[RFC PATCH 1/1] arm64: implement live patching

[Madhavan T. Venkataraman]

On 6/17/21 4:29 AM, nobuta.keiya at fujitsu.com wrote:
> 
>> It's my understanding that the two pieces of work required to enable live
>> patching on arm are in flight upstream;
>> - Reliable stack traces as implemented by Madhavan T. Venkataraman [1]
>> - Objtool as implemented by Julien Thierry [2]
>>
>> This is the remaining part required to enable live patching on arm.
>> Based on work by Torsten Duwe [3]
>>
>> Allocate a task flag used to represent the patch pending state for the
>> task. Also implement generic functions klp_arch_set_pc() &
>> klp_get_ftrace_location().
>>
>> In klp_arch_set_pc() it is sufficient to set regs->pc as in
>> ftrace_common_return() the return address is loaded from the stack.
>>
>> ldr     x9, [sp, #S_PC]
>> <snip>
>> ret     x9
>>
>> In klp_get_ftrace_location() it is necessary to advance the address by
>> AARCH64_INSN_SIZE (4) to point to the BL in the callsite as 2 nops were
>> placed at the start of the function, one to be patched to save the LR and
>> another to be patched to branch to the ftrace call, and
>> klp_get_ftrace_location() is expected to return the address of the BL. It
>> may also be necessary to advance the address by another AARCH64_INSN_SIZE
>> if CONFIG_ARM64_BTI_KERNEL is enabled due to the instruction placed at the
>> branch target to satisfy BTI,
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <surajjs at amazon.com>
>>
>> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/5/26/1212
>> [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/3/3/1135
>> [3] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/10/26/536
>> ---
> 
> AFAIU Madhavan's patch series linked in the above [1] is currently awaiting
> review by Mark Rutland. It seems that not only this patch series but also the
> implementation of arch_stack_walk_reliable() at the below link is required
> to enable livepatch.
> 

Yes. I have a patch ready for that. But I can submit that only after the previous
series has been accepted.

Thanks

Madhavan