This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
module: Expose module_init_layout_section()
to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
module-expose-module_init_layout_section.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 2abcc4b5a64a65a2d2287ba0be5c2871c1552416 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2023 14:54:07 +0000
Subject: module: Expose module_init_layout_section()
From: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx>
commit 2abcc4b5a64a65a2d2287ba0be5c2871c1552416 upstream.
module_init_layout_section() choses whether the core module loader
considers a section as init or not. This affects the placement of the
exit section when module unloading is disabled. This code will never run,
so it can be free()d once the module has been initialised.
arm and arm64 need to count the number of PLTs they need before applying
relocations based on the section name. The init PLTs are stored separately
so they can be free()d. arm and arm64 both use within_module_init() to
decide which list of PLTs to use when applying the relocation.
Because within_module_init()'s behaviour changes when module unloading
is disabled, both architecture would need to take this into account when
counting the PLTs.
Today neither architecture does this, meaning when module unloading is
disabled there are insufficient PLTs in the init section to load some
modules, resulting in warnings:
| WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 51 at arch/arm64/kernel/module-plts.c:99 module_emit_plt_entry+0x184/0x1cc
| Modules linked in: crct10dif_common
| CPU: 2 PID: 51 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 6.5.0-rc4-yocto-standard-dirty #15208
| Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
| pstate: 20400005 (nzCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
| pc : module_emit_plt_entry+0x184/0x1cc
| lr : module_emit_plt_entry+0x94/0x1cc
| sp : ffffffc0803bba60
[...]
| Call trace:
| module_emit_plt_entry+0x184/0x1cc
| apply_relocate_add+0x2bc/0x8e4
| load_module+0xe34/0x1bd4
| init_module_from_file+0x84/0xc0
| __arm64_sys_finit_module+0x1b8/0x27c
| invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0x5c/0x104
| do_el0_svc+0x58/0x160
| el0_svc+0x38/0x110
| el0t_64_sync_handler+0xc0/0xc4
| el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194
Instead of duplicating module_init_layout_section()s logic, expose it.
Reported-by: Adam Johnston <adam.johnston@xxxxxxx>
Fixes: 055f23b74b20 ("module: check for exit sections in layout_sections() instead of module_init_section()")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/moduleloader.h | 5 +++++
kernel/module/main.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/include/linux/moduleloader.h
+++ b/include/linux/moduleloader.h
@@ -39,6 +39,11 @@ bool module_init_section(const char *nam
*/
bool module_exit_section(const char *name);
+/* Describes whether within_module_init() will consider this an init section
+ * or not. This behaviour changes with CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD.
+ */
+bool module_init_layout_section(const char *sname);
+
/*
* Apply the given relocation to the (simplified) ELF. Return -error
* or 0.
--- a/kernel/module/main.c
+++ b/kernel/module/main.c
@@ -1401,7 +1401,7 @@ long module_get_offset(struct module *mo
return ret;
}
-static bool module_init_layout_section(const char *sname)
+bool module_init_layout_section(const char *sname)
{
#ifndef CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD
if (module_exit_section(sname))
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from james.morse@xxxxxxx are
queue-6.1/arm-module-use-module_init_layout_section-to-spot-init-sections.patch
queue-6.1/module-expose-module_init_layout_section.patch
queue-6.1/arm64-module-use-module_init_layout_section-to-spot-init-sections.patch
