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

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

----- On May 29, 2019, at 11:45 AM, Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com wrote:

> ----- On May 27, 2019, at 3:27 PM, Mathieu Desnoyers
> mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com wrote:
> 
>> ----- On May 27, 2019, at 7:19 AM, Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com wrote:
>> 
> 
> [...]
> 
>>> 
>>> Furthermore, the reference to ELF constructors is misleading.  I believe
>>> the code you added to __libc_start_main to initialize __rseq_handled and
>>> register __seq_abi with the kernel runs *after* ELF constructors have
>>> executed (and not at all if the main program is written in Go, alas).
>>> All initialization activity for the shared case needs to happen in
>>> elf/rtld.c or called from there, probably as part of the security
>>> initialization code or thereabouts.
>> 
>> in elf/rtld.c:dl_main() we have the following code:
>> 
>>  /* We do not initialize any of the TLS functionality unless any of the
>>     initial modules uses TLS.  This makes dynamic loading of modules with
>>     TLS impossible, but to support it requires either eagerly doing setup
>>     now or lazily doing it later.  Doing it now makes us incompatible with
>>     an old kernel that can't perform TLS_INIT_TP, even if no TLS is ever
>>     used.  Trying to do it lazily is too hairy to try when there could be
>>     multiple threads (from a non-TLS-using libpthread).  */
>>  bool was_tls_init_tp_called = tls_init_tp_called;
>>  if (tcbp == NULL)
>>    tcbp = init_tls ();
>> 
>> If I understand your point correctly, I should move the rseq_init() and
>> rseq_register_current_thread() for the SHARED case just after this
>> initialization, otherwise calling those from LIBC_START_MAIN() is too
>> late and it runs after initial modules constructors (or not at all for
>> Go). However, this means glibc will start using TLS internally. I'm
>> concerned that this is not quite in line with the above comment which
>> states that TLS is not initialized if no initial modules use TLS.
>> 
>> For the !SHARED use-case, if my understanding is correct, I should keep
>> rseq_init() and rseq_register_current_thread() calls within LIBC_START_MAIN().
> 
> I've moved the rseq initialization for SHARED case to the very end of
> elf/rtld.c:init_tls(), and get the following error on make check:
> 
> Generating locale am_ET.UTF-8: this might take a while...
> Inconsistency detected by ld.so: get-dynamic-info.h: 143: elf_get_dynamic_info:
> Assertion `info[DT_FLAGS] == NULL || (info[DT_FLAGS]->d_un.d_val &
> ~DF_BIND_NOW) == 0' failed!
> Charmap: "UTF-8" Inputfile: "am_ET" Outputdir: "am_ET.UTF-8" failed
> /bin/sh: 4: cannot create
> /home/efficios/git/glibc-build/localedata/am_ET.UTF-8/LC_CTYPE.test-result:
> Directory nonexistent
> 
> This error goes away if I comment out the call to rseq_register_current_thread
> (),
> which touches the __rseq_abi __thread variable and issues a system call.
> 
> Currently, the __rseq_abi __thread variable is within
> sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/rseq-sym.c, which is added to the
> sysdep_routines within sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/Makefile. I
> suspect it may need to be moved elsewhere.
> 
> Any thoughts on how to solve this ?

I found that it's because touching a __thread variable from
ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 ends up setting the DF_STATIC_TLS flag
for that .so, which is really not expected.

Even if I tweak the assert to make it more lenient there,
touching the __thread variable ends up triggering a SIGFPE.

So rather than touching the TLS from ld-linux-x86-64.so.2,
I've rather experimented with moving the rseq initialization
for both SHARED and !SHARED cases to a library constructor
within libc.so.

Are you aware of any downside to this approach ?

diff --git a/csu/libc-start.c b/csu/libc-start.c
index 5d9c3675fa..9755ed5467 100644
--- a/csu/libc-start.c
+++ b/csu/libc-start.c
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 #include <ldsodefs.h>
 #include <exit-thread.h>
 #include <libc-internal.h>
+#include <rseq-internal.h>
 
 #include <elf/dl-tunables.h>
 
@@ -81,6 +82,14 @@ apply_irel (void)
 }
 #endif
 
+static
+__attribute__ ((constructor))
+void __rseq_libc_init (void)
+{
+  rseq_init ();
+  /* Register rseq ABI to the kernel.   */
+  (void) rseq_register_current_thread ();
+}
 
 #ifdef LIBC_START_MAIN
 # ifdef LIBC_START_DISABLE_INLINE


Thanks,

Mathieu



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Mathieu Desnoyers
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