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Mathieu Desnoyers
6549864629 tracepoints: Fix section alignment using pointer array
Make the tracepoints more robust, making them solid enough to handle compiler
changes by not relying on anything based on compiler-specific behavior with
respect to structure alignment. Implement an approach proposed by David Miller:
use an array of const pointers to refer to the individual structures, and export
this pointer array through the linker script rather than the structures per se.
It will consume 32 extra bytes per tracepoint (24 for structure padding and 8
for the pointers), but are less likely to break due to compiler changes.

History:

commit 7e066fb8 tracepoints: add DECLARE_TRACE() and DEFINE_TRACE()
added the aligned(32) type and variable attribute to the tracepoint structures
to deal with gcc happily aligning statically defined structures on 32-byte
multiples.

One attempt was to use a 8-byte alignment for tracepoint structures by applying
both the variable and type attribute to tracepoint structures definitions and
declarations. It worked fine with gcc 4.5.1, but broke with gcc 4.4.4 and 4.4.5.

The reason is that the "aligned" attribute only specify the _minimum_ alignment
for a structure, leaving both the compiler and the linker free to align on
larger multiples. Because tracepoint.c expects the structures to be placed as an
array within each section, up-alignment cause NULL-pointer exceptions due to the
extra unexpected padding.

(this patch applies on top of -tip)

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
LKML-Reference: <20110126222622.GA10794@Krystal>
CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
CC: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-02-03 09:28:46 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
94462ad3b1 module: Move RO/NX module protection to after ftrace module update
The commit:

84e1c6bb38
x86: Add RO/NX protection for loadable kernel modules

Broke the function tracer with this output:

------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: at kernel/trace/ftrace.c:1014 ftrace_bug+0x114/0x171()
Hardware name: Precision WorkStation 470
Modules linked in: i2c_core(+)
Pid: 86, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.37-rc2+ #68
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8104e957>] warn_slowpath_common+0x85/0x9d
 [<ffffffffa00026db>] ? __process_new_adapter+0x7/0x34 [i2c_core]
 [<ffffffffa00026db>] ? __process_new_adapter+0x7/0x34 [i2c_core]
 [<ffffffff8104e989>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x1c
 [<ffffffff810a9dfe>] ftrace_bug+0x114/0x171
 [<ffffffffa00026db>] ? __process_new_adapter+0x7/0x34 [i2c_core]
 [<ffffffff810aa0db>] ftrace_process_locs+0x1ae/0x274
 [<ffffffffa00026db>] ? __process_new_adapter+0x7/0x34 [i2c_core]
 [<ffffffff810aa29e>] ftrace_module_notify+0x39/0x44
 [<ffffffff814405cf>] notifier_call_chain+0x37/0x63
 [<ffffffff8106e054>] __blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x46/0x5b
 [<ffffffff8106e07d>] blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x14/0x16
 [<ffffffff8107ffde>] sys_init_module+0x73/0x1f3
 [<ffffffff8100acf2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
---[ end trace 2aff4f4ca53ec746 ]---
ftrace faulted on writing [<ffffffffa00026db>]
__process_new_adapter+0x7/0x34 [i2c_core]

The cause was that the module text was set to read only before ftrace
could convert the calls to mcount to nops. Thus, the conversions failed
due to not being able to write to the text locations.

The simple fix is to move setting the module to read only after the
module notifiers are called (where ftrace sets the module mcounts to nops).

Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-12-23 09:56:00 -05:00
Ingo Molnar
26e20a108c Merge commit 'v2.6.37-rc7' into x86/security 2010-12-23 09:48:41 +01:00
matthieu castet
84e1c6bb38 x86: Add RO/NX protection for loadable kernel modules
This patch is a logical extension of the protection provided by
CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA to LKMs. The protection is provided by
splitting module_core and module_init into three logical parts
each and setting appropriate page access permissions for each
individual section:

 1. Code: RO+X
 2. RO data: RO+NX
 3. RW data: RW+NX

In order to achieve proper protection, layout_sections() have
been modified to align each of the three parts mentioned above
onto page boundary. Next, the corresponding page access
permissions are set right before successful exit from
load_module(). Further, free_module() and sys_init_module have
been modified to set module_core and module_init as RW+NX right
before calling module_free().

