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kallsyms: strip LTO-only suffixes from promoted global functions
authorYonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Wed, 28 Jun 2023 18:19:26 +0000 (11:19 -0700)
committerKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Wed, 12 Jul 2023 22:39:34 +0000 (15:39 -0700)
commit8cc32a9bbf2934d90762d9de0187adcb5ad46a11
tree3cd33822bdd02e39c736b89063566a4807dfdfd8
parent5fc52248559802f0f1ac10b3c8729a1568216715
kallsyms: strip LTO-only suffixes from promoted global functions

Commit 6eb4bd92c1ce ("kallsyms: strip LTO suffixes from static functions")
stripped all function/variable suffixes started with '.' regardless
of whether those suffixes are generated at LTO mode or not. In fact,
as far as I know, in LTO mode, when a static function/variable is
promoted to the global scope, '.llvm.<...>' suffix is added.

The existing mechanism breaks live patch for a LTO kernel even if
no <symbol>.llvm.<...> symbols are involved. For example, for the following
kernel symbols:
  $ grep bpf_verifier_vlog /proc/kallsyms
  ffffffff81549f60 t bpf_verifier_vlog
  ffffffff8268b430 d bpf_verifier_vlog._entry
  ffffffff8282a958 d bpf_verifier_vlog._entry_ptr
  ffffffff82e12a1f d bpf_verifier_vlog.__already_done
'bpf_verifier_vlog' is a static function. '_entry', '_entry_ptr' and
'__already_done' are static variables used inside 'bpf_verifier_vlog',
so llvm promotes them to file-level static with prefix 'bpf_verifier_vlog.'.
Note that the func-level to file-level static function promotion also
happens without LTO.

Given a symbol name 'bpf_verifier_vlog', with LTO kernel, current mechanism will
return 4 symbols to live patch subsystem which current live patching
subsystem cannot handle it. With non-LTO kernel, only one symbol
is returned.

In [1], we have a lengthy discussion, the suggestion is to separate two
cases:
  (1). new symbols with suffix which are generated regardless of whether
       LTO is enabled or not, and
  (2). new symbols with suffix generated only when LTO is enabled.

The cleanup_symbol_name() should only remove suffixes for case (2).
Case (1) should not be changed so it can work uniformly with or without LTO.

This patch removed LTO-only suffix '.llvm.<...>' so live patching and
tracing should work the same way for non-LTO kernel.
The cleanup_symbol_name() in scripts/kallsyms.c is also changed to have the same
filtering pattern so both kernel and kallsyms tool have the same
expectation on the order of symbols.

 [1] https://lore.kernel.org/live-patching/20230615170048.2382735-1-song@kernel.org/T/#u

Fixes: 6eb4bd92c1ce ("kallsyms: strip LTO suffixes from static functions")
Reported-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230628181926.4102448-1-yhs@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
kernel/kallsyms.c
scripts/kallsyms.c