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authorJessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>2018-06-05 10:22:52 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-10-03 17:00:53 -0700
commit5bcbbadf6ac54568019720be6d434bf7020fe3ed (patch)
tree17da59040065a09221700e5a9cc47327f9b6064a /kernel
parent05f78b1a0e0c7d76bd97159e9a575165e7fdc6c6 (diff)
module: exclude SHN_UNDEF symbols from kallsyms api
[ Upstream commit 9f2d1e68cf4d641def734adaccfc3823d3575e6c ] Livepatch modules are special in that we preserve their entire symbol tables in order to be able to apply relocations after module load. The unwanted side effect of this is that undefined (SHN_UNDEF) symbols of livepatch modules are accessible via the kallsyms api and this can confuse symbol resolution in livepatch (klp_find_object_symbol()) and cause subtle bugs in livepatch. Have the module kallsyms api skip over SHN_UNDEF symbols. These symbols are usually not available for normal modules anyway as we cut down their symbol tables to just the core (non-undefined) symbols, so this should really just affect livepatch modules. Note that this patch doesn't affect the display of undefined symbols in /proc/kallsyms. Reported-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Tested-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/module.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 321b0b1f87e7..2a44c515f0d7 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -4058,7 +4058,7 @@ static unsigned long mod_find_symname(struct module *mod, const char *name)
for (i = 0; i < kallsyms->num_symtab; i++)
if (strcmp(name, symname(kallsyms, i)) == 0 &&
- kallsyms->symtab[i].st_info != 'U')
+ kallsyms->symtab[i].st_shndx != SHN_UNDEF)
return kallsyms->symtab[i].st_value;
return 0;
}
@@ -4104,6 +4104,10 @@ int module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol(int (*fn)(void *, const char *,
if (mod->state == MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED)
continue;
for (i = 0; i < kallsyms->num_symtab; i++) {
+
+ if (kallsyms->symtab[i].st_shndx == SHN_UNDEF)
+ continue;
+
ret = fn(data, symname(kallsyms, i),
mod, kallsyms->symtab[i].st_value);
if (ret != 0)