By default, the original section layout and access flags are
preserved. When compiled with CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX=y,
the patch will page-align each group of sections to ensure that
each page contains only one type of content and will enforce
RO/NX for each group of pages.

  -v1: Initial proof-of-concept patch.
  -v2: The patch have been re-written to reduce the number of #ifdefs
       and to make it architecture-agnostic. Code formatting has also
       been corrected.
  -v3: Opportunistic RO/NX protection is now unconditional. Section
       page-alignment is enabled when CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA=y.
  -v4: Removed most macros and improved coding style.
  -v5: Changed page-alignment and RO/NX section size calculation
  -v6: Fixed comments. Restricted RO/NX enforcement to x86 only
  -v7: Introduced CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX, added
       calls to set_all_modules_text_rw() and set_all_modules_text_ro()
       in ftrace
  -v8: updated for compatibility with linux 2.6.33-rc5
  -v9: coding style fixes
 -v10: more coding style fixes
 -v11: minor adjustments for -tip
 -v12: minor adjustments for v2.6.35-rc2-tip
 -v13: minor adjustments for v2.6.37-rc1-tip

Signed-off-by: Siarhei Liakh <sliakh.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Xuxian Jiang <jiang@cs.ncsu.edu>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <4CE2F914.9070106@free.fr>
[ minor cleanliness edits, -v14: build failure fix ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-18 13:32:56 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
13b9b6e746 tracing: Fix module use of trace_bprintk()
On use of trace_printk() there's a macro that determines if the format
is static or a variable. If it is static, it defaults to __trace_bprintk()
otherwise it uses __trace_printk().

A while ago, Lai Jiangshan added __trace_bprintk(). In that patch, we
discussed a way to allow modules to use it. The difference between
__trace_bprintk() and __trace_printk() is that for faster processing,
just the format and args are stored in the trace instead of running
it through a sprintf function. In order to do this, the format used
by the __trace_bprintk() had to be persistent.

See commit 1ba28e02a1

The problem comes with trace_bprintk() where the module is unloaded.
The pointer left in the buffer is still pointing to the format.

To solve this issue, the formats in the module were copied into kernel
core. If the same format was used, they would use the same copy (to prevent
memory leak). This all worked well until we tried to merge everything.

At the time this was written, Lai Jiangshan, Frederic Weisbecker,
Ingo Molnar and myself were all touching the same code. When this was
merged, we lost the part of it that was in module.c. This kept out the
copying of the formats and unloading the module could cause bad pointers
left in the ring buffer.

This patch adds back (with updates required for current kernel) the
module code that sets up the necessary pointers.

Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-11-10 22:19:24 -05:00
Michał Mirosław
abbce906d0 (trivial) Fix compiler warning in kernel/modules.c
Building with CONFIG_KALLSYMS=n gives following warning:

/mnt/src/linux-git/kernel/module.c: In function ‘post_relocation’:
/mnt/src/linux-git/kernel/module.c:2534:2: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘add_kallsyms’ discards qualifiers from pointer target type
/mnt/src/linux-git/kernel/module.c:2038:13: note: expected ‘struct load_info *’ but argument is of type ‘const struct load_info *’

Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-10-27 20:33:05 +10:30
Ingo Molnar
7cd2541cf2 Merge commit 'v2.6.36-rc7' into perf/core
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/module.c

Merge reason: Resolve the conflict, pick up fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-08 10:46:27 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
5336377d62 modules: Fix module_bug_list list corruption race
With all the recent module loading cleanups, we've minimized the code
that sits under module_mutex, fixing various deadlocks and making it
possible to do most of the module loading in parallel.

