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The rseq uapi requires cooperation between users of the rseq fields to ensure that all libraries and applications using rseq within a process do not interfere with each other. This is especially important for fields which are meant to be read-only from user-space, as documented in uapi/linux/rseq.h: - cpu_id_start, - cpu_id, - node_id, - mm_cid. Storing to those fields from a user-space library prevents any sharing of the rseq ABI with other libraries and applications, as other users are not aware that the content of those fields has been altered by a third-party library. This is unfortunately the current behavior of tcmalloc: it purposefully overlaps part of a cached value with the cpu_id_start upper bits to get notified about preemption, because the kernel clears those upper bits before returning to user-space. This behavior does not conform to the rseq uapi header ABI. This prevents tcmalloc from using rseq when rseq is registered by the GNU C library 2.35+. It requires tcmalloc users to disable glibc rseq registration with a glibc tunable, which is a sad state of affairs. Considering that tcmalloc and the GNU C library are the two first upstream projects using rseq, and that they are already incompatible due to use of this hack, adding kernel-level validation of all read-only fields content is necessary to ensure future users of rseq abide by the rseq ABI requirements. Validate that user-space does not corrupt the read-only fields and conform to the rseq uapi header ABI when the kernel is built with CONFIG_DEBUG_RSEQ=y. This is done by storing a copy of the read-only fields in the task_struct, and validating the prior values present in user-space before updating them. If the values do not match, print a warning on the console (printk_ratelimited()). This is a first step to identify misuses of the rseq ABI by printing a warning on the console. After a giving some time to userspace to correct its use of rseq, the plan is to eventually terminate offending processes with SIGSEGV. This change is expected to produce warnings for the upstream tcmalloc implementation, but tcmalloc developers mentioned they were open to adapt their implementation to kernel-level change. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://github.com/google/tcmalloc/issues/144
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.