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<title>modules: wait do_free_init correctly</title>
<updated>2024-03-26T22:19:55Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Changbin Du</name>
<email>changbin.du@huawei.com</email>
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<published>2024-02-27T02:35:46Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 8f8cd6c0a43ed637e620bbe45a8d0e0c2f4d5130 ]

The synchronization here is to ensure the ordering of freeing of a module
init so that it happens before W+X checking.  It is worth noting it is not
that the freeing was not happening, it is just that our sanity checkers
raced against the permission checkers which assume init memory is already
gone.

Commit 1a7b7d922081 ("modules: Use vmalloc special flag") moved calling
do_free_init() into a global workqueue instead of relying on it being
called through call_rcu(..., do_free_init), which used to allowed us call
do_free_init() asynchronously after the end of a subsequent grace period.
The move to a global workqueue broke the gaurantees for code which needed
to be sure the do_free_init() would complete with rcu_barrier().  To fix
this callers which used to rely on rcu_barrier() must now instead use
flush_work(&amp;init_free_wq).

Without this fix, we still could encounter false positive reports in W+X
checking since the rcu_barrier() here can not ensure the ordering now.

Even worse, the rcu_barrier() can introduce significant delay.  Eric
Chanudet reported that the rcu_barrier introduces ~0.1s delay on a
PREEMPT_RT kernel.

  [    0.291444] Freeing unused kernel memory: 5568K
  [    0.402442] Run /sbin/init as init process

With this fix, the above delay can be eliminated.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240227023546.2490667-1-changbin.du@huawei.com
Fixes: 1a7b7d922081 ("modules: Use vmalloc special flag")
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du &lt;changbin.du@huawei.com&gt;
Tested-by: Eric Chanudet &lt;echanude@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Xiaoyi Su &lt;suxiaoyi@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>module/decompress: use kvmalloc() consistently</title>
<updated>2023-11-20T10:59:37Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrea Righi</name>
<email>andrea.righi@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-02T08:19:14Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 17fc8084aa8f9d5235f252fc3978db657dd77e92 ]

We consistently switched from kmalloc() to vmalloc() in module
decompression to prevent potential memory allocation failures with large
modules, however vmalloc() is not as memory-efficient and fast as
kmalloc().

Since we don't know in general the size of the workspace required by the
decompression algorithm, it is more reasonable to use kvmalloc()
consistently, also considering that we don't have special memory
requirements here.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Tested-by: Andrea Righi &lt;andrea.righi@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi &lt;andrea.righi@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>module/decompress: use vmalloc() for gzip decompression workspace</title>
<updated>2023-11-20T10:59:17Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrea Righi</name>
<email>andrea.righi@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-30T15:58:20Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 3737df782c740b944912ed93420c57344b1cf864 ]

Use a similar approach as commit a419beac4a07 ("module/decompress: use
vmalloc() for zstd decompression workspace") and replace kmalloc() with
vmalloc() also for the gzip module decompression workspace.

In this case the workspace is represented by struct inflate_workspace
that can be fairly large for kmalloc() and it can potentially lead to
allocation errors on certain systems:

$ pahole inflate_workspace
struct inflate_workspace {
	struct inflate_state       inflate_state;        /*     0  9544 */
	/* --- cacheline 149 boundary (9536 bytes) was 8 bytes ago --- */
	unsigned char              working_window[32768]; /*  9544 32768 */

	/* size: 42312, cachelines: 662, members: 2 */
	/* last cacheline: 8 bytes */
};

Considering that there is no need to use continuous physical memory,
simply switch to vmalloc() to provide a more reliable in-kernel module
decompression.

Fixes: b1ae6dc41eaa ("module: add in-kernel support for decompressing")
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi &lt;andrea.righi@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>module/decompress: use vmalloc() for zstd decompression workspace</title>
<updated>2023-08-29T16:39:08Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrea Righi</name>
<email>andrea.righi@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-29T12:05:08Z</published>
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Using kmalloc() to allocate the decompression workspace for zstd may
trigger the following warning when large modules are loaded (i.e., xfs):

