Re: [PATCH 0/8] unwind, arm64: add sframe unwinder for kernel
From: Josh Poimboeuf
Date: Tue Feb 18 2025 - 13:43:39 EST
On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 10:20:10AM -0800, Song Liu wrote:
> Hi Josh,
>
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 10:37 PM Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 08:38:22PM -0800, Song Liu wrote:
> > > On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > Poking around the arm64 module code, arch/arm64/kernel/module-plts.c
> > > > is looking at all the relocations in order to set up the PLT. That also
> > > > needs to be done for klp relas, or are your patches already doing that?
> > >
> > > I don't think either version (this set and my RFC) added logic for PLT.
> > > There is some rela logic on the kpatch-build side. But I am not sure
> > > whether it is sufficient.
> >
> > The klp relas looked ok. I didn't see any signs of kpatch-build doing
> > anything wrong. AFAICT the problem is that module-plts.c creates PLT
> > entries for regular relas but not klp relas.
>
> In my tests (with printk) module-plts.c processes the .
> klp.rela.vmlinux..text.copy_process section just like any other .rela.*
> sections. Do we need special handling of the klp.rela.* sections?
Ok, I see how it works now:
klp_write_section_relocs()
apply_relocate_add()
module_emit_plt_entry()
If that code is working correctly then I'm fresh out of ideas...
--
Josh