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From: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
To: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Cc: jpoimboe@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, jikos@kernel.org,
	mbenes@suse.cz, pmladek@suse.com, joe.lawrence@redhat.com,
	puranjay@kernel.org, kernel-team@meta.com,
	Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 49/58] objtool/klp: Add test for tracepoint and pr_debug static branch keys
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2026 23:25:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260914062514.926997-50-song@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260914062514.926997-1-song@kernel.org>

A module-owned static branch key is normally fatal, because late module
patching lets the livepatch load before the module it depends on and
jump_label_add_module() then dereferences an unresolved entry.

Tracepoints and pr_debug() generate such keys everywhere, so refusing them
outright would make any function containing a trace_*() call or a
pr_debug() unpatchable.  klp diff drops the entry, warns, and carries on:
the patched code works with that one tracepoint or debug print permanently
off.

Both halves matter, and the test asserts both.  A build which fails is a
function nobody can patch; an entry left in place is the corruption the
rejection exists to prevent.

Give the fixture a KEY_NAME knob so the same static branch can be built
with either special name.  Verified by removing each exemption in turn --
the test fails for both.  That the entry is then dropped is asserted but
not isolated, and the test says so.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4
Based-on-test-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
---
 .../generic/test-jump-label-exempt-keys.sh    | 51 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 51 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 tools/objtool/tests/generic/test-jump-label-exempt-keys.sh

diff --git a/tools/objtool/tests/generic/test-jump-label-exempt-keys.sh b/tools/objtool/tests/generic/test-jump-label-exempt-keys.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..fa2f913d860b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/objtool/tests/generic/test-jump-label-exempt-keys.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+#
+# Two kinds of module-owned static branch key are disabled with a warning
+# instead of rejected.
+#
+# A module-local key is normally fatal: late module patching lets the livepatch
+# load before the module it depends on, so the unresolved __jump_table entry is
+# dereferenced by jump_label_add_module().  test-jump-label-module-key covers
+# that rejection.
+#
+# Tracepoints and pr_debug() generate such keys everywhere, though, and
+# refusing them outright would make any function containing a trace_*() call or
+# a pr_debug() unpatchable.  So klp diff drops the entry, says so, and carries
+# on: the patched code keeps working with that one tracepoint or debug print
+# permanently off.
+#
+# Both halves matter.  A build that fails is a function nobody can patch; an
+# entry left in place is the memory corruption the rejection exists to prevent.
+#
+# The two exemptions are isolated: remove either and this fails.  That the
+# entry is then dropped is asserted but not isolated -- making the caller keep
+# it anyway produces no output difference here, so that assertion stands as a
+# check on the behaviour rather than on the line which produces it.
+#
+# Covers the same ground as corpus/x86_64/static-call-module-tracepoint and
+# pr-debug-unsupported in Joe Lawrence's klp-build unit test corpus.
+
+. "$(dirname "$0")/../lib.sh"
+
+setup
+
+# check <key name> <expected warning>
+check()
+{
+	build_pair jump_label.c -DKEY_NAME="$1" -DMODNAME='"klp_testmod"'
+	require_input_section __jump_table
+
+	# Accepted, not rejected: this is the whole point.
+	run_diff
+	assert_diff_log "$2"
+
+	# And the entry is gone, not merely complained about.
+	assert_patched target
+	assert_no_section __jump_table
+}
+
+check __tracepoint_klp_test        'disabling unsupported tracepoint klp_test'
+check __UNIQUE_ID_ddebug_klp_test  'disabling unsupported pr_debug'
+
+pass "tracepoint and pr_debug keys disabled with a warning, not rejected"
-- 
2.53.0-Meta


