create-diff-object: Do not include all .rodata sections
Older versions of GCC did not split .rodata.str sections by function.
Because of that, the entire section was always included.
The livepatch-build-tools commit [1] fixed patch creation and kept
including all .rodata.str sections, in order to maintain existing
behavior for GCC 6.1+.
This means all .rodata.str sections are always included by default,
regardless of whether they are needed or not.
During stacked hotpatch builds it leads to unnecessary accumulation of
the .rodata.str sections as each and every consecutive hotpatch module
contains all the .rodata.str sections of previous modules.
To prevent this situation, mark the .rodata.str sections for inclusion
only if they are referenced by any of the current hotpatch symbols (or
a corresponding RELA section).
Extend patchability verification to detect all non-standard, non-rela,
non-debug and non-special sections that are not referenced by any of
the symbols or RELA sections.
Rename should_include_str_section() to is_rodata_str_section().
create-diff-object: Add new entries to special sections array
Handle .livepatch.hooks* and .altinstr_replacement sections as the
special sections with assigned group_size resolution function.
By default each .livepatch.hooks* sections' entry is 8 bytes long (a
pointer). The .altinstr_replacement section has undefined group_size.
Allow to specify different .livepatch.hooks* section entry size using
shell environment variable HOOK_STRUCT_SIZE.
Add an explicit check to kpatch_regenerate_special_section() skipping
regeneration of special sections, whose group_size is 0.
livepatch-build: detect special section group sizes
Hard-coding the special section group sizes is unreliable. Instead,
determine them dynamically by finding the related struct definitions
in the DWARF metadata.
This is a livepatch backport of kpatch upstream commit [1]:
kpatch-build: detect special section group sizes 170449847136a48b19fc
Xen only deals with alt_instr, bug_frame and exception_table_entry
structures, so sizes of these structures are obtained from xen-syms.
This change is needed since with recent Xen the alt_instr structure
has changed size from 12 to 14 bytes.
common: Add is_referenced_section() helper function
This function checks if given section has an included corresponding
RELA section and/or any of the symbols table symbols references the
section. Section associated symbols are ignored here as there is
always such a symbol for every section.
Detect standard (always to be included) sections via their section
header type. The standard sections: ".shstrtab", ".symtab", ".strtab"
are either of type SHT_SYMTAB or SHT_STRTAB.
livepatch-build: Handle newly created object files
Up to now the livepatch-build ignores newly created object files.
When patch applies new .c file and augments its Makefile to build it
the resulting object file is not taken into account for final linking
step.
Such newly created object files can be detected by comparing patched/
and original/ directories and copied over to the output directory for
the final linking step.
livepatch-build: Do not follow every symlink for patch file
In some build systems symlinks might be used for patch file names
to point from target directories to actual patches. Following those
symlinks breaks naming convention as the resulting built modules
would be named after the actual hardlink insteads of the symlink.
Livepatch-build obtains hotpatch name from the patch file, so it
should not canonicalize the file path resolving all the symlinks to
not lose the original symlink name.
Signed-off-by: Pawel Wieczorkiewicz <wipawel@amazon.de> Reviewed-by: Martin Pohlack <mpohlack@amazon.de> Reviewed-by: Bjoern Doebel <doebel@amazon.de> Reviewed-by: Norbert Manthey <nmanthey@amazon.de> Reviewed-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>
livepatch-gcc: Allow toolchain command with versions
Xen build system may enforce particular gcc version (e.g. gcc72).
Make sure the livepatch-gcc script accepts all input toolchain gcc
commands with or without version specified.
Signed-off-by: Pawel Wieczorkiewicz <wipawel@amazon.de> Reviewed-by: Martin Mazein <amazein@amazon.de> Reviewed-by: Bjoern Doebel <doebel@amazon.de> Reviewed-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>
Ross Lagerwall [Mon, 24 Apr 2017 12:57:57 +0000 (13:57 +0100)]
Remove section alignment requirement
Remove the requirement that section twins (i.e. functions) have the same
alignment. The section alignment of the patched section is respected by
the loader in Xen so it shouldn't matter if the original section
alignment was different.
