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From: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
To: jikos@kernel.org, jpoimboe@redhat.com, jeyu@kernel.org
Cc: pmladek@suse.com, live-patching@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] livepatch: Nullify obj->mod in klp_module_coming()'s error path
Date: Thu,  7 Jun 2018 11:29:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180607092949.1706-2-mbenes@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180607092949.1706-1-mbenes@suse.cz>

klp_module_coming() is called for every module appearing in the system.
It sets obj->mod to a patched module for klp_object obj. Unfortunately
it leaves it set even if an error happens later in the function and the
patched module is not allowed to be loaded.

klp_is_object_loaded() uses obj->mod variable and could currently give a
wrong return value. The bug is probably harmless as of now, but we're
gonna rely on klp_is_object_loaded() and correct obj->mod much more and
the bug would be visible then.

Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
---
 kernel/livepatch/core.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/kernel/livepatch/core.c b/kernel/livepatch/core.c
index 3a4656fb7047..36eb5cf38766 100644
--- a/kernel/livepatch/core.c
+++ b/kernel/livepatch/core.c
@@ -1015,6 +1015,7 @@ int klp_module_coming(struct module *mod)
 	pr_warn("patch '%s' failed for module '%s', refusing to load module '%s'\n",
 		patch->mod->name, obj->mod->name, obj->mod->name);
 	mod->klp_alive = false;
+	obj->mod = NULL;
 	klp_cleanup_module_patches_limited(mod, patch);
 	mutex_unlock(&klp_mutex);
 
-- 
2.17.0

  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-07  9:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-07  9:29 [PATCH 0/3] Deny the patched modules to be removed Miroslav Benes
2018-06-07  9:29 ` Miroslav Benes [this message]
2018-06-11  9:03   ` [PATCH 1/3] livepatch: Nullify obj->mod in klp_module_coming()'s error path Petr Mladek
2018-06-07  9:29 ` [PATCH 2/3] livepatch: Deny the patched modules to be removed Miroslav Benes
2018-06-11 11:41   ` Petr Mladek
2018-06-11 12:43     ` Miroslav Benes
2018-06-07  9:29 ` [PATCH 3/3] module: Remove superfluous call to klp_module_going() Miroslav Benes
2018-06-11  9:38   ` Jessica Yu

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