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* livepatch: remove extern specifier from header filesMiroslav Benes2015-02-18
| | | | | | | | | | | Storage-class specifier 'extern' is redundant in front of the function declaration. According to the C specification it has the same meaning as if not present at all. So remove it. Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* livepatch: rename config to CONFIG_LIVEPATCHJosh Poimboeuf2015-02-04
| | | | | | | | | Rename CONFIG_LIVE_PATCHING to CONFIG_LIVEPATCH to make the naming of the config and the code more consistent. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* livepatch: handle ancient compilers with more graceJiri Kosina2015-01-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We are aborting a build in case when gcc doesn't support fentry on x86_64 (regs->ip modification can't really reliably work with mcount). This however breaks allmodconfig for people with older gccs that don't support -mfentry. Turn the build-time failure into runtime failure, resulting in the whole infrastructure not being initialized if CC_USING_FENTRY is unset. Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
* livepatch: move x86 specific ftrace handler code to arch/x86Li Bin2014-12-22
| | | | | | | | | | | The execution flow redirection related implemention in the livepatch ftrace handler is depended on the specific architecture. This patch introduces klp_arch_set_pc(like kgdb_arch_set_pc) interface to change the pt_regs. Signed-off-by: Li Bin <huawei.libin@huawei.com> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* livepatch: kernel: add support for live patchingSeth Jennings2014-12-22
This commit introduces code for the live patching core. It implements an ftrace-based mechanism and kernel interface for doing live patching of kernel and kernel module functions. It represents the greatest common functionality set between kpatch and kgraft and can accept patches built using either method. This first version does not implement any consistency mechanism that ensures that old and new code do not run together. In practice, ~90% of CVEs are safe to apply in this way, since they simply add a conditional check. However, any function change that can not execute safely with the old version of the function can _not_ be safely applied in this version. [ jkosina@suse.cz: due to the number of contributions that got folded into this original patch from Seth Jennings, add SUSE's copyright as well, as discussed via e-mail ] Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>