However, that whole conversion totally missed the rather obscure code
that adds a new module to the list for BUG() handling.  That code was
doubly obscure because (a) the code itself lives in lib/bugs.c (for
dubious reasons) and (b) it gets called from the architecture-specific
"module_finalize()" rather than from generic code.

Calling it from arch-specific code makes no sense what-so-ever to begin
with, and is now actively wrong since that code isn't protected by the
module loading lock any more.

So this commit moves the "module_bug_{finalize,cleanup}()" calls away
from the arch-specific code, and into the generic code - and in the
process protects it with the module_mutex so that the list operations
are now safe.

Future fixups:
 - move the module list handling code into kernel/module.c where it
   belongs.
 - get rid of 'module_bug_list' and just use the regular list of modules
   (called 'modules' - imagine that) that we already create and maintain
   for other reasons.

Reported-and-tested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-05 11:29:27 -07:00
Jason Baron
bf5438fca2 jump label: Base patch for jump label
base patch to implement 'jump labeling'. Based on a new 'asm goto' inline
assembly gcc mechanism, we can now branch to labels from an 'asm goto'
statment. This allows us to create a 'no-op' fastpath, which can subsequently
be patched with a jump to the slowpath code. This is useful for code which
might be rarely used, but which we'd like to be able to call, if needed.
Tracepoints are the current usecase that these are being implemented for.

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <ee8b3595967989fdaf84e698dc7447d315ce972a.1284733808.git.jbaron@redhat.com>

[ cleaned up some formating ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-09-22 16:29:41 -04:00
Rusty Russell
51f3d0f474 module: cleanup comments, remove noinline
On my (32-bit x86) machine, sys_init_module() uses 124 bytes of stack
once load_module() is inlined.

This effectively reverts ffb4ba76 which inlined it due to stack
pressure.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05 12:59:13 +09:30
Rusty Russell
811d66a0e1 module: group post-relocation functions into post_relocation()
This simply hoists more code out of load_module; we also put the
identification of the extable and dynamic debug table in with the
others in find_module_sections().

We move the taint check to the actual add/remove of the dynamic debug
info: this is certain (find_module_sections is too early).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@hq.newdream.net>
2010-08-05 12:59:13 +09:30
Rusty Russell
6526c534b2 module: move module args strndup_user to just before use
Instead of copying and allocating the args and storing it in
load_info, we can just allocate them right before we need them.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05 12:59:12 +09:30
Rusty Russell
49668688dd module: pass load_info into other functions
Pass the struct load_info into all the other functions in module
loading.  This neatens things and makes them more consistent.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05 12:59:10 +09:30
Rusty Russell
36b0360d17 module: fix sysfs cleanup for !CONFIG_SYSFS
Restore the stub module_remove_modinfo_attrs, remove the now-unused
!CONFIG_SYSFS module_sysfs_init.

Also, rename mod_kobject_remove() to mod_sysfs_teardown() as
it is the logical counterpart to mod_sysfs_setup now.

Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05 12:59:10 +09:30
Rusty Russell
8f6d037815 module: sysfs cleanup
We change the sysfs functions to take struct load_info, and call
them all in mod_sysfs_setup().

We also clean up the #ifdefs a little.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05 12:59:09 +09:30
Rusty Russell
d913188c75 module: layout_and_allocate
layout_and_allocate() does everything up to and including the final
struct module placement inside the allocated module memory.  We have
to store the symbol layout information in our struct load_info though.

This avoids the nasty code we had before where 'mod' pointed first
to the version inside the temporary allocation containing the entire
file, then later was moved to point to the real struct module: now
the main code only ever sees the final module address.

(Includes fix for the Tony Luck-found Linus-diagnosed failure path
 error).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05 12:59:09 +09:30
Rusty Russell
511ca6ae43 module: fix crash in get_ksymbol() when oopsing in module init
Andrew had the sole pleasure of tickling this bug in linux-next; when we set
up "info->strtab" it's pointing into the temporary copy of the module.  For
most uses that is fine, but kallsyms keeps a pointer around during module
load (inside mod->strtab).

