Pull x86 alternatives update from Borislav Petkov:
- Remove the smp_locks alternatives machinery which was used to patch
out lock prefixes when running a SMP kernel on a uniprocessor machine
* tag 'x86_alternatives_for_v7.3_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/alternative: Drop smp_locks glue
When a module function references a vmlinux symbol which is exported
with EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_MODULES(), a patch to that function needs to use
a klp reloc.
Currently, livepatch fails to load such a module:
livepatch: invalid access to vmlinux symbol 'get_task_policy' from module-specific livepatch relocation section
livepatch: failed to initialize patch 'livepatch_test' for module 'testmod' (-22)
livepatch: patch 'livepatch_test' failed for module 'testmod', refusing to load module 'testmod'
klp diff puts all klp relocs in __klp_relocs.<patched object>, so
post-link names the section .klp.rela.<patched object>.<secname>, which the
kernel rejects for vmlinux symbols.
Commit 07f14d6af9 ("objtool/klp: Fix cross-module klp relocation
section naming") changed the meaning of objname in the klp rela section
name to be where the referenced symbol is referenced rather than where
it lives. That premise only holds for symbols in a module: the relocs
get applied when the patched module gets patched, and the module
dependency guarantees the referenced module is loaded by then.
A vmlinux symbol needs the opposite. It's always resolvable, and it has
to be applied when the patch module loads, before the module loader
initializes the patch module's special sections, which may reference it.
That's why livepatch rejects vmlinux symbols in module-specific
sections.
Use "vmlinux" as the section objname when the referenced symbol lives in
vmlinux. This moves such klp relocs from .klp.rela.kvm..text to
.klp.rela.vmlinux..text.
Fixes: 07f14d6af9 ("objtool/klp: Fix cross-module klp relocation section naming")
Reported-by: Dylan Hatch <dylanbhatch@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/f8e3b9fae109903a6aafb2a33310e4afdcebf58e.1786761327.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/CADBMgpz7iWC0=t=_gE-tfvv0mTPq4kg0qQ2zgPH8DVPE6eQ9Kw@mail.gmail.com
create_fake_symbols() creates a symbol per entry for special sections.
It does so in two steps: first for the sections which have
ANNOTATE_DATA_SPECIAL annotations, then for the rest, using entsize or
the reloc count to infer the entry size. The second step skips the
sections already handled by the first one by looking for a symbol at
offset 0.
That heuristic is too fuzzy: with Clang and CONFIG_CFI, it misfires on
.kcfi_traps because Clang emits a .Ltmp* assembler-local label at the
start of the section, so no symbols are created and
clone_special_sections() extracts nothing. klp-build still reports
SUCCESS, but the livepatch module has no __kcfi_traps section and the
traps for the patched functions are lost.
Look for the actual fake symbols created by the first step instead.
Fixes: da4326573a ("objtool/klp: Fix kCFI trap handling")
Reported-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/akQNqlfFC0T5pcMa@redhat.com
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/8faaead205b219607b6fc2359ae743be824056eb.1786230311.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_MODULES() puts a symbol in a "module:<names>"
namespace, which the module loader grants access to by matching the
importing module's name against that list.
klp_reloc_needed() only creates a klp reloc for module-owned exports; a
vmlinux export gets a normal reloc. For a vmlinux symbol exported with
EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_MODULES(), using a normal reloc results in a modpost
failure in klp-build:
ERROR: modpost: module livepatch-foo uses symbol mpol_shared_policy_lookup from namespace module:kvm, but does not import it.
And the modpost error is correct: even with that error removed, the
patch module would fail to load:
livepatch_foo: module uses symbol (mpol_shared_policy_lookup) from namespace module:kvm, but does not import it.
livepatch_foo: Unknown symbol mpol_shared_policy_lookup (err -22)
Treat it like an unexported symbol by using a klp reloc.
