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authorSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>2025-08-19 15:29:44 -0700
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2025-09-13 19:51:59 +0200
commita001cd248ab244633c5fabe4f7c707e13fc1d1cc (patch)
tree8105936f1f0fd2c5ba903f055ea373f6824b5f32
parent6eb350a2233100a283f882c023e5ad426d0ed63b (diff)
rseq/selftests: Use weak symbol reference, not definition, to link with glibc
Add "extern" to the glibc-defined weak rseq symbols to convert the rseq selftest's usage from weak symbol definitions to weak symbol _references_. Effectively re-defining the glibc symbols wreaks havoc when building with -fno-common, e.g. generates segfaults when running multi-threaded programs, as dynamically linked applications end up with multiple versions of the symbols. Building with -fcommon, which until recently has the been the default for GCC and clang, papers over the bug by allowing the linker to resolve the weak/tentative definition to glibc's "real" definition. Note, the symbol itself (or rather its address), not the value of the symbol, is set to 0/NULL for unresolved weak symbol references, as the symbol doesn't exist and thus can't have a value. Check for a NULL rseq size pointer to handle the scenario where the test is statically linked against a libc that doesn't support rseq in any capacity. Fixes: 3bcbc20942db ("selftests/rseq: Play nice with binaries statically linked against glibc 2.35+") Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Suggested-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/87frdoybk4.ffs@tglx
-rw-r--r--tools/testing/selftests/rseq/rseq.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/rseq/rseq.c b/tools/testing/selftests/rseq/rseq.c
index 663a9cef1952..dcac5cbe7933 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/rseq/rseq.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/rseq/rseq.c
@@ -40,9 +40,9 @@
* Define weak versions to play nice with binaries that are statically linked
* against a libc that doesn't support registering its own rseq.
*/
-__weak ptrdiff_t __rseq_offset;
-__weak unsigned int __rseq_size;
-__weak unsigned int __rseq_flags;
+extern __weak ptrdiff_t __rseq_offset;
+extern __weak unsigned int __rseq_size;
+extern __weak unsigned int __rseq_flags;
static const ptrdiff_t *libc_rseq_offset_p = &__rseq_offset;
static const unsigned int *libc_rseq_size_p = &__rseq_size;
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ void rseq_init(void)
* libc not having registered a restartable sequence. Try to find the
* symbols if that's the case.
*/
- if (!*libc_rseq_size_p) {
+ if (!libc_rseq_size_p || !*libc_rseq_size_p) {
libc_rseq_offset_p = dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "__rseq_offset");
libc_rseq_size_p = dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "__rseq_size");
libc_rseq_flags_p = dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "__rseq_flags");