If we oops for some reason inside a module's init function, kallsyms will use
the mod->strtab pointer into the now-freed temporary module copy.

(Later oopses work fine: after init we overwrite mod->strtab to point to a
 compacted core-only strtab).

Reported-by: Andrew "Grumpy" Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty "Buggy" Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Tested-by: Andrew "Happy" Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05 12:59:08 +09:30
Rusty Russell
eded41c1c6 module: kallsyms functions take struct load_info
Simple refactor causes us to lift struct definition to top of file.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05 12:59:08 +09:30
Rusty Russell
d6df72a06e module: refactor out section header rewriting: FIX modversions
We can't do the find_sec after removing the SHF_ALLOC flags; it won't
find the sections.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05 12:59:07 +09:30
Rusty Russell
8b5f61a795 module: refactor out section header rewriting
Put all the "rewrite and check section headers" in one place.  This
adds another iteration over the sections, but it's far clearer.  We
iterate once for every find_section() so we already iterate over many
times.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05 12:59:06 +09:30
Linus Torvalds
3264d3f9dd module: add load_info
Btw, here's a patch that _looks_ large, but it really pretty trivial, and
sets things up so that it would be way easier to split off pieces of the
module loading.

The reason it looks large is that it creates a "module_info" structure
that contains all the module state that we're building up while loading,
instead of having individual variables for all the indices etc.

So the patch ends up being large, because every "symindex" access instead
becomes "info.index.sym" etc. That may be a few characters longer, but it
then means that we can just pass a pointer to that "info" structure
around. and let all the pieces fill it in very naturally.

As an example of that, the patch also moves the initialization of all
those convenience variables into a "setup_module_info()" function. And at
this point it really does become very natural to start to peel off some of
the error labels and move them into the helper functions - now the
"truncated" case is gone, and is handled inside that setup function
instead.

So maybe you don't like this approach, and it does make the variable
accesses a bit longer, but I don't think unreadably so. And the patch
really does look big and scary, but there really should be absolutely no
semantic changes - most of it was a trivial and mindless rename.

In fact, it was so mindless that I on purpose kept the existing helper
functions looking like this:

-       err = check_modinfo(mod, sechdrs, infoindex, versindex);
+       err = check_modinfo(mod, info.sechdrs, info.index.info, info.index.vers);

rather than changing them to just take the "info" pointer. IOW, a second
phase (if you think the approach is ok) would change that calling
convention to just do

	err = check_modinfo(mod, &info);

(and same for "layout_sections()", "layout_symtabs()" etc.) Similarly,
while right now it makes things _look_ bigger, with things like this:

	versindex = find_sec(hdr, sechdrs, secstrings, "__versions");

becoming

	info->index.vers = find_sec(info->hdr, info->sechdrs, info->secstrings, "__versions");

in the new "setup_module_info()" function, that's again just a result of
it being a search-and-replace patch. By using the 'info' pointer, we could
just change the 'find_sec()' interface so that it ends up being

	info->index.vers = find_sec(info, "__versions");

instead, and then we'd actually have a shorter and more readable line. So
for a lot of those mindless variable name expansions there's would be room
for separate cleanups.

I didn't move quite everything in there - if we do this to layout_symtabs,
for example, we'd want to move the percpu, symoffs, stroffs, *strmap
variables to be fields in that module_info structure too. But that's a
much smaller patch, I moved just the really core stuff that is currently
being set up and used in various parts.

But even in this rough form, it removes close to 70 lines from that
function (but adds 22 lines overall, of course - the structure definition,
the helper function declarations and call-sites etc etc).

