Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] arm64: implement live patching

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+++ Miroslav Benes [19/10/18 13:59 +0200]:
On Thu, 18 Oct 2018, Jessica Yu wrote:

+++ Miroslav Benes [17/10/18 15:39 +0200]:
>On Mon, 1 Oct 2018, Torsten Duwe wrote:
>
>Ad relocations. I checked that everything in struct mod_arch_specific
>stays after the module is load. Both core and init get SHF_ALLOC set
>(mod->arch.core.plt->sh_flags in module_frob_arch_sections(). It is
>important because apply_relocate_add() may use those sections
>through module_emit_plt_entry() call.

Yes, it looks like the needed .plt sections will remain in module
memory. However, I think I found a slight issue... :/

In module_frob_arch_sections(), mod->arch.core.plt is set to an offset
within info->sechdrs:

            if (!strcmp(secstrings + sechdrs[i].sh_name, ".plt"))
                    mod->arch.core.plt = sechdrs + i;

sechdrs is from info->sechdrs, which is freed at the end of
load_module() via free_copy(). So although the relevant plt section(s)
are in module memory, mod->arch.core.plt will point to invalid memory
after info is freed. In other words, the section (.plt) *is* in memory
but the section header (struct elf64_shdr) containing section metadata
like sh_addr, sh_size etc., is not.

But we have mod->klp_info->sechdrs (which is a copy of the section
headers) for this very reason. It is initialized only at the very end
of load_module(). I don't think copy_module_elf() is dependent on
anything, so it can just be moved earlier.

Note that we cannot set mod->arch.core.plt to mod->klp_info->sechdrs + i
during module_frob_arch_sections() because it is still too early, none
of the module sections have been copied and none of their sh_addr's
have been set to their final locations as this is all happening before
move_module() is called. So we can use a module_finalize() function
for arm64 to switch the mod->arch.core.plt to use the klp_info section
headers.

Thanks for the analysis. You seem to be right.

Maybe this will be more clear in the example fix below (completely
untested and unreviewed!):

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/module.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/module.h
index 97d0ef12e2ff..150afc29171b 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/module.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/module.h
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ struct mod_plt_sec {
	struct elf64_shdr	*plt;
	int			plt_num_entries;
	int			plt_max_entries;
+	int			plt_shndx;
};

struct mod_arch_specific {
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/module-plts.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/module-plts.c
index f0690c2ca3e0..c23cef8f0165 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/module-plts.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/module-plts.c
@@ -196,6 +196,21 @@ static unsigned int count_plts(Elf64_Sym *syms,
Elf64_Rela *rela, int num,
	return ret;
}

+int module_finalize(const Elf_Ehdr *hdr, const Elf_Shdr *sechdrs,
+		    struct module *mod)
+{
+	/*
+	 * Livepatch modules need to keep access to section headers to apply
+	 * relocations. Note mod->klp_info should have already been
initialized
+	 * and all section sh_addr's should have their final addresses by the
+	 * time module_finalize() is called.
+	 */
+	if (is_livepatch_module(mod))
+		mod->arch.core.plt = mod->klp_info->sechdrs +
mod->arch.core.plt_shndx;
+
+	return 0;
+}

There is already module_finalize() in arch/arm64/kernel/module.c, so this
should probably go there.

Ah yeah, I missed that :) Yep, that would be where it'd go.

If I am not mistaken, we do not care for arch.init.plt in livepatch. Is
that correct?

I do not believe patching of __init functions is supported (right?) So
we do not need to keep arch.init.plt alive post-module-load.

int module_frob_arch_sections(Elf_Ehdr *ehdr, Elf_Shdr *sechdrs,
			      char *secstrings, struct module *mod)
{
@@ -210,11 +225,13 @@ int module_frob_arch_sections(Elf_Ehdr *ehdr, Elf_Shdr
*sechdrs,
	 * entries. Record the symtab address as well.
	 */
	for (i = 0; i < ehdr->e_shnum; i++) {
-		if (!strcmp(secstrings + sechdrs[i].sh_name, ".plt"))
+		if (!strcmp(secstrings + sechdrs[i].sh_name, ".plt")) {
			mod->arch.core.plt = sechdrs + i;
-		else if (!strcmp(secstrings + sechdrs[i].sh_name,
".init.plt"))
+			mod->arch.core.plt_shndx = i;
+		} else if (!strcmp(secstrings + sechdrs[i].sh_name,
".init.plt")) {
			mod->arch.init.plt = sechdrs + i;
-		else if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE) &&
+			mod->arch.init.plt_shndx = i;

It is initialized here, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

I think I added this line for consistency, but I actually don't think
it is needed. We only would need to keep the section index for
arch.core.plt then.

+		} else if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE) &&
			 !strcmp(secstrings + sechdrs[i].sh_name,
				 ".text.ftrace_trampoline"))
			tramp = sechdrs + i;
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 6746c85511fe..2fc4d74288dd 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -3363,6 +3363,12 @@ static int post_relocation(struct module *mod, const
struct load_info *info)
	/* Setup kallsyms-specific fields. */
	add_kallsyms(mod, info);

+	if (is_livepatch_module(mod)) {
+		err = copy_module_elf(mod, info);
+		if (err < 0)
+			return err;
+	}
+
	/* Arch-specific module finalizing. */
	return module_finalize(info->hdr, info->sechdrs, mod);
}
@@ -3775,12 +3781,6 @@ static int load_module(struct load_info *info, const
char __user *uargs,
	if (err < 0)
		goto coming_cleanup;

-	if (is_livepatch_module(mod)) {
-		err = copy_module_elf(mod, info);
-		if (err < 0)
-			goto sysfs_cleanup;
-	}
-
	/* Get rid of temporary copy. */
	free_copy(info);

Hm, this is hopefully all right. We'd need to change the error handling a
bit. free_module_elf() is now called in free_module() and it should be
moved somewhere to load_module(). Probably under free_arch_cleanup label.
Although it would be much better to rework post_relocation() and handle it
right there.

Something like

-	return module_finalize(info->hdr, info->sechdrs, mod);
+	err = module_finalize(info->hdr, info->sechdrs, mod);
+	if (err < 0)
+		free_module_elf();
+
+	return err;

Ah yeah, I'll clean up the error handling. I'll re-submit this as a
real patch after cleaning it up a bit and it could be added to this
series after review.

Thoughts? Does the fix make sense?

I think so.

Thanks Miroslav for the impromptu review :-)

Jessica



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