[PATCH v3 -next 1/1] module: kallsyms: Ensure preemption in add_kallsyms() with PREEMPT_RT
From: Aaron Tomlin <hidden>
Date: 2022-07-11 17:17:32
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module support, the rest · Maintainers:
Luis Chamberlain, Petr Pavlu, Daniel Gomez, Sami Tolvanen, Linus Torvalds
The commit 08126db5ff73 ("module: kallsyms: Fix suspicious rcu usage")
under PREEMPT_RT=y, disabling preemption introduced an unbounded
latency since the loop is not fixed. This change caused a regression
since previously preemption was not disabled and we would dereference
RCU-protected pointers explicitly. That being said, these pointers
cannot change.
Before kallsyms-specific data is prepared/or set-up, we ensure that
the unformed module is known to be unique i.e. does not already exist
(see load_module()). Therefore, we can fix this by using the common and
more appropriate RCU flavour as this section of code can be safely
preempted.
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Fixes: 08126db5ff73 ("module: kallsyms: Fix suspicious rcu usage")
Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <redacted>
---
kernel/module/kallsyms.c | 22 +++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/module/kallsyms.c b/kernel/module/kallsyms.c
index 18c23545b984..77e75bead569 100644
--- a/kernel/module/kallsyms.c
+++ b/kernel/module/kallsyms.c@@ -176,14 +176,14 @@ void add_kallsyms(struct module *mod, const struct load_info *info) mod->kallsyms = (void __rcu *)mod->init_layout.base + info->mod_kallsyms_init_off; - preempt_disable(); + rcu_read_lock(); /* The following is safe since this pointer cannot change */ - rcu_dereference_sched(mod->kallsyms)->symtab = (void *)symsec->sh_addr; - rcu_dereference_sched(mod->kallsyms)->num_symtab = symsec->sh_size / sizeof(Elf_Sym); + rcu_dereference(mod->kallsyms)->symtab = (void *)symsec->sh_addr; + rcu_dereference(mod->kallsyms)->num_symtab = symsec->sh_size / sizeof(Elf_Sym); /* Make sure we get permanent strtab: don't use info->strtab. */ - rcu_dereference_sched(mod->kallsyms)->strtab = + rcu_dereference(mod->kallsyms)->strtab = (void *)info->sechdrs[info->index.str].sh_addr; - rcu_dereference_sched(mod->kallsyms)->typetab = mod->init_layout.base + info->init_typeoffs; + rcu_dereference(mod->kallsyms)->typetab = mod->init_layout.base + info->init_typeoffs; /* * Now populate the cut down core kallsyms for after init
@@ -193,20 +193,20 @@ void add_kallsyms(struct module *mod, const struct load_info *info) mod->core_kallsyms.strtab = s = mod->data_layout.base + info->stroffs; mod->core_kallsyms.typetab = mod->data_layout.base + info->core_typeoffs; strtab_size = info->core_typeoffs - info->stroffs; - src = rcu_dereference_sched(mod->kallsyms)->symtab; - for (ndst = i = 0; i < rcu_dereference_sched(mod->kallsyms)->num_symtab; i++) { - rcu_dereference_sched(mod->kallsyms)->typetab[i] = elf_type(src + i, info); + src = rcu_dereference(mod->kallsyms)->symtab; + for (ndst = i = 0; i < rcu_dereference(mod->kallsyms)->num_symtab; i++) { + rcu_dereference(mod->kallsyms)->typetab[i] = elf_type(src + i, info); if (i == 0 || is_livepatch_module(mod) || is_core_symbol(src + i, info->sechdrs, info->hdr->e_shnum, info->index.pcpu)) { ssize_t ret; mod->core_kallsyms.typetab[ndst] = - rcu_dereference_sched(mod->kallsyms)->typetab[i]; + rcu_dereference(mod->kallsyms)->typetab[i]; dst[ndst] = src[i]; dst[ndst++].st_name = s - mod->core_kallsyms.strtab; ret = strscpy(s, - &rcu_dereference_sched(mod->kallsyms)->strtab[src[i].st_name], + &rcu_dereference(mod->kallsyms)->strtab[src[i].st_name], strtab_size); if (ret < 0) break;
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ void add_kallsyms(struct module *mod, const struct load_info *info) strtab_size -= ret + 1; } } - preempt_enable(); + rcu_read_unlock(); mod->core_kallsyms.num_symtab = ndst; }
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