[PATCH v5] livepatch: Clear relocation targets on a module removal

Russell Currey ruscur at russell.cc
Thu Sep 8 12:22:53 AEST 2022 

On Thu, 2022-09-01 at 08:42 -0400, Joe Lawrence wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2022 at 01:39:02PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence at redhat.com> writes:
> > > On Thu, Sep 01, 2022 at 08:30:44AM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > > > Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence at redhat.com> writes:
> > ...
> > > 
> > > Hi Michael,
> > > 
> > > While we're on the topic of klp-relocations and Power, I saw a
> > > similar
> > > access problem when writing (late) relocations into
> > > .data..ro_after_init.  I'm not entirely convinced this should be
> > > allowed
> > > (ie, is it really read-only after .init or ???), but it seems
> > > that other
> > > arches currently allow it ...
> > 
> > I guess that's because we didn't properly fix apply_relocate_add()
> > in
> > https://github.com/linuxppc/issues/issues/375 ?
> > 
> > If other arches allow it then we don't want to be the odd one out
> > :)
> > 
> > So I guess we need to implement it.
> > 
> 
> FWIW, I think it this particular relocation is pretty rare, we
> haven't
> seen it in real patches nor do we have a kpatch test that generates
> it.
> I only hit a crash as I was trying to write a more exhaustive test
> for
> the klp-convert implementation.

I'll revive my proper fix.  I stopped working on it since my previous
version was hitting endian bugs with some relocations & it didn't seem
necessary at the time.  Shouldn't take too much to get it going again.