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05 12:59:06 +09:30
Linus Torvalds
44032e6316 module: reduce stack usage for each_symbol()
And now that I'm looking at that call-chain (to see if it would make sense
to use some other more specific lock - doesn't look like it: all the
readers are using RCU and this is the only writer), I also give you this
trivial one-liner. It changes each_symbol() to not put that constant array
on the stack, resulting in changing

        movq    $C.388.31095, %rsi      #, tmp85
        subq    $376, %rsp      #,
        movq    %rdi, %rbx      # fn, fn
        leaq    -208(%rbp), %rdi        #, tmp84
        movq    %rbx, %rdx      # fn,
        rep movsl
        xorl    %esi, %esi      #
        leaq    -208(%rbp), %rdi        #, tmp87
        movq    %r12, %rcx      # data,
        call    each_symbol_in_section.clone.0  #

into

        xorl    %esi, %esi      #
        subq    $216, %rsp      #,
        movq    %rdi, %rbx      # fn, fn
        movq    $arr.31078, %rdi        #,
        call    each_symbol_in_section.clone.0  #

which is not so much about being obviously shorter and simpler because we
don't unnecessarily copy that constant array around onto the stack, but
also about having a much smaller stack footprint (376 vs 216 bytes - see
the update of 'rsp').

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05 12:59:06 +09:30
Rusty Russell
22e268ebec module: refactor load_module part 5
1) Extract out the relocation loop into apply_relocations
2) Extract license and version checks into check_module_license_and_versions
3) Extract icache flushing into flush_module_icache
4) Move __obsparm warning into find_module_sections
5) Move license setting into check_modinfo.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05 12:59:05 +09:30
Rusty Russell
9f85a4bbb1 module: refactor load_module part 4
Allocate references inside module_unload_init(), clean up inside
module_unload_free().

This version fixed to do allocation before __this_cpu_write, thanks to
bug reports from linux-next from Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
and Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05 12:59:05 +09:30
Rusty Russell
40dd2560ec module: refactor load_module part 3
Extract out the allocation and copying in from userspace, and the
first set of modinfo checks.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05 12:59:04 +09:30
Linus Torvalds
65b8a9b4d5 module: refactor load_module part 2
Here's a second one. It's slightly less trivial - since we now have error
cases - and equally untested so it may well be totally broken. But it also
cleans up a bit more, and avoids one of the goto targets, because the
"move_module()" helper now does both allocations or none.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05 12:59:03 +09:30
Linus Torvalds
f91a13bb99 module: refactor load_module
I'd start from the trivial stuff. There's a fair amount of straight-line
code that just makes the function hard to read just because you have to
page up and down so far. Some of it is trivial to just create a helper
function for.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-08-05 12:59:02 +09:30
Eric Dumazet
2409e74278 module: module_unload_init() cleanup
No need to clear mod->refptr in module_unload_init(), since
alloc_percpu() already clears allocated chunks.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (removed unused var)
2010-08-05 12:59:02 +09:30
Jason Baron
b82bab4bbe dynamic debug: move ddebug_remove_module() down into free_module()
The command

	echo "file ec.c +p" >/sys/kernel/debug/dynamic_debug/control

causes an oops.

Move the call to ddebug_remove_module() down into free_module().  In this
way it should be called from all error paths.  Currently, we are missing
the remove if the module init routine fails.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Tested-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.32+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-07-27 14:32:06 -07:00
Yehuda Sadeh
ff49d74ad3 module: initialize module dynamic debug later
We should initialize the module dynamic debug datastructures
only after determining that the module is not loaded yet. This
fixes a bug that introduced in 2.6.35-rc2, where when a trying
to load a module twice, we also load it's dynamic printing data
twice which causes all sorts of nasty issues. Also handle
the dynamic debug cleanup later on failure.

Signed-off-by: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@hq.newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (removed a #ifdef)
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-07-04 20:17:22 -07:00
Rusty Russell
9bea7f2395 module: fix bne2 "gave up waiting for init of module libcrc32c"
Problem: it's hard to avoid an init routine stumbling over a
request_module these days.  And it's not clear it's always a bad idea:
for example, a module like kvm with dynamic dependencies on kvm-intel
or kvm-amd would be neater if it could simply request_module the right
one.

