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<title>livepatch: Nullify obj-&gt;mod in klp_module_coming()'s error path</title>
<updated>2019-10-07T16:55:09Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Miroslav Benes</name>
<email>mbenes@suse.cz</email>
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<published>2019-07-19T12:28:39Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 4ff96fb52c6964ad42e0a878be8f86a2e8052ddd ]

klp_module_coming() is called for every module appearing in the system.
It sets obj-&gt;mod to a patched module for klp_object obj. Unfortunately
it leaves it set even if an error happens later in the function and the
patched module is not allowed to be loaded.

klp_is_object_loaded() uses obj-&gt;mod variable and could currently give a
wrong return value. The bug is probably harmless as of now.

Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>module: Fix livepatch/ftrace module text permissions race</title>
<updated>2019-07-10T07:54:37Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-14T01:07:22Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 9f255b632bf12c4dd7fc31caee89aa991ef75176 ]

It's possible for livepatch and ftrace to be toggling a module's text
permissions at the same time, resulting in the following panic:

  BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffffffc005b1d9
  #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
  #PF: error_code(0x0003) - permissions violation
  PGD 3ea0c067 P4D 3ea0c067 PUD 3ea0e067 PMD 3cc13067 PTE 3b8a1061
  Oops: 0003 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
  CPU: 1 PID: 453 Comm: insmod Tainted: G           O  K   5.2.0-rc1-a188339ca5 #1
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.12.0-20181126_142135-anatol 04/01/2014
  RIP: 0010:apply_relocate_add+0xbe/0x14c
  Code: fa 0b 74 21 48 83 fa 18 74 38 48 83 fa 0a 75 40 eb 08 48 83 38 00 74 33 eb 53 83 38 00 75 4e 89 08 89 c8 eb 0a 83 38 00 75 43 &lt;89&gt; 08 48 63 c1 48 39 c8 74 2e eb 48 83 38 00 75 32 48 29 c1 89 08
  RSP: 0018:ffffb223c00dbb10 EFLAGS: 00010246
  RAX: ffffffffc005b1d9 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffffff8b200060
  RDX: 000000000000000b RSI: 0000004b0000000b RDI: ffff96bdfcd33000
  RBP: ffffb223c00dbb38 R08: ffffffffc005d040 R09: ffffffffc005c1f0
  R10: ffff96bdfcd33c40 R11: ffff96bdfcd33b80 R12: 0000000000000018
  R13: ffffffffc005c1f0 R14: ffffffffc005e708 R15: ffffffff8b2fbc74
  FS:  00007f5f447beba8(0000) GS:ffff96bdff900000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: ffffffffc005b1d9 CR3: 000000003cedc002 CR4: 0000000000360ea0
  DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
  DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
  Call Trace:
   klp_init_object_loaded+0x10f/0x219
   ? preempt_latency_start+0x21/0x57
   klp_enable_patch+0x662/0x809
   ? virt_to_head_page+0x3a/0x3c
   ? kfree+0x8c/0x126
   patch_init+0x2ed/0x1000 [livepatch_test02]
   ? 0xffffffffc0060000
   do_one_initcall+0x9f/0x1c5
   ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0xc4/0xd4
   ? do_init_module+0x27/0x210
   do_init_module+0x5f/0x210
   load_module+0x1c41/0x2290
   ? fsnotify_path+0x3b/0x42
   ? strstarts+0x2b/0x2b
   ? kernel_read+0x58/0x65
   __do_sys_finit_module+0x9f/0xc3
   ? __do_sys_finit_module+0x9f/0xc3
   __x64_sys_finit_module+0x1a/0x1c
   do_syscall_64+0x52/0x61
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

The above panic occurs when loading two modules at the same time with
ftrace enabled, where at least one of the modules is a livepatch module:

CPU0					CPU1
klp_enable_patch()
  klp_init_object_loaded()
    module_disable_ro()
    					ftrace_module_enable()
					  ftrace_arch_code_modify_post_process()
				    	    set_all_modules_text_ro()
      klp_write_object_relocations()
        apply_relocate_add()
	  *patches read-only code* - BOOM

A similar race exists when toggling ftrace while loading a livepatch
module.

