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<title>livepatch: Nullify obj-&gt;mod in klp_module_coming()'s error path</title>
<updated>2019-10-07T16:57:10Z</updated>
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<name>Miroslav Benes</name>
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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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<title>module: Fix livepatch/ftrace module text permissions race</title>
<updated>2019-07-10T07:53:40Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@redhat.com</email>
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<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>2018-07-23T10:12:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kamalesh Babulal</name>
<email>kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
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<published>2018-07-20T09:46:42Z</published>
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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;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-4.16/remove-immediate' into for-linus</title>
<updated>2018-01-31T15:36:38Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Kosina</name>
<email>jkosina@suse.cz</email>
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<published>2018-01-31T15:33:52Z</published>
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Pull 'immediate' feature removal from Miroslav Benes.
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<title>livepatch: add locking to force and signal functions</title>
<updated>2018-01-11T16:36:07Z</updated>
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<name>Miroslav Benes</name>
<email>mbenes@suse.cz</email>
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<published>2017-12-21T13:40:43Z</published>
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klp_send_signals() and klp_force_transition() do not acquire klp_mutex,
because it seemed to be superfluous. A potential race in
klp_send_signals() was harmless and there was nothing in
klp_force_transition() which needed to be synchronized. That changed
with the addition of klp_forced variable during the review process.

There is a small window now, when klp_complete_transition() does not see
klp_forced set to true while all tasks have been already transitioned to
the target state. module_put() is called and the module can be removed.

Acquire klp_mutex in sysfs callback to prevent it. Do the same for the
signal sending just to be sure. There is no real downside to that.

Fixes: c99a2be790b07 ("livepatch: force transition to finish")
Fixes: 43347d56c8d9d ("livepatch: send a fake signal to all blocking tasks")
Reported-by: Jason Baron &lt;jbaron@akamai.com&gt;
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: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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<title>livepatch: Remove immediate feature</title>
<updated>2018-01-11T09:58:03Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Miroslav Benes</name>
<email>mbenes@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-10T10:01:28Z</published>
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Immediate flag has been used to disable per-task consistency and patch
all tasks immediately. It could be useful if the patch doesn't change any
function or data semantics.

However, it causes problems on its own. The consistency problem is
currently broken with respect to immediate patches.

func            a
patches         1i
                2i
                3

When the patch 3 is applied, only 2i function is checked (by stack
checking facility). There might be a task sleeping in 1i though. Such
task is migrated to 3, because we do not check 1i in
klp_check_stack_func() at all.

Coming atomic replace feature would be easier to implement and more
reliable without immediate.

Thus, remove immediate feature completely and save us from the problems.

Note that force feature has the similar problem. However it is
considered as a last resort. If used, administrator should not apply any
new live patches and should plan for reboot into an updated kernel.

The architectures would now need to provide HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE to
fully support livepatch.

Signed-off-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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<title>livepatch: force transition to finish</title>
<updated>2017-12-07T12:21:35Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Miroslav Benes</name>
<email>mbenes@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-22T10:29:21Z</published>
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If a task sleeps in a set of patched functions uninterruptedly, it could
block the whole transition indefinitely.  Thus it may be useful to clear
its TIF_PATCH_PENDING to allow the process to finish.

Admin can do that now by writing to force sysfs attribute in livepatch
sysfs directory. TIF_PATCH_PENDING is then cleared for all tasks and the
transition can finish successfully.

Important note! Administrator should not use this feature without a
clearance from a patch distributor. It must be checked that by doing so
the consistency model guarantees are not violated. Removal (rmmod) of
patch modules is permanently disabled when the feature is used. It
cannot be guaranteed there is no task sleeping in such module.

Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&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>livepatch: send a fake signal to all blocking tasks</title>
<updated>2017-12-04T21:34:57Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Miroslav Benes</name>
<email>mbenes@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-15T13:50:13Z</published>
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Live patching consistency model is of LEAVE_PATCHED_SET and
SWITCH_THREAD. This means that all tasks in the system have to be marked
one by one as safe to call a new patched function. Safe means when a
task is not (sleeping) in a set of patched functions. That is, no
patched function is on the task's stack. Another clearly safe place is
the boundary between kernel and userspace. The patching waits for all
tasks to get outside of the patched set or to cross the boundary. The
transition is completed afterwards.

The problem is that a task can block the transition for quite a long
time, if not forever. It could sleep in a set of patched functions, for
example.  Luckily we can force the task to leave the set by sending it a
fake signal, that is a signal with no data in signal pending structures
(no handler, no sign of proper signal delivered). Suspend/freezer use
this to freeze the tasks as well. The task gets TIF_SIGPENDING set and
is woken up (if it has been sleeping in the kernel before) or kicked by
rescheduling IPI (if it was running on other CPU). This causes the task
to go to kernel/userspace boundary where the signal would be handled and
the task would be marked as safe in terms of live patching.

There are tasks which are not affected by this technique though. The
fake signal is not sent to kthreads. They should be handled differently.
They can be woken up so they leave the patched set and their
TIF_PATCH_PENDING can be cleared thanks to stack checking.

For the sake of completeness, if the task is in TASK_RUNNING state but
not currently running on some CPU it doesn't get the IPI, but it would
eventually handle the signal anyway. Second, if the task runs in the
kernel (in TASK_RUNNING state) it gets the IPI, but the signal is not
handled on return from the interrupt. It would be handled on return to
the userspace in the future when the fake signal is sent again. Stack
checking deals with these cases in a better way.

If the task was sleeping in a syscall it would be woken by our fake
signal, it would check if TIF_SIGPENDING is set (by calling
signal_pending() predicate) and return ERESTART* or EINTR. Syscalls with
ERESTART* return values are restarted in case of the fake signal (see
do_signal()). EINTR is propagated back to the userspace program. This
could disturb the program, but...

* each process dealing with signals should react accordingly to EINTR
  return values.
* syscalls returning EINTR happen to be quite common situation in the
  system even if no fake signal is sent.
* freezer sends the fake signal and does not deal with EINTR anyhow.
  Thus EINTR values are returned when the system is resumed.

The very safe marking is done in architectures' "entry" on syscall and
interrupt/exception exit paths, and in a stack checking functions of
livepatch.  TIF_PATCH_PENDING is cleared and the next
recalc_sigpending() drops TIF_SIGPENDING. In connection with this, also
call klp_update_patch_state() before do_signal(), so that
recalc_sigpending() in dequeue_signal() can clear TIF_PATCH_PENDING
immediately and thus prevent a double call of do_signal().

Note that the fake signal is not sent to stopped/traced tasks. Such task
prevents the patching to finish till it continues again (is not traced
anymore).

Last, sending the fake signal is not automatic. It is done only when
admin requests it by writing 1 to signal sysfs attribute in livepatch
sysfs directory.

Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt; (powerpc)
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-4.15/callbacks' into for-linus</title>
<updated>2017-11-15T09:54:27Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Kosina</name>
<email>jkosina@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-15T09:53:24Z</published>
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This pulls in an infrastructure/API that allows livepatch writers to
register pre-patch and post-patch callbacks that allow for running a
glue code necessary for finalizing the patching if necessary.

Conflicts:
	kernel/livepatch/core.c
	- trivial conflict by adding a callback call into
	  module going notifier vs. moving that code block
	  to klp_cleanup_module_patches_limited()

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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<entry>
<title>livepatch: __klp_disable_patch() should never be called for disabled patches</title>
<updated>2017-10-26T12:58:50Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Mladek</name>
<email>pmladek@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-20T14:56:51Z</published>
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__klp_disable_patch() should never be called when the patch is not
enabled. Let's add the same warning that we have in __klp_enable_patch().

This allows to remove the check when calling klp_pre_unpatch_callback().
It was strange anyway because it repeatedly checked per-patch flag
for each patched object.

Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Joe Lawrence &lt;joe.lawrence@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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