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The klp_object_ext and klp_func_ext data, which are stored in the
__klp_objects and __klp_funcs sections, respectively, are not needed
after they are used to create the actual klp_object and klp_func
instances. This operation is implemented by the init function in
scripts/livepatch/init.c.
Prefix the two sections with ".init" so they are freed after the module
is initializated.
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260123102825.3521961-3-petr.pavlu@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
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The linker script scripts/module.lds.S specifies that all input
__klp_objects sections should be consolidated into an output section of
the same name, and start/stop symbols should be created to enable
scripts/livepatch/init.c to locate this data.
This start/stop pattern is not ideal for modules because the symbols are
created even if no __klp_objects input sections are present.
Consequently, a dummy __klp_objects section also appears in the
resulting module. This unnecessarily pollutes non-livepatch modules.
Instead, since modules are relocatable files, the usual method for
locating consolidated data in a module is to read its section table.
This approach avoids the aforementioned problem.
The klp_modinfo already stores a copy of the entire section table with
the final addresses. Introduce a helper function that
scripts/livepatch/init.c can call to obtain the location of the
__klp_objects section from this data.
Fixes: dd590d4d57eb ("objtool/klp: Introduce klp diff subcommand for diffing object files")
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260123102825.3521961-2-petr.pavlu@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
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Some special sections specify their ELF section entsize, for example:
.pushsection section, "M", @progbits, 8
The entsize (8 in this example) is needed by objtool klp-diff for
extracting individual entries.
Clang assembler versions older than 20 silently ignore the above
construct and set entsize to 0, resulting in the following error:
.discard.annotate_data: missing special section entsize or annotations
Add a klp-build check to prevent the use of Clang assembler versions
prior to 20.
Fixes: 24ebfcd65a87 ("livepatch/klp-build: Introduce klp-build script for generating livepatch modules")
Reported-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/957fd52e375d0e2cfa3ac729160da995084a7f5e.1769562556.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
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When building a patch to a single-file kernel module with
CONFIG_MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL enabled, the klp-build module link fails in
modpost:
Diffing objects
drivers/md/raid0.o: changed function: raid0_run
Building patch module: livepatch-0001-patch-raid0_run.ko
drivers/md/raid0.c: No such file or directory
...
The problem here is that klp-build copied drivers/md/.raid0.o.cmd to the
module build directory, but it didn't also copy over the input source
file listed in the .cmd file:
source_drivers/md/raid0.o := drivers/md/raid0.c
So modpost dies due to the missing .c file which is needed for
calculating checksums for CONFIG_MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL.
Instead of copying the original .cmd file, just create an empty one.
Modpost only requires that it exists. The original object's build
dependencies are irrelevant for the frankenobjects used by klp-build.
Fixes: 24ebfcd65a87 ("livepatch/klp-build: Introduce klp-build script for generating livepatch modules")
Reported-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/c41b6629e02775e4c1015259aa36065b3fe2f0f3.1769471792.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
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With CONFIG_KLP_BUILD enabled, checksums are only needed during a
klp-build run. There's no need to enable them for normal kernel builds.
This also has the benefit of softening the xxhash dependency.
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/edbb1ca215e4926e02edb493b68b9d6d063e902f.1762990139.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
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Add a --show-first-changed option to identify where changed functions
begin to diverge:
- Parse 'objtool klp diff' output to find changed functions.
- Run objtool again on each object with --debug-checksum=<funcs>.
- Diff the per-instruction checksum debug output to locate the first
differing instruction.
This can be useful for quickly determining where and why a function
changed.
Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
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Add a --debug option which gets passed to "objtool klp diff" to enable
debug output related to cloning decisions.
Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
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Add a klp-build script which automates the generation of a livepatch
module from a source .patch file by performing the following steps:
- Builds an original kernel with -function-sections and
-fdata-sections, plus objtool function checksumming.
- Applies the .patch file and rebuilds the kernel using the same
options.
- Runs 'objtool klp diff' to detect changed functions and generate
intermediate binary diff objects.
- Builds a kernel module which links the diff objects with some
livepatch module init code (scripts/livepatch/init.c).
- Finalizes the livepatch module (aka work around linker wreckage)
using 'objtool klp post-link'.
Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
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Add a module initialization stub which can be linked with binary diff
objects to produce a livepatch module.
Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
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The __LINE__ macro creates challenges for binary diffing. When a .patch
file adds or removes lines, it shifts the line numbers for all code
below it.
This can cause the code generation of functions using __LINE__ to change
due to the line number constant being embedded in a MOV instruction,
despite there being no semantic difference.
Avoid such false positives by adding a fix-patch-lines script which can
be used to insert a #line directive in each patch hunk affecting the
line numbering. This script will be used by klp-build, which will be
introduced in a subsequent patch.
Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
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