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| author | Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> | 2025-10-16 11:38:19 +0200 |
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| committer | Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> | 2025-10-16 11:38:19 +0200 |
| commit | 00a155c691befdb10bea52c91d4c8c930bdaf73a (patch) | |
| tree | 7a730a57251bbccbdc48e3a22a31cb3384a72f9f /include/linux/livepatch_external.h | |
| parent | 044f721ccd33103349eebbb960825584bc6d8e23 (diff) | |
| parent | b9976fa4649627c04dde26183333c3dcc90a0b76 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'objtool/core' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jpoimboe/linux
This series introduces new objtool features and a klp-build script to
generate livepatch modules using a source .patch as input.
This builds on concepts from the longstanding out-of-tree kpatch [1]
project which began in 2012 and has been used for many years to generate
livepatch modules for production kernels. However, this is a complete
rewrite which incorporates hard-earned lessons from 12+ years of
maintaining kpatch.
Key improvements compared to kpatch-build:
- Integrated with objtool: Leverages objtool's existing control-flow
graph analysis to help detect changed functions.
- Works on vmlinux.o: Supports late-linked objects, making it
compatible with LTO, IBT, and similar.
- Simplified code base: ~3k fewer lines of code.
- Upstream: No more out-of-tree #ifdef hacks, far less cruft.
- Cleaner internals: Vastly simplified logic for symbol/section/reloc
inclusion and special section extraction.
- Robust __LINE__ macro handling: Avoids false positive binary diffs
caused by the __LINE__ macro by introducing a fix-patch-lines script
which injects #line directives into the source .patch to preserve
the original line numbers at compile time.
The primary user interface is the klp-build script which does the
following:
- 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'.
I've tested with a variety of patches on defconfig and Fedora-config
kernels with both GCC and Clang.
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/livepatch_external.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/livepatch_external.h | 76 |
1 files changed, 76 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/livepatch_external.h b/include/linux/livepatch_external.h new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..138af19b0f5c --- /dev/null +++ b/include/linux/livepatch_external.h @@ -0,0 +1,76 @@ +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */ +/* + * External livepatch interfaces for patch creation tooling + */ + +#ifndef _LINUX_LIVEPATCH_EXTERNAL_H_ +#define _LINUX_LIVEPATCH_EXTERNAL_H_ + +#include <linux/types.h> + +#define KLP_RELOC_SEC_PREFIX ".klp.rela." +#define KLP_SYM_PREFIX ".klp.sym." + +#define __KLP_PRE_PATCH_PREFIX __klp_pre_patch_callback_ +#define __KLP_POST_PATCH_PREFIX __klp_post_patch_callback_ +#define __KLP_PRE_UNPATCH_PREFIX __klp_pre_unpatch_callback_ +#define __KLP_POST_UNPATCH_PREFIX __klp_post_unpatch_callback_ + +#define KLP_PRE_PATCH_PREFIX __stringify(__KLP_PRE_PATCH_PREFIX) +#define KLP_POST_PATCH_PREFIX __stringify(__KLP_POST_PATCH_PREFIX) +#define KLP_PRE_UNPATCH_PREFIX __stringify(__KLP_PRE_UNPATCH_PREFIX) +#define KLP_POST_UNPATCH_PREFIX __stringify(__KLP_POST_UNPATCH_PREFIX) + +struct klp_object; + +typedef int (*klp_pre_patch_t)(struct klp_object *obj); +typedef void (*klp_post_patch_t)(struct klp_object *obj); +typedef void (*klp_pre_unpatch_t)(struct klp_object *obj); +typedef void (*klp_post_unpatch_t)(struct klp_object *obj); + +/** + * struct klp_callbacks - pre/post live-(un)patch callback structure + * @pre_patch: executed before code patching + * @post_patch: executed after code patching + * @pre_unpatch: executed before code unpatching + * @post_unpatch: executed after code unpatching + * @post_unpatch_enabled: flag indicating if post-unpatch callback + * should run + * + * All callbacks are optional. Only the pre-patch callback, if provided, + * will be unconditionally executed. If the parent klp_object fails to + * patch for any reason, including a non-zero error status returned from + * the pre-patch callback, no further callbacks will be executed. + */ +struct klp_callbacks { + klp_pre_patch_t pre_patch; + klp_post_patch_t post_patch; + klp_pre_unpatch_t pre_unpatch; + klp_post_unpatch_t post_unpatch; + bool post_unpatch_enabled; +}; + +/* + * 'struct klp_{func,object}_ext' are compact "external" representations of + * 'struct klp_{func,object}'. They are used by objtool for livepatch + * generation. The structs are then read by the livepatch module and converted + * to the real structs before calling klp_enable_patch(). + * + * TODO make these the official API for klp_enable_patch(). That should + * simplify livepatch's interface as well as its data structure lifetime + * management. + */ +struct klp_func_ext { + const char *old_name; + void *new_func; + unsigned long sympos; +}; + +struct klp_object_ext { + const char *name; + struct klp_func_ext *funcs; + struct klp_callbacks callbacks; + unsigned int nr_funcs; +}; + +#endif /* _LINUX_LIVEPATCH_EXTERNAL_H_ */ |
