From: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>,
Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
mhiramat@kernel.org, bristot@redhat.com, jbaron@akamai.com,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
mingo@kernel.org, namit@vmware.com, hpa@zytor.com,
luto@kernel.org, ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org, jpoimboe@redhat.com,
live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/6] x86/ftrace: Use text_poke()
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 11:36:10 +0200
Message-ID: <20191016093610.GA9193@linux-8ccs> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191016092304.GL2294@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
+++ Peter Zijlstra [16/10/19 11:23 +0200]:
>On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 08:51:27AM +0200, Miroslav Benes wrote:
>> On Tue, 15 Oct 2019, Joe Lawrence wrote:
>>
>> > On 10/15/19 10:13 AM, Miroslav Benes wrote:
>> > > Yes, it does. klp_module_coming() calls module_disable_ro() on all
>> > > patching modules which patch the coming module in order to call
>> > > apply_relocate_add(). New (patching) code for a module can be relocated
>> > > only when the relevant module is loaded.
>> >
>> > FWIW, would the LPC blue-sky2 model (ie, Steve's suggestion @ plumber's where
>> > livepatches only patch a single object and updates are kept on disk to handle
>> > coming module updates as they are loaded) eliminate those outstanding
>> > relocations and the need to perform this late permission flipping?
>>
>> Yes, it should, but we don't have to wait for it. PeterZ proposed a
>> different solution to this specific issue in
>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191015141111.GP2359@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net/
>>
>> It should not be a problem to create a live patch module like that and the
>> code in kernel/livepatch/ is almost ready. Something like
>> module_section_disable_ro(mod, section) (and similar for X protection)
>> should be enough. Module reloads would still require juggling with the
>> protections, but I think it is all feasible.
>
>Just had a browse around the module code, and while the section info is
>in load_info, it doesn't get retained for active modules.
>
>So I suppose I'll go add that for KLP enabled things.
Elf section info does get saved for livepatch modules though, see
mod->klp_info. And wouldn't this only be needed for livepatch modules?
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2019-10-15 14:13 ` Miroslav Benes
2019-10-15 15:06 ` Joe Lawrence
2019-10-15 15:31 ` Jessica Yu
2019-10-15 22:17 ` Joe Lawrence
2019-10-15 22:27 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-10-16 7:42 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-10-16 10:15 ` Miroslav Benes
2019-10-21 15:05 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-01-20 16:50 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-01-21 8:35 ` Miroslav Benes
2020-01-21 16:10 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-01-22 10:09 ` Miroslav Benes
2020-01-22 21:42 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-01-28 9:28 ` Miroslav Benes
2020-01-28 15:00 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-01-28 15:40 ` Petr Mladek
2020-01-28 17:02 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-01-29 0:46 ` Jiri Kosina
2020-01-29 2:17 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-01-29 3:14 ` Jiri Kosina
2020-01-29 12:28 ` Miroslav Benes
2020-01-29 15:59 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-01-30 9:53 ` Petr Mladek
2020-01-30 14:17 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-01-31 7:17 ` Petr Mladek
2020-01-22 12:15 ` Miroslav Benes
2020-01-22 15:05 ` Miroslav Benes
2020-01-22 22:03 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-01-23 10:19 ` Martin Jambor
2019-10-16 7:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-10-16 10:20 ` Miroslav Benes
2019-10-16 13:29 ` Miroslav Benes
2019-10-18 13:03 ` Jessica Yu
2019-10-18 13:40 ` Petr Mladek
2019-10-21 14:14 ` Jessica Yu
2019-10-21 15:31 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-10-22 8:27 ` Miroslav Benes
2019-10-22 14:31 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-10-23 9:04 ` Miroslav Benes
2019-10-16 6:51 ` Miroslav Benes
2019-10-16 9:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-10-16 9:36 ` Jessica Yu [this message]
2019-10-16 9:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-10-16 12:39 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-10-22 8:45 ` Miroslav Benes
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