linux/kernel/livepatch, branch v6.3

Merge tag 'livepatching-for-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/livepatching/livepatching

2023-02-23T22:00:10Z

Pull livepatching updates from Petr Mladek: - Allow reloading a livepatched module by clearing livepatch-specific relocations in the livepatch module. Otherwise, the repeated load would fail on consistency checks. * tag 'livepatching-for-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/livepatching/livepatching: livepatch,x86: Clear relocation targets on a module removal x86/module: remove unused code in __apply_relocate_add

livepatch,x86: Clear relocation targets on a module removal

2023-02-03T10:28:22Z

Josh reported a bug: When the object to be patched is a module, and that module is rmmod'ed and reloaded, it fails to load with: module: x86/modules: Skipping invalid relocation target, existing value is nonzero for type 2, loc 00000000ba0302e9, val ffffffffa03e293c livepatch: failed to initialize patch 'livepatch_nfsd' for module 'nfsd' (-8) livepatch: patch 'livepatch_nfsd' failed for module 'nfsd', refusing to load module 'nfsd' The livepatch module has a relocation which references a symbol in the _previous_ loading of nfsd. When apply_relocate_add() tries to replace the old relocation with a new one, it sees that the previous one is nonzero and it errors out. He also proposed three different solutions. We could remove the error check in apply_relocate_add() introduced by commit eda9cec4c9a1 ("x86/module: Detect and skip invalid relocations"). However the check is useful for detecting corrupted modules. We could also deny the patched modules to be removed. If it proved to be a major drawback for users, we could still implement a different approach. The solution would also complicate the existing code a lot. We thus decided to reverse the relocation patching (clear all relocation targets on x86_64). The solution is not universal and is too much arch-specific, but it may prove to be simpler in the end. Reported-by: Josh Poimboeuf Originally-by: Miroslav Benes Signed-off-by: Song Liu Acked-by: Miroslav Benes Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf Reviewed-by: Joe Lawrence Tested-by: Joe Lawrence Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230125185401.279042-2-song@kernel.org

livepatch: Improve the search performance of module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol()

2023-01-20T01:07:15Z

Currently we traverse all symbols of all modules to find the specified function for the specified module. But in reality, we just need to find the given module and then traverse all the symbols in it. Let's add a new parameter 'const char *modname' to function module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol(), then we can compare the module names directly in this function and call hook 'fn' after matching. If 'modname' is NULL, the symbols of all modules are still traversed for compatibility with other usage cases. Phase1: mod1-->mod2..(subsequent modules do not need to be compared) | Phase2: -->f1-->f2-->f3 Assuming that there are m modules, each module has n symbols on average, then the time complexity is reduced from O(m * n) to O(m) + O(n). Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek Acked-by: Song Liu Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Acked-by: Miroslav Benes Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230116101009.23694-2-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov

Merge tag 'modules-6.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux

2022-12-13T22:05:39Z

Pull modules updates from Luis Chamberlain: "Tux gets for xmas an improvement to the average lookup performance of kallsyms_lookup_name() by 715x thanks to the work by Zhen Lei, which upgraded our old implementation from being O(n) to O(log(n)), while also retaining the old implementation support on /proc/kallsyms. The only penalty was increasing the memory footprint by 3 * kallsyms_num_syms. Folks who want to improve this further now also have a dedicated selftest facility through KALLSYMS_SELFTEST. Stephen Boyd added zstd in-kernel decompression support, but the only users of this would be folks using the load-pin LSM because otherwise we do module decompression in userspace. The only other thing with mentioning is a minor boot time optimization by Rasmus Villemoes which deferes param_sysfs_init() to late init. The rest is cleanups and minor fixes" * tag 'modules-6.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux: livepatch: Call klp_match_callback() in klp_find_callback() to avoid code duplication module/decompress: Support zstd in-kernel decompression kallsyms: Remove unneeded semicolon kallsyms: Add self-test facility livepatch: Use kallsyms_on_each_match_symbol() to improve performance kallsyms: Add helper kallsyms_on_each_match_symbol() kallsyms: Reduce the memory occupied by kallsyms_seqs_of_names[] kallsyms: Correctly sequence symbols when CONFIG_LTO_CLANG=y kallsyms: Improve the performance of kallsyms_lookup_name() scripts/kallsyms: rename build_initial_tok_table() module: Fix NULL vs IS_ERR checking for module_get_next_page kernel/params.c: defer most of param_sysfs_init() to late_initcall time module: Remove unused macros module_addr_min/max module: remove redundant module_sysfs_initialized variable

livepatch: Call klp_match_callback() in klp_find_callback() to avoid code duplication

2022-12-13T02:30:58Z

The implementation of function klp_match_callback() is identical to the partial implementation of function klp_find_callback(). So call function klp_match_callback() in function klp_find_callback() instead of the duplicated code. Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei Acked-by: Song Liu Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek Suggested-by: Petr Mladek Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain

Merge tag 'livepatching-for-6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/livepatching/livepatching

2022-12-13T00:01:02Z

Pull livepatching update from Petr Mladek: - code cleanup * tag 'livepatching-for-6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/livepatching/livepatching: livepatch: Move the result-invariant calculation out of the loop

ftrace: rename ftrace_instruction_pointer_set() -> ftrace_regs_set_instruction_pointer()

2022-11-18T13:56:41Z

In subsequent patches we'll add a sew of ftrace_regs_{get,set}_*() helpers. In preparation, this patch renames ftrace_instruction_pointer_set() to ftrace_regs_set_instruction_pointer(). There should be no functional change as a result of this patch. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland Cc: Florent Revest Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Steven Rostedt Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221103170520.931305-3-mark.rutland@arm.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon

livepatch: Use kallsyms_on_each_match_symbol() to improve performance

2022-11-13T02:47:36Z

Based on the test results of kallsyms_on_each_match_symbol() and kallsyms_on_each_symbol(), the average performance can be improved by more than 1500 times. Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain

livepatch: Move the result-invariant calculation out of the loop

2022-10-18T13:50:31Z

The calculation results of the variables 'func_addr' and 'func_size' are not affected by the for loop and do not change due to the changes of entries[i]. The performance can be improved by moving it outside the loop. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

Merge tag 'livepatching-for-6.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/livepatching/livepatching

2022-10-10T18:36:19Z

Pull livepatching updates from Petr Mladek: - Fix race between fork and livepatch transition revert - Add sysfs entry that shows "patched" state for each object (module) that can be livepatched by the given livepatch - Some clean up * tag 'livepatching-for-6.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/livepatching/livepatching: selftests/livepatch: add sysfs test livepatch: add sysfs entry "patched" for each klp_object selftests/livepatch: normalize sysctl error message livepatch: Add a missing newline character in klp_module_coming() livepatch: fix race between fork and KLP transition