Note this only affects "module:" namespaces. Ordinary namespaced
exports continue to work with normal relocs thanks to copy_import_ns(),
which propagates the patched object's import_ns tags to the patch
module.
Fixes: dd590d4d57 ("objtool/klp: Introduce klp diff subcommand for diffing object files")
Reported-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/6a6608f4-0a05-4d75-8b7f-edddfac9c5d4@redhat.com
Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/fe5a00818e06ec613344d41d5944de054fcd8832.1786138493.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
klp_reloc_needed() returns true for module exports to support
late-module patching. However, clone_reloc_klp() unconditionally
rejects symbols without a twin (i.e., new references added by the
patch), even when the symbol is a known export from Module.symvers.
Relax the check: allow new references to exported symbols by only
erroring on !twin when there is no export. The export metadata from
Module.symvers provides sufficient context to emit the klp-relocation
without a twin.
For a module export that isn't sufficient on its own though, as the
resulting klp relocation will only be resolved at patch-enable time if
the exporting module is loaded.
If the original (unpatched) module already depends on the exporting
module, the dependency is safe: the module loader ensures the dependency
is satisfied before the patched module can be loaded, so the
klp relocation target will exist.
However, if the patch introduces a reference to a module that the
original doesn't depend on, there is no such guarantee. The exporting
module could be absent or could be unloaded at any time, leading to a
relocation failure or use-after-free.
So also add a build-time check: when a new symbol reference (no twin)
targets a module export, verify that the original module already has at
least one UNDEF symbol resolving to that same exporting module. If not,
error out with a diagnostic message.
Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/e0d725acb4774747f0e271308b4ca33daae2d5db.1786138493.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
While cloning a reloc, klp diff calls find_export() to determine whether
the referenced symbol is exported. That decides whether the reference
needs a klp reloc, which object the klp symbol belongs to, and whether
the symbol's data needs to be copied into the patch module.
But find_export() matches purely on symbol name, so a static function or
variable which happens to share its name with an export is mistaken for
a reference to that export:
- klp_reloc_needed() creates a klp reloc pointing at the exporting
module's symbol rather than the local one. For a vmlinux export it
skips the klp reloc altogether, leaving a normal reloc which the
module loader resolves to the vmlinux symbol.
- clone_reloc() treats the symbol as external and clones it without
its data, leaving a dangling reference.
- validate_special_section_klp_reloc() attributes a static branch or
call key to the wrong module, and for a vmlinux export skips the
unsupported-key check entirely.
Exports are always global, so ignore local symbols in find_export().
Fixes: dd590d4d57 ("objtool/klp: Introduce klp diff subcommand for diffing object files")
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/dafc7c017d1f62e2190a20dc84a52fbfc4c70210.1786138493.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
A klp relocation section is .klp.rela.<objname>.<secname>, where objname
is the object being patched.
klp-build wrongly derives objname from where the referenced symbol
lives, not where it's referenced. For a cross-module reference like
patched can_isotp code calling can.ko's can_rx_unregister(), that gives
.klp.rela.can..text rather than .klp.rela.can_isotp..text. Unless the
patch happens to patch can.ko as well, the relocation never gets applied
and the call goes off into the weeds.
Name the intermediate section __klp_relocs.<objname> so post-link can
read the patched object's name from there.
Fixes: dd590d4d57 ("objtool/klp: Introduce klp diff subcommand for diffing object files")
Reported-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260720145658.1103243-2-joe.lawrence@redhat.com
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/ee93a08f3e55e76ffa67d04e283917ddaa893f09.1786138493.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
An x86 alternative with an empty replacement, e.g. the second entry of
ALTERNATIVE_2("orig", "repl", ft1, "", ft2)
has a replacementlen of zero. Its replacement offset still gets a
relocation, but the label it points at is the end of the previous
replacement, which is also the beginning of the *next* alternative's
replacement. The value is meaningless; get_alt_entry() already ignores
it for that reason.
klp diff doesn't ignore it. When such an alternative belongs to a
changed function, cloning its relocations drags in the unrelated
neighboring replacement, along with everything that replacement
references. On an x86 clang/lto build an empty alternative in
meminfo_proc_show() pulled in the replacement of an alternative in
proc_kcore_init(), silently emitting a klp relocation against init text
which has long since been freed by the time the patch is applied.
