Re: [PATCH 1/5] glibc: Perform rseq(2) registration at C startup and thread creation (v10)

[Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>]

----- On Jun 14, 2019, at 3:09 PM, Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com wrote:

> * Mathieu Desnoyers:
> 
>> But my original issue remains: if I define a variable called __rseq_handled
>> within either the main executable or the preloaded library, it overshadows
>> the libc one:
>>
>> efficios@compudjdev:~/test/libc-sym$ ./a
>> __rseq_handled main: 0 0x56135fd5102c
>> __rseq_abi.cpu_id main: 29 0x7fcbeca6d5a0
>> efficios@compudjdev:~/test/libc-sym$ LD_PRELOAD=./s.so ./a
>> __rseq_handled s.so: 0 0x558f70aeb02c
>> __rseq_abi.cpu_id s.so: -1 0x7fdca78b7760
>> __rseq_handled main: 0 0x558f70aeb02c
>> __rseq_abi.cpu_id main: 27 0x7fdca78b7760
>>
>> Which is unexpected.
> 
> Why is this unexpected?  It has to be this way if the main program uses
> a copy relocation of __rseq_handled.  As long as there is just one
> address across the entire program and ld.so initializes the copy of the
> variable that is actually used, everything will be fine.

Here is a printout of the __rseq_handled address observed by ld.so, it
does not match:

LD_PRELOAD=./s.so ./a
elf: __rseq_handled addr: 7f501c98a140
__rseq_handled s.so: 0 0x55817a88d02c
__rseq_abi.cpu_id s.so: -1 0x7f501c983760
__rseq_handled main: 0 0x55817a88d02c
__rseq_abi.cpu_id main: 27 0x7f501c983760

This is with the following in a.c:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <linux/rseq.h>

__thread struct rseq __rseq_abi
__attribute__ ((tls_model ("initial-exec"))) = {
	.cpu_id = -1,
};
int __rseq_handled;

int main()
{
	fprintf(stderr, "__rseq_handled main: %d %p\n", __rseq_handled, &__rseq_handled);
	fprintf(stderr, "__rseq_abi.cpu_id main: %d %p\n", __rseq_abi.cpu_id, &__rseq_abi);
	return 0;
}

As we can see, the state of __rseq_handled observed by the preloaded
lib and the program is "0", but should really be "1". This can be
explained by ld.so not using the same address as the rest of the
program, but how can we fix that ?

Thanks,

Mathieu

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Mathieu Desnoyers
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