[    2.961884] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 254 at mm/page_alloc.c:4453 __alloc_pages+0x2c3/0x350
...
[    2.989033] Call Trace:
[    2.989841]  &lt;TASK&gt;
[    2.990614]  ? show_regs+0x6d/0x80
[    2.991573]  ? __warn+0x89/0x160
[    2.992485]  ? __alloc_pages+0x2c3/0x350
[    2.993520]  ? report_bug+0x17e/0x1b0
[    2.994506]  ? handle_bug+0x51/0xa0
[    2.995474]  ? exc_invalid_op+0x18/0x80
[    2.996469]  ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1b/0x20
[    2.997530]  ? module_zstd_decompress+0xdc/0x2a0
[    2.998665]  ? __alloc_pages+0x2c3/0x350
[    2.999695]  ? module_zstd_decompress+0xdc/0x2a0
[    3.000821]  __kmalloc_large_node+0x7a/0x150
[    3.001920]  __kmalloc+0xdb/0x170
[    3.002824]  module_zstd_decompress+0xdc/0x2a0
[    3.003857]  module_decompress+0x37/0xc0
[    3.004688]  init_module_from_file+0xd0/0x100
[    3.005668]  idempotent_init_module+0x11c/0x2b0
[    3.006632]  __x64_sys_finit_module+0x64/0xd0
[    3.007568]  do_syscall_64+0x59/0x90
[    3.008373]  ? ksys_read+0x73/0x100
[    3.009395]  ? exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x30/0xb0
[    3.010531]  ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x37/0x60
[    3.011662]  ? do_syscall_64+0x68/0x90
[    3.012511]  ? do_syscall_64+0x68/0x90
[    3.013364]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8

However, continuous physical memory does not seem to be required in
module_zstd_decompress(), so use vmalloc() instead, to prevent the
warning and avoid potential failures at loading compressed modules.

Fixes: 169a58ad824d ("module/decompress: Support zstd in-kernel decompression")
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi &lt;andrea.righi@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>module: Expose module_init_layout_section()</title>
<updated>2023-08-03T20:42:02Z</updated>
<author>
<name>James Morse</name>
<email>james.morse@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-01T14:54:07Z</published>
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module_init_layout_section() choses whether the core module loader
considers a section as init or not. This affects the placement of the
exit section when module unloading is disabled. This code will never run,
so it can be free()d once the module has been initialised.

arm and arm64 need to count the number of PLTs they need before applying
relocations based on the section name. The init PLTs are stored separately
so they can be free()d. arm and arm64 both use within_module_init() to
decide which list of PLTs to use when applying the relocation.

Because within_module_init()'s behaviour changes when module unloading
is disabled, both architecture would need to take this into account when
counting the PLTs.

Today neither architecture does this, meaning when module unloading is
disabled there are insufficient PLTs in the init section to load some
modules, resulting in warnings:
| WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 51 at arch/arm64/kernel/module-plts.c:99 module_emit_plt_entry+0x184/0x1cc
| Modules linked in: crct10dif_common
| CPU: 2 PID: 51 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 6.5.0-rc4-yocto-standard-dirty #15208
| Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
| pstate: 20400005 (nzCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
| pc : module_emit_plt_entry+0x184/0x1cc
| lr : module_emit_plt_entry+0x94/0x1cc
| sp : ffffffc0803bba60
[...]
| Call trace:
|  module_emit_plt_entry+0x184/0x1cc
|  apply_relocate_add+0x2bc/0x8e4
|  load_module+0xe34/0x1bd4
|  init_module_from_file+0x84/0xc0
|  __arm64_sys_finit_module+0x1b8/0x27c
|  invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0x5c/0x104
|  do_el0_svc+0x58/0x160
|  el0_svc+0x38/0x110
|  el0t_64_sync_handler+0xc0/0xc4
|  el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194

Instead of duplicating module_init_layout_section()s logic, expose it.

Reported-by: Adam Johnston &lt;adam.johnston@arm.com&gt;
Fixes: 055f23b74b20 ("module: check for exit sections in layout_sections() instead of module_init_section()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>modules: only allow symbol_get of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL modules</title>
<updated>2023-08-02T18:18:22Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-01T17:35:44Z</published>
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It has recently come to my attention that nvidia is circumventing the
protection added in 262e6ae7081d ("modules: inherit
TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE") by importing exports from their proprietary
modules into an allegedly GPL licensed module and then rexporting them.

Given that symbol_get was only ever intended for tightly cooperating
modules using very internal symbols it is logical to restrict it to
being used on EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL and prevent nvidia from costly DMCA
Circumvention of Access Controls law suites.

All symbols except for four used through symbol_get were already exported
as EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL, and the remaining four ones were switched over in
the preparation patches.

Fixes: 262e6ae7081d ("modules: inherit TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>modpost, kallsyms: Treat add '$'-prefixed symbols as mapping symbols</title>
<updated>2023-07-24T19:09:47Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Palmer Dabbelt</name>
<email>palmer@rivosinc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-21T15:01:48Z</published>
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Trying to restrict the '$'-prefix change to RISC-V caused some fallout,
so let's just treat all those symbols as special.

Fixes: c05780ef3c190 ("module: Ignore RISC-V mapping symbols too")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230712015747.77263-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com/
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>module: Ignore RISC-V mapping symbols too</title>
<updated>2023-07-10T19:45:23Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Palmer Dabbelt</name>
<email>palmer@rivosinc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-07T16:00:51Z</published>
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RISC-V has an extended form of mapping symbols that we use to encode
the ISA when it changes in the middle of an ELF.  This trips up modpost
as a build failure, I haven't yet verified it yet but I believe the
kallsyms difference should result in stacks looking sane again.

