In cases of duplicate symbols, old_sympos will be used to disambiguate
instead of old_addr. By default old_sympos will be 0, and patching will
only succeed if the symbol is unique. Specifying a positive value will
ensure that occurrence of the symbol in kallsyms for the patched object
will be used for patching if it is valid.
In addition, make old_addr an internal structure field not to be specified
by the user. Finally, remove klp_find_verify_func_addr as it can be
replaced by klp_find_object_symbol directly.
Support for symbol position disambiguation for relocations is added in the
next patch in this series.
Signed-off-by: Chris J Arges <[email protected]>
---
include/linux/livepatch.h | 19 +++++++------
kernel/livepatch/core.c | 72 ++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------
2 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/livepatch.h b/include/linux/livepatch.h
index 31db7a0..b60e8ab 100644
--- a/include/linux/livepatch.h
+++ b/include/linux/livepatch.h
@@ -37,8 +37,9 @@ enum klp_state {
* struct klp_func - function structure for live patching
* @old_name: name of the function to be patched
* @new_func: pointer to the patched function code
- * @old_addr: a hint conveying at what address the old function
- * can be found (optional, vmlinux patches only)
+ * @old_sympos: a hint indicating which symbol position the old function
+ * can be found (optional)
+ * @old_addr: the address of the function being patched
* @kobj: kobject for sysfs resources
* @state: tracks function-level patch application state
* @stack_node: list node for klp_ops func_stack list
@@ -48,16 +49,16 @@ struct klp_func {
const char *old_name;
void *new_func;
/*
- * The old_addr field is optional and can be used to resolve
- * duplicate symbol names in the vmlinux object. If this
- * information is not present, the symbol is located by name
- * with kallsyms. If the name is not unique and old_addr is
- * not provided, the patch application fails as there is no
- * way to resolve the ambiguity.
+ * The old_sympos field is optional and can be used to resolve
+ * duplicate symbol names in livepatch objects. If this field is zero,
+ * it is expected the symbol is unique, otherwise patching fails. If
+ * this value is greater than zero then that occurrence of the symbol
+ * in kallsyms for the given object is used.
*/
- unsigned long old_addr;
+ unsigned long old_sympos;
/* internal */
+ unsigned long old_addr;
struct kobject kobj;
enum klp_state state;
struct list_head stack_node;
diff --git a/kernel/livepatch/core.c b/kernel/livepatch/core.c
index 6e53441..5a53383 100644
--- a/kernel/livepatch/core.c
+++ b/kernel/livepatch/core.c
@@ -135,13 +135,8 @@ struct klp_find_arg {
const char *objname;
const char *name;
unsigned long addr;
- /*
- * If count == 0, the symbol was not found. If count == 1, a unique
- * match was found and addr is set. If count > 1, there is
- * unresolvable ambiguity among "count" number of symbols with the same
- * name in the same object.
- */
unsigned long count;
+ unsigned long pos;
};
static int klp_find_callback(void *data, const char *name,
@@ -158,37 +153,48 @@ static int klp_find_callback(void *data, const char *name,
if (args->objname && strcmp(args->objname, mod->name))
return 0;
- /*
- * args->addr might be overwritten if another match is found
- * but klp_find_object_symbol() handles this and only returns the
- * addr if count == 1.
- */
args->addr = addr;
args->count++;
+ /*
+ * Finish the search when the symbol is found for the desired position
+ * or the position is not defined for a non-unique symbol.
+ */
+ if ((args->pos && (args->count == args->pos)) ||
+ (!args->pos && (args->count > 1)))
+ return 1;
+
return 0;
}
static int klp_find_object_symbol(const char *objname, const char *name,
- unsigned long *addr)
+ unsigned long sympos, unsigned long *addr)
{
struct klp_find_arg args = {
.objname = objname,
.name = name,
.addr = 0,
- .count = 0
+ .count = 0,
+ .pos = sympos,
};
mutex_lock(&module_mutex);
kallsyms_on_each_symbol(klp_find_callback, &args);
mutex_unlock(&module_mutex);
- if (args.count == 0)
+ /*
+ * Ensure an address was found. If sympos is 0, ensure symbol is unique;
+ * otherwise ensure the symbol position count matches sympos.
+ */
+ if (args.addr == 0)
pr_err("symbol '%s' not found in symbol table\n", name);
- else if (args.count > 1)
+ else if (args.count > 1 && sympos == 0) {
pr_err("unresolvable ambiguity (%lu matches) on symbol '%s' in object '%s'\n",
args.count, name, objname);
- else {
+ } else if (sympos != args.count && sympos > 0) {
+ pr_err("symbol position %lu for symbol '%s' in object '%s' not found\n",
+ sympos, name, objname ? objname : "vmlinux");
+ } else {
*addr = args.addr;
return 0;
}
@@ -236,27 +242,6 @@ static int klp_verify_vmlinux_symbol(const char *name, unsigned long addr)
return 0;
}
-static int klp_find_verify_func_addr(struct klp_object *obj,
- struct klp_func *func)
-{
- int ret;
-
-#if defined(CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE)
- /* If KASLR has been enabled, adjust old_addr accordingly */
- if (kaslr_enabled() && func->old_addr)
- func->old_addr += kaslr_offset();
-#endif
-
- if (!func->old_addr || klp_is_module(obj))
- ret = klp_find_object_symbol(obj->name, func->old_name,
- &func->old_addr);
- else
- ret = klp_verify_vmlinux_symbol(func->old_name,
- func->old_addr);
-
- return ret;
-}
-
/*
* external symbols are located outside the parent object (where the parent
* object is either vmlinux or the kmod being patched).
