Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] livepatch: Fix crash with !CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX
From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Fri Nov 06 2015 - 05:14:18 EST
On Thu, 5 Nov 2015, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> When loading a patch module on a kernel with
> !CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX, the following crash occurs:
>
> [ 205.988776] livepatch: enabling patch 'kpatch_meminfo_string'
> [ 205.989829] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffa08d2fc0
> [ 205.989863] IP: [<ffffffff8154fecb>] do_init_module+0x8c/0x1ba
> [ 205.989888] PGD 1a10067 PUD 1a11063 PMD 7bcde067 PTE 3740e161
> [ 205.989915] Oops: 0003 [#1] SMP
> [ 205.990187] CPU: 2 PID: 14570 Comm: insmod Tainted: G O K 4.1.12
> [ 205.990214] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.8.1-20150318_183358- 04/01/2014
> [ 205.990249] task: ffff8800374aaa90 ti: ffff8800794b8000 task.ti: ffff8800794b8000
> [ 205.990276] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8154fecb>] [<ffffffff8154fecb>] do_init_module+0x8c/0x1ba
> [ 205.990307] RSP: 0018:ffff8800794bbd58 EFLAGS: 00010246
> [ 205.990327] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffffa08d2fc0 RCX: 0000000000000000
> [ 205.990356] RDX: 01ffff8000000080 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffffff81a54b40
> [ 205.990382] RBP: ffff88007b4c4d80 R08: 0000000000000007 R09: 0000000000000000
> [ 205.990408] R10: 0000000000000008 R11: ffffea0001f18840 R12: 0000000000000000
> [ 205.990433] R13: 0000000000000001 R14: ffffffffa08d2fc0 R15: ffff88007bd0bc40
> [ 205.990459] FS: 00007f1128fbc700(0000) GS:ffff88007fc80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> [ 205.990488] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> [ 205.990509] CR2: ffffffffa08d2fc0 CR3: 000000002606e000 CR4: 00000000001406e0
> [ 205.990536] Stack:
> [ 205.990545] ffff8800794bbec8 0000000000000001 ffffffffa08d3010 ffffffff810ecea9
> [ 205.990576] ffffffff810e8e40 000000000005f360 ffff88007bd0bc50 ffffffffa08d3240
> [ 205.990608] ffffffffa08d52c0 ffffffffa08d3210 ffff8800794bbed8 ffff8800794bbf1c
> [ 205.990639] Call Trace:
> [ 205.990651] [<ffffffff810ecea9>] ? load_module+0x1e59/0x23a0
> [ 205.990672] [<ffffffff810e8e40>] ? store_uevent+0x40/0x40
> [ 205.990693] [<ffffffff810e99b5>] ? copy_module_from_fd.isra.49+0xb5/0x140
> [ 205.990718] [<ffffffff810ed5bd>] ? SyS_finit_module+0x7d/0xa0
> [ 205.990741] [<ffffffff81556832>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x75
> [ 205.990763] Code: f9 00 00 00 74 23 49 c7 c0 92 e1 60 81 48 8d 53 18 89 c1 4c 89 c6 48 c7 c7 f0 85 7d 81 31 c0 e8 71 fa ff ff e8 58 0e 00 00 31 f6 <c7> 03 00 00 00 00 48 89 da 48 c7 c7 20 c7 a5 81 e8 d0 ec b3 ff
> [ 205.990916] RIP [<ffffffff8154fecb>] do_init_module+0x8c/0x1ba
> [ 205.990940] RSP <ffff8800794bbd58>
> [ 205.990953] CR2: ffffffffa08d2fc0
>
> With !CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX, module text and rodata pages are
> writable, and the debug_align() macro allows the module struct to share
> a page with executable text. When klp_write_module_reloc() calls
> set_memory_ro() on the page, it effectively turns the module struct into
> a read-only structure, resulting in a page fault when load_module() does
> "mod->state = MODULE_STATE_LIVE".
>
> Reported-by: Cyril B. <cbay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Cyril B. <cbay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
I've cherry-picked this one into livepatching.git#for-4.4/upstream,
leaving 2/3 and 3/3 for further discussion with Rusty first.
Thanks,
--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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