Re: [kpsingh:static_calls] [security] 9e15595ed0: Kernel_panic-not_syncing:lsm_static_call_init-Ran_out_of_static_slots

From: KP Singh
Date: Mon Apr 15 2024 - 11:47:57 EST




> On 15 Apr 2024, at 17:34, KP Singh <kpsingh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Mon, 15 Apr 2024 at 16:23, Paul Moore <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 9:21 AM Tetsuo Handa
> <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 2024/04/15 17:26, KP Singh wrote:
> > > This seems like an odd config which does not enable STATIC_CALL, I am going to
> > > make CONFIG_SECURITY depend on CONFIG_STATIC_CALL and make the dependency explicit.
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> > If CONFIG_SECURITY depends on CONFIG_STATIC_CALL, architectures which do not
> > support CONFIG_STATIC_CALL can no longer use LSM ? That sounds a bad dependency.
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> Agreed. If the arch doesn't support static calls we need a fallback
> solution for the LSM that is no worse than what we have now, and
> preferably would still solve the issue of the BPF hooks active even
> where this is no BPF program attached.

Actually I take it back, when CONFIG_STATIC_CALL is not available, the implementation falls back to an indirect call. This crash is unrelated, I will debug further and post back.

- KP

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