Re: [PATCH] Documentation/livepatch: remove the limitation for schedule() patching

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On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 03:00:45PM +0100, Miroslav Benes wrote:
> The Limitations section of the documentation describes the impossibility
> to livepatch anything that is inlined to __schedule() function. This had
> been true till 4.9 kernel came. Thanks to commit 0100301bfdf5
> ("sched/x86: Rewrite the switch_to() code") from Brian Gerst there is
> __switch_to_asm function now (implemented in assembly) called properly
> from context_switch(). RIP is thus saved on the stack and a task would
> return to proper version of __schedule() et al. functions.
> 
> Of course __switch_to_asm() is not patchable for the reason described in
> the section. But there is no __fentry__ call and I cannot imagine a
> reason to do it anyway.
> 
> Therefore, remove the paragraphs from the section.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> FWIW, I also tested this to be sure on top of the consistency model
> patch set. I patched schedule() function which calls __schedule() (it is
> impossible to patch it directly due to notrace attribute). It works well
> except...
> 
> 1. the patching process does not finish, because many tasks sleep in
> schedule. STOP/CONT signal does not help. I'll investigate.
> 
> 2. reversion of the process does not work as expected. The kernel
> crashes after the removal of the module. A task very likely slept in
> schedule and was not migrated properly. It might be because of the races
> in klp_reverse_transition() described by Petr, or might be somewhere
> else. I'll look into it.

Hm, will be interesting to see the cause of this...

-- 
Josh
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