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<title>add support for Clang CFI</title>
<updated>2021-04-08T23:04:20Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sami Tolvanen</name>
<email>samitolvanen@google.com</email>
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<published>2021-04-08T18:28:26Z</published>
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This change adds support for Clang’s forward-edge Control Flow
Integrity (CFI) checking. With CONFIG_CFI_CLANG, the compiler
injects a runtime check before each indirect function call to ensure
the target is a valid function with the correct static type. This
restricts possible call targets and makes it more difficult for
an attacker to exploit bugs that allow the modification of stored
function pointers. For more details, see:

  https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ControlFlowIntegrity.html

Clang requires CONFIG_LTO_CLANG to be enabled with CFI to gain
visibility to possible call targets. Kernel modules are supported
with Clang’s cross-DSO CFI mode, which allows checking between
independently compiled components.

With CFI enabled, the compiler injects a __cfi_check() function into
the kernel and each module for validating local call targets. For
cross-module calls that cannot be validated locally, the compiler
calls the global __cfi_slowpath_diag() function, which determines
the target module and calls the correct __cfi_check() function. This
patch includes a slowpath implementation that uses __module_address()
to resolve call targets, and with CONFIG_CFI_CLANG_SHADOW enabled, a
shadow map that speeds up module look-ups by ~3x.

Clang implements indirect call checking using jump tables and
offers two methods of generating them. With canonical jump tables,
the compiler renames each address-taken function to &lt;function&gt;.cfi
and points the original symbol to a jump table entry, which passes
__cfi_check() validation. This isn’t compatible with stand-alone
assembly code, which the compiler doesn’t instrument, and would
result in indirect calls to assembly code to fail. Therefore, we
default to using non-canonical jump tables instead, where the compiler
generates a local jump table entry &lt;function&gt;.cfi_jt for each
address-taken function, and replaces all references to the function
with the address of the jump table entry.

Note that because non-canonical jump table addresses are local
to each component, they break cross-module function address
equality. Specifically, the address of a global function will be
different in each module, as it's replaced with the address of a local
jump table entry. If this address is passed to a different module,
it won’t match the address of the same function taken there. This
may break code that relies on comparing addresses passed from other
components.

CFI checking can be disabled in a function with the __nocfi attribute.
Additionally, CFI can be disabled for an entire compilation unit by
filtering out CC_FLAGS_CFI.

By default, CFI failures result in a kernel panic to stop a potential
exploit. CONFIG_CFI_PERMISSIVE enables a permissive mode, where the
kernel prints out a rate-limited warning instead, and allows execution
to continue. This option is helpful for locating type mismatches, but
should only be enabled during development.

Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210408182843.1754385-2-samitolvanen@google.com
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<title>module: remove never implemented MODULE_SUPPORTED_DEVICE</title>
<updated>2021-03-17T20:16:18Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Leon Romanovsky</name>
<email>leonro@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-17T10:45:47Z</published>
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MODULE_SUPPORTED_DEVICE was added in pre-git era and never was
implemented. We can safely remove it, because the kernel has grown
to have many more reliable mechanisms to determine if device is
supported or not.

Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leonro@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>module: remove EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL*</title>
<updated>2021-02-08T11:28:07Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-02T12:13:34Z</published>
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EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL* is not actually used anywhere.  Remove the
unused functionality as we generally just remove unused code anyway.

Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Emil Velikov &lt;emil.l.velikov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>module: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE</title>
<updated>2021-02-08T11:28:02Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
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<published>2021-02-02T12:13:33Z</published>
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As far as I can tell this has never been used at all, and certainly
not any time recently.

Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Emil Velikov &lt;emil.l.velikov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>module: move struct symsearch to module.c</title>
<updated>2021-02-08T11:27:43Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-02T12:13:32Z</published>
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struct symsearch is only used inside of module.h, so move the definition
out of module.h.

Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Emil Velikov &lt;emil.l.velikov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>module: mark module_mutex static</title>
<updated>2021-02-08T11:24:26Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
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<published>2021-02-02T12:13:28Z</published>
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Except for two lockdep asserts module_mutex is only used in module.c.
Remove the two asserts given that the functions they are in are not
exported and just called from the module code, and mark module_mutex
static.

Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>kallsyms: only build {,module_}kallsyms_on_each_symbol when required</title>
<updated>2021-02-08T11:24:04Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
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<published>2021-02-02T12:13:27Z</published>
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kallsyms_on_each_symbol and module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol are only used
by the livepatching code, so don't build them if livepatching is not
enabled.

Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>module: use RCU to synchronize find_module</title>
<updated>2021-02-08T11:21:40Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-02T12:13:25Z</published>
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Allow for a RCU-sched critical section around find_module, following
the lower level find_module_all helper, and switch the two callers
outside of module.c to use such a RCU-sched critical section instead
of module_mutex.

Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'modules-for-v5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeyu/linux</title>
<updated>2020-12-17T21:01:31Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-17T21:01:31Z</published>
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Pull modules updates from Jessica Yu:
 "Summary of modules changes for the 5.11 merge window:

   - Fix a race condition between systemd/udev and the module loader.

     The module loader was sending a uevent before the module was fully
     initialized (i.e., before its init function has been called). This
     means udev can start processing the module uevent before the module
     has finished initializing, and some udev rules expect that the
     module has initialized already upon receiving the uevent.

     This resulted in some systemd mount units failing if udev processes
     the event faster than the module can finish init. This is fixed by
     delaying the uevent until after the module has called its init
     routine.

   - Make the linker array sections for kernel params and module version
     attributes more robust by switching to use the alignment of the
     type in question.

     Namely, linker section arrays will be constructed using the
     alignment required by the struct (using __alignof__()) as opposed
     to a specific value such as sizeof(void *) or sizeof(long). This is
     less likely to cause breakages should the size of the type ever
     change (Johan Hovold)

   - Fix module state inconsistency by setting it back to GOING when a
     module fails to load and is on its way out (Miroslav Benes)

   - Some comment and code cleanups (Sergey Shtylyov)"

* tag 'modules-for-v5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeyu/linux:
  module: delay kobject uevent until after module init call
  module: drop semicolon from version macro
  init: use type alignment for kernel parameters
  params: clean up module-param macros
  params: use type alignment for kernel parameters
  params: drop redundant "unused" attributes
  module: simplify version-attribute handling
  module: drop version-attribute alignment
  module: fix comment style
  module: add more 'kernel-doc' comments
  module: fix up 'kernel-doc' comments
  module: only handle errors with the *switch* statement in module_sig_check()
  module: avoid *goto*s in module_sig_check()
  module: merge repetitive strings in module_sig_check()
  module: set MODULE_STATE_GOING state when a module fails to load
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<title>module: drop semicolon from version macro</title>
<updated>2020-12-07T12:00:52Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Johan Hovold</name>
<email>johan@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-07T09:13:08Z</published>
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Drop the trailing semicolon from the MODULE_VERSION() macro definition
which was left when removing the array-of-pointer indirection.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold &lt;johan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
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