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<title>linux-toradex.git/kernel/module.c, branch v5.17-rc4</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Revert "module, async: async_synchronize_full() on module init iff async is used"</title>
<updated>2022-02-03T19:20:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Igor Pylypiv</name>
<email>ipylypiv@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-27T23:39:53+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit 774a1221e862b343388347bac9b318767336b20b.

We need to finish all async code before the module init sequence is
done.  In the reverted commit the PF_USED_ASYNC flag was added to mark a
thread that called async_schedule().  Then the PF_USED_ASYNC flag was
used to determine whether or not async_synchronize_full() needs to be
invoked.  This works when modprobe thread is calling async_schedule(),
but it does not work if module dispatches init code to a worker thread
which then calls async_schedule().

For example, PCI driver probing is invoked from a worker thread based on
a node where device is attached:

	if (cpu &lt; nr_cpu_ids)
		error = work_on_cpu(cpu, local_pci_probe, &amp;ddi);
	else
		error = local_pci_probe(&amp;ddi);

We end up in a situation where a worker thread gets the PF_USED_ASYNC
flag set instead of the modprobe thread.  As a result,
async_synchronize_full() is not invoked and modprobe completes without
waiting for the async code to finish.

The issue was discovered while loading the pm80xx driver:
(scsi_mod.scan=async)

modprobe pm80xx                      worker
...
  do_init_module()
  ...
    pci_call_probe()
      work_on_cpu(local_pci_probe)
                                     local_pci_probe()
                                       pm8001_pci_probe()
                                         scsi_scan_host()
                                           async_schedule()
                                           worker-&gt;flags |= PF_USED_ASYNC;
                                     ...
      &lt; return from worker &gt;
  ...
  if (current-&gt;flags &amp; PF_USED_ASYNC) &lt;--- false
  	async_synchronize_full();

Commit 21c3c5d28007 ("block: don't request module during elevator init")
fixed the deadlock issue which the reverted commit 774a1221e862
("module, async: async_synchronize_full() on module init iff async is
used") tried to fix.

Since commit 0fdff3ec6d87 ("async, kmod: warn on synchronous
request_module() from async workers") synchronous module loading from
async is not allowed.

Given that the original deadlock issue is fixed and it is no longer
allowed to call synchronous request_module() from async we can remove
PF_USED_ASYNC flag to make module init consistently invoke
async_synchronize_full() unless async module probe is requested.

Signed-off-by: Igor Pylypiv &lt;ipylypiv@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Changyuan Lyu &lt;changyuanl@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This reverts commit 774a1221e862b343388347bac9b318767336b20b.

We need to finish all async code before the module init sequence is
done.  In the reverted commit the PF_USED_ASYNC flag was added to mark a
thread that called async_schedule().  Then the PF_USED_ASYNC flag was
used to determine whether or not async_synchronize_full() needs to be
invoked.  This works when modprobe thread is calling async_schedule(),
but it does not work if module dispatches init code to a worker thread
which then calls async_schedule().

For example, PCI driver probing is invoked from a worker thread based on
a node where device is attached:

	if (cpu &lt; nr_cpu_ids)
		error = work_on_cpu(cpu, local_pci_probe, &amp;ddi);
	else
		error = local_pci_probe(&amp;ddi);

We end up in a situation where a worker thread gets the PF_USED_ASYNC
flag set instead of the modprobe thread.  As a result,
async_synchronize_full() is not invoked and modprobe completes without
waiting for the async code to finish.

The issue was discovered while loading the pm80xx driver:
(scsi_mod.scan=async)

modprobe pm80xx                      worker
...
  do_init_module()
  ...
    pci_call_probe()
      work_on_cpu(local_pci_probe)
                                     local_pci_probe()
                                       pm8001_pci_probe()
                                         scsi_scan_host()
                                           async_schedule()
                                           worker-&gt;flags |= PF_USED_ASYNC;
                                     ...
      &lt; return from worker &gt;
  ...
  if (current-&gt;flags &amp; PF_USED_ASYNC) &lt;--- false
  	async_synchronize_full();

Commit 21c3c5d28007 ("block: don't request module during elevator init")
fixed the deadlock issue which the reverted commit 774a1221e862
("module, async: async_synchronize_full() on module init iff async is
used") tried to fix.