Add arch_alt_ignore_new_reloc() and skip such relocations when cloning.
This has to be arch specific: on arm64 a zero-length replacement instead
identifies an alternative callback, whose replacement offset points at
the callback function and must be preserved.
Fixes: dd590d4d57 ("objtool/klp: Introduce klp diff subcommand for diffing object files")
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/7a885b70974795c3417f3358869e62aafd4ef783.1786138493.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
create_fake_symbols() sizes each ANNOTATE_DATA_SPECIAL entry from the
offset of the next annotation, falling back to the end of the section
for the last entry. But the last entry is detected by a zero size,
which also happens for an *empty* entry: ALTERNATIVE(oldinstr, "", ft)
still annotates its zero-length replacement, at the same offset as the
next entry's annotation.
So every empty replacement gets a fake symbol spanning the entire rest
of .altinstr_replacement. That's harmless today only because
find_symbol_containing() picks the smaller of two overlapping symbols.
Track whether a next annotation was found rather than inferring it from
the size. A zero-length fake symbol is fine: find_symbol_containing()
skips those, so the properly sized symbol at the same offset still wins.
Fixes: dd590d4d57 ("objtool/klp: Introduce klp diff subcommand for diffing object files")
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/913e691c5009397df832c7c9a18cd5cf71b42737.1786138493.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
find_sympos() calculates a sympos used by livepatch to disambiguate
duplicately-named symbols. For function symbols, there's a hack which
counts .text.unlikely symbols before other .text symbols, matching the
linker script's section ordering.
Not only is the hack fragile, data symbols can have the same problem.
So for example, adding a reference to pwq_cache in
ep_unregister_pollwait() can trigger a corrupt sympos and a relocation
to the wrong pwq_cache symbol in the livepatch module, resulting in a
crash or undefined behavior.
Remove the existing hack in favor of a fully deterministic solution,
using the new .klp.symid table to derive the symbol-to-id mapping from
the original vmlinux.o and the id-to-address mapping from the
corresponding vmlinux, which can then be used to determine the exact
sympos associated with the original vmlinux.
Modules don't need any special treatment: the .ko has the same
section/symbol ordering as the original whole-archive symbol table.
Fixes: dd590d4d57 ("objtool/klp: Introduce klp diff subcommand for diffing object files")
Reported-by: Ben Procknow <bprockno@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260710153042.3156788-1-joe.lawrence@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260724221730.3126529-1-joe.lawrence@redhat.com
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/919785e3bf2245db02ff6391e735d9cb139170b1.1785727106.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
When creating a klp reloc, klp-diff keeps the original relocation but
converts the referenced symbol to an UNDEF/WEAK placeholder tombstone
symbol, which gets fully disabled later by klp post-link. The tombstone
symbol is only needed to avoid confusing objtool when it does the final
run on the patch module.
However, for references to exported symbols, modpost sees the reference
to the tombstone symbol as a real reference to an exported symbol,
resulting in a false module dependency getting created.
Further, for a reference to a tombstone symbol which is exported into a
module namespace, e.g. via EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_KVM_INTERNAL(), modpost
can't satisfy the dependency, resulting in a warning like the following:
module ... uses symbol kvm_flush_remote_tlbs from namespace
module:kvm-amd,kvm-intel, but does not import it.
Rename the placeholder tombstone symbols to ".klp.tombstone.<name>" so
modpost no longer recognizes them.