Reported-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/9d9e2902-5489-4bf0-d9cb-556c8e5d71c2@infradead.org/
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt; # build-tested
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>module: fix init_module_from_file() error handling</title>
<updated>2023-07-04T17:17:11Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-04T13:37:32Z</published>
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Vegard Nossum pointed out two different problems with the error handling
in init_module_from_file():

 (a) the idempotent loading code didn't clean up properly in some error
     cases, leaving the on-stack 'struct idempotent' element still in
     the hash table

 (b) failure to read the module file would nonsensically update the
     'invalid_kread_bytes' stat counter with the error value

The first error is quite nasty, in that it can then cause subsequent
idempotent loads of that same file to access stale stack contents of the
previous failure.  The case may not happen in any normal situation
(explaining all the "Tested-by's on the original change), and requires
admin privileges, but syzkaller triggers random bad behavior as a
result:

    BUG: soft lockup in sys_finit_module
    BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in init_module_from_file
    general protection fault in init_module_from_file
    INFO: task hung in init_module_from_file
    KASAN: out-of-bounds Read in init_module_from_file
    KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in init_module_from_file
    ...

The second error is fairly benign and just leads to nonsensical stats
(and has been around since the debug stats were added).

Vegard also provided a patch for the idempotent loading issue, but I'd
rather re-organize the code and make it more legible using another level
of helper functions than add the usual "goto out" error handling.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230704100852.23452-1-vegard.nossum@oracle.com/
Fixes: 9b9879fc0327 ("modules: catch concurrent module loads, treat them as idempotent")
Reported-by: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegard.nossum@oracle.com&gt;
Reported-by: Harshit Mogalapalli &lt;harshit.m.mogalapalli@oracle.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot+9c2bdc9d24e4a7abe741@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'kbuild-v6.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild</title>
<updated>2023-07-01T16:24:31Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-01T16:24:31Z</published>
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Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Remove the deprecated rule to build *.dtbo from *.dts

 - Refactor section mismatch detection in modpost

 - Fix bogus ARM section mismatch detections

 - Fix error of 'make gtags' with O= option

 - Add Clang's target triple to KBUILD_CPPFLAGS to fix a build error
   with the latest LLVM version

 - Rebuild the built-in initrd when KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP is changed

 - Ignore more compiler-generated symbols for kallsyms

 - Fix 'make local*config' to handle the ${CONFIG_FOO} form in Makefiles

 - Enable more kernel-doc warnings with W=2

 - Refactor &lt;linux/export.h&gt; by generating KSYMTAB data by modpost

 - Deprecate &lt;asm/export.h&gt; and &lt;asm-generic/export.h&gt;

 - Remove the EXPORT_DATA_SYMBOL macro

 - Move the check for static EXPORT_SYMBOL back to modpost, which makes
   the build faster

 - Re-implement CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS with one-pass algorithm

 - Warn missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION when building modules with W=1

 - Make 'make clean' robust against too long argument error

 - Exclude more objects from GCOV to fix CFI failures with GCOV

 - Allow 'make modules_install' to install modules.builtin and
   modules.builtin.modinfo even when CONFIG_MODULES is disabled

 - Include modules.builtin and modules.builtin.modinfo in the
   linux-image Debian package even when CONFIG_MODULES is disabled

 - Revive "Entering directory" logging for the latest Make version

* tag 'kbuild-v6.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (72 commits)
  modpost: define more R_ARM_* for old distributions
  kbuild: revive "Entering directory" for Make &gt;= 4.4.1
  kbuild: set correct abs_srctree and abs_objtree for package builds
  scripts/mksysmap: Ignore prefixed KCFI symbols
  kbuild: deb-pkg: remove the CONFIG_MODULES check in buildeb
  kbuild: builddeb: always make modules_install, to install modules.builtin*
  modpost: continue even with unknown relocation type
  modpost: factor out Elf_Sym pointer calculation to section_rel()
  modpost: factor out inst location calculation to section_rel()
  kbuild: Disable GCOV for *.mod.o
  kbuild: Fix CFI failures with GCOV
  kbuild: make clean rule robust against too long argument error
  script: modpost: emit a warning when the description is missing
  kbuild: make modules_install copy modules.builtin(.modinfo)
  linux/export.h: rename 'sec' argument to 'license'
  modpost: show offset from symbol for section mismatch warnings
  modpost: merge two similar section mismatch warnings
  kbuild: implement CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS without recursion
  modpost: use null string instead of NULL pointer for default namespace
  modpost: squash sym_update_namespace() into sym_add_exported()
  ...
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