Since commit 0fdff3ec6d87 ("async, kmod: warn on synchronous
request_module() from async workers") synchronous module loading from
async is not allowed.

Given that the original deadlock issue is fixed and it is no longer
allowed to call synchronous request_module() from async we can remove
PF_USED_ASYNC flag to make module init consistently invoke
async_synchronize_full() unless async module probe is requested.

Signed-off-by: Igor Pylypiv &lt;ipylypiv@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Changyuan Lyu &lt;changyuanl@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux</title>
<updated>2022-01-17T05:32:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-17T05:32:51+00:00</published>
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Pull module updates from Luis Chamberlain:
 "The biggest change here is in-kernel support for module decompression.
  This change is being made to help support LSMs like LoadPin as
  otherwise it loses link between the source of kernel module on the
  disk and binary blob that is being loaded into the kernel.

  kmod decompression is still done by userspace even with this is done,
  both because there are no measurable gains in not doing so and as it
  adds a secondary extra check for validating the module before loading
  it into the kernel.

  The rest of the changes are minor, the only other change worth
  mentionin there is Jessica Yu is now bowing out of maintenance of
  modules as she's taking a break from work.

  While there were other changes posted for modules, those have not yet
  received much review of testing so I'm not yet comfortable in merging
  any of those changes yet."

* 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux:
  module: fix signature check failures when using in-kernel decompression
  kernel: Fix spelling mistake "compresser" -&gt; "compressor"
  MAINTAINERS: add mailing lists for kmod and modules
  module.h: allow #define strings to work with MODULE_IMPORT_NS
  module: add in-kernel support for decompressing
  MAINTAINERS: Remove myself as modules maintainer
  module: Remove outdated comment
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Pull module updates from Luis Chamberlain:
 "The biggest change here is in-kernel support for module decompression.
  This change is being made to help support LSMs like LoadPin as
  otherwise it loses link between the source of kernel module on the
  disk and binary blob that is being loaded into the kernel.

  kmod decompression is still done by userspace even with this is done,
  both because there are no measurable gains in not doing so and as it
  adds a secondary extra check for validating the module before loading
  it into the kernel.

  The rest of the changes are minor, the only other change worth
  mentionin there is Jessica Yu is now bowing out of maintenance of
  modules as she's taking a break from work.

  While there were other changes posted for modules, those have not yet
  received much review of testing so I'm not yet comfortable in merging
  any of those changes yet."

* 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux:
  module: fix signature check failures when using in-kernel decompression
  kernel: Fix spelling mistake "compresser" -&gt; "compressor"
  MAINTAINERS: add mailing lists for kmod and modules
  module.h: allow #define strings to work with MODULE_IMPORT_NS
  module: add in-kernel support for decompressing
  MAINTAINERS: Remove myself as modules maintainer
  module: Remove outdated comment
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'signal-for-v5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2022-01-17T03:49:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-17T03:49:30+00:00</published>
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Pull signal/exit/ptrace updates from Eric Biederman:
 "This set of changes deletes some dead code, makes a lot of cleanups
  which hopefully make the code easier to follow, and fixes bugs found
  along the way.

  The end-game which I have not yet reached yet is for fatal signals
  that generate coredumps to be short-circuit deliverable from
  complete_signal, for force_siginfo_to_task not to require changing
  userspace configured signal delivery state, and for the ptrace stops
  to always happen in locations where we can guarantee on all
  architectures that the all of the registers are saved and available on
  the stack.

  Removal of profile_task_ext, profile_munmap, and profile_handoff_task
  are the big successes for dead code removal this round.

