livepatch: allow removal of a disabled patch

Currently we do not allow patch module to unload since there is no
method to determine if a task is still running in the patched code.

The consistency model gives us the way because when the unpatching
finishes we know that all tasks were marked as safe to call an original
function. Thus every new call to the function calls the original code
and at the same time no task can be somewhere in the patched code,
because it had to leave that code to be marked as safe.

We can safely let the patch module go after that.

Completion is used for synchronization between module removal and sysfs
infrastructure in a similar way to commit 942e443127e9 ("module: Fix
mod->mkobj.kobj potentially freed too early").

Note that we still do not allow the removal for immediate model, that is
no consistency model. The module refcount may increase in this case if
somebody disables and enables the patch several times. This should not
cause any harm.

With this change a call to try_module_get() is moved to
__klp_enable_patch from klp_register_patch to make module reference
counting symmetric (module_put() is in a patch disable path) and to
allow to take a new reference to a disabled module when being enabled.

Finally, we need to be very careful about possible races between
klp_unregister_patch(), kobject_put() functions and operations
on the related sysfs files.

kobject_put(&patch->kobj) must be called without klp_mutex. Otherwise,
it might be blocked by enabled_store() that needs the mutex as well.
In addition, enabled_store() must check if the patch was not
unregisted in the meantime.

There is no need to do the same for other kobject_put() callsites
at the moment. Their sysfs operations neither take the lock nor
they access any data that might be freed in the meantime.

There was an attempt to use kobjects the right way and prevent these
races by design. But it made the patch definition more complicated
and opened another can of worms. See
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464018848-4303-1-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com

[Thanks to Petr Mladek for improving the commit message.]

Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

1 files changed, 50 insertions, 30 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/livepatch/core.c b/kernel/livepatch/core.c
index 3dc3c9049690..6844c1213df8 100644
--- a/kernel/livepatch/core.c
+++ b/kernel/livepatch/core.c
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 #include <linux/livepatch.h>
 #include <linux/elf.h>
 #include <linux/moduleloader.h>
+#include <linux/completion.h>
 #include <asm/cacheflush.h>
 #include "patch.h"
 #include "transition.h"
@@ -354,6 +355,18 @@ static int __klp_enable_patch(struct klp_patch *patch)
             !list_prev_entry(patch, list)->enabled)
                 return -EBUSY;
 
+        /*
+         * A reference is taken on the patch module to prevent it from being
+         * unloaded.
+         *
+         * Note: For immediate (no consistency model) patches we don't allow
+         * patch modules to unload since there is no safe/sane method to
+         * determine if a thread is still running in the patched code contained
+         * in the patch module once the ftrace registration is successful.
+         */
+        if (!try_module_get(patch->mod))
+                return -ENODEV;
+
         pr_notice("enabling patch '%s'\n", patch->mod->name);
 
         klp_init_transition(patch, KLP_PATCHED);
@@ -442,6 +455,15 @@ static ssize_t enabled_store(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr,
 
         mutex_lock(&klp_mutex);
 
+        if (!klp_is_patch_registered(patch)) {
+                /*
+                 * Module with the patch could either disappear meanwhile or is
+                 * not properly initialized yet.
+                 */
+                ret = -EINVAL;
+                goto err;
+        }
+
         if (patch->enabled == enabled) {
                 /* already in requested state */
                 ret = -EINVAL;
@@ -498,10 +520,10 @@ static struct attribute *klp_patch_attrs[] = {
 
 static void klp_kobj_release_patch(struct kobject *kobj)
 {
-        /*
-         * Once we have a consistency model we'll need to module_put() the
-         * patch module here.  See klp_register_patch() for more details.
-         */
+        struct klp_patch *patch;
+
+        patch = container_of(kobj, struct klp_patch, kobj);
+        complete(&patch->finish);
 }
 
 static struct kobj_type klp_ktype_patch = {
@@ -572,7 +594,6 @@ static void klp_free_patch(struct klp_patch *patch)
         klp_free_objects_limited(patch, NULL);
         if (!list_empty(&patch->list))
                 list_del(&patch->list);
-        kobject_put(&patch->kobj);
 }
 
 static int klp_init_func(struct klp_object *obj, struct klp_func *func)
@@ -695,11 +716,14 @@ static int klp_init_patch(struct klp_patch *patch)
         mutex_lock(&klp_mutex);
 
         patch->enabled = false;
+        init_completion(&patch->finish);
 
         ret = kobject_init_and_add(&patch->kobj, &klp_ktype_patch,
                                    klp_root_kobj, "%s", patch->mod->name);
-        if (ret)
-                goto unlock;
+        if (ret) {
+                mutex_unlock(&klp_mutex);
+                return ret;
+        }
 
         klp_for_each_object(patch, obj) {
                 ret = klp_init_object(patch, obj);
@@ -715,9 +739,12 @@ static int klp_init_patch(struct klp_patch *patch)
 
 free:
         klp_free_objects_limited(patch, obj);
-        kobject_put(&patch->kobj);
-unlock:
+
         mutex_unlock(&klp_mutex);
+
+        kobject_put(&patch->kobj);
+        wait_for_completion(&patch->finish);
+
         return ret;
 }
 
@@ -731,23 +758,29 @@ unlock:
  */
 int klp_unregister_patch(struct klp_patch *patch)
 {
-        int ret = 0;
+        int ret;
 
         mutex_lock(&klp_mutex);
 
         if (!klp_is_patch_registered(patch)) {
                 ret = -EINVAL;
-                goto out;
+                goto err;
         }
 
         if (patch->enabled) {
                 ret = -EBUSY;
-                goto out;
+                goto err;
         }
 
         klp_free_patch(patch);
 
-out:
+        mutex_unlock(&klp_mutex);
+
+        kobject_put(&patch->kobj);
+        wait_for_completion(&patch->finish);
+
+        return 0;
+err:
         mutex_unlock(&klp_mutex);
         return ret;
 }
@@ -760,12 +793,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(klp_unregister_patch);
  * Initializes the data structure associated with the patch and
  * creates the sysfs interface.
  *
+ * There is no need to take the reference on the patch module here. It is done
+ * later when the patch is enabled.
+ *
  * Return: 0 on success, otherwise error
  */
 int klp_register_patch(struct klp_patch *patch)
 {
-        int ret;
-
         if (!patch || !patch->mod)
                 return -EINVAL;
 
@@ -788,21 +822,7 @@ int klp_register_patch(struct klp_patch *patch)
                 return -ENOSYS;
         }
 
-        /*
-         * A reference is taken on the patch module to prevent it from being
-         * unloaded.  Right now, we don't allow patch modules to unload since
-         * there is currently no method to determine if a thread is still
-         * running in the patched code contained in the patch module once
-         * the ftrace registration is successful.
-         */
-        if (!try_module_get(patch->mod))
-                return -ENODEV;
-
-        ret = klp_init_patch(patch);
-        if (ret)
-                module_put(patch->mod);
-
-        return ret;
+        return klp_init_patch(patch);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(klp_register_patch);