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2015-02-04livepatch: rename config to CONFIG_LIVEPATCHJosh Poimboeuf1-2/+2
Rename CONFIG_LIVE_PATCHING to CONFIG_LIVEPATCH to make the naming of the config and the code more consistent. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2015-01-20livepatch: support for repatching a functionJosh Poimboeuf1-2/+2
Add support for patching a function multiple times. If multiple patches affect a function, the function in the most recently enabled patch "wins". This enables a cumulative patch upgrade path, where each patch is a superset of previous patches. This requires restructuring the data a little bit. With the current design, where each klp_func struct has its own ftrace_ops, we'd have to unregister the old ops and then register the new ops, because FTRACE_OPS_FL_IPMODIFY prevents us from having two ops registered for the same function at the same time. That would leave a regression window where the function isn't patched at all (not good for a patch upgrade path). This patch replaces the per-klp_func ftrace_ops with a global klp_ops list, with one ftrace_ops per original function. A single ftrace_ops is shared between all klp_funcs which have the same old_addr. This allows the switch between function versions to happen instantaneously by updating the klp_ops struct's func_stack list. The winner is the klp_func at the top of the func_stack (front of the list). [ jkosina@suse.cz: turn WARN_ON() into WARN_ON_ONCE() in ftrace handler to avoid storm in pathological cases ] Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2014-12-22livepatch: kernel: add support for live patchingSeth Jennings1-0/+133
This commit introduces code for the live patching core. It implements an ftrace-based mechanism and kernel interface for doing live patching of kernel and kernel module functions. It represents the greatest common functionality set between kpatch and kgraft and can accept patches built using either method. This first version does not implement any consistency mechanism that ensures that old and new code do not run together. In practice, ~90% of CVEs are safe to apply in this way, since they simply add a conditional check. However, any function change that can not execute safely with the old version of the function can _not_ be safely applied in this version. [ jkosina@suse.cz: due to the number of contributions that got folded into this original patch from Seth Jennings, add SUSE's copyright as well, as discussed via e-mail ] Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>