From 3c33f5b99d688deafd21d4a770303691c7c3a320 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Josh Poimboeuf Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 09:26:19 -0600 Subject: livepatch: support for repatching a function 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 Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina --- include/linux/livepatch.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/livepatch.h') diff --git a/include/linux/livepatch.h b/include/linux/livepatch.h index 950bc615842f..f14c6fb262b4 100644 --- a/include/linux/livepatch.h +++ b/include/linux/livepatch.h @@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ enum klp_state { * @old_addr: a hint conveying at what address the old function * can be found (optional, vmlinux patches only) * @kobj: kobject for sysfs resources - * @fops: ftrace operations structure * @state: tracks function-level patch application state + * @stack_node: list node for klp_ops func_stack list */ struct klp_func { /* external */ @@ -59,8 +59,8 @@ struct klp_func { /* internal */ struct kobject kobj; - struct ftrace_ops *fops; enum klp_state state; + struct list_head stack_node; }; /** -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b