user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/module.h, branch v4.0

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching

2015-03-18T17:46:39Z

Pull livepatching fix from Jiri Kosina: - fix for potential race with module loading, from Petr Mladek. The race is very unlikely to be seen in real world and has been found by code inspection, but should be fixed for 4.0 anyway. * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching: livepatch: Fix subtle race with coming and going modules

livepatch: Fix subtle race with coming and going modules

2015-03-17T09:31:54Z

There is a notifier that handles live patches for coming and going modules. It takes klp_mutex lock to avoid races with coming and going patches but it does not keep the lock all the time. Therefore the following races are possible: 1. The notifier is called sometime in STATE_MODULE_COMING. The module is visible by find_module() in this state all the time. It means that new patch can be registered and enabled even before the notifier is called. It might create wrong order of stacked patches, see below for an example. 2. New patch could still see the module in the GOING state even after the notifier has been called. It will try to initialize the related object structures but the module could disappear at any time. There will stay mess in the structures. It might even cause an invalid memory access. This patch solves the problem by adding a boolean variable into struct module. The value is true after the coming and before the going handler is called. New patches need to be applied when the value is true and they need to ignore the module when the value is false. Note that we need to know state of all modules on the system. The races are related to new patches. Therefore we do not know what modules will get patched. Also note that we could not simply ignore going modules. The code from the module could be called even in the GOING state until mod->exit() finishes. If we start supporting patches with semantic changes between function calls, we need to apply new patches to any still usable code. See below for an example. Finally note that the patch solves only the situation when a new patch is registered. There are no such problems when the patch is being removed. It does not matter who disable the patch first, whether the normal disable_patch() or the module notifier. There is nothing to do once the patch is disabled. Alternative solutions: ====================== + reject new patches when a patched module is coming or going; this is ugly + wait with adding new patch until the module leaves the COMING and GOING states; this might be dangerous and complicated; we would need to release kgr_lock in the middle of the patch registration to avoid a deadlock with the coming and going handlers; also we might need a waitqueue for each module which seems to be even bigger overhead than the boolean + stop modules from entering COMING and GOING states; wait until modules leave these states when they are already there; looks complicated; we would need to ignore the module that asked to stop the others to avoid a deadlock; also it is unclear what to do when two modules asked to stop others and both are in COMING state (situation when two new patches are applied) + always register/enable new patches and fix up the potential mess (registered patches order) in klp_module_init(); this is nasty and prone to regressions in the future development + add another MODULE_STATE where the kallsyms are visible but the module is not used yet; this looks too complex; the module states are checked on "many" locations Example of patch stacking breakage: =================================== The notifier could _not_ _simply_ ignore already initialized module objects. For example, let's have three patches (P1, P2, P3) for functions a() and b() where a() is from vmcore and b() is from a module M. Something like: a() b() P1 a1() b1() P2 a2() b2() P3 a3() b3(3) If you load the module M after all patches are registered and enabled. The ftrace ops for function a() and b() has listed the functions in this order: ops_a->func_stack -> list(a3,a2,a1) ops_b->func_stack -> list(b3,b2,b1) , so the pointer to b3() is the first and will be used. Then you might have the following scenario. Let's start with state when patches P1 and P2 are registered and enabled but the module M is not loaded. Then ftrace ops for b() does not exist. Then we get into the following race: CPU0 CPU1 load_module(M) complete_formation() mod->state = MODULE_STATE_COMING; mutex_unlock(&module_mutex); klp_register_patch(P3); klp_enable_patch(P3); # STATE 1 klp_module_notify(M) klp_module_notify_coming(P1); klp_module_notify_coming(P2); klp_module_notify_coming(P3); # STATE 2 The ftrace ops for a() and b() then looks: STATE1: ops_a->func_stack -> list(a3,a2,a1); ops_b->func_stack -> list(b3); STATE2: ops_a->func_stack -> list(a3,a2,a1); ops_b->func_stack -> list(b2,b1,b3); therefore, b2() is used for the module but a3() is used for vmcore because they were the last added. Example of the race with going modules: ======================================= CPU0 CPU1 delete_module() #SYSCALL try_stop_module() mod->state = MODULE_STATE_GOING; mutex_unlock(&module_mutex); klp_register_patch() klp_enable_patch() #save place to switch universe b() # from module that is going a() # from core (patched) mod->exit(); Note that the function b() can be called until we call mod->exit(). If we do not apply patch against b() because it is in MODULE_STATE_GOING, it will call patched a() with modified semantic and things might get wrong. [jpoimboe@redhat.com: use one boolean instead of two] Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf Acked-by: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

