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Chris J Arges 064c89df62 livepatch: add sympos as disambiguator field to klp_reloc
In cases of duplicate symbols, sympos will be used to disambiguate instead
of val. By default sympos will be 0, and patching will only succeed if
the symbol is unique. Specifying a positive value will ensure that
occurrence of the symbol in kallsyms for the patched object will be used
for patching if it is valid. For external relocations sympos is not
supported.

Remove klp_verify_callback, klp_verify_args and klp_verify_vmlinux_symbol
as they are no longer used.

From the klp_reloc structure remove val, as it can be refactored as a
local variable in klp_write_object_relocations.

Signed-off-by: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2015-12-03 23:01:27 +01:00
Chris J Arges b2b018ef48 livepatch: add old_sympos as disambiguator field to klp_func
Currently, patching objects with duplicate symbol names fail because the
creation of the sysfs function directory collides with the previous
attempt. Appending old_addr to the function name is problematic as it
reveals the address of the function being patch to a normal user. Using
the symbol's occurrence in kallsyms to postfix the function name in the
sysfs directory solves the issue of having consistent unique names and
ensuring that the address is not exposed to a normal user.

In addition, using the symbol position as the user's method to disambiguate
symbols instead of addr allows for disambiguating symbols in modules as
well for both function addresses and for relocs. This also simplifies much
of the code. Special handling for kASLR is no longer needed and can be
removed. The klp_find_verify_func_addr function can be replaced by
klp_find_object_symbol, and klp_verify_vmlinux_symbol and its callback can
be removed completely.

In cases of duplicate symbols, old_sympos will be used to disambiguate
instead of old_addr. By default old_sympos will be 0, and patching will
only succeed if the symbol is unique. Specifying a positive value will
ensure that occurrence of the symbol in kallsyms for the patched object
will be used for patching if it is valid.

In addition, make old_addr an internal structure field not to be specified
by the user. Finally, remove klp_find_verify_func_addr as it can be
replaced by klp_find_object_symbol directly.

Support for symbol position disambiguation for relocations is added in the
next patch in this series.

Signed-off-by: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2015-12-03 23:01:26 +01:00
Zhou Chengming e41b104c7d livepatch: x86: fix relocation computation with kASLR
With kASLR enabled, old_addr provided by patch module is being shifted
accrodingly so that the symbol lookups work. To have module relocations
handled properly as well, the same transformation needs to be perfomed
on relocation address information.

[jkosina@suse.cz: extended / reworded changelog a bit]
Reported-by: Cyril B. <cbay@alwaysdata.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhou Chengming <zhouchengming1@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2015-11-11 17:36:04 +01:00
Minfei Huang 225f58fbcc livepatch: Improve error handling in klp_disable_func()
In case of func->state or func->old_addr not having expected values,
we'd rather bail out immediately from klp_disable_func().

This can't really happen with the current codebase, but fix this
anyway in the sake of robustness.

[jkosina@suse.com: reworded the changelog a bit]
Signed-off-by: Minfei Huang <mnfhuang@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.com>
2015-07-14 22:48:06 +02:00
Jiri Kosina 110c146645 Merge branches 'for-4.1/upstream-fixes', 'for-4.2/kaslr' and 'for-4.2/upstream' into for-linus 2015-06-22 16:26:56 +02:00
Miroslav Benes 9a1bd63cda livepatch: add module locking around kallsyms calls
The list of loaded modules is walked through in
module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol (called by kallsyms_on_each_symbol). The
module_mutex lock should be acquired to prevent potential corruptions
in the list.

This was uncovered with new lockdep asserts in module code introduced by
the commit 0be964be0d ("module: Sanitize RCU usage and locking") in
recent next- trees.

Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2015-06-02 22:54:38 +02:00
Minfei Huang 26029d88ad livepatch: annotate klp_init() with __init
module_init() function should be marked __init.

[jkosina@suse.cz: remove overly verbose changelog]
Signed-off-by: Minfei Huang <mnfhuang@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2015-05-25 17:16:45 +02:00
Jiri Slaby 8cdd043ab3 livepatch: introduce patch/func-walking helpers
klp_for_each_object and klp_for_each_func are now used all over the
code. One need not think what is the proper condition to check in the
for loop now.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2015-05-19 23:58:43 +02:00
Miroslav Benes cad706df7e livepatch: make kobject in klp_object statically allocated
Make kobj variable (of type struct kobject) statically allocated in
klp_object structure. It will allow us to move in the func-object-patch
hierarchy through kobject links.

The only reason to have it dynamic was to not have empty release
callback in the code. However we have empty callbacks for function and
patch in the code now, so it is no longer valid and the advantage of
static allocation is clear.

Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2015-05-19 23:56:41 +02:00
Minfei Huang 36e505c16e livepatch: Prevent patch inconsistencies if the coming module notifier fails
The previous patches can be applied, once the corresponding module is
loaded. In general, the patch will do relocation (if necessary) and
obtain/verify function address before we start to enable patch.

There are three different situations in which the coming module notifier
can fail:

1) relocations are not applied for some reason. In this case kallsyms
for module symbol is not called at all. The patch is not applied to the
module. If the user disable and enable patch again, there is possible
bug in klp_enable_func. If the user specified func->old_addr for some
function in the module (and he shouldn't do that, but nevertheless) our
warning would not catch it, ftrace will reject to register the handler
because of wrong address or will register the handler for wrong address.

2) relocations are applied successfully, but kallsyms lookup fails. In
this case func->old_addr can be correct for all previous lookups, 0 for
current failed one, and "unspecified" for the rest. If we undergo the
same scenario as in 1, the behaviour differs for three cases, but the
patch is not enabled anyway.

3) the object is initialized, but klp_enable_object fails in the
notifier due to possible ftrace error. Since it is improbable that
ftrace would heal itself in the future, we would get those errors
everytime the patch is enabled.

In order to fix above situations, we can make obj->mod to NULL, if the
coming modified notifier fails.

Signed-off-by: Minfei Huang <mnfhuang@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2015-05-18 11:08:44 +02:00
Nicholas Mc Guire e76ff06a95 livepatch: match return value to function signature
klp_initialized() should return bool but is actually returning
struct kobject * - convert it to a boolean explicitly.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2015-05-11 23:43:52 +02:00
Jiri Kosina 5d4351ba65 livepatch: x86: make kASLR logic more accurate
We give up old_addr hint from the coming patch module in cases when kernel load
base has been randomized (as in such case, the coming module has no idea about
the exact randomization offset).

We are currently too pessimistic, and give up immediately as soon as
CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set; this doesn't however directly imply that the
load base has actually been randomized. There are config options that
disable kASLR (such as hibernation), user could have disabled kaslr on
kernel command-line, etc.

The loader propagates the information whether kernel has been randomized
through bootparams. This allows us to have the condition more accurate.

On top of that, it seems unnecessary to give up old_addr hints even if
randomization is active. The relocation offset can be computed using
kaslr_ofsset(), and therefore old_addr can be adjusted accordingly.

Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2015-04-29 16:51:33 +02:00
Jiri Kosina bcf5d54589 Merge branch 'for-4.1/core-noarch' into for-linus 2015-04-13 23:57:20 +02:00
Petr Mladek 8cb2c2dc47 livepatch: Fix subtle race with coming and going modules
There is a notifier that handles live patches for coming and going modules.
It takes klp_mutex lock to avoid races with coming and going patches but
it does not keep the lock all the time. Therefore the following races are
possible:

  1. The notifier is called sometime in STATE_MODULE_COMING. The module
     is visible by find_module() in this state all the time. It means that
     new patch can be registered and enabled even before the notifier is
     called. It might create wrong order of stacked patches, see below
     for an example.

   2. New patch could still see the module in the GOING state even after
      the notifier has been called. It will try to initialize the related
      object structures but the module could disappear at any time. There
      will stay mess in the structures. It might even cause an invalid
      memory access.

This patch solves the problem by adding a boolean variable into struct module.
The value is true after the coming and before the going handler is called.
New patches need to be applied when the value is true and they need to ignore
the module when the value is false.

Note that we need to know state of all modules on the system. The races are
related to new patches. Therefore we do not know what modules will get
patched.

Also note that we could not simply ignore going modules. The code from the
module could be called even in the GOING state until mod->exit() finishes.
If we start supporting patches with semantic changes between function
calls, we need to apply new patches to any still usable code.
See below for an example.

Finally note that the patch solves only the situation when a new patch is
registered. There are no such problems when the patch is being removed.
It does not matter who disable the patch first, whether the normal
disable_patch() or the module notifier. There is nothing to do
once the patch is disabled.

Alternative solutions:
======================

+ reject new patches when a patched module is coming or going; this is ugly

+ wait with adding new patch until the module leaves the COMING and GOING
  states; this might be dangerous and complicated; we would need to release
  kgr_lock in the middle of the patch registration to avoid a deadlock
  with the coming and going handlers; also we might need a waitqueue for
  each module which seems to be even bigger overhead than the boolean

+ stop modules from entering COMING and GOING states; wait until modules
  leave these states when they are already there; looks complicated; we would
  need to ignore the module that asked to stop the others to avoid a deadlock;
  also it is unclear what to do when two modules asked to stop others and
  both are in COMING state (situation when two new patches are applied)

+ always register/enable new patches and fix up the potential mess (registered
  patches order) in klp_module_init(); this is nasty and prone to regressions
  in the future development

