user/sven/linux.git/kernel/module.c, branch v4.4.265

module: Ignore _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ when warning for undefined symbols

2021-03-03T15:44:23Z

commit ebfac7b778fac8b0e8e92ec91d0b055f046b4604 upstream. clang-12 -fno-pic (since https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/a084c0388e2a59b9556f2de0083333232da3f1d6) can emit `call __stack_chk_fail@PLT` instead of `call __stack_chk_fail` on x86. The two forms should have identical behaviors on x86-64 but the former causes GNU as<2.37 to produce an unreferenced undefined symbol _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_. (On x86-32, there is an R_386_PC32 vs R_386_PLT32 difference but the linker behavior is identical as far as Linux kernel is concerned.) Simply ignore _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ for now, like what scripts/mod/modpost.c:ignore_undef_symbol does. This also fixes the problem for gcc/clang -fpie and -fpic, which may emit `call foo@PLT` for external function calls on x86. Note: ld -z defs and dynamic loaders do not error for unreferenced undefined symbols so the module loader is reading too much. If we ever need to ignore more symbols, the code should be refactored to ignore unreferenced symbols. Cc: Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1250 Link: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27178 Reported-by: Marco Elver Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor Tested-by: Marco Elver Signed-off-by: Fangrui Song Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

module: delay kobject uevent until after module init call

2021-01-09T12:34:16Z

[ Upstream commit 38dc717e97153e46375ee21797aa54777e5498f3 ] Apparently there has been a longstanding race between udev/systemd and the module loader. Currently, the module loader sends a uevent right after sysfs initialization, but before the module calls its init function. However, some udev rules expect that the module has initialized already upon receiving the uevent. This race has been triggered recently (see link in references) in some systemd mount unit files. For instance, the configfs module creates the /sys/kernel/config mount point in its init function, however the module loader issues the uevent before this happens. sys-kernel-config.mount expects to be able to mount /sys/kernel/config upon receipt of the module loading uevent, but if the configfs module has not called its init function yet, then this directory will not exist and the mount unit fails. A similar situation exists for sys-fs-fuse-connections.mount, as the fuse sysfs mount point is created during the fuse module's init function. If udev is faster than module initialization then the mount unit would fail in a similar fashion. To fix this race, delay the module KOBJ_ADD uevent until after the module has finished calling its init routine. References: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/17586 Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Tested-By: Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

module: set MODULE_STATE_GOING state when a module fails to load

2021-01-09T12:34:15Z

[ Upstream commit 5e8ed280dab9eeabc1ba0b2db5dbe9fe6debb6b5 ] If a module fails to load due to an error in prepare_coming_module(), the following error handling in load_module() runs with MODULE_STATE_COMING in module's state. Fix it by correctly setting MODULE_STATE_GOING under "bug_cleanup" label. Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

kernel/module.c: wakeup processes in module_wq on module unload

2019-12-21T09:35:38Z

[ Upstream commit 5d603311615f612320bb77bd2a82553ef1ced5b7 ] Fix the race between load and unload a kernel module. sys_delete_module() try_stop_module() mod->state = _GOING add_unformed_module() old = find_module_all() (old->state == _GOING => wait_event_interruptible()) During pre-condition finished_loading() rets 0 schedule() (never gets waken up later) free_module() mod->state = _UNFORMED list_del_rcu(&mod->list) (dels mod from "modules" list) return The race above leads to modprobe hanging forever on loading a module. Error paths on loading module call wake_up_all(&module_wq) after freeing module, so let's do the same on straight module unload. Fixes: 6e6de3dee51a ("kernel/module.c: Only return -EEXIST for modules that have finished loading") Reviewed-by: Prarit Bhargava Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khorenko Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

