[Crash-utility] [PATCH] defs.h: fix breakage of compatibility of struct symbol_table_data for extension modules
HAGIO KAZUHITO(萩尾 一仁)
k-hagio-ab at nec.com
Fri Dec 10 04:23:51 UTC 2021
-----Original Message-----
> Hi, Hatayama
> Thank you for the fix.
>
> > Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2021 12:07:34 +0000
> > From: "d.hatayama at fujitsu.com" <d.hatayama at fujitsu.com>
> > To: "crash-utility at redhat.com" <crash-utility at redhat.com>
> > Subject: [Crash-utility] [PATCH] defs.h: fix breakage of compatibility
> > of struct symbol_table_data for extension modules
> > Message-ID:
> > <TYAPR01MB65079183F79B7F72B9486823956F9 at TYAPR01MB6507.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com>
> >
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp"
> >
> > Commit 2fab8fbc0c4f1c4cbe889de4cead5f7457a19f77 (symbols: Implement
> > install and remove operations for mod_symname_hash) added new member
> > variable mod_symname_hash in the middle of struct symbol_table_data:
> >
> > diff --git a/defs.h b/defs.h
> > index cbd45e5..bbdca79 100644
> > --- a/defs.h
> > +++ b/defs.h
> > @@ -2755,6 +2755,7 @@ struct symbol_table_data {
> > double val_hash_searches;
> > double val_hash_iterations;
> > struct syment *symname_hash[SYMNAME_HASH];
> > + struct syment *mod_symname_hash[SYMNAME_HASH];
> > struct symbol_namespace kernel_namespace;
> > struct syment *ext_module_symtable;
> > struct syment *ext_module_symend;
> >
> > which breaks compatibility of struct symbol_table_data for extension
> > modules. In general, new member variables must be added at the end of
> > structures to maintain compatibility of data structures shared among
> > extension modules.
oh, I've only checked a part of tables, thanks for pointing this out.
Acked-by: Kazuhito hagio <k-hagio-ab at nec.com>
Lianbo, we need to backport this to RHEL8.6 and RHEL9.0 crash before GA.
>
> Yes. Crash utility has documented the rules, see wiki:
> https://github.com/crash-utility/crash/wiki. But, this seems to be
> ignored again.
> "If you add offset/size/array_length to each table, they have to be
> appended to the end of the tables.This is to avoid breaking previously
> compiled extension modules. Also, please add them to
> dump_offset_table() (in arbitrarily order)."
I'll improve the guideline to cover more tables..
Thanks,
Kazu
>
> >
> >
> > For example, as the result, crash trace command results in
> > segmentation fault:
> >
> > crash> trace show
> >
> > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> >
> > in context of save_proc_kallsyms():
> >
> > (gdb) bt
> > #0 save_proc_kallsyms (fd=<optimized out>) at
> /usr/src/debug/crash-trace-command-3.0-4.el9.x86_64/trace.c:2234
> > #1 __trace_cmd_data_output (fd=<optimized out>) at
> /usr/src/debug/crash-trace-command-3.0-4.el9.x86_64/trace.c:2538
> > #2 0x00007f804e068dd5 in trace_cmd_data_output (fd=<optimized out>) at
> /usr/src/debug/crash-trace-command-3.0-4.el9.x86_64/trace.c:2588
> > #3 ftrace_show (argc=919286707, argv=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>) at
> /usr/src/debug/crash-trace-command-3.0-4.el9.x86_64/trace.c:1825
> > #4 0x00000000005010de in exec_command () at main.c:892
> > #5 0x0000000000500ed0 in main_loop () at main.c:839
> > #6 0x000000000085590d in captured_main (data=<optimized out>) at main.c:1284
> > #7 gdb_main (args=<optimized out>) at main.c:1313
> > #8 0x0000000000855965 in gdb_main_entry (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>) at main.c:1338
> > #9 0x00000000005b3db7 in gdb_main_loop (argc=2, argv=0x7ffc5afb3ed8) at gdb_interface.c:81
> > #10 0x0000000000500b8d in main (argc=3, argv=0x7ffc5afb3ed8) at main.c:720
> >
> > when referring to sp->name:
> >
> > static int save_proc_kallsyms(int fd)
> > {
> > int i;
> > struct syment *sp;
> >
> > for (sp = st->symtable; sp < st->symend; sp++)
> > tmp_fprintf("%lx %c %s\n", sp->value, sp->type, sp->name);
> >
> > for (i = 0; i < st->mods_installed; i++) {
> > struct load_module *lm = &st->load_modules[i];
> >
> > for (sp = lm->mod_symtable; sp <= lm->mod_symend; sp++) {
> > => if (!strncmp(sp->name, "_MODULE_", strlen("_MODULE_")))
> > continue;
> >
> > where sp->name contains an odd address:
> >
> > (gdb) p sp->name
> > Cannot access memory at address 0x20047
> >
> > As seen above, save_proc_kallsyms() refers to st->load_modules and its
> > position is behind the position where mod_symname_hash was added at:
> >
> > double val_hash_iterations;
> > struct syment *symname_hash[SYMNAME_HASH];
> > struct syment *mod_symname_hash[SYMNAME_HASH];
> > struct symbol_namespace kernel_namespace;
> > struct syment *ext_module_symtable;
> > struct syment *ext_module_symend;
> > long ext_module_symcnt;
> > struct symbol_namespace ext_module_namespace;
> > int mods_installed;
> > struct load_module *current;
> > struct load_module *load_modules;
> >
> > Signed-off-by: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama at fujitsu.com>
> > ---
> > defs.h | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/defs.h b/defs.h
> > index 7e2a16e..e9e8143 100644
> > --- a/defs.h
> > +++ b/defs.h
> > @@ -2753,7 +2753,6 @@ struct symbol_table_data {
> > double val_hash_searches;
> > double val_hash_iterations;
> > struct syment *symname_hash[SYMNAME_HASH];
> > - struct syment *mod_symname_hash[SYMNAME_HASH];
> > struct symbol_namespace kernel_namespace;
> > struct syment *ext_module_symtable;
> > struct syment *ext_module_symend;
> > @@ -2780,6 +2779,7 @@ struct symbol_table_data {
> > ulong kaiser_init_vmlinux;
> > int kernel_symbol_type;
> > ulong linux_banner_vmlinux;
> > + struct syment *mod_symname_hash[SYMNAME_HASH];
> > };
> >
> > /* flags for st */
> > --
> > 2.31.1
>
> Ackec-by: Lianbo Jiang <lijiang at redhat.com>
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