module: fix types of device tables aliases

2015-02-14T05:21:42Z

MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() macro used to create aliases to device tables. Normally alias should have the same type as aliased symbol. Device tables are arrays, so they have 'struct type##_device_id[x]' types. Alias created by MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() will have non-array type - 'struct type##_device_id'. This inconsistency confuses compiler, it could make a wrong assumption about variable's size which leads KASan to produce a false positive report about out of bounds access. For every global variable compiler calls __asan_register_globals() passing information about global variable (address, size, size with redzone, name ...) __asan_register_globals() poison symbols redzone to detect possible out of bounds accesses. When symbol has an alias __asan_register_globals() will be called as for symbol so for alias. Compiler determines size of variable by size of variable's type. Alias and symbol have the same address, so if alias have the wrong size part of memory that actually belongs to the symbol could be poisoned as redzone of alias symbol. By fixing type of alias symbol we will fix size of it, so __asan_register_globals() will not poison valid memory. Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: Konstantin Serebryany Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov Cc: Yuri Gribov Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov Cc: Sasha Levin Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

module: make module_refcount() a signed integer.

2015-01-22T00:45:54Z

James Bottomley points out that it will be -1 during unload. It's only used for diagnostics, so let's not hide that as it could be a clue as to what's gone wrong. Cc: Jason Wessel Acked-and-documention-added-by: James Bottomley Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

module: Replace module_ref with atomic_t refcnt

2014-11-11T06:37:46Z

Replace module_ref per-cpu complex reference counter with an atomic_t simple refcnt. This is for code simplification. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

module: return bool from within_module*()

2014-07-27T11:22:44Z

The within_module*() functions return only true or false. Let's use bool as the return type. Note that it should not change kABI because these are inline functions. Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

module: add within_module() function

2014-07-27T11:22:43Z

It is just a small optimization that allows to replace few occurrences of within_module_init() || within_module_core() with a single call. Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

Merge tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux

2014-04-06T16:38:07Z

Pull module updates from Rusty Russell: "Nothing major: the stricter permissions checking for sysfs broke a staging driver; fix included. Greg KH said he'd take the patch but hadn't as the merge window opened, so it's included here to avoid breaking build" * tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: staging: fix up speakup kobject mode Use 'E' instead of 'X' for unsigned module taint flag. VERIFY_OCTAL_PERMISSIONS: stricter checking for sysfs perms. kallsyms: fix percpu vars on x86-64 with relocation. kallsyms: generalize address range checking module: LLVMLinux: Remove unused function warning from __param_check macro Fix: module signature vs tracepoints: add new TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE module: remove MODULE_GENERIC_TABLE module: allow multiple calls to MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() per module module: use pr_cont

module: remove MODULE_GENERIC_TABLE

2014-03-13T01:41:00Z

MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() calles MODULE_GENERIC_TABLE(); make it do the work directly. This also removes a wart introduced in the last patch, where the alias is defined to be an unknown struct type "struct type##__##name##_device_id" instead of "struct type##_device_id" (it's an extern so GCC doesn't care, but it's wrong). The other user of MODULE_GENERIC_TABLE (ISAPNP_CARD_TABLE) is unused, so delete it. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

module: allow multiple calls to MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() per module

2014-03-13T01:41:00Z

Commit 78551277e4df5: "Input: i8042 - add PNP modaliases" had a bug, where the second call to MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() overrode the first resulting in not all the modaliases being exposed. This fixes the problem by including the name of the device_id table in the __mod_*_device_table alias, allowing us to export several device_id tables per module. Suggested-by: Kay Sievers Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Dmitry Torokhov Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell