Re: [PATCH v2] livepatch: old_name.number scheme in livepatch sysfs directory

From: Petr Mladek
Date: Tue Nov 03 2015 - 07:44:51 EST


On Tue 2015-11-03 11:52:08, Miroslav Benes wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Nov 2015, Chris J Arges wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > +static int klp_get_func_pos_callback(void *data, const char *name,
> > + struct module *mod, unsigned long addr)
> > +{
> > + struct klp_find_arg *args = data;
> > +
> > + if ((mod && !args->objname) || (!mod && args->objname))
> > + return 0;
> > +
> > + if (strcmp(args->name, name))
> > + return 0;
> > +
> > + if (args->objname && strcmp(args->objname, mod->name))
> > + return 0;
> > +
> > + /* on address match, return 1 to break kallsyms_on_each_symbol loop */
> > + if (args->addr == addr)
> > + return 1;
> > +
> > + /* if we don't match addr, count instance of named symbol */
> > + args->count++;
> > +
> > + return 0;
> > +}
> > +
> > +static int klp_get_func_pos(struct klp_object *obj, struct klp_func *func)
> > +{
> > + struct klp_find_arg args = {
> > + .objname = obj->name,
> > + .name = func->old_name,
> > + .addr = func->old_addr,
> > + .count = 0,
> > + };
> > +
> > + mutex_lock(&module_mutex);
> > + kallsyms_on_each_symbol(klp_get_func_pos_callback, &args);
> > + mutex_unlock(&module_mutex);
> > +
> > + return args.count;
> > +}
> > +
> > static int klp_init_func(struct klp_object *obj, struct klp_func *func)
> > {
> > INIT_LIST_HEAD(&func->stack_node);
> > func->state = KLP_DISABLED;
> >
> > return kobject_init_and_add(&func->kobj, &klp_ktype_func,
> > - &obj->kobj, "%s", func->old_name);
> > + &obj->kobj, "%s,%d", func->old_name,
> > + klp_get_func_pos(obj, func));
> > }
>
> There is a problem which I missed before. klp_init_func() is called before
> klp_find_verify_func_addr() in klp_init_object(). This means that
> func->old_addr is either not verified yet or worse it is still 0. This
> means that klp_get_func_pos_callback() never returns 1 and is thus called
> on each symbol. So if you for example patched cmdline_proc_show the
> resulting directory in sysfs would be called cmdline_proc_show,1 because
> addr is never matched. Had old_addr been specified the name would have
> been probably correct, but not for sure.

This might happen when the function name is unique. Then we might but
we do not need to pre-define the address in the patch.

Also I would omit the suffix at all when it is the first occurrence.
It will cause that unique symbols will not be numbered.

Best Regards,
Petr
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