  A bunch of small bug fixes are included, as most of the issues
  reported were small enough that they would not affect bisection so I
  simply added the fixes and did not fold the fixes into the changes
  they were fixing.

  There was a bug that broke coredumps piped to systemd-coredump. I
  dropped the change that caused that bug and replaced it entirely with
  something much more restrained. Unfortunately that required some
  rebasing.

  Some successes after this set of changes: There are few enough calls
  to do_exit to audit in a reasonable amount of time. The lifetime of
  struct kthread now matches the lifetime of struct task, and the
  pointer to struct kthread is no longer stored in set_child_tid. The
  flag SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP is removed. The field group_exit_task is
  removed. Issues where task-&gt;exit_code was examined with
  signal-&gt;group_exit_code should been examined were fixed.

  There are several loosely related changes included because I am
  cleaning up and if I don't include them they will probably get lost.

  The original postings of these changes can be found at:
     https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87a6ha4zsd.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org
     https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87bl1kunjj.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org
     https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87r19opkx1.fsf_-_@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org

  I trimmed back the last set of changes to only the obviously correct
  once. Simply because there was less time for review than I had hoped"

* 'signal-for-v5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (44 commits)
  ptrace/m68k: Stop open coding ptrace_report_syscall
  ptrace: Remove unused regs argument from ptrace_report_syscall
  ptrace: Remove second setting of PT_SEIZED in ptrace_attach
  taskstats: Cleanup the use of task-&gt;exit_code
  exit: Use the correct exit_code in /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/stat
  exit: Fix the exit_code for wait_task_zombie
  exit: Coredumps reach do_group_exit
  exit: Remove profile_handoff_task
  exit: Remove profile_task_exit &amp; profile_munmap
  signal: clean up kernel-doc comments
  signal: Remove the helper signal_group_exit
  signal: Rename group_exit_task group_exec_task
  coredump: Stop setting signal-&gt;group_exit_task
  signal: Remove SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP
  signal: During coredumps set SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT in zap_process
  signal: Make coredump handling explicit in complete_signal
  signal: Have prepare_signal detect coredumps using signal-&gt;core_state
  signal: Have the oom killer detect coredumps using signal-&gt;core_state
  exit: Move force_uaccess back into do_exit
  exit: Guarantee make_task_dead leaks the tsk when calling do_task_exit
  ...
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<pre>
Pull signal/exit/ptrace updates from Eric Biederman:
 "This set of changes deletes some dead code, makes a lot of cleanups
  which hopefully make the code easier to follow, and fixes bugs found
  along the way.

  The end-game which I have not yet reached yet is for fatal signals
  that generate coredumps to be short-circuit deliverable from
  complete_signal, for force_siginfo_to_task not to require changing
  userspace configured signal delivery state, and for the ptrace stops
  to always happen in locations where we can guarantee on all
  architectures that the all of the registers are saved and available on
  the stack.

  Removal of profile_task_ext, profile_munmap, and profile_handoff_task
  are the big successes for dead code removal this round.

  A bunch of small bug fixes are included, as most of the issues
  reported were small enough that they would not affect bisection so I
  simply added the fixes and did not fold the fixes into the changes
  they were fixing.

  There was a bug that broke coredumps piped to systemd-coredump. I
  dropped the change that caused that bug and replaced it entirely with
  something much more restrained. Unfortunately that required some
  rebasing.

  Some successes after this set of changes: There are few enough calls
  to do_exit to audit in a reasonable amount of time. The lifetime of
  struct kthread now matches the lifetime of struct task, and the
  pointer to struct kthread is no longer stored in set_child_tid. The
  flag SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP is removed. The field group_exit_task is
  removed. Issues where task-&gt;exit_code was examined with
  signal-&gt;group_exit_code should been examined were fixed.

  There are several loosely related changes included because I am
  cleaning up and if I don't include them they will probably get lost.

