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<title>linux-stable.git/lib/buildid.c, branch v6.18</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>lib/buildid: Handle memfd_secret() files in build_id_parse()</title>
<updated>2024-10-17T19:30:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
<email>andrii@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-17T17:47:13+00:00</published>
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&gt;From memfd_secret(2) manpage:

  The memory areas backing the file created with memfd_secret(2) are
  visible only to the processes that have access to the file descriptor.
  The memory region is removed from the kernel page tables and only the
  page tables of the processes holding the file descriptor map the
  corresponding physical memory. (Thus, the pages in the region can't be
  accessed by the kernel itself, so that, for example, pointers to the
  region can't be passed to system calls.)

We need to handle this special case gracefully in build ID fetching
code. Return -EFAULT whenever secretmem file is passed to build_id_parse()
family of APIs. Original report and repro can be found in [0].

  [0] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/ZwyG8Uro%2FSyTXAni@ly-workstation/

Fixes: de3ec364c3c3 ("lib/buildid: add single folio-based file reader abstraction")
Reported-by: Yi Lai &lt;yi1.lai@intel.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeel.butt@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeel.butt@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20241017175431.6183-A-hca@linux.ibm.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20241017174713.2157873-1-andrii@kernel.org
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&gt;From memfd_secret(2) manpage:

  The memory areas backing the file created with memfd_secret(2) are
  visible only to the processes that have access to the file descriptor.
  The memory region is removed from the kernel page tables and only the
  page tables of the processes holding the file descriptor map the
  corresponding physical memory. (Thus, the pages in the region can't be
  accessed by the kernel itself, so that, for example, pointers to the
  region can't be passed to system calls.)

We need to handle this special case gracefully in build ID fetching
code. Return -EFAULT whenever secretmem file is passed to build_id_parse()
family of APIs. Original report and repro can be found in [0].

  [0] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/ZwyG8Uro%2FSyTXAni@ly-workstation/

Fixes: de3ec364c3c3 ("lib/buildid: add single folio-based file reader abstraction")
Reported-by: Yi Lai &lt;yi1.lai@intel.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeel.butt@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeel.butt@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20241017175431.6183-A-hca@linux.ibm.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20241017174713.2157873-1-andrii@kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>lib/buildid: don't limit .note.gnu.build-id to the first page in ELF</title>
<updated>2024-09-11T16:58:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
<email>andrii@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-29T17:42:29+00:00</published>
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With freader we don't need to restrict ourselves to a single page, so
let's allow ELF notes to be at any valid position with the file.

We also merge parse_build_id() and parse_build_id_buf() as now the only
difference between them is note offset overflow, which makes sense to
check in all situations.

Reviewed-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240829174232.3133883-8-andrii@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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With freader we don't need to restrict ourselves to a single page, so
let's allow ELF notes to be at any valid position with the file.

We also merge parse_build_id() and parse_build_id_buf() as now the only
difference between them is note offset overflow, which makes sense to
check in all situations.

Reviewed-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240829174232.3133883-8-andrii@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>lib/buildid: implement sleepable build_id_parse() API</title>
<updated>2024-09-11T16:58:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
<email>andrii@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-29T17:42:28+00:00</published>
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Extend freader with a flag specifying whether it's OK to cause page
fault to fetch file data that is not already physically present in
memory. With this, it's now easy to wait for data if the caller is
running in sleepable (faultable) context.

We utilize read_cache_folio() to bring the desired folio into page
cache, after which the rest of the logic works just the same at folio level.

Suggested-by: Omar Sandoval &lt;osandov@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeel.butt@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeel.butt@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240829174232.3133883-7-andrii@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Extend freader with a flag specifying whether it's OK to cause page
fault to fetch file data that is not already physically present in
memory. With this, it's now easy to wait for data if the caller is
running in sleepable (faultable) context.

We utilize read_cache_folio() to bring the desired folio into page
cache, after which the rest of the logic works just the same at folio level.

Suggested-by: Omar Sandoval &lt;osandov@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeel.butt@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeel.butt@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240829174232.3133883-7-andrii@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>lib/buildid: rename build_id_parse() into build_id_parse_nofault()</title>
<updated>2024-09-11T16:58:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
<email>andrii@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-29T17:42:27+00:00</published>
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Make it clear that build_id_parse() assumes that it can take no page
fault by renaming it and current few users to build_id_parse_nofault().

