Song Liu 139560e8b9 livepatch: Match old_sympos 0 and 1 in klp_find_func()
When there is only one function of the same name, old_sympos of 0 and 1
are logically identical. Match them in klp_find_func().

This is to avoid a corner case with different toolchain behavior.

In this specific issue, two versions of kpatch-build were used to
build livepatch for the same kernel. One assigns old_sympos == 0 for
unique local functions, the other assigns old_sympos == 1 for unique
local functions. Both versions work fine by themselves. (PS: This
behavior change was introduced in a downstream version of kpatch-build.
This change does not exist in upstream kpatch-build.)

However, during livepatch upgrade (with the replace flag set) from a
patch built with one version of kpatch-build to the same fix built with
the other version of kpatch-build, livepatching fails with errors like:

[   14.218706] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename 'xxx/somefunc,1'
...
[   14.219466] Call Trace:
[   14.219468]  <TASK>
[   14.219469]  dump_stack_lvl+0x47/0x60
[   14.219474]  sysfs_warn_dup.cold+0x17/0x27
[   14.219476]  sysfs_create_dir_ns+0x95/0xb0
[   14.219479]  kobject_add_internal+0x9e/0x260
[   14.219483]  kobject_add+0x68/0x80
[   14.219485]  ? kstrdup+0x3c/0xa0
[   14.219486]  klp_enable_patch+0x320/0x830
[   14.219488]  patch_init+0x443/0x1000 [ccc_0_6]
[   14.219491]  ? 0xffffffffa05eb000
[   14.219492]  do_one_initcall+0x2e/0x190
[   14.219494]  do_init_module+0x67/0x270
[   14.219496]  init_module_from_file+0x75/0xa0
[   14.219499]  idempotent_init_module+0x15a/0x240
[   14.219501]  __x64_sys_finit_module+0x61/0xc0
[   14.219503]  do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x160
[   14.219505]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
[   14.219507] RIP: 0033:0x7f545a4bd96d
...
[   14.219516] kobject: kobject_add_internal failed for somefunc,1 with
    -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name ...

This happens because klp_find_func() thinks somefunc with old_sympos==0
is not the same as somefunc with old_sympos==1, and klp_add_object_nops
adds another xxx/func,1 to the list of functions to patch.

Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
[pmladek@suse.com: Fixed some typos.]
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
2025-10-15 14:47:19 +02:00
2024-09-01 20:43:24 -07:00
2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
2025-03-21 18:24:07 +01:00
2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

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