> 
> > > ===== TEST: klp-convert data relocations (late module patching)
> > > =====
> > > % modprobe test_klp_convert_data
> > > livepatch: enabling patch 'test_klp_convert_data'
> > > livepatch: 'test_klp_convert_data': starting patching transition
> > > livepatch: 'test_klp_convert_data': patching complete
> > > % modprobe test_klp_convert_mod
> > > ...
> > > module_64: Applying ADD relocate section 54 to 20
> > > module_64: RELOC at 000000008482d02a: 38-type as
> > > .klp.sym.test_klp_convert_mod.static_ro_after_init,0
> > > (0xc0080000016d0084) + 0
> > > BUG: Unable to handle kernel data access on write at
> > > 0xc0080000021d0000
> > > Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000055f14
> > > Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
> > > LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Hash SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries
> > > Modules linked in: test_klp_convert_mod(+)
> > > test_klp_convert_data(K) bonding rfkill tls pseries_rng drm fuse
> > > drm_panel_orientation_quirks xfs libcrc32c sd_mod t10_pi sg
> > > ibmvscsi ibmveth scsi_transport_srp vmx_crypto dm_mirror
> > > dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod [last unloaded:
> > > test_klp_convert_mod]
> > > CPU: 0 PID: 17089 Comm: modprobe Kdump: loaded Tainted:
> > > G              K   5.19.0+ #1
> > > NIP:  c000000000055f14 LR: c00000000021ef28 CTR: c000000000055f14
> > > REGS: c0000000387af5a0 TRAP: 0300   Tainted: G              K   
> > > (5.19.0+)
> > > MSR:  8000000002009033 <SF,VEC,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE>  CR: 88228444 
> > > XER: 00000000
> > > CFAR: c000000000055e04 DAR: c0080000021d0000 DSISR: 42000000
> > > IRQMASK: 0
> > > GPR00: c00000000021ef28 c0000000387af840 c000000002a68a00
> > > c0000000088b3000
> > > GPR04: c008000002230084 0000000000000026 0000000000000036
> > > c0080000021e0480
> > > GPR08: 000000007c426214 c000000000055f14 c000000000055e08
> > > 0000000000000d80
> > > GPR12: c00000000021d9b0 c000000002d90000 c0000000088b3000
> > > c0080000021f0810
> > > GPR16: c0080000021c0638 c0000000088b3d80 00000000ffffffff
> > > c000000001181e38
> > > GPR20: c0000000029dc088 c0080000021e0480 c0080000021f0870
> > > aaaaaaaaaaaaaaab
> > > GPR24: c0000000088b3c40 c0080000021d0000 c0080000021f0000
> > > 0000000000000000
> > > GPR28: c0080000021d0000 0000000000000000 c0080000021c0638
> > > 0000000000000810
> > > NIP [c000000000055f14] apply_relocate_add+0x474/0x9e0
> > > LR [c00000000021ef28] klp_apply_section_relocs+0x208/0x2d0
> > > Call Trace:
> > > [c0000000387af840] [c0000000387af920] 0xc0000000387af920
> > > (unreliable)
> > > [c0000000387af940] [c00000000021ef28]
> > > klp_apply_section_relocs+0x208/0x2d0
> > > [c0000000387afa30] [c00000000021f080]
> > > klp_init_object_loaded+0x90/0x1e0
> > > [c0000000387afac0] [c0000000002200ac]
> > > klp_module_coming+0x3dc/0x5c0
> > > [c0000000387afb70] [c000000000231414] load_module+0xf64/0x13a0
> > > [c0000000387afc90] [c000000000231b8c]
> > > __do_sys_finit_module+0xdc/0x180
> > > [c0000000387afdb0] [c00000000002f004]
> > > system_call_exception+0x164/0x340
> > > [c0000000387afe10] [c00000000000be68]
> > > system_call_vectored_common+0xe8/0x278
> > > --- interrupt: 3000 at 0x7fffb6af4710
> > > NIP:  00007fffb6af4710 LR: 0000000000000000 CTR: 0000000000000000
> > > REGS: c0000000387afe80 TRAP: 3000   Tainted: G              K   
> > > (5.19.0+)
> > > MSR:  800000000000f033 <SF,EE,PR,FP,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE>  CR:
> > > 48224244  XER: 00000000
> > > IRQMASK: 0
> > > GPR00: 0000000000000161 00007fffe06f5550 00007fffb6bf7200
> > > 0000000000000005
> > > GPR04: 0000000105f36ca0 0000000000000000 0000000000000005
> > > 0000000000000000
> > > GPR08: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
> > > 0000000000000000
> > > GPR12: 0000000000000000 00007fffb738c540 0000000000000020
> > > 0000000000000000
> > > GPR16: 0000010024d31de0 0000000000000000 0000000105f37d50
> > > 0000010024d302f8
> > > GPR20: 0000000000000001 0000000000000908 0000010024d32020
> > > 0000010024d319b0
> > > GPR24: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000010024d32040
> > > 0000010024d303f0
> > > GPR28: 0000010024d31e00 0000000105f36ca0 0000000000040000
> > > 0000010024d319b0
> > > NIP [00007fffb6af4710] 0x7fffb6af4710
> > > LR [0000000000000000] 0x0
> > > --- interrupt: 3000
> > > Instruction dump:
> > > 0000061c 0000061c 0000061c 0000061c 0000061c 0000061c 0000061c
> > > 0000061c
> > > 00000288 00000248 60000000 7c992050 <7c9ce92a> 60000000 60000000
> > > e9310020
> > > ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
> > > 
> > > $ readelf --wide --sections
> > > lib/livepatch/test_klp_convert_data.ko | grep -e '\[20\]' -e
> > > '\[54\]'
> > > [20]  .data..ro_after_init                                
> > > PROGBITS  0000000000000000  001a58  000008  00  WA  0   0   8
> > > [54]  .klp.rela.test_klp_convert_mod..data..ro_after_init 
> > > RELA      0000000000000000  0426e8  000018  18  Ao  49  20  8
> > > 
> > > I can push a branch up to github if you'd like to try it
> > > yourself.
> > 
> > That would help thanks.
> > 
> 
> This branch should do it:
> 
> https://github.com/joe-lawrence/klp-convert-tree/tree/klp-convert-v7-devel
> 
> Boot that and then run tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-
> livepatch.sh

Was able to reproduce, and confirm that using text patching for
R_PPC64_ADDR64 works fixes it.

- Russell

> 
> -- Joe
>

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