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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/4] glibc: Perform rseq(2) registration at C startup and thread creation (v7)
----- On Mar 27, 2019, at 5:16 AM, schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 11:54:32 -0400 (EDT)
> Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> wrote:
>
>> >> +++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/bits/rseq.h
>> [...]
>> >> +
>> >> +/* Signature required before each abort handler code. */
>> >> +#define RSEQ_SIG 0x53053053
>> >
>> > Why not a s390 specific value here?
>>
>> s390 also has the abort handler in a __rseq_failure section:
>>
>> #define RSEQ_ASM_DEFINE_ABORT(label, teardown, abort_label) \
>> ".pushsection __rseq_failure, \"ax\"\n\t" \
>> ".long " __rseq_str(RSEQ_SIG) "\n\t" \
>> __rseq_str(label) ":\n\t" \
>> teardown \
>> "j %l[" __rseq_str(abort_label) "]\n\t" \
>> ".popsection\n\t"
>>
>> Same question applies as powerpc: since disassemblers will try to decode
>> that instruction, would it be better to define it as a valid one ?
>>
>> [...]
>
> A 4-byte sequence starting with 0x53 is decoded as a "diebr" instruction.

Based on the z/Architecture reference summary, it appears that the DIEBR
instruction's opcode is B353. So I suspect that just starting with 0x53 is
not sufficient to make it a valid opcode in the instruction set. Is it
something we should care about ?

> And please replace that "j %l[...]" with a "jg %l[...]", the branch target
> range of the "j" instruction is 64K, not enough for the general case.

I'll also need to use "jg" for RSEQ_ASM_DEFINE_CMPFAIL:

#define RSEQ_ASM_DEFINE_CMPFAIL(label, teardown, cmpfail_label) \
".pushsection __rseq_failure, \"ax\"\n\t" \
__rseq_str(label) ":\n\t" \
teardown \
"jg %l[" __rseq_str(cmpfail_label) "]\n\t" \
".popsection\n\t"

I'll prepare a fix for Linux selftests, and I already pushed a fix within
my librseq repository.

Thanks for pointing it out!

Mathieu

>
> --
> blue skies,
> Martin.
>
> "Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.

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Mathieu Desnoyers
EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com

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