In this particular case, it's libcrc32c:

	libcrc32c_mod_init
	 crypto_alloc_shash
	  crypto_alloc_tfm
	   crypto_find_alg
	    crypto_alg_mod_lookup
	     crypto_larval_lookup
	      request_module

If another module is waiting inside resolve_symbol() for libcrc32c to
finish initializing (ie. bne2 depends on libcrc32c) then it does so
holding the module lock, and our request_module() can't make progress
until that is released.

Waiting inside resolve_symbol() without the lock isn't all that hard:
we just need to pass the -EBUSY up the call chain so we can sleep
where we don't hold the lock.  Error reporting is a bit trickier: we
need to copy the name of the unfinished module before releasing the
lock.

Other notes:
1) This also fixes a theoretical issue where a weak dependency would allow
   symbol version mismatches to be ignored.
2) We rename use_module to ref_module to make life easier for the only
   external user (the out-of-tree ksplice patches).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Tim Abbot <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Tested-by: Brandon Philips <bphilips@suse.de>
2010-06-05 11:17:37 +09:30
Rusty Russell
be593f4ce4 module: verify_export_symbols under the lock
It disabled preempt so it was "safe", but nothing stops another module
slipping in before this module is added to the global list now we don't
hold the lock the whole time.

So we check this just after we check for duplicate modules, and just
before we put the module in the global list.

(find_symbol finds symbols in coming and going modules, too).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-06-05 11:17:37 +09:30
Linus Torvalds
3bafeb6247 module: move find_module check to end
I think Rusty may have made the lock a bit _too_ finegrained there, and
didn't add it to some places that needed it. It looks, for example, like
PATCH 1/2 actually drops the lock in places where it's needed
("find_module()" is documented to need it, but now load_module() didn't
hold it at all when it did the find_module()).

Rather than adding a new "module_loading" list, I think we should be able
to just use the existing "modules" list, and just fix up the locking a
bit.

In fact, maybe we could just move the "look up existing module" a bit
later - optimistically assuming that the module doesn't exist, and then
just undoing the work if it turns out that we were wrong, just before
adding ourselves to the list.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-06-05 11:17:37 +09:30
Rusty Russell
75676500f8 module: make locking more fine-grained.
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> reports that we still have some
contention over module loading which is slowing boot.

Linus also disliked a previous "drop lock and regrab" patch to fix the
bne2 "gave up waiting for init of module libcrc32c" message.

This is more ambitious: we only grab the lock where we need it.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Brandon Philips <brandon@ifup.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-06-05 11:17:36 +09:30
Rusty Russell
6407ebb271 module: Make module sysfs functions private.
These were placed in the header in ef665c1a06 to get the various
SYSFS/MODULE config combintations to compile.

That may have been necessary then, but it's not now.  These functions
are all local to module.c.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
2010-06-05 11:17:36 +09:30
Rusty Russell
80a3d1bb41 module: move sysfs exposure to end of load_module
This means a little extra work, but is more logical: we don't put
anything in sysfs until we're about to put the module into the
global list an parse its parameters.

This also gives us a logical place to put duplicate module detection
in the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-06-05 11:17:36 +09:30
Rusty Russell
c8e21ced08 module: fix kdb's illicit use of struct module_use.
Linus changed the structure, and luckily this didn't compile any more.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Martin Hicks <mort@sgi.com>
2010-06-05 11:17:36 +09:30
Linus Torvalds
2c02dfe7fe module: Make the 'usage' lists be two-way
When adding a module that depends on another one, we used to create a
one-way list of "modules_which_use_me", so that module unloading could
see who needs a module.

It's actually quite simple to make that list go both ways: so that we
not only can see "who uses me", but also see a list of modules that are
"used by me".

In fact, we always wanted that list in "module_unload_free()": when we
unload a module, we want to also release all the other modules that are
used by that module.  But because we didn't have that list, we used to
first iterate over all modules, and then iterate over each "used by me"
list of that module.

