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Re: [PATCH] create-diff-object: handle missing padding at end of special section


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  • Thread-topic: [PATCH] create-diff-object: handle missing padding at end of special section

> From: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, April 14, 2023 4:19 PM
> To: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>; Roger Pau Monne 
> <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>; Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>; Ross 
> Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [PATCH] create-diff-object: handle missing padding at end of special 
> section 
>  
> From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The paravirt_patch_site struct has 12 bytes of data and 4 bytes of
> padding, for a total of 16 bytes.  However, when laying out the structs
> in the .parainstructions section, the vmlinux script only aligns before
> each struct's data, not after.  So the last entry doesn't have the
> 4-byte padding, which breaks kpatch_regenerate_special_section()'s
> assumption of a 16-byte struct, resulting in a memcpy past the end of
> the section.
> 
> Fixes #747.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This is commit:
> 
> c2dc3836e862 create-diff-object: handle missing padding at end of special 
> section
> 
> In kpatch repository.
> 
> I've seen the .fixup section get an alignment of 16 but a size of 81,
> which makes the error removed in this patch trigger.  Overall I'm not
> sure why the original alignment check was done against the size of the
> section, the alignment applies to the address of the section, not its
> size.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@xxxxxxxxxx>


 


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