From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@universe-factory.net>,
musl@lists.openwall.com, linux-mips@linux-mips.org,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [musl] musl-libc/MIPS: detached thread exit broken since kernel commit 46e12c07b
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:06:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150619100626.GB29960@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150619025032.GR1173@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 10:50:32PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> This is kernel ABI breakage that should be fixed -- people running old
> kernel versions with old musl binaries might suffer a regression when
> upgrading, and perhaps more importantly the failure mode is just
> really bad. But I think we can also work around it on the userspace
> side in musl by pointing the stack pointer at some rodata (or even at
> pc, e.g. copying $25 to $sp) before making the syscall.
Just to be on the safe side, make sure it is something that's readable. Core
might me mapped execute-only, that is not readable and that is a feature
which the affected kernels do support on suitable hardware.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-19 10:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-19 2:07 musl-libc/MIPS: detached thread exit broken since kernel commit 46e12c07b Matthias Schiffer
2015-06-19 2:50 ` [musl] " Rich Felker
2015-06-19 10:06 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2015-06-19 14:35 ` Rich Felker
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