'int' in kpatch_dynrela, so this
value can be truncated when read.
R_X86_64_64 dynrela can be created, for example, if a patch for vmlinux
refers to something like '(unsigned long)&idt_table+0x80000000' (a global
variable which is not exported, with some addend).
The addend == +0x80000000, however, effectively becomes 0xffffffff80000000
(== -0x80000000) due to this bug.
Unfortunately, 'struct kpatch_dynrela' is a part of the ABI between
kpatch.ko and patch modules. Plain changing 'int addend' into 'long addend'
there could be problematic. The patch module built using the new
'struct kpatch_dynrela' will either fail to load if kpatch.ko is using the old
'struct kpatch_dynrela' or cause crashes or data corruptions. Unloading
and reloading patch modules and kpatch.ko is not always an option
either.
Luckily, R_X86_64_64 dynrelas seem to be quite rare in the production
patch modules and R_X86_64_64 dynrelas with large addends are expected
to be even more rare.
So, instead of fixing the truncation of addends right away, I propose to
detect it, for now, when building a patch. If one never hits such conditions,
it is not worth it to fix the issue. If R_X86_64_64 dynrelas with large
addends do happen and cannot be avoided, we can try to figure out how to
fix this properly, without breaking too much.
Signed-off-by: Evgenii Shatokhin <eshatokhin@virtuozzo.com>
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