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[109.81.1.107]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5b1f17b1804b1-47f4b2755absm441635355e9.15.2026.01.21.00.29.16 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:29:16 -0800 (PST) From: Petr Pavlu To: Josh Poimboeuf , Jiri Kosina , Miroslav Benes , Petr Mladek , Joe Lawrence Cc: Luis Chamberlain , Petr Pavlu , Daniel Gomez , Sami Tolvanen , Aaron Tomlin , Peter Zijlstra , live-patching@vger.kernel.org, linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH v2 1/2] livepatch: Fix having __klp_objects relics in non-livepatch modules Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 09:28:16 +0100 Message-ID: <20260121082842.3050453-2-petr.pavlu@suse.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.52.0 In-Reply-To: <20260121082842.3050453-1-petr.pavlu@suse.com> References: <20260121082842.3050453-1-petr.pavlu@suse.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" The linker script scripts/module.lds.S specifies that all input __klp_objects sections should be consolidated into an output section of the same name, and start/stop symbols should be created to enable scripts/livepatch/init.c to locate this data. This start/stop pattern is not ideal for modules because the symbols are created even if no __klp_objects input sections are present. Consequently, a dummy __klp_objects section also appears in the resulting module. This unnecessarily pollutes non-livepatch modules. Instead, since modules are relocatable files, the usual method for locating consolidated data in a module is to read its section table. This approach avoids the aforementioned problem. The klp_modinfo already stores a copy of the entire section table with the final addresses. Introduce a helper function that scripts/livepatch/init.c can call to obtain the location of the __klp_objects section from this data. Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu Acked-by: Joe Lawrence --- include/linux/livepatch.h | 3 +++ kernel/livepatch/core.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ scripts/livepatch/init.c | 18 +++++++----------- scripts/module.lds.S | 7 +------ 4 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/livepatch.h b/include/linux/livepatch.h index 772919e8096a..0a663e5911f4 100644 --- a/include/linux/livepatch.h +++ b/include/linux/livepatch.h @@ -175,6 +175,9 @@ int klp_enable_patch(struct klp_patch *); int klp_module_coming(struct module *mod); void klp_module_going(struct module *mod); =20 +void *klp_locate_section_objs(const struct module *mod, const char *name, + size_t object_size, unsigned int *nr_objs); + void klp_copy_process(struct task_struct *child); void klp_update_patch_state(struct task_struct *task); =20 diff --git a/kernel/livepatch/core.c b/kernel/livepatch/core.c index 9917756dae46..85925abfca0f 100644 --- a/kernel/livepatch/core.c +++ b/kernel/livepatch/core.c @@ -1356,6 +1356,26 @@ void klp_module_going(struct module *mod) mutex_unlock(&klp_mutex); } =20 +void *klp_locate_section_objs(const struct module *mod, const char *name, + size_t object_size, unsigned int *nr_objs) +{ + struct klp_modinfo *info =3D mod->klp_info; + + for (int i =3D 1; i < info->hdr.e_shnum; i++) { + Elf_Shdr *shdr =3D &info->sechdrs[i]; + + if (strcmp(info->secstrings + shdr->sh_name, name)) + continue; + + *nr_objs =3D shdr->sh_size / object_size; + return (void *)shdr->sh_addr; + } + + *nr_objs =3D 0; + return NULL; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(klp_locate_section_objs); + static int __init klp_init(void) { klp_root_kobj =3D kobject_create_and_add("livepatch", kernel_kobj); diff --git a/scripts/livepatch/init.c b/scripts/livepatch/init.c index 2274d8f5a482..a02252e1de03 100644 --- a/scripts/livepatch/init.c +++ b/scripts/livepatch/init.c @@ -9,19 +9,17 @@ #include #include =20 -extern struct klp_object_ext __start_klp_objects[]; -extern struct klp_object_ext __stop_klp_objects[]; - static struct klp_patch *patch; =20 static int __init livepatch_mod_init(void) { + struct klp_object_ext *obj_exts; struct klp_object *objs; unsigned int nr_objs; int ret; =20 - nr_objs =3D __stop_klp_objects - __start_klp_objects; - + obj_exts =3D klp_locate_section_objs(THIS_MODULE, "__klp_objects", + sizeof(*obj_exts), &nr_objs); if (!nr_objs) { pr_err("nothing to patch!\n"); ret =3D -EINVAL; @@ -41,7 +39,7 @@ static int __init livepatch_mod_init(void) } =20 for (int i =3D 0; i < nr_objs; i++) { - struct klp_object_ext *obj_ext =3D __start_klp_objects + i; + struct klp_object_ext *obj_ext =3D obj_exts + i; struct klp_func_ext *funcs_ext =3D obj_ext->funcs; unsigned int nr_funcs =3D obj_ext->nr_funcs; struct klp_func *funcs =3D objs[i].funcs; @@ -90,12 +88,10 @@ static int __init livepatch_mod_init(void) =20 static void __exit livepatch_mod_exit(void) { - unsigned int nr_objs; - - nr_objs =3D __stop_klp_objects - __start_klp_objects; + struct klp_object *obj; =20 - for (int i =3D 0; i < nr_objs; i++) - kfree(patch->objs[i].funcs); + klp_for_each_object_static(patch, obj) + kfree(obj->funcs); =20 kfree(patch->objs); kfree(patch); diff --git a/scripts/module.lds.S b/scripts/module.lds.S index 3037d5e5527c..383d19beffb4 100644 --- a/scripts/module.lds.S +++ b/scripts/module.lds.S @@ -35,12 +35,7 @@ SECTIONS { __patchable_function_entries : { *(__patchable_function_entries) } =20 __klp_funcs 0: ALIGN(8) { KEEP(*(__klp_funcs)) } - - __klp_objects 0: ALIGN(8) { - __start_klp_objects =3D .; - KEEP(*(__klp_objects)) - __stop_klp_objects =3D .; - } + __klp_objects 0: ALIGN(8) { KEEP(*(__klp_objects)) } =20 #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_USES_CFI_TRAPS __kcfi_traps : { KEEP(*(.kcfi_traps)) } --=20 2.52.0