+ add another MODULE_STATE where the kallsyms are visible but the module is not
  used yet; this looks too complex; the module states are checked on "many"
  locations

Example of patch stacking breakage:
===================================

The notifier could _not_ _simply_ ignore already initialized module objects.
For example, let's have three patches (P1, P2, P3) for functions a() and b()
where a() is from vmcore and b() is from a module M. Something like:

	a()	b()
P1	a1()	b1()
P2	a2()	b2()
P3	a3()	b3(3)

If you load the module M after all patches are registered and enabled.
The ftrace ops for function a() and b() has listed the functions in this
order:

	ops_a->func_stack -> list(a3,a2,a1)
	ops_b->func_stack -> list(b3,b2,b1)

, so the pointer to b3() is the first and will be used.

Then you might have the following scenario. Let's start with state when patches
P1 and P2 are registered and enabled but the module M is not loaded. Then ftrace
ops for b() does not exist. Then we get into the following race:

CPU0					CPU1

load_module(M)

  complete_formation()

  mod->state = MODULE_STATE_COMING;
  mutex_unlock(&module_mutex);

					klp_register_patch(P3);
					klp_enable_patch(P3);

					# STATE 1

  klp_module_notify(M)
    klp_module_notify_coming(P1);
    klp_module_notify_coming(P2);
    klp_module_notify_coming(P3);

					# STATE 2

The ftrace ops for a() and b() then looks:

  STATE1:

	ops_a->func_stack -> list(a3,a2,a1);
	ops_b->func_stack -> list(b3);

  STATE2:
	ops_a->func_stack -> list(a3,a2,a1);
	ops_b->func_stack -> list(b2,b1,b3);

therefore, b2() is used for the module but a3() is used for vmcore
because they were the last added.

Example of the race with going modules:
=======================================

CPU0					CPU1

delete_module()  #SYSCALL

   try_stop_module()
     mod->state = MODULE_STATE_GOING;

   mutex_unlock(&module_mutex);

					klp_register_patch()
					klp_enable_patch()

					#save place to switch universe

					b()     # from module that is going
					  a()   # from core (patched)

   mod->exit();

Note that the function b() can be called until we call mod->exit().

If we do not apply patch against b() because it is in MODULE_STATE_GOING,
it will call patched a() with modified semantic and things might get wrong.

[jpoimboe@redhat.com: use one boolean instead of two]
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2015-03-17 10:31:54 +01:00
Josh Poimboeuf 2e3ac940f2 livepatch: remove unnecessary call to klp_find_object_module()
klp_find_object_module() is called from both the klp register and enable
paths.  Only the call from the register path is necessary because the
module notifier will let us know if the patched module gets loaded or
unloaded.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2015-03-04 22:47:47 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra c064a0de1b livepatch: fix RCU usage in klp_find_external_symbol()
While one must hold RCU-sched (aka. preempt_disable) for find_symbol()
one must equally hold it over the use of the object returned.

The moment you release the RCU-sched read lock, the object can be dead
and gone.

[jkosina@suse.cz: change subject line to be aligned with other patches]
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2015-03-03 00:22:55 +01:00
Petr Mladek c4ce0da8ec livepatch: RCU protect struct klp_func all the time when used in klp_ftrace_handler()
func->new_func has been accessed after rcu_read_unlock() in klp_ftrace_handler()
and therefore the access was not protected.

Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2015-02-22 23:02:56 +01:00
Josh Poimboeuf 0937e3b025 livepatch: simplify disable error path
If registering the function with ftrace has previously succeeded,
unregistering will almost never fail.  Even if it does, it's not a fatal
error.  We can still carry on and disable the klp_func from being used
by removing it from the klp_ops func stack.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2015-02-18 21:06:38 +01:00
Jiri Kosina e0b561ee78 livepatch: fix format string in kobject_init_and_add()
kobject_init_and_add() takes expects format string for a name, so we
better provide it in order to avoid infoleaks if modules craft their
mod->name in a special way.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reported-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2015-02-16 16:26:56 +01:00
Josh Poimboeuf f638f4dc08 livepatch: add missing newline to error message
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2015-02-06 21:28:35 +01:00
Josh Poimboeuf 12cf89b550 livepatch: rename config to CONFIG_LIVEPATCH
Rename CONFIG_LIVE_PATCHING to CONFIG_LIVEPATCH to make the naming of
the config and the code more consistent.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2015-02-04 11:25:51 +01:00
Josh Poimboeuf dbed7ddab9 livepatch: fix uninitialized return value
Fix a potentially uninitialized return value in klp_enable_func().