Fixes: dd590d4d57 ("objtool/klp: Introduce klp diff subcommand for diffing object files")
Reported-by: Ben Procknow <bprockno@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260720145658.1103243-5-joe.lawrence@redhat.com
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/9548393f4d89ec3b498f4f69aa6ef6b9bb7150fe.1785727106.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Module.symvers contains build-tree object paths as module identifiers
(e.g., "arch/x86/kvm/kvm") rather than runtime module names ("kvm").
Objtool's clone_reloc_klp() uses this field directly for exported
symbols, while unexported symbols correctly go through __find_modname().
This means that exported symbol relocations may land in a .klp.rela
section named with the build path rather than the module name. That is
a crash waiting to happen: the kernel's livepatch loader silently skips
this relocation because it doesn't match the expected klp_object name.
The unresolved relocation sits in the newly activated code, crashing
when executed.
Normalize export->mod at Module.symvers read time using the same logic
as __find_modname() (refactored into a shared normalize_modname()
helper).
Fixes: dd590d4d57 ("objtool/klp: Introduce klp diff subcommand for diffing object files")
Reported-by: Ben Procknow <bprockno@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/dbe1b72931bd3c31b751fd0729613d9f2226fff6.1785727106.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
When .modinfo has no "name=" tag, __find_modname() falls back to
converting the object's build-tree path to a runtime module name by
stripping directory components, converting '-' to '_' and truncating the
file extension.
It does all that in a single pass over the entire path, so the first dot
anywhere in the path ends the name. For an object built in a directory
whose name contains a dot, e.g. "drivers/foo-1.0/bar.o", the result is a
bogus module name.
Strip the directory components up front so only the basename is scanned
for the extension separator.
Fixes: dd590d4d57 ("objtool/klp: Introduce klp diff subcommand for diffing object files")
Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/9017b4609553bed16674e8f924d34691cbc2b2c1.1785727106.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
This was there to be able to patch out locking instructions when running
a SMP kernel build on a UP CPU. The times are long gone when single-CPU
x86 machines were relevant so drop that machinery and simplify the code
considerably.
LOCK_PREFIX needs to stay for when one wants to do a UP build for
whatever reason. That'll go away when CONFIG_SMP becomes unconditional.
Kill a bunch of leftover, unused prototypes while at it.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260328081634.797552-1-rppt@kernel.org
Cache the dont_correlate() result once per symbol at the start of
correlate_symbols(). This reduces klp diff time on an arm64 LTO
vmlinux.o from 2m51s to 35s.
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Add debugging messages to show how duplicate symbols get correlated, and
split the --debug feature into --debug-correlate and --debug-clone.
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Rewrite the symbol correlation code, using a tiered list of
deterministic strategies in a loop. For duplicately named symbols, each
tier applies a filter with the goal of finding a 1:1 deterministic
correlation between the original and patched version of the symbol.
The three matching strategies are:
find_twin(): A funnel of progressively tighter filters. Candidates
with the same demangled name are counted at four levels: name, scope
(local-vs-global), file (strict file association), and checksum
(unchanged functions). The widest level that yields a 1:1 match wins,
narrower levels are only tried when the wider level is ambiguous.
find_twin_suffixed(): Uses already-correlated LLVM symbol pairs to map
.llvm.<hash> suffixes from orig to patched. Because all promoted
symbols from the same TU share the same hash, one correlated pair
seeds the mapping for the entire TU.
find_twin_positional(): Last resort, matches symbols by position among
same-named candidates, similar to livepatch sympos. Used for data
objects like __quirk variables where no deterministic filter can
distinguish the candidates.
Overall this works much better than the existing algorithm, particularly
with LTO kernels.
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Start checksumming data objects in preparation for revamping the
correlation algorithm.
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Move the checksum functionality out of the main objtool command into a
new "objtool klp checksum" subcommand.
This has the benefit of making the code (and the patch generation
process itself) more modular.
For bisectability, both "objtool --checksum" and "objtool klp checksum"
work for now. The former will be removed after klp-build has been
converted to use the new subcommand.