@@ -276,8 +261,11 @@ static int klp_find_external_symbol(struct module *pmod, const char *name,
}
preempt_enable();
- /* otherwise check if it's in another .o within the patch module */
- return klp_find_object_symbol(pmod->name, name, addr);
+ /*
+ * Check if it's in another .o within the patch module. This also
+ * checks that the external symbol is unique.
+ */
+ return klp_find_object_symbol(pmod->name, name, 0, addr);
}
static int klp_write_object_relocations(struct module *pmod,
@@ -307,7 +295,7 @@ static int klp_write_object_relocations(struct module *pmod,
else
ret = klp_find_object_symbol(obj->mod->name,
reloc->name,
- &reloc->val);
+ 0, &reloc->val);
if (ret)
return ret;
}
@@ -750,7 +738,9 @@ static int klp_init_object_loaded(struct klp_patch *patch,
}
klp_for_each_func(obj, func) {
- ret = klp_find_verify_func_addr(obj, func);
+ ret = klp_find_object_symbol(obj->name, func->old_name,
+ func->old_sympos,
+ &func->old_addr);
if (ret)
return ret;
}
--
1.9.1
On Mon, 16 Nov 2015, Chris J Arges wrote:
> In cases of duplicate symbols, old_sympos will be used to disambiguate
> instead of old_addr. By default old_sympos will be 0, and patching will
> only succeed if the symbol is unique. Specifying a positive value will
> ensure that occurrence of the symbol in kallsyms for the patched object
> will be used for patching if it is valid.
>
> In addition, make old_addr an internal structure field not to be specified
> by the user. Finally, remove klp_find_verify_func_addr as it can be
> replaced by klp_find_object_symbol directly.
>
> Support for symbol position disambiguation for relocations is added in the
> next patch in this series.
Chris,
I am sorry to repeat myself, but the changelog is quite verbose with
respect to "what is being done", but it doesn't contain any information
whatsoever with respect to "why is this an improvement over current
state", IOW why we are changing the status quo at all.
This absolutely has to be present in the changelog.
Thanks,
--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
On 11/16/2015 03:59 PM, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Nov 2015, Chris J Arges wrote:
>
>> In cases of duplicate symbols, old_sympos will be used to disambiguate
>> instead of old_addr. By default old_sympos will be 0, and patching will
>> only succeed if the symbol is unique. Specifying a positive value will
>> ensure that occurrence of the symbol in kallsyms for the patched object
>> will be used for patching if it is valid.
>>
>> In addition, make old_addr an internal structure field not to be specified
>> by the user. Finally, remove klp_find_verify_func_addr as it can be
>> replaced by klp_find_object_symbol directly.
>>
>> Support for symbol position disambiguation for relocations is added in the
>> next patch in this series.
>
> Chris,
>
> I am sorry to repeat myself, but the changelog is quite verbose with
> respect to "what is being done", but it doesn't contain any information
> whatsoever with respect to "why is this an improvement over current
> state", IOW why we are changing the status quo at all.
>
> This absolutely has to be present in the changelog.
>
> Thanks,
>
Jiri,
Ok, I had put this in the cover letter which I thought was ok as well.
I'll copy those parts into this commit message as well. Here is the text
below. Let me know if this is sufficient.
"
Currently, patching objects with duplicate symbol names fail because the
creation of the sysfs function directory collides with the previous
attempt. Appending old_addr to the function name is problematic as it
reveals the address of the function being patched to a normal user.
Using the symbol's occurrence in kallsyms to postfix the function name
in the sysfs directory solves the issue of having consistent unique
names and ensuring that the address is not exposed to a normal user.
In addition, using the symbol position as the user's method to
disambiguate symbols instead of addr allows for disambiguating symbols
in modules as well for both function addresses and for relocs. This also
simplifies much of the code. Special handling for kASLR is no longer
needed and can be removed. The klp_find_verify_func_addr function can be
replaced by klp_find_object_symbol, and klp_verify_vmlinux_symbol and
its callback can be removed completely.
"
--chris
On Tue, 17 Nov 2015, Chris J Arges wrote:
> Jiri,
> Ok, I had put this in the cover letter which I thought was ok as well.
> I'll copy those parts into this commit message as well. Here is the text
> below. Let me know if this is sufficient.
Yup, it'd be nice to have this in changelog of one of the patches in the
series.
Thanks,
--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs