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    kallsyms: strip LTO-only suffixes from promoted global functions · 8cc32a9b
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    Commit 6eb4bd92 ("kallsyms: strip LTO suffixes from static functions")
    stripped all function/variable suffixes started with '.' regardless
    of whether those suffixes are generated at LTO mode or not. In fact,
    as far as I know, in LTO mode, when a static function/variable is
    promoted to the global scope, '.llvm.<...>' suffix is added.
    
    The existing mechanism breaks live patch for a LTO kernel even if
    no <symbol>.llvm.<...> symbols are involved. For example, for the following
    kernel symbols:
      $ grep bpf_verifier_vlog /proc/kallsyms
      ffffffff81549f60 t bpf_verifier_vlog
      ffffffff8268b430 d bpf_verifier_vlog._entry
      ffffffff8282a958 d bpf_verifier_vlog._entry_ptr
      ffffffff82e12a1f d bpf_verifier_vlog.__already_done
    'bpf_verifier_vlog' is a static function. '_entry', '_entry_ptr' and
    '__already_done' are static variables used inside 'bpf_verifier_vlog',
    so llvm promotes them to file-level static with prefix 'bpf_verifier_vlog.'.
    Note that the func-level to file-level static function promotion also
    happens without LTO.
    
    Given a symbol name 'bpf_verifier_vlog', with LTO kernel, current mechanism will
    return 4 symbols to live patch subsystem which current live patching
    subsystem cannot handle it. With non-LTO kernel, only one symbol
    is returned.
    
    In [1], we have a lengthy discussion, the suggestion is to separate two
    cases:
      (1). new symbols with suffix which are generated regardless of whether
           LTO is enabled or not, and
      (2). new symbols with suffix generated only when LTO is enabled.
    
    The cleanup_symbol_name() should only remove suffixes for case (2).
    Case (1) should not be changed so it can work uniformly with or without LTO.
    
    This patch removed LTO-only suffix '.llvm.<...>' so live patching and
    tracing should work the same way for non-LTO kernel.
    The cleanup_symbol_name() in scripts/kallsyms.c is also changed to have the same
    filtering pattern so both kernel and kallsyms tool have the same
    expectation on the order of symbols.
    
     [1] https://lore.kernel.org/live-patching/20230615170048.2382735-1-song@kernel.org/T/#u
    
    Fixes: 6eb4bd92 ("kallsyms: strip LTO suffixes from static functions")
    Reported-by: default avatarSong Liu <song@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarYonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarZhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarSong Liu <song@kernel.org>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230628181926.4102448-1-yhs@fb.comSigned-off-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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