From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] kselftest/arm64: Fix size of thread_data values for pthread_join()
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2026 17:57:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260909155707.161121-1-thuth@redhat.com> (raw)
pthread_join() stores the thread's return value (a "void *", i.e.
8 bytes on 64 bit computers) into the address that is passed as second
parameter. However, the entries of thread_data are only normal "int"s,
i.e. only 4 bytes. The additional 4 bytes of the return value clobber
whatever is adjacent on the stack, i.e. other members of the thread_data
array (which will be re-written in the next iteration of the for-loop,
so that nobody noticed this problem), or another other local variable
on the stack for the last iteration. Use "intptr_t" to declare the
thread_data array entries with the correct size.
Fixes: 29f080881601c ("kselftest/arm64: check GCR_EL1 after context switch")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
---
tools/testing/selftests/arm64/mte/check_gcr_el1_cswitch.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/mte/check_gcr_el1_cswitch.c b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/mte/check_gcr_el1_cswitch.c
index d23f154d3288c..5d9dc8bcfbf55 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/mte/check_gcr_el1_cswitch.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/mte/check_gcr_el1_cswitch.c
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ void *execute_thread(void *x)
int execute_test(pid_t pid)
{
pthread_t thread_id[MAX_THREADS];
- int thread_data[MAX_THREADS];
+ intptr_t thread_data[MAX_THREADS];
for (int i = 0; i < MAX_THREADS; i++)
pthread_create(&thread_id[i], NULL,
--
2.55.0
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2026-09-11 13:44 ` [PATCH] kselftest/arm64: Fix size of thread_data values for pthread_join() Will Deacon
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