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From: Harry Hsu <x90613@gmail.com>
To: jpoimboe@kernel.org, jikos@kernel.org, mbenes@suse.cz, pmladek@suse.com
Cc: joe.lawrence@redhat.com, live-patching@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Harry Hsu <x90613@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] livepatch: Fix stack check for aliased old_func
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:02:32 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260812140232.48079-1-x90613@gmail.com> (raw)

klp_check_stack_func() decides which address range to look for on a
task's stack by asking whether the func preceding @func on
ops->func_stack is the original kernel function or another livepatch's
replacement.  It uses list_is_singular(&ops->func_stack), which only
tells "one func on this stack" from "more than one".  That assumes every
klp_func of a patch gets its own func_stack.

Aliases break the assumption.  Several symbols can share one address:

  ffffffff8ed7fef0 t __do_sys_fork
  ffffffff8ed7fef0 T __ia32_sys_fork
  ffffffff8ed7fef0 T __x64_sys_fork

klp_find_ops() looks the ops up by func->old_func, i.e. by address, so
two klp_funcs of the same patch naming two of these symbols resolve to
the same klp_ops and are both pushed onto one func_stack.

The stack is then head -> B -> A.  A is the last node and does
correspond to the original function, but list_is_singular() is false, so
the "previously patched function" branch runs: list_next_entry() applies
container_of() to &ops->func_stack, treating the list head as a struct
klp_func, and reads func_addr/func_size from past the object.  Besides
the out-of-bounds read, the bogus range can keep matching stack entries,
so tasks that are safe to switch get -EAGAIN forever and the transition
never completes.

Test whether @func itself is the last entry instead.  The answer is
derived from @func's position rather than from the list length, so it
holds however many klp_funcs share a func_stack and never steps onto the
list head.  A single-entry stack is still trivially last, so existing
behaviour is unchanged.

Fixes: d83a7cb375ee ("livepatch: change to a per-task consistency model")
Signed-off-by: Harry Hsu <x90613@gmail.com>
---
 kernel/livepatch/transition.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/livepatch/transition.c b/kernel/livepatch/transition.c
index 2351a19ac2a9..8d6e3a58101f 100644
--- a/kernel/livepatch/transition.c
+++ b/kernel/livepatch/transition.c
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ static int klp_check_stack_func(struct klp_func *func, unsigned long *entries,
 		 */
 		ops = klp_find_ops(func->old_func);
 
-		if (list_is_singular(&ops->func_stack)) {
+		if (list_is_last(&func->stack_node, &ops->func_stack)) {
 			/* original function */
 			func_addr = (unsigned long)func->old_func;
 			func_size = func->old_size;
-- 
2.43.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-08-12 14:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-12 14:02 Harry Hsu [this message]
2026-08-12 15:07 ` [PATCH] livepatch: Fix stack check for aliased old_func sashiko-bot

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