Fix it by ensuring that the livepatch and ftrace code patching
operations -- and their respective permissions changes -- are protected
by the text_mutex.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ab43d56ab909469ac5d2520c5d944ad6d4abd476.1560474114.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com

Reported-by: Johannes Erdfelt &lt;johannes@erdfelt.com&gt;
Fixes: 444d13ff10fb ("modules: add ro_after_init support")
Acked-by: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>livepatch: Validate module/old func name length</title>
<updated>2018-09-09T17:55:58Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kamalesh Babulal</name>
<email>kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-20T09:46:42Z</published>
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commit 6e9df95b76cad18f7b217bdad7bb8a26d63b8c47 upstream.

livepatch module author can pass module name/old function name with more
than the defined character limit. With obj-&gt;name length greater than
MODULE_NAME_LEN, the livepatch module gets loaded but waits forever on
the module specified by obj-&gt;name to be loaded. It also populates a /sys
directory with an untruncated object name.

In the case of funcs-&gt;old_name length greater then KSYM_NAME_LEN, it
would not match against any of the symbol table entries. Instead loop
through the symbol table comparing them against a nonexisting function,
which can be avoided.

The same issues apply, to misspelled/incorrect names. At least gatekeep
the modules with over the limit string length, by checking for their
length during livepatch module registration.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kamalesh Babulal &lt;kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>livepatch: unpatch all klp_objects if klp_module_coming fails</title>
<updated>2017-10-11T13:38:46Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Lawrence</name>
<email>joe.lawrence@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2017-10-02T15:56:48Z</published>
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When an incoming module is considered for livepatching by
klp_module_coming(), it iterates over multiple patches and multiple
kernel objects in this order:

	list_for_each_entry(patch, &amp;klp_patches, list) {
		klp_for_each_object(patch, obj) {

which means that if one of the kernel objects fails to patch,
klp_module_coming()'s error path needs to unpatch and cleanup any kernel
objects that were already patched by a previous patch.

Reported-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Suggested-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence &lt;joe.lawrence@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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<title>Merge branches 'for-4.12/upstream' and 'for-4.12/klp-hybrid-consistency-model' into for-linus</title>
<updated>2017-05-01T19:49:28Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Kosina</name>
<email>jkosina@suse.cz</email>
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<published>2017-05-01T19:49:28Z</published>
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<title>livepatch: add missing printk newlines</title>
<updated>2017-04-16T20:48:05Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-13T22:59:15Z</published>
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Add missing newlines to some pr_err() strings.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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<title>livepatch: Reduce the time of finding module symbols</title>
<updated>2017-03-30T08:41:38Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhou Chengming</name>
<email>zhouchengming1@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-28T13:10:35Z</published>
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It's reported that the time of insmoding a klp.ko for one of our
out-tree modules is too long.

~ time sudo insmod klp.ko
real	0m23.799s
user	0m0.036s
sys	0m21.256s

Then we found the reason: our out-tree module used a lot of static local
variables, so klp.ko has a lot of relocation records which reference the
module. Then for each such entry klp_find_object_symbol() is called to
resolve it, but this function uses the interface kallsyms_on_each_symbol()
even for finding module symbols, so will waste a lot of time on walking
through vmlinux kallsyms table many times.

This patch changes it to use module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol() for modules
symbols. After we apply this patch, the sys time reduced dramatically.

~ time sudo insmod klp.ko
real	0m1.007s
user	0m0.032s
sys	0m0.924s

Signed-off-by: Zhou Chengming &lt;zhouchengming1@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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<title>livepatch: make klp_mutex proper part of API</title>
<updated>2017-03-08T13:40:53Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Kosina</name>
<email>jkosina@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-08T13:27:05Z</published>
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klp_mutex is shared between core.c and transition.c, and as such would
rather be properly located in a header so that we don't have to play
'extern' games from .c sources.

This also silences sparse warning (wrongly) suggesting that klp_mutex
should be defined static.

Acked-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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<entry>
<title>livepatch: allow removal of a disabled patch</title>
<updated>2017-03-08T08:38:43Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-06T17:20:29Z</published>
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Currently we do not allow patch module to unload since there is no
method to determine if a task is still running in the patched code.

The consistency model gives us the way because when the unpatching
finishes we know that all tasks were marked as safe to call an original
function. Thus every new call to the function calls the original code
and at the same time no task can be somewhere in the patched code,
because it had to leave that code to be marked as safe.

We can safely let the patch module go after that.

Completion is used for synchronization between module removal and sysfs
infrastructure in a similar way to commit 942e443127e9 ("module: Fix
mod-&gt;mkobj.kobj potentially freed too early").

Note that we still do not allow the removal for immediate model, that is
no consistency model. The module refcount may increase in this case if
somebody disables and enables the patch several times. This should not
cause any harm.

With this change a call to try_module_get() is moved to
__klp_enable_patch from klp_register_patch to make module reference
counting symmetric (module_put() is in a patch disable path) and to
allow to take a new reference to a disabled module when being enabled.

