Re: [PATCH] Revert "x86/module: Detect and skip invalid relocations"

[Thomas Gleixner]

Miroslav,

On Thu, 20 Jun 2019, Miroslav Benes wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jun 2019, Cheng Jian wrote:
> 
> > This reverts commit eda9cec4c9a12208a6f69fbe68f72a6311d50032.
> > 
> > Since commit (eda9cec4c9a1 'x86/module: Detect and skip invalid
> > relocations') add some sanity check in apply_relocate_add, borke
> > re-insmod a kernel module which has been patched before,
> > 
> > The relocation informations of the livepatch module have been
> > overwritten since first patched, so if we rmmod and insmod the
> > kernel module, these values are not zero anymore, when
> > klp_module_coming doing, and that commit marks them as invalid
> > invalid_relocation.
> > 
> > Then the following error occurs:
> > 
> > 	module: x86/modules: Skipping invalid relocation target, existing value is nonzero for type 2, loc (____ptrval____), val ffffffffc000236c
> > 	livepatch: failed to initialize patch 'livepatch_0001_test' for module 'test' (-8)
> > 	livepatch: patch 'livepatch_0001_test' failed for module 'test', refusing to load module 'test'
> 
> Oh yeah. First reported here 20180602161151.apuhs2dygsexmcg2@treble (LP ML 
> only and there is no archive on lore.kernel.org yet. Sorry about that.). I 
> posted v1 here 
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180607092949.1706-1-mbenes@xxxxxxx/ and 
> even started to work on v2 in March with arch-specific nullifying, but 
> then I got sidetracked again. I'll move it up my todo list a bit.

so we need to revert it for now, right?

Thanks,

	tglx