[Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 02/16] livepatch: Reject payloads with .alternative or .ex_table if support is not built-in.

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

If the payload had the sections mentioned but the hypervisor
did not support some of them (say on ARM the .ex_table) - instead
of ignoring them - it should forbid loading of such payload.

Reviewed-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>

v3: New submission.
v4: Added Julien's Reviewed-by tag.
---
 xen/common/livepatch.c | 16 ++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/xen/common/livepatch.c b/xen/common/livepatch.c
index c9ceeb0..a4ce8c7 100644
--- a/xen/common/livepatch.c
+++ b/xen/common/livepatch.c
@@ -638,10 +638,10 @@ static int prepare_payload(struct payload *payload,
                                   sizeof(*region->frame[i].bugs);
     }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_HAS_ALTERNATIVE
     sec = livepatch_elf_sec_by_name(elf, ".altinstructions");
     if ( sec )
     {
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAS_ALTERNATIVE
         struct alt_instr *a, *start, *end;
 
         if ( sec->sec->sh_size % sizeof(*a) )
@@ -668,13 +668,17 @@ static int prepare_payload(struct payload *payload,
             }
         }
         apply_alternatives(start, end);
-    }
+#else
+        dprintk(XENLOG_ERR, LIVEPATCH "%s: We don't support alternative 
patching!\n",
+                elf->name);
+        return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 #endif
+    }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_HAS_EX_TABLE
     sec = livepatch_elf_sec_by_name(elf, ".ex_table");
     if ( sec )
     {
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAS_EX_TABLE
         struct exception_table_entry *s, *e;
 
         if ( !sec->sec->sh_size ||
@@ -693,8 +697,12 @@ static int prepare_payload(struct payload *payload,
 
         region->ex = s;
         region->ex_end = e;
-    }
+#else
+        dprintk(XENLOG_ERR, LIVEPATCH "%s: We don't support .ex_table!\n",
+                elf->name);
+        return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 #endif
+    }
 
     return 0;
 }
-- 
2.5.5


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