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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2025-10-16 11:38:19 +0200
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2025-10-16 11:38:19 +0200
commit00a155c691befdb10bea52c91d4c8c930bdaf73a (patch)
tree7a730a57251bbccbdc48e3a22a31cb3384a72f9f /tools/objtool/builtin-klp.c
parent044f721ccd33103349eebbb960825584bc6d8e23 (diff)
parentb9976fa4649627c04dde26183333c3dcc90a0b76 (diff)
Merge branch 'objtool/core' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jpoimboe/linux
This series introduces new objtool features and a klp-build script to generate livepatch modules using a source .patch as input. This builds on concepts from the longstanding out-of-tree kpatch [1] project which began in 2012 and has been used for many years to generate livepatch modules for production kernels. However, this is a complete rewrite which incorporates hard-earned lessons from 12+ years of maintaining kpatch. Key improvements compared to kpatch-build: - Integrated with objtool: Leverages objtool's existing control-flow graph analysis to help detect changed functions. - Works on vmlinux.o: Supports late-linked objects, making it compatible with LTO, IBT, and similar. - Simplified code base: ~3k fewer lines of code. - Upstream: No more out-of-tree #ifdef hacks, far less cruft. - Cleaner internals: Vastly simplified logic for symbol/section/reloc inclusion and special section extraction. - Robust __LINE__ macro handling: Avoids false positive binary diffs caused by the __LINE__ macro by introducing a fix-patch-lines script which injects #line directives into the source .patch to preserve the original line numbers at compile time. The primary user interface is the klp-build script which does the following: - Builds an original kernel with -function-sections and -fdata-sections, plus objtool function checksumming. - Applies the .patch file and rebuilds the kernel using the same options. - Runs 'objtool klp diff' to detect changed functions and generate intermediate binary diff objects. - Builds a kernel module which links the diff objects with some livepatch module init code (scripts/livepatch/init.c). - Finalizes the livepatch module (aka work around linker wreckage) using 'objtool klp post-link'. I've tested with a variety of patches on defconfig and Fedora-config kernels with both GCC and Clang.
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+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+#include <subcmd/parse-options.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <objtool/builtin.h>
+#include <objtool/objtool.h>
+#include <objtool/klp.h>
+
+struct subcmd {
+ const char *name;
+ const char *description;
+ int (*fn)(int, const char **);
+};
+
+static struct subcmd subcmds[] = {
+ { "diff", "Generate binary diff of two object files", cmd_klp_diff, },
+ { "post-link", "Finalize klp symbols/relocs after module linking", cmd_klp_post_link, },
+};
+
+static void cmd_klp_usage(void)
+{
+ fprintf(stderr, "usage: objtool klp <subcommand> [<options>]\n\n");
+ fprintf(stderr, "Subcommands:\n");
+
+ for (int i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(subcmds); i++) {
+ struct subcmd *cmd = &subcmds[i];
+
+ fprintf(stderr, " %s\t%s\n", cmd->name, cmd->description);
+ }
+
+ exit(1);
+}
+
+int cmd_klp(int argc, const char **argv)
+{
+ argc--;
+ argv++;
+
+ if (!argc)
+ cmd_klp_usage();
+
+ if (argc) {
+ for (int i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(subcmds); i++) {
+ struct subcmd *cmd = &subcmds[i];
+
+ if (!strcmp(cmd->name, argv[0]))
+ return cmd->fn(argc, argv);
+ }
+ }
+
+ cmd_klp_usage();
+ return 0;
+}