Re: [PATCH v2 2/9] livepatch: Apply vmlinux-specific KLP relocations early

[Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 09:04:27AM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> 
> [ ... snip ... ]
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/livepatch/core.c b/kernel/livepatch/core.c
> index 40cfac8156fd..5fda3afc0285 100644
> --- a/kernel/livepatch/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/livepatch/core.c
> 
> [ ... snip ... ]
> 
> +int klp_write_relocations(Elf_Ehdr *ehdr, Elf_Shdr *sechdrs,
> +			  const char *shstrtab, const char *strtab,
> +			  unsigned int symndx, struct module *pmod,
> +			  const char *objname)
>  {
>  	int i, cnt, ret = 0;
> -	const char *objname, *secname;
>  	char sec_objname[MODULE_NAME_LEN];
>  	Elf_Shdr *sec;
>  
> -	if (WARN_ON(!klp_is_object_loaded(obj)))
> -		return -EINVAL;
> -
> -	objname = klp_is_module(obj) ? obj->name : "vmlinux";
> -
>  	/* For each klp relocation section */
> -	for (i = 1; i < pmod->klp_info->hdr.e_shnum; i++) {
> -		sec = pmod->klp_info->sechdrs + i;
> -		secname = pmod->klp_info->secstrings + sec->sh_name;
> +	for (i = 1; i < ehdr->e_shnum; i++) {
> +		sec = sechdrs + i;

Hi Josh, minor bug:

Note the for loop through the section headers in
klp_write_relocations(), but its calling function ...

> [ ... snip ... ]
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
> index 646f1e2330d2..d36ea8a8c3ec 100644
> --- a/kernel/module.c
> +++ b/kernel/module.c
> @@ -2334,11 +2334,12 @@ static int apply_relocations(struct module *mod, const struct load_info *info)
>  		if (!(info->sechdrs[infosec].sh_flags & SHF_ALLOC))
>  			continue;
>  
> -		/* Livepatch relocation sections are applied by livepatch */
>  		if (info->sechdrs[i].sh_flags & SHF_RELA_LIVEPATCH)
> -			continue;
> -
> -		if (info->sechdrs[i].sh_type == SHT_REL)
> +			err = klp_write_relocations(info->hdr, info->sechdrs,
> +						    info->secstrings,
> +						    info->strtab,
> +						    info->index.sym, mod, NULL);
> +		else if (info->sechdrs[i].sh_type == SHT_REL)
>  			err = apply_relocate(info->sechdrs, info->strtab,
>  					     info->index.sym, i, mod);
>  		else if (info->sechdrs[i].sh_type == SHT_RELA)

... apply_relocations() is also iterating over the section headers (the
diff context doesn't show it here, but i is an incrementing index over
sechdrs[]).

So if there is more than one KLP relocation section, we'll process them
multiple times.  At least the x86 relocation code will detect this and
fail the module load with an invalid relocation (existing value not
zero).

-- Joe