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Clang generates anonymous data sections named .data..Lanon.<hash>.
These need section-symbol references in the same way as .data..Lubsan
(GCC) and .data..L__unnamed_ (Clang UBSAN) sections. Without this,
convert_reloc_sym() fails when processing relocations that reference
these sections.
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Use the section symbol's index instead of the old symbol's index when
updating the ELF relocation entry in convert_reloc_sym_to_secsym().
Found by Sashiko review.
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Clang aggregates UBSAN type descriptors into shared anonymous
.data..L__unnamed_* sections. This data is used by UBSAN trap handlers.
When a changed function has an UBSAN bounds check, klp-diff clones the
entire UBSAN data section associated with the TU. Relocations within
the cloned section that reference named rodata objects in .rodata.cst*
(like 'exponent', 'pirq_ali_set.irqmap') become KLP relocations because
those objects now get correlated.
That results in a .klp.rela.vmlinux..data section which can easily have
thousands of KLP relocs, most of which are completely superfluous, used
by functions which aren't cloned to the patch module.
The .rodata.cst* sections are SHF_MERGE constant pool sections
containing small fixed-size data (lookup tables, bitmasks) that is only
read by value. Pointer identity is never relevant for these objects, so
correlating them is unnecessary.
Exclude .rodata.cst* objects from correlation so they get cloned as
local data instead of generating KLP relocations.
It might be possible to someday treat UBSAN data sections as special
sections, and only extract the few needed entries. But this works for
now.
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
klp-diff treats all rodata as uncorrelated, so any reference to it uses
a duplicated copy rather than using a KLP reloc.
For the contents of the data itself, a duplicated copy is fine.
However, pointer comparisons (e.g., f->f_op == &foo_ops) are broken.
Fix it by correlating non-anonymous rodata objects.
Also, use a new find_symbol_containing_inclusive() helper for matching
the end of a symbol so bounds calculations don't get broken, for the
case where an array or other symbol's ending address is used as part of
a bounds calculation.
While these are really two distinct changes, they need to be done in the
same patch so as to avoid introducing bisection regressions.
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Inline section_reference_needed() and is_reloc_allowed() into
convert_reloc_sym() and remove the redundant is_reloc_allowed() check in
clone_reloc().
Move the is_sec_sym() checks into the convert callees so they become
no-ops when the reloc is already in the right format. This allows
convert_reloc_sym() to unconditionally dispatch to the right converter
based on section type.
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Objtool has some hacks which NOP out certain calls/jumps and replace
their relocations with R_X86_64_NONE. The klp-diff relocation
extraction code will error out when trying to copy these relocations due
to their negative addend, which would only makes sense for a PC-relative
branch instruction. Just ignore them.
Fixes: dd590d4d57 ("objtool/klp: Introduce klp diff subcommand for diffing object files")
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
.kcfi_traps contains references to kCFI trap instruction locations.
When a KCFI type check fails at an indirect call, the trap handler looks
up the faulting address in this section.
Add it to the special sections list so the entries get extracted for the
changed functions they reference.
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Objtool is failing to extract text annotations which reference
.altinstr_replacement instructions:
1) Alternative replacement fake symbols are NOTYPE rather than FUNC,
and they don't have sym->included set, thus they aren't recognized
by should_keep_special_sym().
2) .discard.annotate_insn gets processed before .altinstr_replacement,
so the referenced (fake) symbols don't have clones yet.
Fix the first issue by checking for a valid clone instead of
sym->included and by accepting NOTYPE symbols when processing
.discard.annotate_insn.
Fix the second issue by deferring text annotation processing until after
the other special sections have been cloned.
Fixes: dd590d4d57 ("objtool/klp: Introduce klp diff subcommand for diffing object files")
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Fix NULL dereference when cloning a symbol from an empty section.
sec->data is only populated for sections with non-zero size.
