livepatch: Improve the search performance of module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol()

Currently we traverse all symbols of all modules to find the specified
function for the specified module. But in reality, we just need to find
the given module and then traverse all the symbols in it.

Let's add a new parameter 'const char *modname' to function
module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol(), then we can compare the module names
directly in this function and call hook 'fn' after matching. If 'modname'
is NULL, the symbols of all modules are still traversed for compatibility
with other usage cases.

Phase1: mod1-->mod2..(subsequent modules do not need to be compared)
                |
Phase2:          -->f1-->f2-->f3

Assuming that there are m modules, each module has n symbols on average,
then the time complexity is reduced from O(m * n) to O(m) + O(n).

Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>

Author: Zhen Lei

include/linux/module.h

@@ -879,11 +879,13 @@ static inline bool module_sig_ok(struct module *module)
 #endif	/* CONFIG_MODULE_SIG */
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_MODULES) && defined(CONFIG_KALLSYMS)
-int module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol(int (*fn)(void *, const char *,
+int module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol(const char *modname,
+				   int (*fn)(void *, const char *,
 					     struct module *, unsigned long),
 				   void *data);
 #else
-static inline int module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol(int (*fn)(void *, const char *,
+static inline int module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol(const char *modname,
+						 int (*fn)(void *, const char *,
 						 struct module *, unsigned long),
 						 void *data)
 {

kernel/livepatch/core.c

@@ -118,7 +118,6 @@ static struct klp_object *klp_find_object(struct klp_patch *patch,
 }
 
 struct klp_find_arg {
-	const char *objname;
 	const char *name;
 	unsigned long addr;
 	unsigned long count;
@@ -148,31 +147,24 @@ static int klp_find_callback(void *data, const char *name,
 {
 	struct klp_find_arg *args = data;
 
-	if ((mod && !args->objname) || (!mod && args->objname))
-		return 0;
-
 	if (strcmp(args->name, name))
 		return 0;
 
-	if (args->objname && strcmp(args->objname, mod->name))
-		return 0;
-
 	return klp_match_callback(data, addr);
 }
 
 static int klp_find_object_symbol(const char *objname, const char *name,
 				  unsigned long sympos, unsigned long *addr)
 {
 	struct klp_find_arg args = {
-		.objname = objname,
 		.name = name,
 		.addr = 0,
 		.count = 0,
 		.pos = sympos,
 	};
 
 	if (objname)
-		module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol(klp_find_callback, &args);
+		module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol(objname, klp_find_callback, &args);
 	else
 		kallsyms_on_each_match_symbol(klp_match_callback, name, &args);
 

kernel/module/kallsyms.c

@@ -494,7 +494,8 @@ unsigned long module_kallsyms_lookup_name(const char *name)
 	return ret;
 }
 
-int module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol(int (*fn)(void *, const char *,
+int module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol(const char *modname,
+				   int (*fn)(void *, const char *,
 					     struct module *, unsigned long),
 				   void *data)
 {
@@ -509,6 +510,9 @@ int module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol(int (*fn)(void *, const char *,
 		if (mod->state == MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED)
 			continue;
 
+		if (modname && strcmp(modname, mod->name))
+			continue;
+
 		/* Use rcu_dereference_sched() to remain compliant with the sparse tool */
 		preempt_disable();
 		kallsyms = rcu_dereference_sched(mod->kallsyms);
@@ -525,6 +529,13 @@ int module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol(int (*fn)(void *, const char *,
 			if (ret != 0)
 				goto out;
 		}
+
+		/*
+		 * The given module is found, the subsequent modules do not
+		 * need to be compared.
+		 */
+		if (modname)
+			break;
 	}
 out:
 	mutex_unlock(&module_mutex);

kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c

@@ -2735,7 +2735,7 @@ static int get_modules_for_addrs(struct module ***mods, unsigned long *addrs, u3
 	int err;
 
 	/* We return either err < 0 in case of error, ... */
-	err = module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol(module_callback, &args);
+	err = module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol(NULL, module_callback, &args);
 	if (err) {
 		kprobe_multi_put_modules(args.mods, args.mods_cnt);
 		kfree(args.mods);

kernel/trace/ftrace.c

@@ -8324,7 +8324,7 @@ int ftrace_lookup_symbols(const char **sorted_syms, size_t cnt, unsigned long *a
 	found_all = kallsyms_on_each_symbol(kallsyms_callback, &args);
 	if (found_all)
 		return 0;
-	found_all = module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol(kallsyms_callback, &args);
+	found_all = module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol(NULL, kallsyms_callback, &args);
 	return found_all ? 0 : -ESRCH;
 }