This was discovered when building a live patch for XSA-213. For reasons
known only to the compiler, the alignment of arch_do_multicall_call()
changed from 1 to 16. This should not prevent the build tools from
generating a live patch.
Signed-off-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Ross Lagerwall [Mon, 24 Apr 2017 11:52:43 +0000 (12:52 +0100)]
Ignore .discard sections
Ignore differences in discard sections. They are not included in the final xen
binary so there is no need to include them in the live patch.
This was discovered when building a live patch for XSA-213. Before this
commit, it failed with 'changed section .discard not selected for
inclusion'.
Reported-by: Sarah Newman <srn@prgmr.com> Signed-off-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Ross Lagerwall [Thu, 10 Nov 2016 10:58:45 +0000 (10:58 +0000)]
Fix patch creation with GCC 6.1+
GCC 6.1+ fixed https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=192 which
means that .rodata.str1.[0-9]+ sections are now split by function. We
could probably be smarter about including just the sections we need, but
for now, simply include the string sections for all functions as is done
for previous versions of GCC.
Signed-off-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com> Reported-by: M A Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk>
Ross Lagerwall [Thu, 10 Nov 2016 14:37:39 +0000 (14:37 +0000)]
create-diff-object: Update fixup offsets in .rela.ex_table
When pruning entries from the fixup table, update the offsets in
.rela.ex_table otherwise the relas might point to the wrong fixup entry
or even out of the .fixup section.
This is a port of kpatch's commit 13d61012f9b2 ("create-diff-object:
Update fixup offsets in .rela__ex_table").
Signed-off-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>
Ross Lagerwall [Wed, 20 Jul 2016 14:42:17 +0000 (15:42 +0100)]
Prevent spurious rebuilding
Don't change the timestamp of arch/x86/Makefile when editing it since it
forces much of the Xen tree to be rebuilt and then requires many
invocations of create-diff-tool.
This is safe since the Makefile change only changes the final link rule,
and xen will be relinked anyway.
Signed-off-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>
Ross Lagerwall [Fri, 10 Jun 2016 09:42:06 +0000 (10:42 +0100)]
Don't accept fuzz when patching
When testing and applying patches, set fuzz=0 so that patches must apply
exactly. Also set "-f" to avoid interactive questions, and reorder so
that patches are tested before the output directory is created.
Signed-off-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Ross Lagerwall [Mon, 9 May 2016 10:19:54 +0000 (11:19 +0100)]
Fix patching functions which use __func__
If __func__ is used, it generates a symbol like __func__.5432
Since this is always included (see is_special_static), it will generate
duplicate symbol conflicts if GCC happens to use the same number (which
happens quite often since it doesn't appear to be random). To work
around this, rename the symbol to use a completely random number.
Signed-off-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>
Ross Lagerwall [Fri, 13 Nov 2015 08:50:31 +0000 (08:50 +0000)]
Rename xsplice back to kpatch for functions coming from kpatch
To ease porting changes from kpatch, only use xsplice for the special
section names and for newly written functions but use the kpatch
namespace for ported functions.
Ross Lagerwall [Tue, 20 Oct 2015 15:51:37 +0000 (16:51 +0100)]
Add prelink tool
To simplify matters, prelink against a xen-syms file at compile time to
avoid having to resolve symbols at runtime. Create a prelink tool to do
this. Split out the elf loading and saving code of create-diff-object.c
into a common file which is shared by create-diff-object and prelink.
Ross Lagerwall [Tue, 20 Oct 2015 09:55:16 +0000 (10:55 +0100)]
Add support for specifying the path to xen-syms
This allows linking against a different xen-syms from the original
built. This may be useful if the compile environment or source code is
slightly different.
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