Fixes: dd590d4d57 ("objtool/klp: Introduce klp diff subcommand for diffing object files")
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
When a section is empty (e.g. only zero-length alternative
replacements), there are no symbols to convert a section symbol
reference to. Skip the reloc instead of erroring out.
Fixes: dd590d4d57 ("objtool/klp: Introduce klp diff subcommand for diffing object files")
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Convert the callback-based iterate_sym_by_demangled_name() with a new
for_each_sym_by_demangled_name() macro. This eliminates the callback
struct/function and makes the code more compact and readable.
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
create_fake_symbols() has two phases: creating symbols from
ANNOTATE_DATA_SPECIAL entries, and a fallback that uses sh_entsize for
special sections like .static_call_sites.
When .discard.annotate_data is absent, the function returns early,
skipping the entsize fallback and silently allowing unsupported
module-local static call keys through.
Fix it by jumping to the entsize phase instead of returning early.
Fixes: dd590d4d57 ("objtool/klp: Introduce klp diff subcommand for diffing object files")
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-4-opus
Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Clang emits various .L-prefixed local symbols beyond .Ltmp*, such as
.L__const.* for local constant data. These are assembler-local labels
not present in kallsyms, so they can never be resolved at module load
time.
Broaden the check from .Ltmp* to all .L* symbols so they get cloned into
the patch module instead.
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Clang LTO uses __UNIQUE_ID() to generate some uniquely named wrapper
functions, like initstubs. If they're uncorrelated, prevent them from
being reported as new functions and included unnecessarily.
Note that dont_correlate() already includes prefix functions, so prefix
functions are still being ignored here.
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
With LTO, the initcall infrastructure generates __initstub__kmod_*
wrapper functions in .init.text. These are the LTO equivalent of
__initcall__kmod_* data pointers, which are already excluded from
correlation.
These are __init functions whose memory is freed after boot, so there's
no reason to include or reference them in a livepatch module.
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Some arch/x86/crypto/*.S files define local .set/.equ constants that get
duplicated in vmlinux.o. This causes klp-diff to fail with "Multiple
correlation candidates" errors since it can't uniquely match these
between orig and patched builds.
Skip ABS symbols in dont_correlate(). They're purely compile-time
assembly constants that are never referenced by relocations, so they
don't need correlation.
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Symbols created by __ADDRESSABLE() are only used to convince the
toolchain not to optimize out the referenced symbol.
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
While there was once a section named .data.once, it has since been
renamed to .data..once with commit dbefa1f31a ("Rename .data.once to
.data..once to fix resetting WARN*_ONCE"). Fix it.
Fixes: dd590d4d57 ("objtool/klp: Introduce klp diff subcommand for diffing object files")
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
For naming function-local static locals, GCC uses <var>.<id>, e.g.
__already_done.15, while Clang uses <func>.<var> with optional .<id>,
e.g. create_worker.__already_done.111
The existing is_uncorrelated_static_local() check only matches the GCC
convention where the variable name is a prefix. Handle both cases by
checking for a prefix match (GCC) and by checking after the first dot
separator (Clang).