  The original postings of these changes can be found at:
     https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87a6ha4zsd.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org
     https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87bl1kunjj.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org
     https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87r19opkx1.fsf_-_@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org

  I trimmed back the last set of changes to only the obviously correct
  once. Simply because there was less time for review than I had hoped"

* 'signal-for-v5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (44 commits)
  ptrace/m68k: Stop open coding ptrace_report_syscall
  ptrace: Remove unused regs argument from ptrace_report_syscall
  ptrace: Remove second setting of PT_SEIZED in ptrace_attach
  taskstats: Cleanup the use of task-&gt;exit_code
  exit: Use the correct exit_code in /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/stat
  exit: Fix the exit_code for wait_task_zombie
  exit: Coredumps reach do_group_exit
  exit: Remove profile_handoff_task
  exit: Remove profile_task_exit &amp; profile_munmap
  signal: clean up kernel-doc comments
  signal: Remove the helper signal_group_exit
  signal: Rename group_exit_task group_exec_task
  coredump: Stop setting signal-&gt;group_exit_task
  signal: Remove SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP
  signal: During coredumps set SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT in zap_process
  signal: Make coredump handling explicit in complete_signal
  signal: Have prepare_signal detect coredumps using signal-&gt;core_state
  signal: Have the oom killer detect coredumps using signal-&gt;core_state
  exit: Move force_uaccess back into do_exit
  exit: Guarantee make_task_dead leaks the tsk when calling do_task_exit
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'livepatching-for-5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/livepatching/livepatching</title>
<updated>2022-01-16T08:08:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-16T08:08:13+00:00</published>
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Pull livepatching updates from Petr Mladek:

 - Correctly handle kobjects when a livepatch init fails

 - Avoid CPU hogging when searching for many livepatched symbols

 - Add livepatch API page into documentation

* tag 'livepatching-for-5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/livepatching/livepatching:
  livepatch: Avoid CPU hogging with cond_resched
  livepatch: Fix missing unlock on error in klp_enable_patch()
  livepatch: Fix kobject refcount bug on klp_init_patch_early failure path
  Documentation: livepatch: Add livepatch API page
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Pull livepatching updates from Petr Mladek:

 - Correctly handle kobjects when a livepatch init fails

 - Avoid CPU hogging when searching for many livepatched symbols

 - Add livepatch API page into documentation

* tag 'livepatching-for-5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/livepatching/livepatching:
  livepatch: Avoid CPU hogging with cond_resched
  livepatch: Fix missing unlock on error in klp_enable_patch()
  livepatch: Fix kobject refcount bug on klp_init_patch_early failure path
  Documentation: livepatch: Add livepatch API page
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>module: fix signature check failures when using in-kernel decompression</title>
<updated>2022-01-14T17:40:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Torokhov</name>
<email>dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-14T00:51:52+00:00</published>
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The new flag MODULE_INIT_COMPRESSED_FILE unintentionally trips check in
module_sig_check(). The check was supposed to catch case when version
info or magic was removed from a signed module, making signature
invalid, but it was coded too broadly and was catching this new flag as
well.

Change the check to only test the 2 particular flags affecting signature
validity.

Fixes: b1ae6dc41eaa ("module: add in-kernel support for decompressing")
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
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The new flag MODULE_INIT_COMPRESSED_FILE unintentionally trips check in
module_sig_check(). The check was supposed to catch case when version
info or magic was removed from a signed module, making signature
invalid, but it was coded too broadly and was catching this new flag as
well.

Change the check to only test the 2 particular flags affecting signature
validity.

Fixes: b1ae6dc41eaa ("module: add in-kernel support for decompressing")
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>module: add in-kernel support for decompressing</title>
<updated>2022-01-12T02:45:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Torokhov</name>
<email>dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-05T21:55:12+00:00</published>
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Current scheme of having userspace decompress kernel modules before
loading them into the kernel runs afoul of LoadPin security policy, as
it loses link between the source of kernel module on the disk and binary
blob that is being loaded into the kernel. To solve this issue let's
implement decompression in kernel, so that we can pass a file descriptor
of compressed module file into finit_module() which will keep LoadPin
happy.