By making the list two-way, we simplify module_unload_free(), and it
allows for some trivial fixes later too.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (cleaned & rebased)
2010-06-05 11:17:35 +09:30
Linus Torvalds
1f73897861 Merge branch 'for-35' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild
* 'for-35' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild: (81 commits)
  kbuild: Revert part of e8d400a to resolve a conflict
  kbuild: Fix checking of scm-identifier variable
  gconfig: add support to show hidden options that have prompts
  menuconfig: add support to show hidden options which have prompts
  gconfig: remove show_debug option
  gconfig: remove dbg_print_ptype() and dbg_print_stype()
  kconfig: fix zconfdump()
  kconfig: some small fixes
  add random binaries to .gitignore
  kbuild: Include gen_initramfs_list.sh and the file list in the .d file
  kconfig: recalc symbol value before showing search results
  .gitignore: ignore *.lzo files
  headerdep: perlcritic warning
  scripts/Makefile.lib: Align the output of LZO
  kbuild: Generate modules.builtin in make modules_install
  Revert "kbuild: specify absolute paths for cscope"
  kbuild: Do not unnecessarily regenerate modules.builtin
  headers_install: use local file handles
  headers_check: fix perl warnings
  export_report: fix perl warnings
  ...
2010-06-01 08:55:52 -07:00
Rusty Russell
293a7cfeed module: fix reference to mod->percpu after freeing module.
Rafael sees a sometimes crash at precpu_modfree from kernel/module.c; it
only occurred with another (since-reverted) patch, but that patch simply
changed timing to uncover this bug, it was otherwise unrelated.

The comment about the mod being freed is self-explanatory, but neither
Tejun nor I read it.  This bug was introduced in 259354deaa, after it
had previously been fixed in 6e2b75740b.  How embarrassing.

Reported-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Embarrassingly-Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Tested-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-31 11:21:32 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
218ce73514 Revert "module: drop the lock while waiting for module to complete initialization."
This reverts commit 480b02df3a, since
Rafael reports that it causes occasional kernel paging request faults in
load_module().

Dropping the module lock and re-taking it deep in the call-chain is
definitely not the right thing to do.  That just turns the mutex from a
lock into a "random non-locking data structure" that doesn't actually
protect what it's supposed to protect.

Requested-and-tested-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Brandon Philips <brandon@ifup.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-25 16:48:30 -07:00
Wenji Huang
7d52669b14 module: remove duplicate declaration of __ksymtab_gpl_future
Minor cleanup on duplicate __{start/stop}__ksymtab_gpl_future.

Signed-off-by: Wenji Huang <wenji.huang@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-25 08:07:04 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
a8251096b4 Merge branch 'modules' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus
* 'modules' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus:
  module: drop the lock while waiting for module to complete initialization.
  MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(isapnp, ...) does nothing
  hisax_fcpcipnp: fix broken isapnp device table.
  isapnp: move definitions to mod_devicetable.h so file2alias can reach them.
2010-05-21 17:15:44 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
90b9a32d8f Merge branch 'kdb-merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb
* 'kdb-merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb: (25 commits)
  kdb,debug_core: Allow the debug core to receive a panic notification
  MAINTAINERS: update kgdb, kdb, and debug_core info
  debug_core,kdb: Allow the debug core to process a recursive debug entry
  printk,kdb: capture printk() when in kdb shell
  kgdboc,kdb: Allow kdb to work on a non open console port
  kgdb: Add the ability to schedule a breakpoint via a tasklet
  mips,kgdb: kdb low level trap catch and stack trace
  powerpc,kgdb: Introduce low level trap catching
  x86,kgdb: Add low level debug hook
  kgdb: remove post_primary_code references
  kgdb,docs: Update the kgdb docs to include kdb
  kgdboc,keyboard: Keyboard driver for kdb with kgdb
  kgdb: gdb "monitor" -> kdb passthrough
  sparc,sunzilog: Add console polling support for sunzilog serial driver
  sh,sh-sci: Use NO_POLL_CHAR in the SCIF polled console code
  kgdb,8250,pl011: Return immediately from console poll
  kgdb: core changes to support kdb
  kdb: core for kgdb back end (2 of 2)
  kdb: core for kgdb back end (1 of 2)
  kgdb,blackfin: Add in kgdb_arch_set_pc for blackfin
  ...
2010-05-21 11:08:05 -07:00
Chris Wright
2c3c8bea60 sysfs: add struct file* to bin_attr callbacks
This allows bin_attr->read,write,mmap callbacks to check file specific data
(such as inode owner) as part of any privilege validation.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-21 09:37:31 -07:00
Jason Wessel
67fc4e0cb9 kdb: core for kgdb back end (2 of 2)
This patch contains the hooks and instrumentation into kernel which
live outside the kernel/debug directory, which the kdb core
will call to run commands like lsmod, dmesg, bt etc...