Fixes: dd590d4d57 ("objtool/klp: Introduce klp diff subcommand for diffing object files")
Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Pull objtool updates from Ingo Molnar:
- KLP support updates and fixes (Song Liu)
- KLP-build script updates and fixes (Joe Lawrence)
- Support Clang RAX DRAP sequence, to address clang false positive
(Josh Poimboeuf)
- Reorder ORC register numbering to match regular x86 register
numbering (Josh Poimboeuf)
- Misc cleanups (Wentong Tian, Song Liu)
* tag 'objtool-core-2026-04-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
objtool/x86: Reorder ORC register numbering
objtool: Support Clang RAX DRAP sequence
livepatch/klp-build: report patch validation fuzz
livepatch/klp-build: add terminal color output
livepatch/klp-build: provide friendlier error messages
livepatch/klp-build: improve short-circuit validation
livepatch/klp-build: fix shellcheck complaints
livepatch/klp-build: add Makefile with check target
livepatch/klp-build: add grep-override function
livepatch/klp-build: switch to GNU patch and recountdiff
livepatch/klp-build: support patches that add/remove files
objtool/klp: Correlate locals to globals
objtool/klp: Match symbols based on demangled_name for global variables
objtool/klp: Remove .llvm suffix in demangle_name()
objtool/klp: Also demangle global objects
objtool/klp: Use sym->demangled_name for symbol_name hash
objtool/klp: Remove trailing '_' in demangle_name()
objtool/klp: Remove redundant strcmp() in correlate_symbols()
objtool: Use section/symbol type helpers
Commit 356e4b2f5b ("objtool: Fix data alignment in elf_add_data()")
corrected the alignment of data within a section (honoring the section's
sh_addralign). Apply the same alignment when klp-diff mode clones a
symbol, adjusting the new symbol's offset for the output section's
sh_addralign.
Fixes: dd590d4d57 ("objtool/klp: Introduce klp diff subcommand for diffing object files")
Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260310203751.1479229-2-joe.lawrence@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Allow correlating original locals to patched globals, and vice versa.
This is needed when:
1. User adds/removes "static" for a function.
2. CONFIG_LTO_CLANG_THIN promotes local functions and objects to global
and add .llvm.<hash> suffix.
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260305231531.3847295-8-song@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
correlate_symbols() will always try to match full name first. If there is
no match, try match only demangled_name.
In very rare cases, it is possible to have multiple foo.llvm.<hash> in
the same kernel. Whenever there is ambiguity like this, fail the klp diff.
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260305231531.3847295-7-song@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Patching a function which references a static key living in a kernel
module is unsupported due to ordering issues inherent to late module
patching:
1) Load a livepatch module which has a __jump_table entry which needs
a klp reloc to reference static key K which lives in module M.
2) The __jump_table klp reloc does *not* get resolved because module M
is not yet loaded.
3) jump_label_add_module() corrupts memory (or causes a panic) when
dereferencing the uninitialized pointer to key K.
validate_special_section_klp_reloc() intends to prevent that from ever
happening by catching it at build time. However, it incorrectly assumes
the special section entry's reloc symbol references have already been
converted from section symbols to object symbols, causing the validation
to miss corruption in extracted static branch/call table entries.
Make sure the references have been properly converted before doing the
validation.
Fixes: dd590d4d57 ("objtool/klp: Introduce klp diff subcommand for diffing object files")
Reported-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/124ad747b751df0df1725eff89de8332e3fb26d6.1770759954.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
When compiling with CONFIG_LTO_CLANG_THIN, vmlinux.o has
__irf_[start|end] before the first FILE entry:
$ readelf -sW vmlinux.o
Symbol table '.symtab' contains 597706 entries:
Num: Value Size Type Bind Vis Ndx Name
0: 0000000000000000 0 NOTYPE LOCAL DEFAULT UND
1: 0000000000000000 0 NOTYPE LOCAL DEFAULT 18 __irf_start
2: 0000000000000200 0 NOTYPE LOCAL DEFAULT 18 __irf_end
3: 0000000000000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 17 .text
4: 0000000000000000 0 SECTION LOCAL DEFAULT 18 .init.ramfs
This causes klp-build warnings like:
vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: no correlation: __irf_start
vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: no correlation: __irf_end
The problem is that Clang LTO is stripping the initramfs_data.o FILE
symbol, causing those two symbols to be orphaned and not noticed by
klp-diff's correlation logic. Add a loop to correlate any symbols found
before the first FILE symbol.
Fixes: dd590d4d57 ("objtool/klp: Introduce klp diff subcommand for diffing object files")
Reported-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/e21ec1141fc749b5f538d7329b531c1ab63a6d1a.1770055235.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
