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<title>livepatch: fix race between fork and KLP transition</title>
<updated>2022-10-26T11:22:18Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Rik van Riel</name>
<email>riel@surriel.com</email>
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<published>2022-08-08T19:00:19Z</published>
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commit 747f7a2901174c9afa805dddfb7b24db6f65e985 upstream.

The KLP transition code depends on the TIF_PATCH_PENDING and
the task-&gt;patch_state to stay in sync. On a normal (forward)
transition, TIF_PATCH_PENDING will be set on every task in
the system, while on a reverse transition (after a failed
forward one) first TIF_PATCH_PENDING will be cleared from
every task, followed by it being set on tasks that need to
be transitioned back to the original code.

However, the fork code copies over the TIF_PATCH_PENDING flag
from the parent to the child early on, in dup_task_struct and
setup_thread_stack. Much later, klp_copy_process will set
child-&gt;patch_state to match that of the parent.

However, the parent's patch_state may have been changed by KLP loading
or unloading since it was initially copied over into the child.

This results in the KLP code occasionally hitting this warning in
klp_complete_transition:

        for_each_process_thread(g, task) {
                WARN_ON_ONCE(test_tsk_thread_flag(task, TIF_PATCH_PENDING));
                task-&gt;patch_state = KLP_UNDEFINED;
        }

Set, or clear, the TIF_PATCH_PENDING flag in the child task
depending on whether or not it is needed at the time
klp_copy_process is called, at a point in copy_process where the
tasklist_lock is held exclusively, preventing races with the KLP
code.

The KLP code does have a few places where the state is changed
without the tasklist_lock held, but those should not cause
problems because klp_update_patch_state(current) cannot be
called while the current task is in the middle of fork,
klp_check_and_switch_task() which is called under the pi_lock,
which prevents rescheduling, and manipulation of the patch
state of idle tasks, which do not fork.

This should prevent this warning from triggering again in the
future, and close the race for both normal and reverse transitions.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
Reported-by: Breno Leitao &lt;leitao@debian.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: d83a7cb375ee ("livepatch: change to a per-task consistency model")
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220808150019.03d6a67b@imladris.surriel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>livepatch: Nullify obj-&gt;mod in klp_module_coming()'s error path</title>
<updated>2019-08-19T11:03:37Z</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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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;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/livepatching/livepatching</title>
<updated>2019-07-11T22:30:05Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2019-07-11T22:30:05Z</published>
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Pull livepatching updates from Jiri Kosina:

 - stacktrace handling improvements from Miroslav benes

 - debug output improvements from Petr Mladek

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/livepatching/livepatching:
  livepatch: Remove duplicate warning about missing reliable stacktrace support
  Revert "livepatch: Remove reliable stacktrace check in klp_try_switch_task()"
  stacktrace: Remove weak version of save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable()
  livepatch: Use static buffer for debugging messages under rq lock
  livepatch: Remove stale kobj_added entries from kernel-doc descriptions
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<title>livepatch: Remove duplicate warning about missing reliable stacktrace support</title>
<updated>2019-06-20T14:19:13Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Mladek</name>
<email>pmladek@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-11T14:13:20Z</published>
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WARN_ON_ONCE() could not be called safely under rq lock because
of console deadlock issues. Moreover WARN_ON_ONCE() is superfluous in
klp_check_stack(), because stack_trace_save_tsk_reliable() cannot return
-ENOSYS thanks to klp_have_reliable_stack() check in
klp_try_switch_task().

[ mbenes: changelog edited ]
Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kamalesh Babulal &lt;kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Revert "livepatch: Remove reliable stacktrace check in klp_try_switch_task()"</title>
<updated>2019-06-20T14:08:41Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Miroslav Benes</name>
<email>mbenes@suse.cz</email>
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<published>2019-06-11T14:13:19Z</published>
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This reverts commit 1d98a69e5cef3aeb68bcefab0e67e342d6bb4dad. Commit
31adf2308f33 ("livepatch: Convert error about unsupported reliable
stacktrace into a warning") weakened the enforcement for architectures
to have reliable stack traces support. The system only warns now about
it.

It only makes sense to reintroduce the compile time checking in
klp_try_switch_task() again and bail out early.

Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kamalesh Babulal &lt;kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v5.2-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2019-06-15T17:24:11Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-15T17:24:11Z</published>
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Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:

 - Out of range read of stack trace output

 - Fix for NULL pointer dereference in trace_uprobe_create()

 - Fix to a livepatching / ftrace permission race in the module code

 - Fix for NULL pointer dereference in free_ftrace_func_mapper()

 - A couple of build warning clean ups

* tag 'trace-v5.2-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  ftrace: Fix NULL pointer dereference in free_ftrace_func_mapper()
  module: Fix livepatch/ftrace module text permissions race
  tracing/uprobe: Fix obsolete comment on trace_uprobe_create()
  tracing/uprobe: Fix NULL pointer dereference in trace_uprobe_create()
  tracing: Make two symbols static
  tracing: avoid build warning with HAVE_NOP_MCOUNT
  tracing: Fix out-of-range read in trace_stack_print()
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<title>module: Fix livepatch/ftrace module text permissions race</title>
<updated>2019-06-14T21:01:50Z</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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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;
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<title>livepatch: Use static buffer for debugging messages under rq lock</title>
<updated>2019-06-05T14:35:47Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Mladek</name>
<email>pmladek@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-31T07:41:47Z</published>
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The err_buf array uses 128 bytes of stack space.  Move it off the stack
by making it static.  It's safe to use a shared buffer because
klp_try_switch_task() is called under klp_mutex.

Acked-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kamalesh Babulal &lt;kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 13</title>
<updated>2019-05-21T09:28:45Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-19T13:51:43Z</published>
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Based on 2 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version this program is distributed in the
  hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even
  the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular
  purpose see the gnu general public license for more details you
  should have received a copy of the gnu general public license along
  with this program if not see http www gnu org licenses

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version this program is distributed in the
  hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even
  the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular
  purpose see the gnu general public license for more details [based]
  [from] [clk] [highbank] [c] you should have received a copy of the
  gnu general public license along with this program if not see http
  www gnu org licenses

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 355 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jilayne Lovejoy &lt;opensource@jilayne.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Steve Winslow &lt;swinslow@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190519154041.837383322@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig</title>
<updated>2019-05-21T08:50:46Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-19T12:07:45Z</published>
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Add SPDX license identifiers to all Make/Kconfig files which:

 - Have no license information of any form

These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:

  GPL-2.0-only

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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