To let userspace know what compression/decompression scheme kernel
supports it will create /sys/module/compression attribute. kmod can read
this attribute and decide if it can pass compressed file to
finit_module(). New MODULE_INIT_COMPRESSED_DATA flag indicates that the
kernel should attempt to decompress the data read from file descriptor
prior to trying load the module.

To simplify things kernel will only implement single decompression
method matching compression method selected when generating modules.
This patch implements gzip and xz; more can be added later,

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
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Current scheme of having userspace decompress kernel modules before
loading them into the kernel runs afoul of LoadPin security policy, as
it loses link between the source of kernel module on the disk and binary
blob that is being loaded into the kernel. To solve this issue let's
implement decompression in kernel, so that we can pass a file descriptor
of compressed module file into finit_module() which will keep LoadPin
happy.

To let userspace know what compression/decompression scheme kernel
supports it will create /sys/module/compression attribute. kmod can read
this attribute and decide if it can pass compressed file to
finit_module(). New MODULE_INIT_COMPRESSED_DATA flag indicates that the
kernel should attempt to decompress the data read from file descriptor
prior to trying load the module.

To simplify things kernel will only implement single decompression
method matching compression method selected when generating modules.
This patch implements gzip and xz; more can be added later,

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>module: Remove outdated comment</title>
<updated>2022-01-12T02:45:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yu Chen</name>
<email>chen.yu@easystack.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-22T14:26:48+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Since commit e513cc1c07e2 ("module: Remove stop_machine from module
unloading") this comment is no longer correct. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Yu Chen &lt;chen.yu@easystack.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Since commit e513cc1c07e2 ("module: Remove stop_machine from module
unloading") this comment is no longer correct. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Yu Chen &lt;chen.yu@easystack.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>livepatch: Avoid CPU hogging with cond_resched</title>
<updated>2022-01-07T11:00:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Vernet</name>
<email>void@manifault.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-29T21:56:47+00:00</published>
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When initializing a 'struct klp_object' in klp_init_object_loaded(), and
performing relocations in klp_resolve_symbols(), klp_find_object_symbol()
is invoked to look up the address of a symbol in an already-loaded module
(or vmlinux). This, in turn, calls kallsyms_on_each_symbol() or
module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol() to find the address of the symbol that is
being patched.

It turns out that symbol lookups often take up the most CPU time when
enabling and disabling a patch, and may hog the CPU and cause other tasks
on that CPU's runqueue to starve -- even in paths where interrupts are
enabled.  For example, under certain workloads, enabling a KLP patch with
many objects or functions may cause ksoftirqd to be starved, and thus for
interrupts to be backlogged and delayed. This may end up causing TCP
retransmits on the host where the KLP patch is being applied, and in
general, may cause any interrupts serviced by softirqd to be delayed while
the patch is being applied.

So as to ensure that kallsyms_on_each_symbol() does not end up hogging the
CPU, this patch adds a call to cond_resched() in kallsyms_on_each_symbol()
and module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol(), which are invoked when doing a symbol
lookup in vmlinux and a module respectively.  Without this patch, if a
live-patch is applied on a 36-core Intel host with heavy TCP traffic, a
~10x spike is observed in TCP retransmits while the patch is being applied.
Additionally, collecting sched events with perf indicates that ksoftirqd is
awakened ~1.3 seconds before it's eventually scheduled.  With the patch, no
increase in TCP retransmit events is observed, and ksoftirqd is scheduled
shortly after it's awakened.

Signed-off-by: David Vernet &lt;void@manifault.com&gt;
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211229215646.830451-1-void@manifault.com
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When initializing a 'struct klp_object' in klp_init_object_loaded(), and
performing relocations in klp_resolve_symbols(), klp_find_object_symbol()
is invoked to look up the address of a symbol in an already-loaded module
(or vmlinux). This, in turn, calls kallsyms_on_each_symbol() or
module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol() to find the address of the symbol that is
being patched.

