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[Xen-devel] [PATCH 13/20] create-diff-object: Strip all undefined entires of known size



The patched ELF object file contains all sections and symbols as
resulted from the compilation. However, certain symbols may not be
copied over to the resulting object file, due to being unchanged or
not included for other reasons.
In such situation the resulting object file has the entire sections
copied along (with all their entries unchanged), while some of the
corresponding symbols are not copied along at all.
This leads to having incorrect undefined (STN_UNDEF) entries in the
final hotpatch ELF file.

The newly added function livepatch_strip_undefined_elements() detects
and removes all undefined RELA entries as well as their corresponding
PROGBITS section entries.
Since the sections may contain elements of unknown size (sh.sh_entsize
== 0), perform the strip only on sections with well defined entry
sizes.

After replacing the stripped rela list, it is assumed that the next
invocation of the kpatch_rebuild_rela_section_data() will adjust all
section header parameters according to the current state.

The livepatch_strip_undefined_elements() is a superset of the
kpatch_regenerate_special_section() in both scope (covers all RELA
sections instead of just special sections) and granularity (checks
all entries instead of whole groups) modulo the entries validity
predicate.
Unifying the functions results in a complicated code, which is hard
to reason about. Thus, the kpatch_regenerate_special_section() is
kept separate with its own predicate for special sections only, and
livepatch_strip_undefined_elements() follows for all sections with
the undefined symbol detecting predicate.

Signed-off-by: Pawel Wieczorkiewicz <wipawel@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Martin Pohlack <mpohlack@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Bjoern Doebel <doebel@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Norbert Manthey <nmanthey@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andra-Irina Paraschiv <andraprs@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 create-diff-object.c | 131 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 129 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/create-diff-object.c b/create-diff-object.c
index 1c84f81..f01f1da 100644
--- a/create-diff-object.c
+++ b/create-diff-object.c
@@ -1560,6 +1560,13 @@ static inline int get_section_entry_size(const struct 
section *sec,
        return entry_size;
 }
 
+/* Check if RELA entry has undefined or unchanged/not-included symbols. */
+static inline bool has_rela_undefined_symbol(const struct rela *rela)
+{
+       return (GELF_R_SYM(rela->rela.r_info) == STN_UNDEF) ||
+              (!rela->sym->include && (rela->sym->status == SAME));
+}
+
 static int kpatch_section_has_undef_symbols(struct kpatch_elf *kelf,
                                            const struct section *sec)
 {
@@ -1579,8 +1586,7 @@ static int kpatch_section_has_undef_symbols(struct 
kpatch_elf *kelf,
                                continue;
                        }
 
-                       if ((GELF_R_SYM(rela->rela.r_info) == STN_UNDEF) ||
-                           (!rela->sym->include && rela->sym->status == SAME)) 
{
+                       if (has_rela_undefined_symbol(rela)) {
                                log_normal("section %s has an entry with an 
undefined symbol: %s\n",
                                           sec->name, rela->sym->name ?: 
"none");
                                return true;
@@ -1994,6 +2000,125 @@ static void livepatch_create_patches_sections(struct 
kpatch_elf *kelf,
 
 }
 
+/*
+ * The patched ELF object file contains all sections and symbols as resulted
+ * from the compilation. However, certain symbols may not be copied over to
+ * the resulting object file, due to being unchanged or not included for other
+ * reasons.
+ * In such situation the resulting object file has the entire sections copied
+ * along (with all their entries unchanged), while some of the corresponding
+ * symbols are not copied along at all.
+ * This leads to having incorrect dummy (STN_UNDEF) entries in the final
+ * hotpatch ELF file.
+ * This functions removes all undefined entries of known size from both
+ * RELA and PROGBITS sections of the patched elf object.
+ */
+static void livepatch_strip_undefined_elements(struct kpatch_elf *kelf)
+{
+       struct section *sec;
+
+       list_for_each_entry(sec, &kelf->sections, list) {
+               struct rela *rela, *safe;
+               int src_offset = 0, dst_offset = 0;
+               int entry_size, align, aligned_size;
+               char *src, *dst;
+               LIST_HEAD(newrelas);
+
+               /* use RELA section to find all its undefined entries */
+               if (!is_rela_section(sec))
+                       continue;
+
+               /* only known, fixed-size entries can be stripped */
+               entry_size = get_section_entry_size(sec->base, kelf);
+               if (entry_size == 0)
+                       continue;
+
+               /* alloc buffer for new base section */
+               dst = malloc(sec->base->sh.sh_size);
+               if (!dst)
+                       ERROR("malloc");
+
+               /*
+                * Iterate through all entries of a corresponding base section
+                * for this RELA section.
+                */
+               for ( src = sec->base->data->d_buf;
+                     src_offset < sec->base->sh.sh_size;
+                     src_offset += entry_size ) {
+                       bool found_valid = false;
+
+                       list_for_each_entry_safe(rela, safe, &sec->relas, list) 
{
+                               /*
+                                * Check all RELA elements looking for
+                                * corresponding entry references.
+                                */
+                               if (rela->offset < src_offset ||
+                                   rela->offset >= src_offset + entry_size) {
+                                       continue;
+                               }
+
+                               /*
+                                * Ignore all undefined (STN_UNDEF) or
+                                * unchanged/not-included elements.
+                                */
+                               if (has_rela_undefined_symbol(rela)) {
+                                       log_normal("Found a STN_UNDEF symbol %s 
in section %s\n",
+                                                  rela->sym->name, sec->name);
+                                       continue;
+                               }
+
+                               /*
+                                * A correct match has been found, so move it
+                                * to a new list. Original list will be 
destroyed
+                                * along with the entire kelf object, so the
+                                * reference must be preserved.
+                                */
+                               found_valid = true;
+                               list_del(&rela->list);
+                               list_add_tail(&rela->list, &newrelas);
+
+                               rela->offset -= src_offset - dst_offset;
+                               rela->rela.r_offset = rela->offset;
+                       }
+
+                       /* there is a valid RELA entry, so copy current entry */
+                       if (found_valid) {
+                               /* copy base section group */
+                               memcpy(dst + dst_offset, src + src_offset, 
entry_size);
+                               dst_offset += entry_size;
+                       }
+               }
+
+               /* verify that entry_size is a divisor of aligned section size 
*/
+               align = sec->base->sh.sh_addralign;
+               aligned_size = ((sec->base->sh.sh_size + align - 1) / align) * 
align;
+               if (src_offset != aligned_size) {
+                       ERROR("group size mismatch for section %s\n",
+                             sec->base->name);
+               }
+
+               if (!dst_offset) {
+                       /* no changed or global functions referenced */
+                       sec->status = sec->base->status = SAME;
+                       sec->include = sec->base->include = 0;
+                       free(dst);
+                       continue;
+               }
+
+               /* overwrite with new relas list */
+               list_replace(&newrelas, &sec->relas);
+
+               /*
+                * Update text section data buf and size.
+                *
+                * The rela section's data buf and size will be
+                * regenerated in kpatch_rebuild_rela_section_data().
+                */
+               sec->base->data->d_buf = dst;
+               sec->base->data->d_size = dst_offset;
+       }
+}
+
 static int is_null_sym(struct symbol *sym)
 {
        return !strlen(sym->name);
@@ -2190,6 +2315,8 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 
        log_debug("Process special sections\n");
        kpatch_process_special_sections(kelf_patched);
+       log_debug("Strip undefined elements of known size\n");
+       livepatch_strip_undefined_elements(kelf_patched);
        log_debug("Verify patchability\n");
        kpatch_verify_patchability(kelf_patched);
 
-- 
2.16.5




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