From 0c05e7bd2d017a3a9a0f4e9a19ad4acf1f616f12 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Song Liu Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 10:54:01 -0800 Subject: livepatch,x86: Clear relocation targets on a module removal Josh reported a bug: When the object to be patched is a module, and that module is rmmod'ed and reloaded, it fails to load with: module: x86/modules: Skipping invalid relocation target, existing value is nonzero for type 2, loc 00000000ba0302e9, val ffffffffa03e293c livepatch: failed to initialize patch 'livepatch_nfsd' for module 'nfsd' (-8) livepatch: patch 'livepatch_nfsd' failed for module 'nfsd', refusing to load module 'nfsd' The livepatch module has a relocation which references a symbol in the _previous_ loading of nfsd. When apply_relocate_add() tries to replace the old relocation with a new one, it sees that the previous one is nonzero and it errors out. He also proposed three different solutions. We could remove the error check in apply_relocate_add() introduced by commit eda9cec4c9a1 ("x86/module: Detect and skip invalid relocations"). However the check is useful for detecting corrupted modules. We could also deny the patched modules to be removed. If it proved to be a major drawback for users, we could still implement a different approach. The solution would also complicate the existing code a lot. We thus decided to reverse the relocation patching (clear all relocation targets on x86_64). The solution is not universal and is too much arch-specific, but it may prove to be simpler in the end. Reported-by: Josh Poimboeuf Originally-by: Miroslav Benes Signed-off-by: Song Liu Acked-by: Miroslav Benes Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf Reviewed-by: Joe Lawrence Tested-by: Joe Lawrence Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230125185401.279042-2-song@kernel.org --- include/linux/moduleloader.h | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/moduleloader.h') diff --git a/include/linux/moduleloader.h b/include/linux/moduleloader.h index 9e09d11ffe5b..2ba4bc834a4f 100644 --- a/include/linux/moduleloader.h +++ b/include/linux/moduleloader.h @@ -72,6 +72,23 @@ int apply_relocate_add(Elf_Shdr *sechdrs, unsigned int symindex, unsigned int relsec, struct module *mod); +#ifdef CONFIG_LIVEPATCH +/* + * Some architectures (namely x86_64 and ppc64) perform sanity checks when + * applying relocations. If a patched module gets unloaded and then later + * reloaded (and re-patched), klp re-applies relocations to the replacement + * function(s). Any leftover relocations from the previous loading of the + * patched module might trigger the sanity checks. + * + * To prevent that, when unloading a patched module, clear out any relocations + * that might trigger arch-specific sanity checks on a future module reload. + */ +void clear_relocate_add(Elf_Shdr *sechdrs, + const char *strtab, + unsigned int symindex, + unsigned int relsec, + struct module *me); +#endif #else static inline int apply_relocate_add(Elf_Shdr *sechdrs, const char *strtab, -- cgit