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Jiri Slaby 8cdd043ab3 livepatch: introduce patch/func-walking helpers
klp_for_each_object and klp_for_each_func are now used all over the
code. One need not think what is the proper condition to check in the
for loop now.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2015-05-19 23:58:43 +02:00
Miroslav Benes cad706df7e livepatch: make kobject in klp_object statically allocated
Make kobj variable (of type struct kobject) statically allocated in
klp_object structure. It will allow us to move in the func-object-patch
hierarchy through kobject links.

The only reason to have it dynamic was to not have empty release
callback in the code. However we have empty callbacks for function and
patch in the code now, so it is no longer valid and the advantage of
static allocation is clear.

Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2015-05-19 23:56:41 +02:00
Miroslav Benes 4421f8f0fa livepatch: remove extern specifier from header files
Storage-class specifier 'extern' is redundant in front of the function
declaration. According to the C specification it has the same meaning as
if not present at all. So remove it.

Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2015-02-18 20:50:05 +01:00
Josh Poimboeuf 12cf89b550 livepatch: rename config to CONFIG_LIVEPATCH
Rename CONFIG_LIVE_PATCHING to CONFIG_LIVEPATCH to make the naming of
the config and the code more consistent.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2015-02-04 11:25:51 +01:00
Josh Poimboeuf 3c33f5b99d livepatch: support for repatching a function
Add support for patching a function multiple times.  If multiple patches
affect a function, the function in the most recently enabled patch
"wins".  This enables a cumulative patch upgrade path, where each patch
is a superset of previous patches.

This requires restructuring the data a little bit.  With the current
design, where each klp_func struct has its own ftrace_ops, we'd have to
unregister the old ops and then register the new ops, because
FTRACE_OPS_FL_IPMODIFY prevents us from having two ops registered for
the same function at the same time.  That would leave a regression
window where the function isn't patched at all (not good for a patch
upgrade path).

This patch replaces the per-klp_func ftrace_ops with a global klp_ops
list, with one ftrace_ops per original function.  A single ftrace_ops is
shared between all klp_funcs which have the same old_addr.  This allows
the switch between function versions to happen instantaneously by
updating the klp_ops struct's func_stack list.  The winner is the
klp_func at the top of the func_stack (front of the list).

[ jkosina@suse.cz: turn WARN_ON() into WARN_ON_ONCE() in ftrace handler to
  avoid storm in pathological cases ]

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2015-01-20 20:09:41 +01:00
Seth Jennings b700e7f03d livepatch: kernel: add support for live patching
This commit introduces code for the live patching core.  It implements
an ftrace-based mechanism and kernel interface for doing live patching
of kernel and kernel module functions.

It represents the greatest common functionality set between kpatch and
kgraft and can accept patches built using either method.

This first version does not implement any consistency mechanism that
ensures that old and new code do not run together.  In practice, ~90% of
CVEs are safe to apply in this way, since they simply add a conditional
check.  However, any function change that can not execute safely with
the old version of the function can _not_ be safely applied in this
version.

[ jkosina@suse.cz: due to the number of contributions that got folded into
  this original patch from Seth Jennings, add SUSE's copyright as well, as
  discussed via e-mail ]

Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2014-12-22 15:40:49 +01:00