Also add build_id_parse() stub which for now falls back to non-sleepable
implementation, but will be changed in subsequent patches to take
advantage of sleepable context. PROCMAP_QUERY ioctl() on
/proc/&lt;pid&gt;/maps file is using build_id_parse() and will automatically
take advantage of more reliable sleepable context implementation.

Reviewed-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240829174232.3133883-6-andrii@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Make it clear that build_id_parse() assumes that it can take no page
fault by renaming it and current few users to build_id_parse_nofault().

Also add build_id_parse() stub which for now falls back to non-sleepable
implementation, but will be changed in subsequent patches to take
advantage of sleepable context. PROCMAP_QUERY ioctl() on
/proc/&lt;pid&gt;/maps file is using build_id_parse() and will automatically
take advantage of more reliable sleepable context implementation.

Reviewed-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240829174232.3133883-6-andrii@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>lib/buildid: remove single-page limit for PHDR search</title>
<updated>2024-09-11T16:58:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
<email>andrii@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-29T17:42:26+00:00</published>
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Now that freader allows to access multiple pages transparently, there is
no need to limit program headers to the very first ELF file page. Remove
this limitation, but still put some sane limit on amount of program
headers that we are willing to iterate over (set arbitrarily to 256).

Reviewed-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240829174232.3133883-5-andrii@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Now that freader allows to access multiple pages transparently, there is
no need to limit program headers to the very first ELF file page. Remove
this limitation, but still put some sane limit on amount of program
headers that we are willing to iterate over (set arbitrarily to 256).

Reviewed-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240829174232.3133883-5-andrii@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>lib/buildid: take into account e_phoff when fetching program headers</title>
<updated>2024-09-11T16:58:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
<email>andrii@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-29T17:42:25+00:00</published>
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Current code assumption is that program (segment) headers are following
ELF header immediately. This is a common case, but is not guaranteed. So
take into account e_phoff field of the ELF header when accessing program
headers.

Reviewed-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240829174232.3133883-4-andrii@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Current code assumption is that program (segment) headers are following
ELF header immediately. This is a common case, but is not guaranteed. So
take into account e_phoff field of the ELF header when accessing program
headers.

Reviewed-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240829174232.3133883-4-andrii@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>lib/buildid: add single folio-based file reader abstraction</title>
<updated>2024-09-11T16:58:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
<email>andrii@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-29T17:42:24+00:00</published>
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Add freader abstraction that transparently manages fetching and local
mapping of the underlying file page(s) and provides a simple direct data
access interface.

freader_fetch() is the only and single interface necessary. It accepts
file offset and desired number of bytes that should be accessed, and
will return a kernel mapped pointer that caller can use to dereference
data up to requested size. Requested size can't be bigger than the size
of the extra buffer provided during initialization (because, worst case,
all requested data has to be copied into it, so it's better to flag
wrongly sized buffer unconditionally, regardless if requested data range
is crossing page boundaries or not).

If folio is not paged in, or some of the conditions are not satisfied,
NULL is returned and more detailed error code can be accessed through
freader-&gt;err field. This approach makes the usage of freader_fetch()
cleaner.

To accommodate accessing file data that crosses folio boundaries, user
has to provide an extra buffer that will be used to make a local copy,
if necessary. This is done to maintain a simple linear pointer data
access interface.

We switch existing build ID parsing logic to it, without changing or
lifting any of the existing constraints, yet. This will be done
separately.

Given existing code was written with the assumption that it's always
working with a single (first) page of the underlying ELF file, logic
passes direct pointers around, which doesn't really work well with
freader approach and would be limiting when removing the single page (folio)
limitation. So we adjust all the logic to work in terms of file offsets.

There is also a memory buffer-based version (freader_init_from_mem())
for cases when desired data is already available in kernel memory. This
is used for parsing vmlinux's own build ID note. In this mode assumption
is that provided data starts at "file offset" zero, which works great
when parsing ELF notes sections, as all the parsing logic is relative to
note section's start.

Reviewed-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeel.butt@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240829174232.3133883-3-andrii@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Add freader abstraction that transparently manages fetching and local
mapping of the underlying file page(s) and provides a simple direct data
access interface.

freader_fetch() is the only and single interface necessary. It accepts
file offset and desired number of bytes that should be accessed, and
will return a kernel mapped pointer that caller can use to dereference
data up to requested size. Requested size can't be bigger than the size
of the extra buffer provided during initialization (because, worst case,
all requested data has to be copied into it, so it's better to flag
wrongly sized buffer unconditionally, regardless if requested data range
is crossing page boundaries or not).