Finally, we need to be very careful about possible races between
klp_unregister_patch(), kobject_put() functions and operations
on the related sysfs files.

kobject_put(&amp;patch-&gt;kobj) must be called without klp_mutex. Otherwise,
it might be blocked by enabled_store() that needs the mutex as well.
In addition, enabled_store() must check if the patch was not
unregisted in the meantime.

There is no need to do the same for other kobject_put() callsites
at the moment. Their sysfs operations neither take the lock nor
they access any data that might be freed in the meantime.

There was an attempt to use kobjects the right way and prevent these
races by design. But it made the patch definition more complicated
and opened another can of worms. See
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464018848-4303-1-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com

[Thanks to Petr Mladek for improving the commit message.]

Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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<title>livepatch: change to a per-task consistency model</title>
<updated>2017-03-08T08:36:21Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-14T01:42:40Z</published>
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Change livepatch to use a basic per-task consistency model.  This is the
foundation which will eventually enable us to patch those ~10% of
security patches which change function or data semantics.  This is the
biggest remaining piece needed to make livepatch more generally useful.

This code stems from the design proposal made by Vojtech [1] in November
2014.  It's a hybrid of kGraft and kpatch: it uses kGraft's per-task
consistency and syscall barrier switching combined with kpatch's stack
trace switching.  There are also a number of fallback options which make
it quite flexible.

Patches are applied on a per-task basis, when the task is deemed safe to
switch over.  When a patch is enabled, livepatch enters into a
transition state where tasks are converging to the patched state.
Usually this transition state can complete in a few seconds.  The same
sequence occurs when a patch is disabled, except the tasks converge from
the patched state to the unpatched state.

An interrupt handler inherits the patched state of the task it
interrupts.  The same is true for forked tasks: the child inherits the
patched state of the parent.

Livepatch uses several complementary approaches to determine when it's
safe to patch tasks:

1. The first and most effective approach is stack checking of sleeping
   tasks.  If no affected functions are on the stack of a given task,
   the task is patched.  In most cases this will patch most or all of
   the tasks on the first try.  Otherwise it'll keep trying
   periodically.  This option is only available if the architecture has
   reliable stacks (HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE).

2. The second approach, if needed, is kernel exit switching.  A
   task is switched when it returns to user space from a system call, a
   user space IRQ, or a signal.  It's useful in the following cases:

   a) Patching I/O-bound user tasks which are sleeping on an affected
      function.  In this case you have to send SIGSTOP and SIGCONT to
      force it to exit the kernel and be patched.
   b) Patching CPU-bound user tasks.  If the task is highly CPU-bound
      then it will get patched the next time it gets interrupted by an
      IRQ.
   c) In the future it could be useful for applying patches for
      architectures which don't yet have HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE.  In
      this case you would have to signal most of the tasks on the
      system.  However this isn't supported yet because there's
      currently no way to patch kthreads without
      HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE.

3. For idle "swapper" tasks, since they don't ever exit the kernel, they
   instead have a klp_update_patch_state() call in the idle loop which
   allows them to be patched before the CPU enters the idle state.

   (Note there's not yet such an approach for kthreads.)

All the above approaches may be skipped by setting the 'immediate' flag
in the 'klp_patch' struct, which will disable per-task consistency and
patch all tasks immediately.  This can be useful if the patch doesn't
change any function or data semantics.  Note that, even with this flag
set, it's possible that some tasks may still be running with an old
version of the function, until that function returns.

There's also an 'immediate' flag in the 'klp_func' struct which allows
you to specify that certain functions in the patch can be applied
without per-task consistency.  This might be useful if you want to patch
a common function like schedule(), and the function change doesn't need
consistency but the rest of the patch does.

For architectures which don't have HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE, the user
must set patch-&gt;immediate which causes all tasks to be patched
immediately.  This option should be used with care, only when the patch
doesn't change any function or data semantics.

In the future, architectures which don't have HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE
may be allowed to use per-task consistency if we can come up with
another way to patch kthreads.

The /sys/kernel/livepatch/&lt;patch&gt;/transition file shows whether a patch
is in transition.  Only a single patch (the topmost patch on the stack)
can be in transition at a given time.  A patch can remain in transition
indefinitely, if any of the tasks are stuck in the initial patch state.

A transition can be reversed and effectively canceled by writing the
opposite value to the /sys/kernel/livepatch/&lt;patch&gt;/enabled file while
the transition is in progress.  Then all the tasks will attempt to
converge back to the original patch state.

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141107140458.GA21774@suse.cz

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;        # for the scheduler changes
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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