On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 11:08:00AM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Nov 2014, Seth Jennings wrote:
>
> > diff --git a/kernel/livepatch/core.c b/kernel/livepatch/core.c
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000..b32dbb5
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/kernel/livepatch/core.c
>
> [ ... snip ... ]
>
> > +/****************************************
> > + * dynamic relocations (load-time linker)
> > + ****************************************/
> > +
> > +/*
> > + * external symbols are located outside the parent object (where the parent
> > + * object is either vmlinux or the kmod being patched).
> > + */
> > +static int lpc_find_external_symbol(struct module *pmod, const char *name,
> > + unsigned long *addr)
> > +{
> > + const struct kernel_symbol *sym;
> > +
> > + /* first, check if it's an exported symbol */
> > + preempt_disable();
> > + sym = find_symbol(name, NULL, NULL, true, true);
> > + preempt_enable();
> > + if (sym) {
> > + *addr = sym->value;
> > + return 0;
> > + }
> > +
> > + /* otherwise check if it's in another .o within the patch module */
> > + return lpc_find_symbol(pmod->name, name, addr);
> > +}
> > +
> > +static int lpc_write_object_relocations(struct module *pmod,
> > + struct lpc_object *obj)
> > +{
> > + int ret, size, readonly = 0, numpages;
> > + struct lp_dynrela *dynrela;
> > + u64 loc, val;
> > + unsigned long core = (unsigned long)pmod->module_core;
> > + unsigned long core_ro_size = pmod->core_ro_size;
> > + unsigned long core_size = pmod->core_size;
> > +
> > + for (dynrela = obj->dynrelas; dynrela->name; dynrela++) {
> > + if (!strcmp(obj->name, "vmlinux")) {
> > + ret = lpc_verify_vmlinux_symbol(dynrela->name,
> > + dynrela->src);
> > + if (ret)
> > + return ret;
> > + } else {
> > + /* module, dynrela->src needs to be discovered */
> > + if (dynrela->external)
> > + ret = lpc_find_external_symbol(pmod,
> > + dynrela->name,
> > + &dynrela->src);
> > + else
> > + ret = lpc_find_symbol(obj->mod->name,
> > + dynrela->name,
> > + &dynrela->src);
> > + if (ret)
> > + return -EINVAL;
> > + }
> > +
> > + switch (dynrela->type) {
> > + case R_X86_64_NONE:
> > + continue;
> > + case R_X86_64_PC32:
> > + loc = dynrela->dest;
> > + val = (u32)(dynrela->src + dynrela->addend -
> > + dynrela->dest);
> > + size = 4;
> > + break;
> > + case R_X86_64_32S:
> > + loc = dynrela->dest;
> > + val = (s32)dynrela->src + dynrela->addend;
> > + size = 4;
> > + break;
> > + case R_X86_64_64:
> > + loc = dynrela->dest;
> > + val = dynrela->src;
> > + size = 8;
> > + break;
>
> This is x86-specific, so it definitely needs to go to arch/x86. The only
> hard precondition for arch to support live patching is ftrace with regs
> saving (we are currently in parallel working on extending the set of
> architectures that support this), so we shouldn't introduce any x86-isms
> into the generic code.
>
> It seems to me that what basically needs to be done is to teach
> apply_relocate_add() about this kind of relocations and apply them as
> needed.
Agreed.
--
Josh
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