livepatch: allow removal of a disabled patch

Currently we do not allow patch module to unload since there is no
method to determine if a task is still running in the patched code.

The consistency model gives us the way because when the unpatching
finishes we know that all tasks were marked as safe to call an original
function. Thus every new call to the function calls the original code
and at the same time no task can be somewhere in the patched code,
because it had to leave that code to be marked as safe.

We can safely let the patch module go after that.

Completion is used for synchronization between module removal and sysfs
infrastructure in a similar way to commit 942e443127e9 ("module: Fix
mod->mkobj.kobj potentially freed too early").

Note that we still do not allow the removal for immediate model, that is
no consistency model. The module refcount may increase in this case if
somebody disables and enables the patch several times. This should not
cause any harm.

With this change a call to try_module_get() is moved to
__klp_enable_patch from klp_register_patch to make module reference
counting symmetric (module_put() is in a patch disable path) and to
allow to take a new reference to a disabled module when being enabled.

Finally, we need to be very careful about possible races between
klp_unregister_patch(), kobject_put() functions and operations
on the related sysfs files.

kobject_put(&patch->kobj) must be called without klp_mutex. Otherwise,
it might be blocked by enabled_store() that needs the mutex as well.
In addition, enabled_store() must check if the patch was not
unregisted in the meantime.

There is no need to do the same for other kobject_put() callsites
at the moment. Their sysfs operations neither take the lock nor
they access any data that might be freed in the meantime.

There was an attempt to use kobjects the right way and prevent these
races by design. But it made the patch definition more complicated
and opened another can of worms. See
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464018848-4303-1-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com

[Thanks to Petr Mladek for improving the commit message.]

Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/livepatch.h b/include/linux/livepatch.h
index ed90ad1605c1..194991ef9347 100644
--- a/include/linux/livepatch.h
+++ b/include/linux/livepatch.h
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/ftrace.h>
+#include <linux/completion.h>
 
 #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_LIVEPATCH)
 
@@ -114,6 +115,7 @@ struct klp_object {
  * @list:	list node for global list of registered patches
  * @kobj:	kobject for sysfs resources
  * @enabled:	the patch is enabled (but operation may be incomplete)
+ * @finish:	for waiting till it is safe to remove the patch module
  */
 struct klp_patch {
 	/* external */
@@ -125,6 +127,7 @@ struct klp_patch {
 	struct list_head list;
 	struct kobject kobj;
 	bool enabled;
+	struct completion finish;
 };
 
 #define klp_for_each_object(patch, obj) \