[xen staging-4.16] livepatch: do not ignore sections with 0 size

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commit 46d80ba371b20a5201b7168a4fee924ba3f80303
Author:     Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Fri Apr 8 14:58:57 2022 +0200
Commit:     Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Fri Apr 8 14:58:57 2022 +0200

    livepatch: do not ignore sections with 0 size
    
    A side effect of ignoring such sections is that symbols belonging to
    them won't be resolved, and that could make relocations belonging to
    other sections that reference those symbols fail.
    
    For example it's likely to have an empty .altinstr_replacement with
    symbols pointing to it, and marking the section as ignored will
    prevent the symbols from being resolved, which in turn will cause any
    relocations against them to fail.
    
    In order to solve this do not ignore sections with 0 size, only ignore
    sections that don't have the SHF_ALLOC flag set.
    
    Special case such empty sections in move_payload so they are not taken
    into account in order to decide whether a livepatch can be safely
    re-applied after a revert.
    
    Fixes: 98b728a7b2 ('livepatch: Disallow applying after an revert')
    Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Tested-by: Bjoern Doebel <doebel@xxxxxxxxx>
    Reviewed-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@xxxxxxxxxx>
    master commit: 0dc1f929e8fed681dec09ca3ea8de38202d5bf30
    master date: 2022-04-08 10:24:10 +0200
---
 xen/common/livepatch.c          | 16 +++++++++++-----
 xen/include/xen/livepatch_elf.h |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/xen/common/livepatch.c b/xen/common/livepatch.c
index 329b01c1e8..65c7e37c4f 100644
--- a/xen/common/livepatch.c
+++ b/xen/common/livepatch.c
@@ -301,9 +301,6 @@ static int move_payload(struct payload *payload, struct 
livepatch_elf *elf)
          * and .shstrtab. For the non-relocate we allocate and copy these
          * via other means - and the .rel we can ignore as we only use it
          * once during loading.
-         *
-         * Also ignore sections with zero size. Those can be for example:
-         * data, or .bss.
          */
         if ( livepatch_elf_ignore_section(elf->sec[i].sec) )
             offset[i] = UINT_MAX;
@@ -362,8 +359,17 @@ static int move_payload(struct payload *payload, struct 
livepatch_elf *elf)
             else if ( elf->sec[i].sec->sh_flags & SHF_WRITE )
             {
                 buf = rw_buf;
-                rw_buf_sec = i;
-                rw_buf_cnt++;
+                if ( elf->sec[i].sec->sh_size )
+                {
+                    /*
+                     * Special handling of RW empty regions: do not account for
+                     * them in order to decide whether a patch can safely be
+                     * re-applied, but assign them a load address so symbol
+                     * resolution and relocations work.
+                     */
+                    rw_buf_sec = i;
+                    rw_buf_cnt++;
+                }
             }
             else
                 buf = ro_buf;
diff --git a/xen/include/xen/livepatch_elf.h b/xen/include/xen/livepatch_elf.h
index 9ad499ee8b..5b1ec469da 100644
--- a/xen/include/xen/livepatch_elf.h
+++ b/xen/include/xen/livepatch_elf.h
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ int livepatch_elf_perform_relocs(struct livepatch_elf *elf);
 
 static inline bool livepatch_elf_ignore_section(const Elf_Shdr *sec)
 {
-    return !(sec->sh_flags & SHF_ALLOC) || sec->sh_size == 0;
+    return !(sec->sh_flags & SHF_ALLOC);
 }
 #endif /* __XEN_LIVEPATCH_ELF_H__ */
 
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