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commit9e298e8604upstream. Nicolai Stange discovered[1] that if live kernel patching is enabled, and the function tracer started tracing the same function that was patched, the conversion of the fentry call site during the translation of going from calling the live kernel patch trampoline to the iterator trampoline, would have as slight window where it didn't call anything. As live kernel patching depends on ftrace to always call its code (to prevent the function being traced from being called, as it will redirect it). This small window would allow the old buggy function to be called, and this can cause undesirable results. Nicolai submitted new patches[2] but these were controversial. As this is similar to the static call emulation issues that came up a while ago[3]. But after some debate[4][5] adding a gap in the stack when entering the breakpoint handler allows for pushing the return address onto the stack to easily emulate a call. [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180726104029.7736-1-nstange@suse.de [2] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190427100639.15074-1-nstange@suse.de [3] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3cf04e113d71c9f8e4be95fb84a510f085aa4afa.1541711457.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com [4] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wh5OpheSU8Em_Q3Hg8qw_JtoijxOdPtHru6d+5K8TWM=A@mail.gmail.com [5] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wjvQxY4DvPrJ6haPgAa6b906h=MwZXO6G8OtiTGe=N7_w@mail.gmail.com [ Live kernel patching is not implemented on x86_32, thus the emulate calls are only for x86_64. ] Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Nicolai Stange <nstange@suse.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> Cc: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Cc: Nayna Jain <nayna@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de> Cc: "open list:KERNEL SELFTEST FRAMEWORK" <linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes:b700e7f03d("livepatch: kernel: add support for live patching") Tested-by: Nicolai Stange <nstange@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Nicolai Stange <nstange@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> [ Changed to only implement emulated calls for x86_64 ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.