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2015-01-21 15:22:48 +01:00
Josh Poimboeuf 3c33f5b99d livepatch: support for repatching a function
Add support for patching a function multiple times.  If multiple patches
affect a function, the function in the most recently enabled patch
"wins".  This enables a cumulative patch upgrade path, where each patch
is a superset of previous patches.

This requires restructuring the data a little bit.  With the current
design, where each klp_func struct has its own ftrace_ops, we'd have to
unregister the old ops and then register the new ops, because
FTRACE_OPS_FL_IPMODIFY prevents us from having two ops registered for
the same function at the same time.  That would leave a regression
window where the function isn't patched at all (not good for a patch
upgrade path).

This patch replaces the per-klp_func ftrace_ops with a global klp_ops
list, with one ftrace_ops per original function.  A single ftrace_ops is
shared between all klp_funcs which have the same old_addr.  This allows
the switch between function versions to happen instantaneously by
updating the klp_ops struct's func_stack list.  The winner is the
klp_func at the top of the func_stack (front of the list).

[ jkosina@suse.cz: turn WARN_ON() into WARN_ON_ONCE() in ftrace handler to
  avoid storm in pathological cases ]

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2015-01-20 20:09:41 +01:00
Josh Poimboeuf 83a90bb134 livepatch: enforce patch stacking semantics
Only allow the topmost patch on the stack to be enabled or disabled, so
that patches can't be removed or added in an arbitrary order.

Suggested-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2015-01-20 20:09:41 +01:00
Miroslav Benes 32b7eb8771 livepatch: change ARCH_HAVE_LIVE_PATCHING to HAVE_LIVE_PATCHING
Change ARCH_HAVE_LIVE_PATCHING to HAVE_LIVE_PATCHING in Kconfigs. HAVE_
bools are prevalent there and we should go with the flow.

Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2015-01-20 15:02:25 +01:00
Josh Poimboeuf 99590ba565 livepatch: fix deferred module patching order
When applying multiple patches to a module, if the module is loaded
after the patches are loaded, the patches are applied in reverse order:

  $ insmod patch1.ko
  [   43.172992] livepatch: enabling patch 'patch1'

  $ insmod patch2.ko
  [   46.571563] livepatch: enabling patch 'patch2'

  $ modprobe nfsd
  [   52.888922] livepatch: applying patch 'patch2' to loading module 'nfsd'
  [   52.899847] livepatch: applying patch 'patch1' to loading module 'nfsd'

Fix the loading order by storing the klp_patches list in queue order.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2015-01-09 22:27:47 +01:00
Jiri Kosina b9dfe0bed9 livepatch: handle ancient compilers with more grace
We are aborting a build in case when gcc doesn't support fentry on x86_64
(regs->ip modification can't really reliably work with mcount).

This however breaks allmodconfig for people with older gccs that don't
support -mfentry.

Turn the build-time failure into runtime failure, resulting in the whole
infrastructure not being initialized if CC_USING_FENTRY is unset.

Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
2015-01-09 10:55:10 +01:00
Christoph Jaeger 83ac237a95 livepatch: kconfig: use bool instead of boolean
Keyword 'boolean' for type definition attributes is considered deprecated and
should not be used anymore. No functional changes.

Reference: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1418003065.git.cj@linux.com
Reference: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1419108071-11607-1-git-send-email-cj@linux.com

Signed-off-by: Christoph Jaeger <cj@linux.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2015-01-06 21:58:05 +01:00
Josh Poimboeuf 33e8612f64 livepatch: use FTRACE_OPS_FL_IPMODIFY
Use the FTRACE_OPS_FL_IPMODIFY flag to prevent conflicts with other
ftrace users who also modify regs->ip.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2014-12-22 20:05:59 +01:00
Li Bin b5bfc51707 livepatch: move x86 specific ftrace handler code to arch/x86
The execution flow redirection related implemention in the livepatch
ftrace handler is depended on the specific architecture. This patch
introduces klp_arch_set_pc(like kgdb_arch_set_pc) interface to change
the pt_regs.

Signed-off-by: Li Bin <huawei.libin@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2014-12-22 15:40:49 +01:00
Seth Jennings b700e7f03d livepatch: kernel: add support for live patching
This commit introduces code for the live patching core.  It implements
an ftrace-based mechanism and kernel interface for doing live patching
of kernel and kernel module functions.

It represents the greatest common functionality set between kpatch and
kgraft and can accept patches built using either method.

This first version does not implement any consistency mechanism that
ensures that old and new code do not run together.  In practice, ~90% of
CVEs are safe to apply in this way, since they simply add a conditional
check.  However, any function change that can not execute safely with
the old version of the function can _not_ be safely applied in this
version.

[ jkosina@suse.cz: due to the number of contributions that got folded into
  this original patch from Seth Jennings, add SUSE's copyright as well, as
  discussed via e-mail ]

Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2014-12-22 15:40:49 +01:00