CC: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Hicks <mort@sgi.com>
2010-05-20 21:04:21 -05:00
Rusty Russell
480b02df3a module: drop the lock while waiting for module to complete initialization.
This fixes "gave up waiting for init of module libcrc32c." which
happened at boot time due to multiple parallel module loads.

The problem was a deadlock: we wait for a module to finish
initializing, but we keep the module_lock mutex so it can't complete.
In particular, this could reasonably happen if a module does a
request_module() in its initialization routine.

So we change use_module() to return an errno rather than a bool, and if
it's -EBUSY we drop the lock and wait in the caller, then reaquire the
lock.

Reported-by: Brandon Philips <brandon@ifup.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Tested-by: Brandon Philips <brandon@ifup.org>
2010-05-19 17:33:39 +09:30
Linus Torvalds
b8ae30ee26 Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (49 commits)
  stop_machine: Move local variable closer to the usage site in cpu_stop_cpu_callback()
  sched, wait: Use wrapper functions
  sched: Remove a stale comment
  ondemand: Make the iowait-is-busy time a sysfs tunable
  ondemand: Solve a big performance issue by counting IOWAIT time as busy
  sched: Intoduce get_cpu_iowait_time_us()
  sched: Eliminate the ts->idle_lastupdate field
  sched: Fold updating of the last_update_time_info into update_ts_time_stats()
  sched: Update the idle statistics in get_cpu_idle_time_us()
  sched: Introduce a function to update the idle statistics
  sched: Add a comment to get_cpu_idle_time_us()
  cpu_stop: add dummy implementation for UP
  sched: Remove rq argument to the tracepoints
  rcu: need barrier() in UP synchronize_sched_expedited()
  sched: correctly place paranioa memory barriers in synchronize_sched_expedited()
  sched: kill paranoia check in synchronize_sched_expedited()
  sched: replace migration_thread with cpu_stop
  stop_machine: reimplement using cpu_stop
  cpu_stop: implement stop_cpu[s]()
  sched: Fix select_idle_sibling() logic in select_task_rq_fair()
  ...
2010-05-18 08:27:54 -07:00
Tejun Heo
3fc1f1e27a stop_machine: reimplement using cpu_stop
Reimplement stop_machine using cpu_stop.  As cpu stoppers are
guaranteed to be available for all online cpus,
stop_machine_create/destroy() are no longer necessary and removed.

With resource management and synchronization handled by cpu_stop, the
new implementation is much simpler.  Asking the cpu_stop to execute
the stop_cpu() state machine on all online cpus with cpu hotplug
disabled is enough.

stop_machine itself doesn't need to manage any global resources
anymore, so all per-instance information is rolled into struct
stop_machine_data and the mutex and all static data variables are
removed.

The previous implementation created and destroyed RT workqueues as
necessary which made stop_machine() calls highly expensive on very
large machines.  According to Dimitri Sivanich, preventing the dynamic
creation/destruction makes booting faster more than twice on very
large machines.  cpu_stop resources are preallocated for all online
cpus and should have the same effect.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
2010-05-06 18:49:20 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
c1ab9cab75 Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/core
Conflicts:
	include/linux/module.h
	kernel/module.c

Semantic conflict:
	include/trace/events/module.h

Merge reason: Resolve the conflict with upstream commit 5fbfb18 ("Fix up
              possibly racy module refcounting")

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-08 10:18:47 +02:00