[PATCH v4 12/15] livepatch: store function sizes

Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe at redhat.com
Fri Jan 20 02:46:20 AEDT 2017


For the consistency model we'll need to know the sizes of the old and
new functions to determine if they're on the stacks of any tasks.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe at redhat.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes at suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek at suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 include/linux/livepatch.h |  3 +++
 kernel/livepatch/core.c   | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/livepatch.h b/include/linux/livepatch.h
index 9787a63..6602b34 100644
--- a/include/linux/livepatch.h
+++ b/include/linux/livepatch.h
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@
  * @old_addr:	the address of the function being patched
  * @kobj:	kobject for sysfs resources
  * @stack_node:	list node for klp_ops func_stack list
+ * @old_size:	size of the old function
+ * @new_size:	size of the new function
  * @patched:	the func has been added to the klp_ops list
  */
 struct klp_func {
@@ -56,6 +58,7 @@ struct klp_func {
 	unsigned long old_addr;
 	struct kobject kobj;
 	struct list_head stack_node;
+	unsigned long old_size, new_size;
 	bool patched;
 };
 
diff --git a/kernel/livepatch/core.c b/kernel/livepatch/core.c
index 83c4949..10ba3a1 100644
--- a/kernel/livepatch/core.c
+++ b/kernel/livepatch/core.c
@@ -584,6 +584,22 @@ static int klp_init_object_loaded(struct klp_patch *patch,
 					     &func->old_addr);
 		if (ret)
 			return ret;
+
+		ret = kallsyms_lookup_size_offset(func->old_addr,
+						  &func->old_size, NULL);
+		if (!ret) {
+			pr_err("kallsyms size lookup failed for '%s'\n",
+			       func->old_name);
+			return -ENOENT;
+		}
+
+		ret = kallsyms_lookup_size_offset((unsigned long)func->new_func,
+						  &func->new_size, NULL);
+		if (!ret) {
+			pr_err("kallsyms size lookup failed for '%s' replacement\n",
+			       func->old_name);
+			return -ENOENT;
+		}
 	}
 
 	return 0;
-- 
2.7.4



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