If folio is not paged in, or some of the conditions are not satisfied,
NULL is returned and more detailed error code can be accessed through
freader-&gt;err field. This approach makes the usage of freader_fetch()
cleaner.

To accommodate accessing file data that crosses folio boundaries, user
has to provide an extra buffer that will be used to make a local copy,
if necessary. This is done to maintain a simple linear pointer data
access interface.

We switch existing build ID parsing logic to it, without changing or
lifting any of the existing constraints, yet. This will be done
separately.

Given existing code was written with the assumption that it's always
working with a single (first) page of the underlying ELF file, logic
passes direct pointers around, which doesn't really work well with
freader approach and would be limiting when removing the single page (folio)
limitation. So we adjust all the logic to work in terms of file offsets.

There is also a memory buffer-based version (freader_init_from_mem())
for cases when desired data is already available in kernel memory. This
is used for parsing vmlinux's own build ID note. In this mode assumption
is that provided data starts at "file offset" zero, which works great
when parsing ELF notes sections, as all the parsing logic is relative to
note section's start.

Reviewed-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeel.butt@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240829174232.3133883-3-andrii@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>lib/buildid: harden build ID parsing logic</title>
<updated>2024-09-11T16:58:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
<email>andrii@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-29T17:42:23+00:00</published>
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Harden build ID parsing logic, adding explicit READ_ONCE() where it's
important to have a consistent value read and validated just once.

Also, as pointed out by Andi Kleen, we need to make sure that entire ELF
note is within a page bounds, so move the overflow check up and add an
extra note_size boundaries validation.

Fixes tag below points to the code that moved this code into
lib/buildid.c, and then subsequently was used in perf subsystem, making
this code exposed to perf_event_open() users in v5.12+.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Fixes: bd7525dacd7e ("bpf: Move stack_map_get_build_id into lib")
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240829174232.3133883-2-andrii@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Harden build ID parsing logic, adding explicit READ_ONCE() where it's
important to have a consistent value read and validated just once.

Also, as pointed out by Andi Kleen, we need to make sure that entire ELF
note is within a page bounds, so move the overflow check up and add an
extra note_size boundaries validation.

Fixes tag below points to the code that moved this code into
lib/buildid.c, and then subsequently was used in perf subsystem, making
this code exposed to perf_event_open() users in v5.12+.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Fixes: bd7525dacd7e ("bpf: Move stack_map_get_build_id into lib")
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240829174232.3133883-2-andrii@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>build-id: require program headers to be right after ELF header</title>
<updated>2024-06-29T02:36:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-21T18:39:33+00:00</published>
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Neither ELF spec not ELF loader require program header to be placed right
after ELF header, but build-id code very much assumes such placement:

See

	find_get_page(vma-&gt;vm_file-&gt;f_mapping, 0);

line and checks against PAGE_SIZE.

Returns errors for now until someone rewrites build-id parser
to be more inline with load_elf_binary().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d58bc281-6ca7-467a-9a64-40fa214bd63e@p183
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Neither ELF spec not ELF loader require program header to be placed right
after ELF header, but build-id code very much assumes such placement:

See

	find_get_page(vma-&gt;vm_file-&gt;f_mapping, 0);

line and checks against PAGE_SIZE.

Returns errors for now until someone rewrites build-id parser
to be more inline with load_elf_binary().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d58bc281-6ca7-467a-9a64-40fa214bd63e@p183
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
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<title>vmlinux: Avoid weak reference to notes section</title>
<updated>2024-05-02T10:48:26+00:00</updated>
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<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2024-04-15T16:20:44+00:00</published>
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Weak references are references that are permitted to remain unsatisfied
in the final link. This means they cannot be implemented using place
relative relocations, resulting in GOT entries when using position
independent code generation.

The notes section should always exist, so the weak annotations can be
omitted.

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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Weak references are references that are permitted to remain unsatisfied
in the final link. This means they cannot be implemented using place
relative relocations, resulting in GOT entries when using position
independent code generation.

The notes section should always exist, so the weak annotations can be
omitted.

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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