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author | Song Liu <song@kernel.org> | 2023-01-25 21:54:01 +0300 |
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committer | Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> | 2023-02-03 13:28:22 +0300 |
commit | 0c05e7bd2d017a3a9a0f4e9a19ad4acf1f616f12 (patch) | |
tree | 015993873862da998d944811646938e33b76a37a /scripts/Makefile.modinst | |
parent | bbb93362a4452282ba51067dfb609476380518dc (diff) | |
download | linux-0c05e7bd2d017a3a9a0f4e9a19ad4acf1f616f12.tar.xz |
livepatch,x86: Clear relocation targets on a module removal
Josh reported a bug:
When the object to be patched is a module, and that module is
rmmod'ed and reloaded, it fails to load with:
module: x86/modules: Skipping invalid relocation target, existing value is nonzero for type 2, loc 00000000ba0302e9, val ffffffffa03e293c
livepatch: failed to initialize patch 'livepatch_nfsd' for module 'nfsd' (-8)
livepatch: patch 'livepatch_nfsd' failed for module 'nfsd', refusing to load module 'nfsd'
The livepatch module has a relocation which references a symbol
in the _previous_ loading of nfsd. When apply_relocate_add()
tries to replace the old relocation with a new one, it sees that
the previous one is nonzero and it errors out.
He also proposed three different solutions. We could remove the error
check in apply_relocate_add() introduced by commit eda9cec4c9a1
("x86/module: Detect and skip invalid relocations"). However the check
is useful for detecting corrupted modules.
We could also deny the patched modules to be removed. If it proved to be
a major drawback for users, we could still implement a different
approach. The solution would also complicate the existing code a lot.
We thus decided to reverse the relocation patching (clear all relocation
targets on x86_64). The solution is not
universal and is too much arch-specific, but it may prove to be simpler
in the end.
Reported-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Originally-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230125185401.279042-2-song@kernel.org
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