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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] glibc: Perform rseq(2) registration at C startup and
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To:     Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@ascii.art.br>,
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From:   Carlos O'Donell <codonell@redhat.com>
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Date:   Mon, 8 Apr 2019 17:45:41 -0400
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On 4/8/19 3:20 PM, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho wrote:
> Carlos O'Donell <codonell@redhat.com> writes:
> 
>> On 4/5/19 5:16 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>>> * Carlos O'Donell:
>>>> It is valuable that it be a trap, particularly for constant pools because
>>>> it means that a jump into the constant pool will trap.
>>>
>>> Sorry, I don't understand why this matters in this context.  Would you
>>> please elaborate?
>>
>> Sorry, I wasn't very clear.
>>
>> My point is only that any accidental jumps, either with off-by-one (like you
>> fixed in gcc/glibc's signal unwinding most recently), result in a process fault
>> rather than executing RSEQ_SIG as a valid instruction *and then* continuing
>> onwards to the handler.
>>
>> A process fault is achieved either by a trap, or an invalid instruction, or
>> a privileged insn (like suggested for MIPS in this thread).
> 
> In that case, mtmsr (Move to Machine State Register) seems a good candidate.
> 
> mtmsr is available both on 32 and 64 bits since their first implementations.
> 
> It's a privileged instruction and should never appear in userspace
> code (causes SIGILL).
> 
> Any comments?
  
That seems good to me.

Mathieu,

What's required to move this forward for POWER?

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.