From: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2023 11:19:26 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] kallsyms: strip LTO-only suffixes from promoted global
functions
References: bsc#1012628
Patch-mainline: 6.4.7
Git-commit: 8cc32a9bbf2934d90762d9de0187adcb5ad46a11
[ Upstream commit 8cc32a9bbf2934d90762d9de0187adcb5ad46a11 ]
Commit 6eb4bd92c1ce ("kallsyms: strip LTO suffixes from static functions")
stripped all function/variable suffixes started with '.' regardless
of whether those suffixes are generated at LTO mode or not. In fact,
as far as I know, in LTO mode, when a static function/variable is
promoted to the global scope, '.llvm.<...>' suffix is added.
The existing mechanism breaks live patch for a LTO kernel even if
no <symbol>.llvm.<...> symbols are involved. For example, for the following
kernel symbols:
$ grep bpf_verifier_vlog /proc/kallsyms
ffffffff81549f60 t bpf_verifier_vlog
ffffffff8268b430 d bpf_verifier_vlog._entry
ffffffff8282a958 d bpf_verifier_vlog._entry_ptr
ffffffff82e12a1f d bpf_verifier_vlog.__already_done
'bpf_verifier_vlog' is a static function. '_entry', '_entry_ptr' and
'__already_done' are static variables used inside 'bpf_verifier_vlog',
so llvm promotes them to file-level static with prefix 'bpf_verifier_vlog.'.
Note that the func-level to file-level static function promotion also
happens without LTO.
Given a symbol name 'bpf_verifier_vlog', with LTO kernel, current mechanism will
return 4 symbols to live patch subsystem which current live patching
subsystem cannot handle it. With non-LTO kernel, only one symbol
is returned.
In [1], we have a lengthy discussion, the suggestion is to separate two
cases:
(1). new symbols with suffix which are generated regardless of whether
LTO is enabled or not, and
(2). new symbols with suffix generated only when LTO is enabled.
The cleanup_symbol_name() should only remove suffixes for case (2).
Case (1) should not be changed so it can work uniformly with or without LTO.
This patch removed LTO-only suffix '.llvm.<...>' so live patching and
tracing should work the same way for non-LTO kernel.
The cleanup_symbol_name() in scripts/kallsyms.c is also changed to have the same
filtering pattern so both kernel and kallsyms tool have the same
expectation on the order of symbols.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/live-patching/20230615170048.2382735-1-song@kernel.org/T/#u
Fixes: 6eb4bd92c1ce ("kallsyms: strip LTO suffixes from static functions")
Reported-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230628181926.4102448-1-yhs@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
---
kernel/kallsyms.c | 5 ++---
scripts/kallsyms.c | 6 +++---
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/kallsyms.c b/kernel/kallsyms.c
index 77747391..4874508b 100644
--- a/kernel/kallsyms.c
+++ b/kernel/kallsyms.c
@@ -174,11 +174,10 @@ static bool cleanup_symbol_name(char *s)
* LLVM appends various suffixes for local functions and variables that
* must be promoted to global scope as part of LTO. This can break
* hooking of static functions with kprobes. '.' is not a valid
- * character in an identifier in C. Suffixes observed:
+ * character in an identifier in C. Suffixes only in LLVM LTO observed:
* - foo.llvm.[0-9a-f]+
- * - foo.[0-9a-f]+
*/
- res = strchr(s, '.');
+ res = strstr(s, ".llvm.");
if (res) {
*res = '\0';
return true;
diff --git a/scripts/kallsyms.c b/scripts/kallsyms.c
index 0d2db411..13af6d0f 100644
--- a/scripts/kallsyms.c
+++ b/scripts/kallsyms.c
@@ -346,10 +346,10 @@ static void cleanup_symbol_name(char *s)
* ASCII[_] = 5f
* ASCII[a-z] = 61,7a
*
- * As above, replacing '.' with '\0' does not affect the main sorting,
- * but it helps us with subsorting.
+ * As above, replacing the first '.' in ".llvm." with '\0' does not
+ * affect the main sorting, but it helps us with subsorting.
*/
- p = strchr(s, '.');
+ p = strstr(s, ".llvm.");
if (p)
*p = '\0';
}
--
2.35.3