We now expect that the ELF payloads be built with the
--build-id.
Also the .xsplice.deps section has to have the contents
of the hypervisor (or a preceding payload) build-id.
We already have the code to verify the Elf_Note build-id
so export parts of it.
This dependency means the hypervisor MUST be compiled with
--build-id - so we gate the build of xSplice on the availability
of said functionality.
This does not impact the ordering of how the payloads can
be loaded, but it does enforce an STRICT ordering when the
payloads are applied. Also the REPLACE is special - we need
to check that its dependency against the hypervisor - not
the last applied patch.
To make this easier to test we also add an extra test-case
to be used - which can only be applied on top of the
xen_hello_world payload.
As in, one can apply xen_hello_world and then xen_bye_world
on top of that. Not the other way.
We also print the dependency and payloads build_in the keyhandler.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Release-acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
This change demonstrates how to generate an xSplice ELF payload.
The idea here is that we want to patch in the hypervisor
the 'xen_version_extra' function with an function that will
return 'Hello World'. The 'xl info | grep extraversion'
will reflect the new value after the patching.
To generate this ELF payload file we need:
- C code of the new code (xen_hello_world_func.c).
- C code generating the .xsplice.funcs structure
(xen_hello_world.c)
- The address of the old code (xen_extra_version). We
retrieve it by using 'nm --defined' on xen-syms.
- The size of the new and old code for which we use
nm --defined -S on our code and xen-syms respectively.
There are two C files and one header files generated
during build. One could make this one C file if the
size of the newly patched function size was known in
advance (or an random value was choosen).
There is also a strict order of compiling:
1) xen_hello_world_func.c
2) config.h - extract the size of the new function,
the old function and the old function address.
3) xen_hello_world.c - which contains the .xsplice.funcs
structure.
4) Link the object files in an xen_hello_world.xsplice file.
The use-case is simple:
$xen-xsplice load /usr/lib/debug/xen_hello_world.xsplice
$xen-xsplice list
ID | status
----------------------------------------+------------
xen_hello_world APPLIED
$xl info | grep extra
xen_extra : Hello World
$xen-xsplice revert xen_hello_world
Performing revert: completed
$xen-xsplice unload xen_hello_world
Performing unload: completed
$xl info | grep extra
xen_extra : -unstable
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com> [ARM]
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Release-acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
A mechanism is required to binarily patch the running hypervisor with new
opcodes that have come about due to primarily security updates.
This document describes the design of the API that would allow us to
upload to the hypervisor binary patches.
This document has been shaped by the input from:
Martin Pohlack <mpohlack@amazon.de>
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Thank you!
Input-from: Martin Pohlack <mpohlack@amazon.de>
Input-from: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Release-acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk