From: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
To: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>,
Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>,
live-patching@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>,
linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com,
Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/9] s390/module: Use s390_kernel_write() for late relocations
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 13:04:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <691690e3-b792-bac5-2080-2abfc0beb11b@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200430164842.bvkrh5fz24ro7ye2@treble>
On 4/30/20 12:48 PM, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 10:38:21AM -0400, Joe Lawrence wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 01:10:30PM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
>> This is more of note for the future, but when/if we add livepatch
>> support on arm64 we'll need to make the very same adjustment there as
>> well. See the following pattern:
>>
>> arch/arm64/kernel/module.c:
>>
>> reloc_insn_movw()
>> reloc_insn_imm()
>> reloc_insn_adrp()
>>
>> *place = cpu_to_le32(insn);
>>
>> maybe something like aarch64_insn_patch_text_nosync() could be used
>> there, I dunno. (It looks like ftrace and jump_labels are using that
>> interface.)
>>
>> This is outside the scope of the patchset, but I thought I'd mention it
>> as I was curious to see how other arches were currently handling their
>> relocation updates.
>
> True... I suspect your klp-convert selftests will catch that?
>
Indeed. Actually I had hacked enough livepatch code support on ARM to
see what happened when converting and loading the test patches :)
-- Joe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-30 17:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-17 14:04 [PATCH v2 0/9] livepatch,module: Remove .klp.arch and module_disable_ro() Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-17 14:04 ` [PATCH v2 1/9] livepatch: Disallow vmlinux.ko Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-17 14:04 ` [PATCH v2 2/9] livepatch: Apply vmlinux-specific KLP relocations early Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-20 17:57 ` Joe Lawrence
2020-04-20 18:25 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-20 19:01 ` Joe Lawrence
2020-04-20 19:11 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-20 19:49 ` Joe Lawrence
2020-04-20 19:51 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-23 1:10 ` Joe Lawrence
2020-04-21 11:54 ` Miroslav Benes
2020-04-17 14:04 ` [PATCH v2 3/9] livepatch: Remove .klp.arch Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-17 14:04 ` [PATCH v2 4/9] livepatch: Prevent module-specific KLP rela sections from referencing vmlinux symbols Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-17 14:04 ` [PATCH v2 5/9] s390: Change s390_kernel_write() return type to match memcpy() Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-17 14:04 ` [PATCH v2 6/9] s390/module: Use s390_kernel_write() for late relocations Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-22 12:28 ` Miroslav Benes
2020-04-24 13:43 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-22 14:40 ` Gerald Schaefer
2020-04-22 15:21 ` Gerald Schaefer
2020-04-22 19:46 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-23 12:33 ` Gerald Schaefer
2020-04-23 13:22 ` Miroslav Benes
2020-04-23 14:12 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-23 18:10 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-23 23:26 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-24 2:35 ` Joe Lawrence
2020-04-24 4:12 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-24 7:20 ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-04-24 13:37 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-30 14:38 ` Joe Lawrence
2020-04-30 16:48 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-30 17:04 ` Joe Lawrence [this message]
2020-04-23 14:21 ` Joe Lawrence
2020-04-17 14:04 ` [PATCH v2 7/9] x86/module: Use text_poke() " Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-17 14:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-17 14:51 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-17 14:04 ` [PATCH v2 8/9] livepatch: Remove module_disable_ro() usage Josh Poimboeuf
2020-04-17 14:04 ` [PATCH v2 9/9] module: Remove module_disable_ro() Josh Poimboeuf
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