It turns out that symbol lookups often take up the most CPU time when
enabling and disabling a patch, and may hog the CPU and cause other tasks
on that CPU's runqueue to starve -- even in paths where interrupts are
enabled.  For example, under certain workloads, enabling a KLP patch with
many objects or functions may cause ksoftirqd to be starved, and thus for
interrupts to be backlogged and delayed. This may end up causing TCP
retransmits on the host where the KLP patch is being applied, and in
general, may cause any interrupts serviced by softirqd to be delayed while
the patch is being applied.

So as to ensure that kallsyms_on_each_symbol() does not end up hogging the
CPU, this patch adds a call to cond_resched() in kallsyms_on_each_symbol()
and module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol(), which are invoked when doing a symbol
lookup in vmlinux and a module respectively.  Without this patch, if a
live-patch is applied on a 36-core Intel host with heavy TCP traffic, a
~10x spike is observed in TCP retransmits while the patch is being applied.
Additionally, collecting sched events with perf indicates that ksoftirqd is
awakened ~1.3 seconds before it's eventually scheduled.  With the patch, no
increase in TCP retransmit events is observed, and ksoftirqd is scheduled
shortly after it's awakened.

Signed-off-by: David Vernet &lt;void@manifault.com&gt;
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211229215646.830451-1-void@manifault.com
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<title>exit: Rename module_put_and_exit to module_put_and_kthread_exit</title>
<updated>2021-12-13T18:04:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-03T17:00:19+00:00</published>
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Update module_put_and_exit to call kthread_exit instead of do_exit.

Change the name to reflect this change in functionality.  All of the
users of module_put_and_exit are causing the current kthread to exit
so this change makes it clear what is happening.  There is no
functional change.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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Update module_put_and_exit to call kthread_exit instead of do_exit.

Change the name to reflect this change in functionality.  All of the
users of module_put_and_exit are causing the current kthread to exit
so this change makes it clear what is happening.  There is no
functional change.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>module: change to print useful messages from elf_validity_check()</title>
<updated>2021-11-05T22:13:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shuah Khan</name>
<email>skhan@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-15T20:57:40+00:00</published>
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elf_validity_check() checks ELF headers for errors and ELF Spec.
compliance and if any of them fail it returns -ENOEXEC from all of
these error paths. Almost all of them don't print any messages.

When elf_validity_check() returns an error, load_module() prints an
error message without error code. It is hard to determine why the
module ELF structure is invalid, even if load_module() prints the
error code which is -ENOEXEC in all of these cases.

Change to print useful error messages from elf_validity_check() to
clearly say what went wrong and why the ELF validity checks failed.

Remove the load_module() error message which is no longer needed.
This patch includes changes to fix build warns on 32-bit platforms:

warning: format '%llu' expects argument of type 'long long unsigned int',
but argument 3 has type 'Elf32_Off' {aka 'unsigned int'}
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;

Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan &lt;skhan@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
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elf_validity_check() checks ELF headers for errors and ELF Spec.
compliance and if any of them fail it returns -ENOEXEC from all of
these error paths. Almost all of them don't print any messages.

When elf_validity_check() returns an error, load_module() prints an
error message without error code. It is hard to determine why the
module ELF structure is invalid, even if load_module() prints the
error code which is -ENOEXEC in all of these cases.

Change to print useful error messages from elf_validity_check() to
clearly say what went wrong and why the ELF validity checks failed.

Remove the load_module() error message which is no longer needed.
This patch includes changes to fix build warns on 32-bit platforms:

warning: format '%llu' expects argument of type 'long long unsigned int',
but argument 3 has type 'Elf32_Off' {aka 'unsigned int'}
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;

Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan &lt;skhan@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
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