Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] livepatch: Clear relocation targets on a module removal

From: Michael Ellerman <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2022 13:39:02 +1000

Joe Lawrence <[email-masked]> writes:
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2022 at 08:30:44AM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> Joe Lawrence <[email-masked]> writes:
...
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> While we're on the topic of klp-relocations and Power, I saw a similar
> access problem when writing (late) relocations into
> .data..ro_after_init.  I'm not entirely convinced this should be allowed
> (ie, is it really read-only after .init or ???), but it seems that other
> arches currently allow it ...

I guess that's because we didn't properly fix apply_relocate_add() in
https://github.com/linuxppc/issues/issues/375 ?

If other arches allow it then we don't want to be the odd one out :)

So I guess we need to implement it.

> $ ./tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test-shadow-vars.sh
>
> ===== TEST: klp-convert data relocations (late module patching) =====
> % modprobe test_klp_convert_data
> livepatch: enabling patch 'test_klp_convert_data'
> livepatch: 'test_klp_convert_data': starting patching transition
> livepatch: 'test_klp_convert_data': patching complete
> % modprobe test_klp_convert_mod
> ...
> module_64: Applying ADD relocate section 54 to 20
> module_64: RELOC at 000000008482d02a: 38-type as .klp.sym.test_klp_convert_mod.static_ro_after_init,0 (0xc0080000016d0084) + 0
> BUG: Unable to handle kernel data access on write at 0xc0080000021d0000
> Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000055f14
> Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
> LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Hash SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries
> Modules linked in: test_klp_convert_mod(+) test_klp_convert_data(K) bonding rfkill tls pseries_rng drm fuse drm_panel_orientation_quirks xfs libcrc32c sd_mod t10_pi sg ibmvscsi ibmveth scsi_transport_srp vmx_crypto dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod [last unloaded: test_klp_convert_mod]
> CPU: 0 PID: 17089 Comm: modprobe Kdump: loaded Tainted: G              K   5.19.0+ #1
> NIP:  c000000000055f14 LR: c00000000021ef28 CTR: c000000000055f14
> REGS: c0000000387af5a0 TRAP: 0300   Tainted: G              K    (5.19.0+)
> MSR:  8000000002009033 <SF,VEC,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE>  CR: 88228444  XER: 00000000
> CFAR: c000000000055e04 DAR: c0080000021d0000 DSISR: 42000000 IRQMASK: 0
> GPR00: c00000000021ef28 c0000000387af840 c000000002a68a00 c0000000088b3000
> GPR04: c008000002230084 0000000000000026 0000000000000036 c0080000021e0480
> GPR08: 000000007c426214 c000000000055f14 c000000000055e08 0000000000000d80
> GPR12: c00000000021d9b0 c000000002d90000 c0000000088b3000 c0080000021f0810
> GPR16: c0080000021c0638 c0000000088b3d80 00000000ffffffff c000000001181e38
> GPR20: c0000000029dc088 c0080000021e0480 c0080000021f0870 aaaaaaaaaaaaaaab
> GPR24: c0000000088b3c40 c0080000021d0000 c0080000021f0000 0000000000000000
> GPR28: c0080000021d0000 0000000000000000 c0080000021c0638 0000000000000810
> NIP [c000000000055f14] apply_relocate_add+0x474/0x9e0
> LR [c00000000021ef28] klp_apply_section_relocs+0x208/0x2d0
> Call Trace:
> [c0000000387af840] [c0000000387af920] 0xc0000000387af920 (unreliable)
> [c0000000387af940] [c00000000021ef28] klp_apply_section_relocs+0x208/0x2d0
> [c0000000387afa30] [c00000000021f080] klp_init_object_loaded+0x90/0x1e0
> [c0000000387afac0] [c0000000002200ac] klp_module_coming+0x3dc/0x5c0
> [c0000000387afb70] [c000000000231414] load_module+0xf64/0x13a0
> [c0000000387afc90] [c000000000231b8c] __do_sys_finit_module+0xdc/0x180
> [c0000000387afdb0] [c00000000002f004] system_call_exception+0x164/0x340
> [c0000000387afe10] [c00000000000be68] system_call_vectored_common+0xe8/0x278
> --- interrupt: 3000 at 0x7fffb6af4710
> NIP:  00007fffb6af4710 LR: 0000000000000000 CTR: 0000000000000000
> REGS: c0000000387afe80 TRAP: 3000   Tainted: G              K    (5.19.0+)
> MSR:  800000000000f033 <SF,EE,PR,FP,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE>  CR: 48224244  XER: 00000000
> IRQMASK: 0
> GPR00: 0000000000000161 00007fffe06f5550 00007fffb6bf7200 0000000000000005
> GPR04: 0000000105f36ca0 0000000000000000 0000000000000005 0000000000000000
> GPR08: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
> GPR12: 0000000000000000 00007fffb738c540 0000000000000020 0000000000000000
> GPR16: 0000010024d31de0 0000000000000000 0000000105f37d50 0000010024d302f8
> GPR20: 0000000000000001 0000000000000908 0000010024d32020 0000010024d319b0
> GPR24: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000010024d32040 0000010024d303f0
> GPR28: 0000010024d31e00 0000000105f36ca0 0000000000040000 0000010024d319b0
> NIP [00007fffb6af4710] 0x7fffb6af4710
> LR [0000000000000000] 0x0
> --- interrupt: 3000
> Instruction dump:
> 0000061c 0000061c 0000061c 0000061c 0000061c 0000061c 0000061c 0000061c
> 00000288 00000248 60000000 7c992050 <7c9ce92a> 60000000 60000000 e9310020
> ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
>
> $ readelf --wide --sections lib/livepatch/test_klp_convert_data.ko | grep -e '\[20\]' -e '\[54\]'
> [20]  .data..ro_after_init                                 PROGBITS  0000000000000000  001a58  000008  00  WA  0   0   8
> [54]  .klp.rela.test_klp_convert_mod..data..ro_after_init  RELA      0000000000000000  0426e8  000018  18  Ao  49  20  8
>
> I can push a branch up to github if you'd like to try it yourself.

That would help thanks.

cheers