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authorChengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>2022-03-12 16:22:20 +0100
committerPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>2022-03-17 19:02:30 +0100
commit2957308343fa7c621df9f342fab88cb970b8d5f3 (patch)
treeab8a8824eb612fbcb7424cab05fa11438430b50d /kernel/livepatch
parentMerge tag 'livepatching-for-5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kerne... (diff)
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livepatch: Don't block removal of patches that are safe to unload
module_put() is not called for a patch with "forced" flag. It should block the removal of the livepatch module when the code might still be in use after forced transition. klp_force_transition() currently sets "forced" flag for all patches on the list. In fact, any patch can be safely unloaded when it passed through the consistency model in KLP_UNPATCHED transition. In other words, the "forced" flag must be set only for livepatches that are being removed. In particular, set the "forced" flag: + only for klp_transition_patch when the transition to KLP_UNPATCHED state was forced. + all replaced patches when the transition to KLP_PATCHED state was forced and the patch was replacing the existing patches. Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com> Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Tested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> [mbenes@suse.cz: wording improvements] Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220312152220.88127-1-zhouchengming@bytedance.com
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/livepatch')
-rw-r--r--kernel/livepatch/transition.c11
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/livepatch/transition.c b/kernel/livepatch/transition.c
index 5683ac0d2566..77ef45a1e0a3 100644
--- a/kernel/livepatch/transition.c
+++ b/kernel/livepatch/transition.c
@@ -641,6 +641,13 @@ void klp_force_transition(void)
for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
klp_update_patch_state(idle_task(cpu));
- klp_for_each_patch(patch)
- patch->forced = true;
+ /* Set forced flag for patches being removed. */
+ if (klp_target_state == KLP_UNPATCHED)
+ klp_transition_patch->forced = true;
+ else if (klp_transition_patch->replace) {
+ klp_for_each_patch(patch) {
+ if (patch != klp_transition_patch)
+ patch->forced = true;
+ }
+ }
}