Re: [PATCH 0/8] unwind, arm64: add sframe unwinder for kernel

Song Liu
2025-02-13T23:47:55Z

On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM Indu Bhagat <indu.bhagat@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/12/25 11:25 PM, Song Liu wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 06:36:04PM -0800, Song Liu wrote:
> >>>>> [ 81.261748] copy_process+0xfdc/0xfd58 [livepatch_special_static]
> >>>>
> >>>> Does that copy_process+0xfdc/0xfd58 resolve to this line in
> >>>> copy_process()?
> >>>>
> >>>> refcount_inc(&current->signal->sigcnt);
> >>>>
> >>>> Maybe the klp rela reference to 'current' is bogus, or resolving to the
> >>>> wrong address somehow?
> >>>
> >>> It resolves the following line.
> >>>
> >>> p->signal->tty = tty_kref_get(current->signal->tty);
> >>>
> >>> I am not quite sure how 'current' should be resolved.
> >>
> >> Hm, on arm64 it looks like the value of 'current' is stored in the
> >> SP_EL0 register. So I guess that shouldn't need any relocations.
> >>
> >>> The size of copy_process (0xfd58) is wrong. It is only about
> >>> 5.5kB in size. Also, the copy_process function in the .ko file
> >>> looks very broken. I will try a few more things.
> >
> > When I try each step of kpatch-build, the copy_process function
> > looks reasonable (according to gdb-disassemble) in fork.o and
> > output.o. However, copy_process looks weird in livepatch-special-static.o,
> > which is generated by ld:
> >
> > ld -EL -maarch64linux -z norelro -z noexecstack
> > --no-warn-rwx-segments -T ././kpatch.lds -r -o
> > livepatch-special-static.o ./patch-hook.o ./output.o
> >
> > I have attached these files to the email. I am not sure whether
> > the email server will let them through.
> >
> > Indu, does this look like an issue with ld?
> >
>
> Sorry for the delay.
>
> Looks like there has been progress since and issue may be elsewhere, but:
>
> FWIW, I looked at the .sframe and .rela.sframe sections here, the data
> does look OK. I noted that there is no .sframe for copy_process () in
> output.o... I will take a look into it.

That output.o was generated with a version of kpatch-build that blindly
removes all .sframe sections.

Thanks,
Song