kernel/module.c: Only return -EEXIST for modules that have finished loading

2019-08-06T16:28:25Z

[ Upstream commit 6e6de3dee51a439f76eb73c22ae2ffd2c9384712 ] Microsoft HyperV disables the X86_FEATURE_SMCA bit on AMD systems, and linux guests boot with repeated errors: amd64_edac_mod: Unknown symbol amd_unregister_ecc_decoder (err -2) amd64_edac_mod: Unknown symbol amd_register_ecc_decoder (err -2) amd64_edac_mod: Unknown symbol amd_report_gart_errors (err -2) amd64_edac_mod: Unknown symbol amd_unregister_ecc_decoder (err -2) amd64_edac_mod: Unknown symbol amd_register_ecc_decoder (err -2) amd64_edac_mod: Unknown symbol amd_report_gart_errors (err -2) The warnings occur because the module code erroneously returns -EEXIST for modules that have failed to load and are in the process of being removed from the module list. module amd64_edac_mod has a dependency on module edac_mce_amd. Using modules.dep, systemd will load edac_mce_amd for every request of amd64_edac_mod. When the edac_mce_amd module loads, the module has state MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED and once the module load fails and the state becomes MODULE_STATE_GOING. Another request for edac_mce_amd module executes and add_unformed_module() will erroneously return -EEXIST even though the previous instance of edac_mce_amd has MODULE_STATE_GOING. Upon receiving -EEXIST, systemd attempts to load amd64_edac_mod, which fails because of unknown symbols from edac_mce_amd. add_unformed_module() must wait to return for any case other than MODULE_STATE_LIVE to prevent a race between multiple loads of dependent modules. Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava Signed-off-by: Barret Rhoden Cc: David Arcari Cc: Jessica Yu Cc: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

module: exclude SHN_UNDEF symbols from kallsyms api

2018-10-10T06:52:07Z

[ Upstream commit 9f2d1e68cf4d641def734adaccfc3823d3575e6c ] Livepatch modules are special in that we preserve their entire symbol tables in order to be able to apply relocations after module load. The unwanted side effect of this is that undefined (SHN_UNDEF) symbols of livepatch modules are accessible via the kallsyms api and this can confuse symbol resolution in livepatch (klp_find_object_symbol()) and cause subtle bugs in livepatch. Have the module kallsyms api skip over SHN_UNDEF symbols. These symbols are usually not available for normal modules anyway as we cut down their symbol tables to just the core (non-undefined) symbols, so this should really just affect livepatch modules. Note that this patch doesn't affect the display of undefined symbols in /proc/kallsyms. Reported-by: Josh Poimboeuf Tested-by: Josh Poimboeuf Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

module/retpoline: Warn about missing retpoline in module

2018-02-25T10:03:52Z

(cherry picked from commit caf7501a1b4ec964190f31f9c3f163de252273b8) There's a risk that a kernel which has full retpoline mitigations becomes vulnerable when a module gets loaded that hasn't been compiled with the right compiler or the right option. To enable detection of that mismatch at module load time, add a module info string "retpoline" at build time when the module was compiled with retpoline support. This only covers compiled C source, but assembler source or prebuilt object files are not checked. If a retpoline enabled kernel detects a non retpoline protected module at load time, print a warning and report it in the sysfs vulnerability file. [ tglx: Massaged changelog ] Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: jeyu@kernel.org Cc: arjan@linux.intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180125235028.31211-1-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse [jwang: port to 4.4] Signed-off-by: Jack Wang Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

module: Issue warnings when tainting kernel

2018-01-10T08:27:14Z

commit 3205c36cf7d96024626f92d65f560035df1abcb2 upstream. While most of the locations where a kernel taint bit is set are accompanied with a warning message, there are two which set their bits silently. If the tainting module gets unloaded later on, it is almost impossible to tell what was the reason for setting the flag. Signed-off-by: Libor Pechacek Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

module: keep percpu symbols in module's symtab

2018-01-10T08:27:13Z

commit e0224418516b4d8a6c2160574bac18447c354ef0 upstream. Currently, percpu symbols from .data..percpu ELF section of a module are not copied over and stored in final symtab array of struct module. Consequently such symbol cannot be returned via kallsyms API (for example kallsyms_lookup_name). This can be especially confusing when the percpu symbol is exported. Only its __ksymtab et al. are present in its symtab. The culprit is in layout_and_allocate() function where SHF_ALLOC flag is dropped for .data..percpu section. There is in fact no need to copy the section to final struct module, because kernel module loader allocates extra percpu section by itself. Unfortunately only symbols from SHF_ALLOC sections are copied due to a check in is_core_symbol(). The patch changes is_core_symbol() function to copy over also percpu symbols (their st_shndx points to .data..percpu ELF section). We do it only if CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL is set to be consistent with the rest of the function (ELF section is SHF_ALLOC but !SHF_EXECINSTR). Finally elf_type() returns type 'a' for a percpu symbol because its address is absolute. Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

module: Invalidate signatures on force-loaded modules

2016-08-20T16:09:27Z

commit bca014caaa6130e57f69b5bf527967aa8ee70fdd upstream. Signing a module should only make it trusted by the specific kernel it was built for, not anything else. Loading a signed module meant for a kernel with a different ABI could have interesting effects. Therefore, treat all signatures as invalid when a module is force-loaded. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman