[Crash-utility] Re: [PATCH] Fix infinite loop during module symbols initialization

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On 2024/12/06 17:59, lijiang wrote:
> Hi, Kazu
> Thank you for the fix.
> On Thu, Dec 5, 2024 at 5:10 PM <devel-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:devel-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2024 01:30:34 +0000
>     From: HAGIO KAZUHITO(萩尾 一仁) <k-hagio-ab@xxxxxxx <mailto:k-hagio-ab@xxxxxxx>>
>     Subject:  [PATCH] Fix infinite loop during module
>              symbols initialization
>     To: "devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>"
>              <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
>     Message-ID: <1733362232-30303-1-git-send-email-k-hagio-ab@xxxxxxx <mailto:1733362232-30303-1-git-send-email-k-hagio-ab@xxxxxxx>>
>     Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp"
> 
>     From: Kazuhito Hagio <k-hagio-ab@xxxxxxx <mailto:k-hagio-ab@xxxxxxx>>
> 
>     An infinite loop occured in mod_symname_hash_install() during module
>     symbols initialization on 6.13-rc1 kernel.
> 
>     Not sure which kernel patch caused this (probably execmem patches), a
>     gap region between a module text and another module's one has gone, i.e.
>     they became consecutive.  In this case, as we set a module's pseudo end
>     symbol to "base + size" value, it's equal to another module's pseudo
>     start symbol.  This and qsort() for st->ext_module_symbtable cause
>     region overlaps like this:
> 
>        sp      sp->value        sp->name
>        823ac68 ffffffffc0800000 _MODULE_TEXT_START_dm_mod
>        ...
>        8242080 ffffffffc0814ad0 __pfx_dm_devt_from_path
>        82420a8 ffffffffc0814ae0 dm_devt_from_path
>        82420d0 ffffffffc0815000 _MODULE_TEXT_START_libcrc32c  << same value
>        82420f8 ffffffffc0815000 __pfx_crc32c                  <<   and
>        8242120 ffffffffc0815000 _MODULE_TEXT_END_dm_mod       << overlap
> 
> 
> Strange, this looks like a kernel module issue?

I don't think so, as written above, it should be due to the change of 
memory placement in kernel and crash's current implementation.

> 
>        8242148 ffffffffc0815010 crc32c
>        8242170 ffffffffc0815080 __pfx_libcrc32c_mod_fini
>        ...
>        8242238 ffffffffc0816000 _MODULE_TEXT_END_libcrc32c
> 
>     As a result, mod_symtable_hash_install_range() can add a module symbol
>     two times, which makes a self-loop.  This causes an infinite loop in
>     mod_symname_hash_install().
> 
>        Core was generated by `crash'.
>        #0  mod_symname_hash_install (spn=0x75e6bc0) at symbols.c:1236
>        1236                    if (!sp->name_hash_next ||
>        (gdb) p sp
>        $1 = (struct syment *) 0x75e6670
>        (gdb) p sp->name
>        $2 = 0x7c03573 "_MODULE_TEXT_START_libcrc32c"
>        (gdb) p sp->name_hash_next
>        $3 = (struct syment *) 0x75e6670  << self-loop
> 
>     To avoid this, fix module pseudo end symbols to "base + size - 1".
> 
> So far I haven't thought of a better solution yet. For the patch: Ack.

Thank you for your review.

Thanks,
Kazu

> 
> Thanks
> Lianbo
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Kazuhito Hagio <k-hagio-ab@xxxxxxx <mailto:k-hagio-ab@xxxxxxx>>
>     ---
>       symbols.c | 2 +-
>       1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
>     diff --git a/symbols.c b/symbols.c
>     index a26bdc1a3461..0fe5d2951c7e 100644
>     --- a/symbols.c
>     +++ b/symbols.c
>     @@ -2196,7 +2196,7 @@ store_module_symbols_6_4(ulong total, int mods_installed)
>                              if (!lm->mem[t].size)
>                                      continue;
> 
>     -                       st->ext_module_symtable[mcnt].value = lm->mem[t].base + lm->mem[t].size;
>     +                       st->ext_module_symtable[mcnt].value = lm->mem[t].base + lm->mem[t].size - 1; 
> 
>                              st->ext_module_symtable[mcnt].type = 'm';
>                              st->ext_module_symtable[mcnt].flags |= MODULE_SYMBOL;
>                              sprintf(buf2, "%s%s", module_tag[t].end, mod_name);
>     -- 
>     2.31.1
> 
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