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-09-14  6:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-14  6:24 [PATCH v2 00/58] Unit test framework for klp-build toolchain Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:24 ` [PATCH v2 01/58] objtool: Add test harness for the klp subcommands Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:24 ` [PATCH v2 02/58] objtool/klp: Check the klp test environment once, before any test Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:37   ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-14 18:39     ` Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:24 ` [PATCH v2 03/58] objtool/klp: Group the klp tests by architecture Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:24 ` [PATCH v2 04/58] objtool/klp: Classify klp test outcomes Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:39   ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-14 18:50     ` Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:24 ` [PATCH v2 05/58] objtool/klp: Build klp test fixtures through the harness Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:41   ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-14 19:52     ` Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:24 ` [PATCH v2 06/58] objtool/klp: Grow the klp test harness vocabulary Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:41   ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-14 20:37     ` Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:24 ` [PATCH v2 07/58] objtool/klp: Give each run one working directory, one per test inside it Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:24 ` [PATCH v2 08/58] objtool/klp: Run the klp tests under set -u Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:24 ` [PATCH v2 09/58] objtool/klp: Document the klp test harness Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:24 ` [PATCH v2 10/58] objtool: Keep failing test workdirs by default Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:37   ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-14 18:25     ` Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:24 ` [PATCH v2 11/58] objtool: Forward toolchain variables to the klp test runner Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:39   ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-14 20:48     ` Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:24 ` [PATCH v2 12/58] objtool/klp: Add test for rejecting changed data Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:24 ` [PATCH v2 13/58] objtool/klp: Add test for newly introduced data Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:38   ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-14 20:47     ` Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:24 ` [PATCH v2 14/58] objtool/klp: Add test for newly introduced functions Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:24 ` [PATCH v2 15/58] objtool/klp: Add test for static local correlation Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:24 ` [PATCH v2 16/58] objtool/klp: Add test for cold function halves Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:38   ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-14 20:55     ` Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:24 ` [PATCH v2 17/58] objtool/klp: Add test for special section extraction Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:24 ` [PATCH v2 18/58] objtool/klp: Add test for selective " Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:24 ` [PATCH v2 19/58] objtool/klp: Add test for jump table key relocations Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:46   ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-14 20:55     ` Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:24 ` [PATCH v2 20/58] objtool/klp: Add test for rejecting module-owned static branch keys Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:24 ` [PATCH v2 21/58] objtool/klp: Add test for rejecting module-owned static call keys Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:24 ` [PATCH v2 22/58] objtool/klp: Add test for symids in discarded sections Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:24 ` [PATCH v2 23/58] objtool/klp: Add test for rejecting references to init code/data Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:24 ` [PATCH v2 24/58] objtool/klp: Add test for correlation across ThinLTO name mangling Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:24 ` [PATCH v2 25/58] objtool/klp: Add test for objects without .modinfo Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:24 ` [PATCH v2 26/58] objtool/klp: Add test for unchecksummed input Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:24 ` [PATCH v2 27/58] objtool/klp: Add klp diff and post-link regression tests Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:24 ` [PATCH v2 28/58] objtool/klp: Add test for klp reloc section naming in module objects Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:24 ` [PATCH v2 29/58] objtool/klp: Add test for vmlinux relocs in a patched module Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:24 ` [PATCH v2 30/58] objtool/klp: Add test for Module.symvers path normalization Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:24 ` [PATCH v2 31/58] objtool/klp: Add test for the contents of the klp_funcs list Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:46   ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-14 21:00     ` Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:24 ` [PATCH v2 32/58] objtool/klp: Add test for EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_MODULES references Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:45   ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-14 21:04     ` Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:24 ` [PATCH v2 33/58] objtool/klp: Add test for new references to exported symbols Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:24 ` [PATCH v2 34/58] objtool/klp: Add test for empty x86 alternative replacements Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:24 ` [PATCH v2 35/58] objtool/klp: Add test for recorded checksum values Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:24 ` [PATCH v2 36/58] objtool/klp: Add test for position-independent checksums Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:46   ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-14 21:42     ` Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:24 ` [PATCH v2 37/58] objtool/klp: Add test for sympos in module objects Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:49   ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-14 21:08     ` Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:24 ` [PATCH v2 38/58] objtool/klp: Add test for sympos resolved against a linked vmlinux Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:24 ` [PATCH v2 39/58] objtool/klp: Add test for static locals which must not be correlated Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:24 ` [PATCH v2 40/58] objtool/klp: Add test for __bug_table, __ex_table and __mcount_loc extraction Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:24 ` [PATCH v2 41/58] objtool/klp: Add test for kCFI prefix symbols and traps Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:24 ` [PATCH v2 42/58] objtool/klp: Add test for symbols whose linkage the patch changes Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:47   ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-14  6:24 ` [PATCH v2 43/58] objtool/klp: Test rejection of a file-local static branch key Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:25 ` [PATCH v2 44/58] objtool/klp: Test a hand-built livepatch module's static call keys Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:25 ` [PATCH v2 45/58] objtool/klp: Test text annotations on alternative replacements Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:25 ` [PATCH v2 46/58] objtool/klp: Add test for data object checksums Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:25 ` [PATCH v2 47/58] objtool/klp: Add test for symbols with no checksum entry of their own Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:48   ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-14 22:08     ` Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:25 ` [PATCH v2 48/58] objtool/klp: Add test for a static branch introduced by the patch Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:25 ` Song Liu [this message]
2026-09-14  6:25 ` [PATCH v2 50/58] objtool/klp: Add test for a static call " Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:25 ` [PATCH v2 51/58] objtool/klp: Add test for instruction operand checksums Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:25 ` [PATCH v2 52/58] objtool/klp: Add test for alternative replacement code in checksums Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:25 ` [PATCH v2 53/58] objtool/klp: Add test for the alignment of cloned data sections Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:25 ` [PATCH v2 54/58] objtool/klp: Add test for a patch which strips a data annotation Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:25 ` [PATCH v2 55/58] objtool/klp: Add test for absolute and __ADDRESSABLE symbols Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:25 ` [PATCH v2 56/58] objtool/klp: Add test for UBSAN metadata in an unchanged function Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:25 ` [PATCH v2 57/58] objtool/klp: Add test for Clang switch jump tables Song Liu
2026-09-14  6:25 ` [PATCH v2 58/58] objtool/klp: Add test for ThinLTO symbols sharing a demangled name Song Liu

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