From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
To: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>, Torsten Duwe <duwe@lst.de>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>,
Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>, Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] arm64/module: use mod->klp_info section header information for livepatch modules
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 13:30:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKv+Gu-nq+zWur+swiCxsGtMFpm1KtA4KTdkejJQdjuS9Rg10Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181101160759.GB17659@arm.com>
On 1 November 2018 at 17:07, Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> wrote:
> Hello, Jessica,
>
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 02:19:10PM +0100, Jessica Yu wrote:
>> +++ Will Deacon [29/10/18 15:28 +0000]:
>> >On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 07:25:01PM +0200, Jessica Yu wrote:
>> >>diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/module.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/module.h
>> >>index fef773c94e9d..ac9b97f9ae5e 100644
>> >>--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/module.h
>> >>+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/module.h
>> >>@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ struct mod_plt_sec {
>> >> struct elf64_shdr *plt;
>> >> int plt_num_entries;
>> >> int plt_max_entries;
>> >>+ int plt_shndx;
>> >>};
>> >
>> >Does this mean we can drop the plt pointer from this struct altogether, and
>> >simply offset into the section headers when applying the relocations?
>>
>> Hmm, if everyone is OK with dropping the plt pointer from struct
>> mod_plt_sec, then I think we can simplify this patch even further.
>>
>> With the plt shndx saved, we can additionally pass a pointer to
>> sechdrs to module_emit_plt_entry(), and with that just offset into the
>> section headers as you suggest. Since livepatch *already* passes in
>> the correct copy of the section headers (mod->klp_info->sechdrs) to
>> apply_relocate_add(), we wouldn't even need to modify the arm64
>> module_finalize() to change mod->arch.core.plt to point into
>> mod->klp_info->sechdrs anymore and we can drop all the changes to the
>> module loader too.
>>
>> Something like the following maybe?
>
> This looks pretty good, thanks! My only (minor) objection is that the
> renaming of plt_sec -> plt_info throughout makes the patch a lot more
> churny than it needs to be, for questionable gain.
>
> Anyway, it looks functionally correct and I've tested loading/unloading
> the "hello world" test module with both PLTs enabled and disabled.
>
> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
>
For the simplified version:
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-05 12:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-01 14:09 [PATCH v3 0/4] arm64 live patching Torsten Duwe
2018-10-01 14:16 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] DYNAMIC_FTRACE configurable with and without REGS Torsten Duwe
2018-10-01 14:52 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-10-01 15:03 ` Torsten Duwe
2018-10-01 15:06 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-10-01 15:10 ` Torsten Duwe
2018-10-01 15:14 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-10-01 14:16 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] arm64: implement ftrace with regs Torsten Duwe
2018-10-01 15:57 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-10-02 10:02 ` Torsten Duwe
2018-10-02 10:39 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-10-02 11:27 ` Mark Rutland
2018-10-02 12:18 ` Torsten Duwe
2018-10-02 12:57 ` Mark Rutland
2018-10-01 14:16 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] arm64: implement live patching Torsten Duwe
2018-10-17 13:39 ` Miroslav Benes
2018-10-18 12:58 ` Jessica Yu
2018-10-19 11:59 ` Miroslav Benes
2018-10-19 12:18 ` Jessica Yu
2018-10-19 15:14 ` Miroslav Benes
2018-10-19 13:46 ` Torsten Duwe
2018-10-19 13:52 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-10-19 15:21 ` Miroslav Benes
2018-10-20 14:10 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-10-22 12:53 ` Miroslav Benes
2018-10-22 14:54 ` Torsten Duwe
2018-10-23 17:55 ` [PATCH] arm64/module: use mod->klp_info section header information Jessica Yu
2018-10-23 19:32 ` kbuild test robot
2018-10-24 11:57 ` Miroslav Benes
2018-10-25 8:08 ` Petr Mladek
2018-10-25 9:00 ` Miroslav Benes
2018-10-25 11:42 ` Jessica Yu
2018-10-26 17:25 ` [PATCH v2] arm64/module: use mod->klp_info section header information for livepatch modules Jessica Yu
2018-10-29 13:24 ` Miroslav Benes
2018-10-29 13:32 ` Jessica Yu
2018-10-29 15:28 ` Will Deacon
2018-10-30 13:19 ` Jessica Yu
2018-11-01 15:18 ` Miroslav Benes
2018-11-01 16:07 ` Will Deacon
2018-11-05 12:30 ` Ard Biesheuvel [this message]
2018-11-05 17:57 ` [PATCH] arm64/module: use plt section indices for relocations Jessica Yu
2018-11-05 18:04 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-11-05 18:53 ` [PATCH v2] " Jessica Yu
2018-11-05 18:56 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-11-05 19:26 ` Will Deacon
2018-11-05 19:49 ` Jessica Yu
2018-11-06 9:44 ` Miroslav Benes
2018-10-01 14:16 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] arm64: reliable stacktraces Torsten Duwe
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